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181 sats \ 15 replies \ @gnilma 16 Apr \ on: The Rise And Fall Of The LAN Party gaming

My friend group used to bring all our PCs to on guy's house and have LAN parties in the late 90s. We played StarCraft, Age of Empires 2, and Quake 2. Back stabbing someone on StarCraft had real life repercussion during LAN parties.

Net cafes started becoming popular in the early 2000s, and we started to go to net cafes instead of dragging all our tower cases plus monitors to someone's house. We played a lot of CS and WarCraft 3 during the net cafe days. I've had my fair share of headshots made in de_dust2.

98 sats \ 8 replies \ @DesertDave 16 Apr

StarCraft was so good. I like protoss. And age of empires. That was my favorite type of games to play at lan parties.

32 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 16 Apr

Zerg!!

165 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 16 Apr

I was a zerg main on both SC and SC2. I spent quite a bit of time playing on SC2 2v2 arranged team ladder with a friend that was pretty good at the game. He dragged my incompetent ass to platinum rank at one point.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 16 Apr

Zerg were cool. I never really liked the humans though. Kind of goes for real life too.

111 sats \ 4 replies \ @gnilma 16 Apr

The 90s and early 2000s were the golden age of RTS. Warcraft series, Age of Empires series, Command and Conquer series, StarCraft. They don't make them like that anymore... Stormgate looks pretty promising, hopefully it does not disappoint.

32 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 16 Apr

Did you try AoE2 Definitive Edition or AoE4? I didn't play them much but I think they are pretty decent.

wololo

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 16 Apr

I think I only played the first one. I was way more into starcraft and warcraft 2 before that.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 16 Apr

I played AoE 2 vanilla. But I didn't play too much AoE2 as I was really into StarCraft.

Back then, the Battle.net network was really quite ground breaking and I found other RTS games unable to compete for too much of my time without a similar network. Playing against computer is fun and all, but playing against other humans is where the real fun is at.

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @QW 16 Apr

You just described my childhood

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @TheWildHustle 16 Apr

Shoutout to Seoul PC, Internet cafes were a huge part of Hustles’ childhood.
Sometimes I miss it, but the time investment at this point makes it a bit infeasible Dota 2 was the craze.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @gnilma 16 Apr

I, too, have out grown the age of going to net cafes. I now do most of my limited amount of gaming on the Nintendo Switch with my kids.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @TheWildHustle 16 Apr

I should probably get one of those things for my Wife.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @gnilma 16 Apr

Kids or Nintendo Switch? One is much easier to get while the other takes a lot of work but is super satisfying to get.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheWildHustle 16 Apr

Will pregnancy increases the value prop of the Nintendo Switch?

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 16 Apr

It's a very fun gaming console to play with kids and/or wife if they like console games. Lots of fun family friendly multiplayer games made for that console. But value is subjective, and whether or not value prop for you increases with pregnancy is for you to answer.

For me, I bought that thing back in 2017 shortly after it was released. Even though my kids were already 4 and 5 when I bought it, I would have bought it with or without kids.