Ditto . I host a small group of guys in a rc model flying club , if the weathers too bad for flying we spend the day gaming , il2 , half life , counter strike 1.6 . During covid we did the online gaming , but it wasnt the same . There IS somethin special bout gaming in person with your friends
So I've searched "LAN Parties" on RUclips, and I see a lot of "death of.." type content. I'd like to let the folks here know, that there's a small business idea that I've executed based around LAN parties. I just started at the beginning of 2024. I don't think it would be easy before now, to do this, but emulation and mini pc's have changed the game. I basically set up a small LAN at a restaurant/bar, run a twitch show out of there and the restaurant/bar pays me to create content of their customers having fun playing LAN games at their joint. If more people try this and succeed, could change the landscape of LAN gaming.
@@ESCalation thats actually the case for me since i used to have big group of friends i used to play with but most of them just dont feel like talking to me anymore
In my hometown we had this place called iPlay. It was basically a LAN party in a mall-like structure where many computers were hooked up, and the games pre-installed. You could buy sessions by the hour. It shut down long ago with the advent of more and more accessible internet services and PC gaming services. It was nice while it lasted.
That was a big thing in Brazil, were internet acess wasn't widespread/universal in the early 2000s. We called them lan houses. Most of them allowed customers (mostly kids and teenagers) to do what we called a corujão, or a big owl: spend the night there playing.
It's just sad that not many new games support LAN multiplayer. When me and my friends do a LAN party, usually around half the time is spend downloading games and later finding out that they dont work as we expected. Still great fun tho.
Ahh, LAN Parties, if it weren't for corona, I would've visited and spent hours on my friend's house. Nothing beats directly yelling at your friends because there is an enemy behind them, and watch as they panic in real time .
I can happily confirm that attending a lan party is one of the best things you can do as a gamer. And I will personally arm wrestle anyone who says otherwise (when covid is over)
Nice Commentary and lovely Filmmaterial. Great Work. Was really fun. Can't wait to organize more Lan's after the current situation. Would be glad to see you again. Greetz from TMTJG-LAN Orga
MAN... the days of LAN parties in the late 90s. Our IT guy at high school helped start our lan group back then. Star Craft, Quake, and anything else we all had access too were the go to things we played for hours.
I count myself lucky. Started 16 years ago with 4 friends. Tomorrow going to our summer-edition wich is thursday -> sunday and it houses 22 people now. We also got a winter edition with a few people less. We actually have people coming from all over europe to the Netherlands for 4 days of gaming, beering and just having a great great time. We keep the LAN parties alive. No matter how old we get :P
I just set up 6 optiplex 7020 computers with leftover gtx 1070s and we are at max capacity in our small group of friends regularly. We have 6 guys, and 3 have wives/girlfriends who join in.
oh, man those weekends were the best.. did not sleep for 3 Days. Drank way to much energy drinks. Played CS 1.6 tournaments with my 2on2-Mate. .... All those Memories.... Fucking Nostalgia
I thankfully still hold LAN Parties. I'm having one this week in fact. It's the only time of the year when I can convince my friends to play Quake with me...
I remember the good old days when my dad had a gaming shop. (If you don't know what that is, its a shop with connection for LAN and internet, with a bunch of PCs where u can go and play games at for a cheap price.) I was pretty young back then but I played C&C Generals with just about anyone. It was fun and exciting. I also miss the time when people weren't automatically toxic just because you were young. Too bad those shops became obsolete when mobile phones and cheap connection became a thing. LAN parties were so much fun and I remember joining in on counter-strike parties, with complete strangers and just having a good time.
@@tate2697 Brazil is the 13th largest video game market in the world so gaming is extremely HUGE here, so Lan-Houses and Lan-Parties are very much alive and it's probably not going anywhere any soon. Not everyone has the money to buy or maintain a good computer, so they resort to Lan-Houses which can have pretty fancy pc's for very cheap.
Ich vermisse die LANs total und es wird immer schwieriger die alten Kumpels davon zu überzeugen, dass man mal wieder zusammenhocken, Junkfood futtern und einfach mal 2 Nächte durchzocken sollte. Erwachsenwerden ist shice.
Remember when in high school, my friends and I regullary went to "cabinas de internet" (cyber cafes, but not cafe, only junk food and low end gaming pcs) after the classes end, we always played counter strike and dota, the machines looked like no one has ever cleaned them in years (probably accurate statement), the smell and the heat of both the machines and the variety of college students, high schoolers, and even full grown adults playing there, yeah, they weren't the best place to play, but still i hold them deeply in my heart, the memories, the rages, the laughs, the times we won, or even when we lost and had to pay the junk food of the other team.... beautiful times man. Like a lan party but the third world version The social factor of playing games like that with your friends is better than anything discord or teamspeak can provide.
LAN parties in the past were easier because most games offered split screeen. So you can only need 2 consoles for 4 players. Now we need 4 consoles and screens for the same number of players and electricity and space complications.
For me the best experience I have had at a LAN party was on the original Xbox of all things. Got invited to a Halo 2 LAN party on a weekend from a guy I knew from high school and it was amazing! There were about 12 or so people there with 4-5 fat TVs and xboxes in a big living room with tons of soda, pizza bites and other snacks. It was so cool to just hear everyones reaction in real time right around me and communicating to my teammates next to me. Seriously miss those days.
