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It's 2002. You are going to throw a LAN party in your garage with 7 of your high-school friends this weekend. What games are you going to be playing?

>> No.9995714
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9995714

>>9995712
Empire earth

>> No.9995732

>>9995712
Team Fortress Classic, Counter Strike, Unreal, Command and Conquer, and a late night Dance Dance Revolution session.

>> No.9995740

>>9995712
Unreal Tournament 2004

>> No.9995747

>>9995712
If it's up to me, either C&C RA2 - Yuri's Revenge, Quake 3, or Metal Slug via self-hosted kaillera server.

>> No.9995752
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High School? Marathon 2
We had a computer lab in my boarding school that had a buncha PowerMac all-in-one Performa types. The school had a very early file server setup, and every single kid in the school got a folder on the server named with their last name.
No one in the school knew this thing existed, let alone used their folders. So we picked out one of the kids who had been expelled, and his folder became the Marathon 2 folder.
We'd copy it to each HD in the lab, play the game, delete it.

But if we're talking actual planned LAN parties..... Serious Sam games own when it comes to co-op.

>> No.9995763

I never had a garage that wasn't packed with shit and I never got invited to a lan party.

>> No.9995819

I quit LANing by 2002.
Playing with a bunch of people in one (or two) rooms was fun (sometimes) but playing on your own PC at home via a broadband internet connection was much more enjoyable (to me).

Anyway, that would be CS, the thing was a true hit at where I lived in 2000-2001. Starcraft, Diablo 2, Q3 never had as much popularity. Also it's pretty interesting that prior to CS the most popular thing was Q2. For some reason people didn't want to move to Q3 (apart from those who tried earning money via tournaments).

>> No.9995892

DIABLO 2
EIGHT SUMMONER NECROS
GO GO GO

>> No.9995894

counter-strike 1.6, cs source, armagetron (multiplayer tron), team fortress 2, mario party and smash bros on n64,

>> No.9995895

Unreal Tournament

I'd wreck everyone, even if they used auto-aiming and even if they tried to gang up on me

so then they'd switch to Total Annihilation because I didn't have that game

>> No.9995904

>>9995712
in 2002? Gotta be CS, either 1.5 or 1.6

>> No.9995908

>>9995819
>For some reason people didn't want to move to Q3
Q3 was purpose-built for E-"sports". No campaign, no backstory, absolutely fuck all. And Q2 works just fine for fun with friends over LAN, and if something isn't broken you don't fix it.
Eventually a portion of those playing MP for fun as opposed to trying to turn it into a job gave Q3 a go and played it in addition to other stuff but it never really stuck.
Then twitch shooters died because the majority moved to MOHAA, CoD and all that other shit. In addition to already playing CS for some time by then.

>> No.9996139

>>9995712
They look like italians. Are they italians?

>> No.9996143

>>9995712
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear for the true
Halo, Quake and Unreal Tournament for those plebs that got rocked in one round.
Gods, bring it back.

>> No.9996149

>>9995752
We had a keyboarding class in Jr. High and the teacher knew less about computing than we did.
So it was basically a field day on who could make the computers run what. We even had the girls cooperating with us eventually so we could all do whatever we wanted on the computers. Doom multiplayer gooooooo.

>> No.9996156

>>9995712
>It's 2002. You are going to throw a LAN party in your garage with 7 of your high-school friends this weekend. What games are you going to be playing?
Warcraft 2, Doom, TF and CSGO, Unreal Tounament, Close combat, Diablo, sudden strike,total war shogun, command and conquer, emperor of dune

>> No.9996910

>>9995712
its 2023. you are making a thread about a fictional events, forgetting that LAN was dead by 2002 because the internet was good enough to replace it. 1998 was the cutoff.

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>>9995714
My man, I still play the gog edition

>> No.9997014

>>9996910
>forgetting that LAN was dead by 2002 because the internet was good enough to replace it
holy fucking zoom

>> No.9997967

>>9995712
Battlefield 1942, CS, Ultima Online and Diablo 2

My LAN parties back then were usually limited to about 4 people but it was still pretty sick, I miss it a lot.

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>>9995712
My parents had just divorced and I was not making any friends at the the fifth school I had been to in less than a year. But if I did have friends and video games of any kind I would have liked to play Counter Strike.

>> No.9998232

2002 would've been probably mostly CS, unreal tournament, AVP2, maybe various RTS. 02-04 were peak LAN years for me, and on top of those listed we were big on wc3 custom maps, sven co-op, Serious Sam, probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. CS was really the standard go-to game for us though.

>> No.9998425

Halo, Quake 3 TA, Starcraft BW, BF1942, Tribes, Diablo 2.

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>>9996910
>LAN was dead by 2002 because the internet was good enough to replace

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>>9995712
Those were good times. Typically the classics like FPS, RTS, and some 'blo.

>> No.10000464

>>9995712
Did people actually do this, haul 20 computers and monitors to one place just to play a game? Seems like a massive hassle.