I have a personal anecdote. I was having a LAN party with a friend and two other guys in 2000 or 2001, and we played Unreal Tournament and (to my disappointment) increasingly Tactical Ops, which was the Counter Strike counterpart mod for Unreal Tournament, before it became a standalone game just like Counterstrike itself. LAN functionality had to be added with an extension card, and I couldn't get my ISA-based (!) card to work. So while the others we already playing, I had to reinstall Windows 98 SE just for the card to work - but it was worth it... Good times, nothing compares to the comradery of a cramped room full of computers where you can hear your team mates cheering or swearing, order pizza or other junk food together, or even talk about things in general when you're exhausted after hours of play. And nothing beats the ping of a few meters...
LAN parties are also slowly dying in my country. But I'm trying my best to revive it by buying 4 computers, encouraging my relatives first then my neighbors. (We spend our time playing C&C Generals Zero Hour, Counter Strike, and DOTA 1)
The closest thing I’ve had to a LAN party was a few times I went over to my friends house. It wasn’t even close to what you described. It’d just be me and him sitting in a basement playing CustomTF For The People on nQuake. Second time was a lot more fun. We had Half-Life, Ricochet, and even Counter-Strike. We were planning another one with me spending the night at his house, and more games like Sven COOP. But, we had a bit of a falling out, and we don’t talk anymore.
Once you hit 30, most of your friends will have moved on from gaming and are now married with kids. They no longer have the time, they don't keep up their PC's, or they just don't want to game. If it were up to me, we would LAN every other weekend. Now, I'm lucky if I even see them every 3 years.
Internet Cafès, I grew up at those places since I didn't have a good PC and even after getting a "good PC" I still continued going at those places with my friends. I can confirm its a lot of fun and you can even meet some people there, even become a local legend because you're really good at the game. If you were really good,at the places I usually go, they actually put you on a big TV and people just standing around watch you play. Best part about it, it was really cheap. I'm not saying that its the same as getting together with your friends, but I wasn't able to because of restrictions and internet cafès were the next best thing.
We actually had a LAN every year. We played 1 week straight. Sometimes we played like Civilization for 16 hours without a break. Other times we hoped on a Server of Battlefield and had a blast, just because we were all in the same room and were shouting because of the energy we had. Sometimes we got so competitive that we did a 3v3 in cs and no one said a word that wasn't necessary for the win. 2020 was the first year that we didn't had one, that's a bit sad. But i am really looking forward to seeing my mates again trough the scope of my rifle and seeing their reaction to my beautiful hs right next to me :)
Back in highschool, I had two groups of friends, and with both we organized frequent lan parties. We would play mostly RTSs, but sometimes Battlefield 2 and other games as well. Nowadays, whenever we're all in town, there's always a lan party to be had, reminiscing the good old time.
A big LAN party with 40ish people sounds awkward to me, personally I prefer rather smaller ones with close friends although I haven’t had one in a few years. Honestly some of the best gaming experiences ever.
Personally, when I got into shooters, I started in a time where LAN parties were already becoming a nostalgic memory for many, you can get a pretty close experience just sitting in a group call with some friends you met on the internet, but in spite of that, if I ever make any friends close to me that I can actually play with in a LAN party, I would love to experience it sometime, there really is that appealing atmosphere, or at least the idea of such, of some guys and/or gals hanging out in a room with all of their computers all bunched together, just playing on a local server together and engaging in banter, and hearing the panicky sounds when someone's in trouble, one day I'd like to experience it. Also shoutout to whoever's got the Phoenix Point desktop picture ~1:00. EDIT: Also, thank you for teaching that word which I'm not even going to attempt to spell, it's always fun to learn a new word from a different language that you don't know, even if you end up pronouncing it horrendously when you try to say it yourself.
Greetings and thanks for the shoutout. It was actually my Desktop. I'm one of the Organizer of the TMTJG LAN Party in Germany. I hope that we soon can continue planing new Partys. There will be time for that again. Till then stay Safe. Greetz Misha
even tough i am born in 97, i am a huge lan party enjoyer, my friends and i do Lan Partys every year after christmas for 3 days and this year for the first time a summerlan and hell it was even better. Legion TD in Warcraft 3 is definitly the most thing we play
LAN parties are dying but at least in Universities and Colleges they are thriving. In my university playing games is not allowed but as per LAN rules but you could find almost all LAN rooms filled with people playing a game.
Don't know if this counts, but three years ago me and my homies would gather a bunch of people and have 20 man matches of CS 1.6 Dust2 on the school computer lab. That was some insane stuff up until like two months later when the school administration had enough of the computer lab being filled completely every time we had a lunch break so they set some moderation programs that blocked launching untrusted exes.
Best way to game by far... what a shame we can't do it now. For my first ever LAN, i had absolutely zero Vorfreude, but after that one I wanted them so much.
Stuff like this happen in Balkan region a lot, since like 30-40% of our youth can't afford to buy a whole new ass PC to play latest games, we have Gaming Caffees, not massive ones like in China, but smaller, around 30 PC's MAX. I've worked in most of the Gaming Caffee's in my hometown and lemme say, when people gather up, drink up, play a bit of short_dust or a round or two of WC3, that stuff really makes me smile. Even more when the cockiest player has the lowest KD and has to buy the whole Caffee a drink.
lmao yea i was to a gaming caffee with a few friends and the friend that usually preforms the best was getting destroyed by my teammate(who was camping in cs) and friend 1 got so mad that he got up and started swinging on the camper,we had to restrain him
Back in 2016 after school when I was a senior the teacher had whole bunch of lan party. We was playing halo 5, super smash bros, and mortal kombat. Damn I miss these days
I miss these days. Drove 13h (two way trip) across the country for a weekend of non stop playing counter-stike beta, Unreal tournament, Quake3arena. I never enjoyed playing online too anonymous and you can't feel the other players fear.
Flatout 2 is one of my favorites for lan parties but don't hear it talked about so it was cool to see it here. I'm 19 but play with my dad and a group of his friends so we play a lot of old school games like cod 2, sof 2,urban terror and many more :)
Ich warte immer noch auf den Tag wenn du Command and Conquer coverst :D wenn du hilfe brauchst bin ich gerne bereit dir nen einstieg in das franchise zu geben :D
"if youre taking your whole pc youre gonna need a car"...... not me, meet the guy who has been taking his big box in a backpack on a train to lan parties for many years now
Playing some LAN games with my friend today made me want to watch this video again. :D We played the GOG versions of Star Wars Episode 1 Racer and Mortal Kombat 3.
We used to do CS 1.6, NFS:MW and League of Legends LAN parties in school before the pandemic happened, surely feels great to actually see the people that are pushing you out of the road or bunnyhopping across de_dust2
Lanparties used to be more fun in the past for various reasons, one of them being that most of us now have more jobs to do than friends to play with. School's out at 16h, but i'm lucky if i'm home from work before 19h. The mondays are especially hurtful, when you have to get up at 6h, and the chores at home aren't going to do themselves.
I host 2 LAN parties each year. One is for Halo and the other is for PC games. It really is crazy how many people have no idea about how much fun they can have playing together in the same room.
LAN party for me is when no teacher coming to class lecturing for weird reason and someone has a copy of obscure game with local multiplayer. Pass the flash drive to copy the game around, use our phone as basic router, and play on our laptop until a teacher barge in
Late 90's/ealy 2000's LAN parties were the best, trying to fit a massive 21" CRT monitor and a massive tower PC into an OG Rover Mini, and heading off for a weekend of gaming, beer and unhealthy food 😊😊😊Halcyon days....
Something that is close to LAN parties and is also dying (in my eyes) is the Hotseat game mode, pre-pandemic I used to go to a (gaming) pub with a few friends bring a laptop, get some drinks and play Civ V. Oh and I can't forget the time when my dad my brother and I used to play 1.6 on our winter holidays, skiing in the morning counter strike in the evening.
Miss my days in college diploma where my friends and me play CS 1.6 and then DotA (and tons of Wc3 custom maps) together. We would stay up till 6am and then go straight to class instead of sleeping. That atmosphere is unmatched. Modern games should bring back LAN play.
Back in the day the lan parties i was part of consisted of a small group of 4-6 people. We played games with and against each other which were hosted locally and also formed groups for playing some online games together which is also a lot of fun when everyone is playing from the same location. Those meetings were awesome but i only had like 3 or 4 of them. My other lan parties were me and my - back then - closest friend meeting at one of our parents houses and just playing games together for 2-4 days and nights :D Of course we mainly played online games since we only were 2 guys but it was great fun nonetheless :D I miss those days.....
Yes LAN parties are awesome. I would like to invite the finnish, french, british guy from discord. To play LAN in prague with me one Day. Maybe one day...
cs 1.6 lan parties, was so tocix and fun hahahahhaha my friends yelling and swearing at each other, but nobody is taking it personal, just laughing, because he kept getting killed, by the same person. how people kept complaning about op weapons , awp camper ahhahah.......... good memories
I attend 2-3 bigger LAN parties per year and host some at my house with friends. The past 15 years the culture has definitely changed a lot since then. And even for me personally its become a lot more about the social aspect. In the past i was more about downloading and playing games uninterrupted something that was not an option when i was younger. Its much easier to get friends to play the same game than when you are online. When i go to LAN parties either as a volunteer or participant its mostly kids that are attending and the occasional eSports team that come just for the competitions. Larger events however still seem attract an older audience. But i think its hard for many to justify moving your PC and stuff to a new location just for a few days. And peoples setups at home now are more often multiple monitors which was much less normal just 10 years ago. Personally i think the LAN party is very much alive, But they lack the culture to attract a wider audience.
Nothing beats playing in a pc cafe in a third world country and throwing a "dumb fucking idiot!" Words of encouragement across the room to a stranger teammate and getting stabbed with a broken soda bottle. Fun times although im glad i was just a spectator
In the summer i did a lan birthday party with 4 friends because a big party wasnt allowed because of covid. We played bf4 after really long time because we all dont have so much time for games in the last years. But still our squad dominated the server. It was so much fun :)
Haven't had a LAN party since the days of Halo 2. I had 4 CRTs in my house at the time so I'd invite 8 guys over with their xboxes and we'd play Snipers only on Headlong for hours. The best times. Just wish i was able to get in on Counter Strike during it's dominant days of LAN
We where doing LAN parties before the pandemic at the computer labs at my university. We had 3 rooms with 20 computers each and played either CS: Source, Quake3 Arena and Age of Empires 2. Good times...
Glad you liked it, let me give some more info: Being a freshman had it's good times. We had a course in which the lecturer was soooo boring and had people like me to keep notes (e.x. 5/100 people attending) and the rest skipped his 2 hour theory and played cs 1.6 and source even during the 2 hour lab while doing our assignments on pentium 4 machines... One would put the installation on the NAS and the game was ready to go on all the pcs. Afterwards the games got deleted and we did the same thing the next week... After the first year, we had smaller groups of 5-20 people hosted by one of our Professors at his lab, which had 7th gen i3's. We had an urban legend that if we beat him in AoeII, we will get Max grades on his courses... We also tried Quake, Unreal Tournament, NFSU, Starcraft and etc. We also tried to zoom call by using s VPN to LAN remotley during the pandemic but it lacked the social experience and it was a bit tricky to setup for a non computer literate person... I feel gratefull that I had the opportunity to experience a LAN party. Also, I would like to hear your opinions/experience about Internet Cafe's. Even though you gather with your friends, most of the people where playing online games and you don't feel the prescence other people. I have mostly went for the "high end" equipment untill I built my own desktop.