>> No.10000484

>>9995712
>2002
>high school
I was in 4th grade though

>> No.10000505

>>9995892
ALL SKELLIES
ALL THORNS ACT 2 MERC
PRE SKELETON CAP UPDATE
GOGOGOGOGO

>> No.10000518

>>9996910
>LAN was dead by 2002 because the internet was good enough to replace it.
If you don't have a clue what the fuck you are talking about...why post?

>> No.10000559

>>10000464
And also share tons of pr0n

>> No.10001030

>>9996910
The most moronic zoomer bullshit I have read in ages. People still wenter to gamer internet cafes here in montreal till 2010 30gbps was 80$.

We went because it was like 2$ an hour and fun as fuck to do for the whole night. These places were packed as fuck on the weekend and got pretty crazy lots of drinking partying speed(not meth) and gambling. Legit fun way to spend the night 20$ got you two pills of speed and wtv hours of game time.

>> No.10001078

>not a single AVP Classic post
ALL YOUR TASTES ARE SHIT

>> No.10001123

>>9995712
my highschool friends didn't do such homosexual things. we went out in cars, drank, smoked crazy amounts of weed and got pussy, or at least tried to.

>>9996910
you're legitimately retarded. shut the fuck up, thanks.

>>10001030
welcome to /vr/, home the worst compulsive liars outside of reddit and twitter. you must be new here?

>> No.10001168

>>10001123
>my highschool friends didn't do such homosexual things. we went out in cars, drank, smoked crazy amounts of weed and got pussy, or at least tried to
And yet, here you are on 4chan. Lmao

>> No.10001172

>>9995712
Wouldn't have a LAN party we'd probably just be playing Dreamcast and shit.

>> No.10001962

>>10001168
truth is im a liar, we didnt have our own cars, we were too young to buy booze, we were too square to buy weed off the cool kids, or even talk to them without getting our asses kicked, most of us had never even seen pussy even to this day,

we would end most nights sucking each other off in a suck off circle, like u suck my dick, ill suck yours

>> No.10001968

>>10001962
truth at last

>> No.10002029

>>9995740
I think you mean UT 2K3 anon..

>> No.10002042

>>9995712
Never had that experience but I lived in a dorm in 2005-2006 and we regularly had 4-5 PCs in a room all playing CS1.6 and Quake 3 together. It was fun
When I was a kid we played Worms and HoMM3 at our birthday parties, with just the 1 PC though, a lot of kids in the room waiting their turn. It wasn't as fun

>> No.10002062

>>9995712

Literally what's stopping you from doing this today?

>> No.10002095

>>10002062
Basically nothing except your wallet and living space. I'm currently buying a bunch of old beige towers and CRT monitors off a collector I know to have a nice old-school LAN party with some of my friends (some of which are from high school)

>> No.10002098

>>10002062
Everyone just plays online now. In early 2000s some people were on dial-up (me), some never even got into Internet yet because it was new (most kids in my school). I did grow in the middle of nowhere though, I'm told in major cities every kid was online in the year 2000, not sure how true that is

>> No.10002113

>>10002062
For a sec I imagined what that would be like to have a LAN party with my friends from 20 years ago. I bet no gaming would be had, they would just fiddle with old PCs for 10-15 minutes and then move to discussing irrelevant stuff (i.e. wives, kids and cars) and drinking non-/alcoholic stuff.

>> No.10002152

>>9995712
why are they all playing the same game, are they stuped

>> No.10002526

>>10001078
I tried 1 after playing lots of 2, got tired of endless praise of 1 from friends, tried the Marine campaign and after having two drones stuck below after I climbed a ladder I quit and uninstalled. Also we did play a lot of 2 over LAN and a bit online later.

>> No.10004473

Nox.

https://youtu.be/XPKxN7LcAdI

>> No.10005268

>>10004473
>no mines
>no invisibility
>no forcefield until 2 minutes
>has to aim for like 2 seconds with the death staff
>warrior keeps missing with charge
>warrior doesn't use harpoon
>conjurer doesn't use creatures
>conjurer uses fist of meme
Why are they so bad.

>> No.10006941

>>9995712
Halo CE almost exclusively
We played CS and Star Trek: Elite Force online, I don't think I've ever been to a LAN party with PCs
>>10000464
No one I knew did

>> No.10007708

>>9996910
Nah, my friends and I still did LAN parties in like 2003. Console LAN was actually really popular for a while because of Halo and Halo 2.

>>10001078
A man of taste right here

>> No.10007919

>>9995712
counter strike
half life crossfire mostly and mods (the cowboy one, the disk one)
quake 3
ut 2000
starcraft
drakan
warcraft 3 (prolly warchasers)
heroes 3
carmageddon 2
diablo 2
red alert 2
alien versus predator 2
worms armageddon

>> No.10007948

>2002
>LAN party
>with 7 of your high-school friends
We're playing Halo on 2 Xboxes and questioning why this had to be done in the garage.

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>>9996910
Yep, thats exactly why consoles even started getting lan capabilities.

>> No.10007971

>>10001123
>or at least tried to.
So you were try hard losers instead of doing something fun together. Way to go, fag.