Sadly, my parents despise gaming in general. So I have to play games on secret for these 20 years of living. I used to had LAN parties on 4 people (2v2 on pirated CS 1.6 that has bot support somehow). Nowdays my friends are 95% mainly plays on mobile. I dont have friends who I can ask for LAN parties
Yes, many parents just don't get it! I'm sometimes a little sad I didn't have more gaming experiences back then, or glad that I at least had some of them (considering my mother could hardly stand seeing me in front of the computer), there are two ways of looking at it.
I'm pretty sure that version of cs1.6 was called cs warzone, I would've consider it superior to the steam version if it wasn't for the constant engine issues I ran into playing it
I have been to many lan parties. The biggest was Dreamhack Winter 2005 in Jönköping, Sweden. It was about 10 000 pepole there that event. Im often on parties with about 300 pepole (crew not included). Then i have been to some smal parties to that we call "Minigate". We are about 20-50 persons there. There are no crew on minigate. Everyone helps to put up tables and restoring/cleaning after. I want to set up my own party soon. But i have alot to learn first.
I don’t think LAN parties are dead. It’s just most people who game, rather sit at home and not socialise. LAN parties are a great place to meet new friends.
My and my friends always are looking for the next chance to get together, we also always look to Netwar, a 600 person lan hosted in a sports arena twice a year, except this year so
Its true. I have played 2v2 FIFA games online many matches. It nice etc. But when i played 2v2 FIFA Match from same TV and my teammate and opponents were sitting next to me it was like whole different world in my opionion.
In my country we have @cafe or we call it "net store" the different is that you pay for the time you play, it's fun it's awesome, but it is slowly die out since many convert to play at homes.
I think one of the big problems causing the decline of LAN parties is the increasing-dependencies on "live services," forcing players to connect to an online server whether they like it or not to access any part of the game, and if you're really unlucky- the damn game won't even support LAN multiplayer functionality at-all which means lag cannot be avoided and much of the underlying purpose of playing over a LAN connection is defeated as a result.
I pretty much play exclusively on LAN parties, either trough a VPN or when a friend visits with his laptop Sometimes i host a dedicated one if the game is light enough, but more often than not, hosting a dedicated one is extra taxing on the PC (and mine is trash so that's that) Maybe because i play so many old games which either no longer have official servers or didn't have them to begin with
TL;DW personal social interaction feels good and we should do it more, and everyone say it with me: the internet, despite connecting us all more than ever, is actually making everyone very lonely because there is less reason to meet up in person and so on and so forth.
Am in college and can confirm that they're very much alive!
Can you set them up with consoles like Xbox all together
@@AgentsFires_IronAgent yes
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Although playing with people around the world is cool, it's just not the same as playing with a group of friends in the same place
My greatest of friends have been met online although not the same as a lan party but it's about all we have in certain areas
Ditto . I host a small group of guys in a rc model flying club , if the weathers too bad for flying we spend the day gaming , il2 , half life , counter strike 1.6 .
During covid we did the online gaming , but it wasnt the same . There IS somethin special bout gaming in person with your friends
So I've searched "LAN Parties" on RUclips, and I see a lot of "death of.." type content. I'd like to let the folks here know, that there's a small business idea that I've executed based around LAN parties. I just started at the beginning of 2024. I don't think it would be easy before now, to do this, but emulation and mini pc's have changed the game. I basically set up a small LAN at a restaurant/bar, run a twitch show out of there and the restaurant/bar pays me to create content of their customers having fun playing LAN games at their joint. If more people try this and succeed, could change the landscape of LAN gaming.
Which country?
LAN Parties aren't dead. Most gamers don't have that many friends to do it
haha I kind of doubt that ;)
@@ESCalation well you could but that's my opinion. Plus, it's from my experience
@@TheEngieTF2 Can confirm from my experience aswell, I have like 3 friends to play them and we all live in different countries.
@@ESCalation My friends are 90% plays on mobile mostly (85% of them only mobile).
@@ESCalation thats actually the case for me since i used to have big group of friends i used to play with but most of them just dont feel like talking to me anymore
In my hometown we had this place called iPlay. It was basically a LAN party in a mall-like structure where many computers were hooked up, and the games pre-installed. You could buy sessions by the hour. It shut down long ago with the advent of more and more accessible internet services and PC gaming services. It was nice while it lasted.
That was a big thing in Brazil, were internet acess wasn't widespread/universal in the early 2000s. We called them lan houses. Most of them allowed customers (mostly kids and teenagers) to do what we called a corujão, or a big owl: spend the night there playing.
We had a LAN place taken down. Allegedly the licencing fees for Steam ruined a lot of places.
It's just sad that not many new games support LAN multiplayer. When me and my friends do a LAN party, usually around half the time is spend downloading games and later finding out that they dont work as we expected. Still great fun tho.
that is indeed an issue, Sega recently even patched out the LAN support of Dawn of War!
Most of the time you to plan ahead
Ahh, LAN Parties, if it weren't for corona, I would've visited and spent hours on my friend's house. Nothing beats directly yelling at your friends because there is an enemy behind them, and watch as they panic in real time .
I can happily confirm that attending a lan party is one of the best things you can do as a gamer. And I will personally arm wrestle anyone who says otherwise (when covid is over)
Internet cafe Lan parties and local Lan tournaments. I miss the good old days, it was so memorable especially L4D and Counter Strike Lan parties
yes good old days indeed!
Trueee, the cheering is one of the best parts of a Lan party if there's no noise complaint :3
I miss LAN parties. I've been trying to plan one out with my friends but there's always an issue.
Nice Commentary and lovely Filmmaterial. Great Work.
Was really fun. Can't wait to organize more Lan's after the current situation. Would be glad to see you again.
Greetz from
TMTJG-LAN Orga
MAN... the days of LAN parties in the late 90s. Our IT guy at high school helped start our lan group back then. Star Craft, Quake, and anything else we all had access too were the go to things we played for hours.
I count myself lucky.
Started 16 years ago with 4 friends.
Tomorrow going to our summer-edition wich is thursday -> sunday and it houses 22 people now.
We also got a winter edition with a few people less. We actually have people coming from all over europe to the Netherlands for 4 days of gaming, beering and just having a great great time. We keep the LAN parties alive. No matter how old we get :P
Beer, Sweets, Chips, and a lot of gaming... Yeah, remember this LAN-Party you speak of.
Lan Parties were AMAZING back in the day.
Still Today. 😁
Man, things like these were fun af.
ohhhhhh yesss!
I just set up 6 optiplex 7020 computers with leftover gtx 1070s and we are at max capacity in our small group of friends regularly. We have 6 guys, and 3 have wives/girlfriends who join in.
oh, man those weekends were the best..
did not sleep for 3 Days. Drank way to much energy drinks.
Played CS 1.6 tournaments with my 2on2-Mate.
....
All those Memories....
Fucking Nostalgia
I thankfully still hold LAN Parties. I'm having one this week in fact. It's the only time of the year when I can convince my friends to play Quake with me...
I remember the good old days when my dad had a gaming shop. (If you don't know what that is, its a shop with connection for LAN and internet, with a bunch of PCs where u can go and play games at for a cheap price.) I was pretty young back then but I played C&C Generals with just about anyone. It was fun and exciting. I also miss the time when people weren't automatically toxic just because you were young. Too bad those shops became obsolete when mobile phones and cheap connection became a thing. LAN parties were so much fun and I remember joining in on counter-strike parties, with complete strangers and just having a good time.
Lan-Parties dying?! **Laughs in Brazilian**
Oh I don't think so
*Kkkkk in brazilian*
(not meant to be condescending) what’s different about gaming culture in brazil? do you just mean that it’s very much alive there or
@@tate2697 Brazil is the 13th largest video game market in the world so gaming is extremely HUGE here, so Lan-Houses and Lan-Parties are very much alive and it's probably not going anywhere any soon. Not everyone has the money to buy or maintain a good computer, so they resort to Lan-Houses which can have pretty fancy pc's for very cheap.
@@StrangeCorvus onde man? aqui na lan onde eu fico n tem isso,todos tao em jogos diferentes
@@biel1404 Bem se você já tá falando "aqui" então se sabe que nem todo lugar é igual.
Ich vermisse die LANs total und es wird immer schwieriger die alten Kumpels davon zu überzeugen, dass man mal wieder zusammenhocken, Junkfood futtern und einfach mal 2 Nächte durchzocken sollte. Erwachsenwerden ist shice.
Das Berufsleben macht die meisten Leute zu Spießern 😢. Man schuftet und konsumiert nur noch.
Remember when in high school, my friends and I regullary went to "cabinas de internet" (cyber cafes, but not cafe, only junk food and low end gaming pcs) after the classes end, we always played counter strike and dota, the machines looked like no one has ever cleaned them in years (probably accurate statement), the smell and the heat of both the machines and the variety of college students, high schoolers, and even full grown adults playing there, yeah, they weren't the best place to play, but still i hold them deeply in my heart, the memories, the rages, the laughs, the times we won, or even when we lost and had to pay the junk food of the other team.... beautiful times man. Like a lan party but the third world version
The social factor of playing games like that with your friends is better than anything discord or teamspeak can provide.
LAN parties in the past were easier because most games offered split screeen. So you can only need 2 consoles for 4 players. Now we need 4 consoles and screens for the same number of players and electricity and space complications.
For me the best experience I have had at a LAN party was on the original Xbox of all things. Got invited to a Halo 2 LAN party on a weekend from a guy I knew from high school and it was amazing! There were about 12 or so people there with 4-5 fat TVs and xboxes in a big living room with tons of soda, pizza bites and other snacks. It was so cool to just hear everyones reaction in real time right around me and communicating to my teammates next to me. Seriously miss those days.
I have a personal anecdote. I was having a LAN party with a friend and two other guys in 2000 or 2001, and we played Unreal Tournament and (to my disappointment) increasingly Tactical Ops, which was the Counter Strike counterpart mod for Unreal Tournament, before it became a standalone game just like Counterstrike itself. LAN functionality had to be added with an extension card, and I couldn't get my ISA-based (!) card to work. So while the others we already playing, I had to reinstall Windows 98 SE just for the card to work - but it was worth it... Good times, nothing compares to the comradery of a cramped room full of computers where you can hear your team mates cheering or swearing, order pizza or other junk food together, or even talk about things in general when you're exhausted after hours of play. And nothing beats the ping of a few meters...
Oh i could not agree more with you!
war lange nicht mehr auf einer lanparty alter l4d1 mit freunden zu zocken ist krass geil
VR simulated lan parties when
Jesus that would be awesome!
LAN parties are also slowly dying in my country. But I'm trying my best to revive it by buying 4 computers, encouraging my relatives first then my neighbors.
(We spend our time playing C&C Generals Zero Hour, Counter Strike, and DOTA 1)
The closest thing I’ve had to a LAN party was a few times I went over to my friends house. It wasn’t even close to what you described. It’d just be me and him sitting in a basement playing CustomTF For The People on nQuake. Second time was a lot more fun. We had Half-Life, Ricochet, and even Counter-Strike. We were planning another one with me spending the night at his house, and more games like Sven COOP. But, we had a bit of a falling out, and we don’t talk anymore.
Once you hit 30, most of your friends will have moved on from gaming and are now married with kids. They no longer have the time, they don't keep up their PC's, or they just don't want to game. If it were up to me, we would LAN every other weekend. Now, I'm lucky if I even see them every 3 years.
This is so true.
@@rybo109 Unfortunately :( I will cherish the all nighter LAN's we had when i was younger.
Internet Cafès, I grew up at those places since I didn't have a good PC and even after getting a "good PC" I still continued going at those places with my friends. I can confirm its a lot of fun and you can even meet some people there, even become a local legend because you're really good at the game. If you were really good,at the places I usually go, they actually put you on a big TV and people just standing around watch you play. Best part about it, it was really cheap. I'm not saying that its the same as getting together with your friends, but I wasn't able to because of restrictions and internet cafès were the next best thing.
We actually had a LAN every year. We played 1 week straight. Sometimes we played like Civilization for 16 hours without a break. Other times we hoped on a Server of Battlefield and had a blast, just because we were all in the same room and were shouting because of the energy we had.
Sometimes we got so competitive that we did a 3v3 in cs and no one said a word that wasn't necessary for the win.
2020 was the first year that we didn't had one, that's a bit sad.
But i am really looking forward to seeing my mates again trough the scope of my rifle and seeing their reaction to my beautiful hs right next to me :)
Had some mega lan parties in middle/high school. Whole shitload of Halo CE/2, CS, and Starcraft was played. Good times 😂
Back in highschool, I had two groups of friends, and with both we organized frequent lan parties. We would play mostly RTSs, but sometimes Battlefield 2 and other games as well. Nowadays, whenever we're all in town, there's always a lan party to be had, reminiscing the good old time.
A big LAN party with 40ish people sounds awkward to me, personally I prefer rather smaller ones with close friends although I haven’t had one in a few years. Honestly some of the best gaming experiences ever.
Same and Agree. It is fun to play together in a room that sit around with friends.
The drinking and smoking whilst playing battlefield in the desert is the best
Personally, when I got into shooters, I started in a time where LAN parties were already becoming a nostalgic memory for many, you can get a pretty close experience just sitting in a group call with some friends you met on the internet, but in spite of that, if I ever make any friends close to me that I can actually play with in a LAN party, I would love to experience it sometime, there really is that appealing atmosphere, or at least the idea of such, of some guys and/or gals hanging out in a room with all of their computers all bunched together, just playing on a local server together and engaging in banter, and hearing the panicky sounds when someone's in trouble, one day I'd like to experience it.
Also shoutout to whoever's got the Phoenix Point desktop picture ~1:00.
EDIT: Also, thank you for teaching that word which I'm not even going to attempt to spell, it's always fun to learn a new word from a different language that you don't know, even if you end up pronouncing it horrendously when you try to say it yourself.
Greetings and thanks for the shoutout. It was actually my Desktop. I'm one of the Organizer of the TMTJG LAN Party in Germany. I hope that we soon can continue planing new Partys. There will be time for that again. Till then stay Safe.
Greetz Misha
even tough i am born in 97, i am a huge lan party enjoyer, my friends and i do Lan Partys every year after christmas for 3 days and this year for the first time a summerlan and hell it was even better. Legion TD in Warcraft 3 is definitly the most thing we play
LAN parties are dying but at least in Universities and Colleges they are thriving. In my university playing games is not allowed but as per LAN rules but you could find almost all LAN rooms filled with people playing a game.
Don't know if this counts, but three years ago me and my homies would gather a bunch of people and have 20 man matches of CS 1.6 Dust2 on the school computer lab. That was some insane stuff up until like two months later when the school administration had enough of the computer lab being filled completely every time we had a lunch break so they set some moderation programs that blocked launching untrusted exes.
Every summer my friends and i had a lan party but bc of corona we havent done a lan party
Best way to game by far... what a shame we can't do it now. For my first ever LAN, i had absolutely zero Vorfreude, but after that one I wanted them so much.
Stuff like this happen in Balkan region a lot, since like 30-40% of our youth can't afford to buy a whole new ass PC to play latest games, we have Gaming Caffees, not massive ones like in China, but smaller, around 30 PC's MAX.
I've worked in most of the Gaming Caffee's in my hometown and lemme say, when people gather up, drink up, play a bit of short_dust or a round or two of WC3, that stuff really makes me smile. Even more when the cockiest player has the lowest KD and has to buy the whole Caffee a drink.
lmao yea i was to a gaming caffee with a few friends and the friend that usually preforms the best was getting destroyed by my teammate(who was camping in cs) and friend 1 got so mad that he got up and started swinging on the camper,we had to restrain him
Back in 2016 after school when I was a senior the teacher had whole bunch of lan party. We was playing halo 5, super smash bros, and mortal kombat. Damn I miss these days
I miss these days. Drove 13h (two way trip) across the country for a weekend of non stop playing counter-stike beta, Unreal tournament, Quake3arena. I never enjoyed playing online too anonymous and you can't feel the other players fear.
Man, if only Renegades was more popular - this game really deserves it!
Flatout 2 is one of my favorites for lan parties but don't hear it talked about so it was cool to see it here. I'm 19 but play with my dad and a group of his friends so we play a lot of old school games like cod 2, sof 2,urban terror and many more :)
Ich warte immer noch auf den Tag wenn du Command and Conquer coverst :D wenn du hilfe brauchst bin ich gerne bereit dir nen einstieg in das franchise zu geben :D
"if youre taking your whole pc youre gonna need a car"...... not me, meet the guy who has been taking his big box in a backpack on a train to lan parties for many years now
Playing some LAN games with my friend today made me want to watch this video again. :D We played the GOG versions of Star Wars Episode 1 Racer and Mortal Kombat 3.
Awsome, sounds like a good time!
We used to do CS 1.6, NFS:MW and League of Legends LAN parties in school before the pandemic happened, surely feels great to actually see the people that are pushing you out of the road or bunnyhopping across de_dust2
Lanparties used to be more fun in the past for various reasons, one of them being that most of us now have more jobs to do than friends to play with.
School's out at 16h, but i'm lucky if i'm home from work before 19h. The mondays are especially hurtful, when you have to get up at 6h, and the chores at home aren't going to do themselves.
I host 2 LAN parties each year. One is for Halo and the other is for PC games. It really is crazy how many people have no idea about how much fun they can have playing together in the same room.
Great times man... Hope it was way popular.
FlatOut2 and RenegadeX?, daamn!
two of my favorite LAN games!
LAN party for me is when no teacher coming to class lecturing for weird reason and someone has a copy of obscure game with local multiplayer. Pass the flash drive to copy the game around, use our phone as basic router, and play on our laptop until a teacher barge in
There is annual Lan parties close to where I live, it's very awesome.
I'm going to one tomorrow.
This is like FGC talking about tournaments and before that arcades
Late 90's/ealy 2000's LAN parties were the best, trying to fit a massive 21" CRT monitor and a massive tower PC into an OG Rover Mini, and heading off for a weekend of gaming, beer and unhealthy food 😊😊😊Halcyon days....
Imagine ever having any friend to even play on LAN
Something that is close to LAN parties and is also dying (in my eyes) is the Hotseat game mode, pre-pandemic I used to go to a (gaming) pub with a few friends bring a laptop, get some drinks and play Civ V. Oh and I can't forget the time when my dad my brother and I used to play 1.6 on our winter holidays, skiing in the morning counter strike in the evening.
I think all teams should be of 5 people, hanging out after a game. Thats cool
We used to have 1.6 LAN parties in high school during lunch all the time. That was fun before someone discovered working cheats :P
it was banned in my school xd
Miss my days in college diploma where my friends and me play CS 1.6 and then DotA (and tons of Wc3 custom maps) together. We would stay up till 6am and then go straight to class instead of sleeping. That atmosphere is unmatched.
Modern games should bring back LAN play.
Back in the day the lan parties i was part of consisted of a small group of 4-6 people.
We played games with and against each other which were hosted locally and also formed groups for playing some online games together which is also a lot of fun when everyone is playing from the same location.
Those meetings were awesome but i only had like 3 or 4 of them.
My other lan parties were me and my - back then - closest friend meeting at one of our parents houses and just playing games together for 2-4 days and nights :D
Of course we mainly played online games since we only were 2 guys but it was great fun nonetheless :D
I miss those days.....
Yes LAN parties are awesome.
I would like to invite the finnish, french, british guy from discord. To play LAN in prague with me one Day.
Maybe one day...
im going to a lan party with a HUNDRED people in a few days
I have run a LAN party for my old primary school friends for 11 years straight now.
In my city we continue to go to internet cafes and play star wars jedi academy in lan or cod 2 also in lan it is the most amaxing feeling ever
The people who dislikes this video are those of people who doesn't know the feeling playing LAN or they just dont have any friends.
Well so far 330 likes to 0 dislikes :)
What are friends?
So true, Very unfortunate a lot of the younger gamers have never experienced a LAN event.
cs 1.6 lan parties, was so tocix and fun hahahahhaha
my friends yelling and swearing at each other, but nobody is taking it personal, just laughing, because he kept getting killed, by the same person. how people kept complaning about op weapons , awp camper ahhahah..........
good memories
Yeah LAN is cool and all, but I lack the friends willing to do this. Or just friends in general.
I attend 2-3 bigger LAN parties per year and host some at my house with friends. The past 15 years the culture has definitely changed a lot since then. And even for me personally its become a lot more about the social aspect. In the past i was more about downloading and playing games uninterrupted something that was not an option when i was younger.
Its much easier to get friends to play the same game than when you are online.
When i go to LAN parties either as a volunteer or participant its mostly kids that are attending and the occasional eSports team that come just for the competitions. Larger events however still seem attract an older audience.
But i think its hard for many to justify moving your PC and stuff to a new location just for a few days. And peoples setups at home now are more often multiple monitors which was much less normal just 10 years ago.
Personally i think the LAN party is very much alive, But they lack the culture to attract a wider audience.
Nothing beats playing in a pc cafe in a third world country and throwing a "dumb fucking idiot!" Words of encouragement across the room to a stranger teammate and getting stabbed with a broken soda bottle.
Fun times although im glad i was just a spectator
Once I have been on a school LAN party. It was pretty fun I must say!
We had kinda small tournament between teachers and students! A lot of fun! :P
In the summer i did a lan birthday party with 4 friends because a big party wasnt allowed because of covid. We played bf4 after really long time because we all dont have so much time for games in the last years. But still our squad dominated the server. It was so much fun :)
3\4 days over a long weekend, sleep one day less.
Haven't had a LAN party since the days of Halo 2. I had 4 CRTs in my house at the time so I'd invite 8 guys over with their xboxes and we'd play Snipers only on Headlong for hours. The best times. Just wish i was able to get in on Counter Strike during it's dominant days of LAN
Are you going to the halo 2 20th Anniversary throwback for halo 2 MLG days
It's Happening in Las Vegas November
This really makes me want to host a Lan-party but im not sure how to do it XD
We where doing LAN parties before the pandemic at the computer labs at my university. We had 3 rooms with 20 computers each and played either CS: Source, Quake3 Arena and Age of Empires 2. Good times...
That sounds amazing!
Glad you liked it, let me give some more info:
Being a freshman had it's good times. We had a course in which the lecturer was soooo boring and had people like me to keep notes (e.x. 5/100 people attending) and the rest skipped his 2 hour theory and played cs 1.6 and source even during the 2 hour lab while doing our assignments on pentium 4 machines...
One would put the installation on the NAS and the game was ready to go on all the pcs. Afterwards the games got deleted and we did the same thing the next week...
After the first year, we had smaller groups of 5-20 people hosted by one of our Professors at his lab, which had 7th gen i3's. We had an urban legend that if we beat him in AoeII, we will get Max grades on his courses... We also tried Quake, Unreal Tournament, NFSU, Starcraft and etc.
We also tried to zoom call by using s VPN to LAN remotley during the pandemic but it lacked the social experience and it was a bit tricky to setup for a non computer literate person...
I feel gratefull that I had the opportunity to experience a LAN party. Also, I would like to hear your opinions/experience about Internet Cafe's. Even though you gather with your friends, most of the people where playing online games and you don't feel the prescence other people. I have mostly went for the "high end" equipment untill I built my own desktop.
Lan partys are Awesome - in Brake (Germany) "Genial verpLANt" with 200 people it was so much fun..
I miss those days, seriously.
Sadly, my parents despise gaming in general. So I have to play games on secret for these 20 years of living. I used to had LAN parties on 4 people (2v2 on pirated CS 1.6 that has bot support somehow). Nowdays my friends are 95% mainly plays on mobile. I dont have friends who I can ask for LAN parties
Yes, many parents just don't get it! I'm sometimes a little sad I didn't have more gaming experiences back then, or glad that I at least had some of them (considering my mother could hardly stand seeing me in front of the computer), there are two ways of looking at it.
I'm pretty sure that version of cs1.6 was called cs warzone, I would've consider it superior to the steam version if it wasn't for the constant engine issues I ran into playing it
@@kattygurltwo148 its a cs bootleg made by warzone. It runs on its own server, have their own version. Its no way superior
I have been to many lan parties. The biggest was Dreamhack Winter 2005 in Jönköping, Sweden. It was about 10 000 pepole there that event.
Im often on parties with about 300 pepole (crew not included).
Then i have been to some smal parties to that we call "Minigate". We are about 20-50 persons there. There are no crew on minigate. Everyone helps to put up tables and restoring/cleaning after.
I want to set up my own party soon. But i have alot to learn first.
thanks to my teacher, i had with my classmates lan party. this was nice.
In my class even the teacher joined in sometimes.
I don’t think LAN parties are dead.
It’s just most people who game, rather sit at home and not socialise.
LAN parties are a great place to meet new friends.
Would be cool , would need some IRL friends tho 😂
My and my friends always are looking for the next chance to get together, we also always look to Netwar, a 600 person lan hosted in a sports arena twice a year, except this year so
I wish i have more friends nearby to host lan parties... *THIS IS SO SAD!!!!*
Its true. I have played 2v2 FIFA games online many matches. It nice etc. But when i played 2v2 FIFA Match from same TV and my teammate and opponents were sitting next to me it was like whole different world in my opionion.
In my country we have @cafe or we call it "net store" the different is that you pay for the time you play, it's fun it's awesome, but it is slowly die out since many convert to play at homes.
COULD YOU PLEASE SHARE A LIST OF THE GAMES YOUVE PLAYED IN THOSE PARTIES
Still do them with some regularity (with video highlights of the events), as well as youtuber Nerd on a Budget! Never gonna let em dieeeee
I think one of the big problems causing the decline of LAN parties is the increasing-dependencies on "live services," forcing players to connect to an online server whether they like it or not to access any part of the game, and if you're really unlucky- the damn game won't even support LAN multiplayer functionality at-all which means lag cannot be avoided and much of the underlying purpose of playing over a LAN connection is defeated as a result.
I pretty much play exclusively on LAN parties, either trough a VPN or when a friend visits with his laptop
Sometimes i host a dedicated one if the game is light enough, but more often than not, hosting a dedicated one is extra taxing on the PC (and mine is trash so that's that)
Maybe because i play so many old games which either no longer have official servers or didn't have them to begin with
TL;DW personal social interaction feels good and we should do it more, and everyone say it with me: the internet, despite connecting us all more than ever, is actually making everyone very lonely because there is less reason to meet up in person and so on and so forth.