I had a night like that once.
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It was a good night, right?
I was/am kinda hoping that with the slow adoption of VR/AR that we can kinda bring hanging out on the couch taking turns on games together.
There are apps like Big Screen that already let you share a screen together and hang out, but not easily play games and you can't share controls. EmuVR let's you share controls and hang out in a room with people but only retro games via retroarch.
If we could get a mix of the two where I could just put on my headset/glasses (in the future) join my friends room and we both kinda exist in each other's real life room via AR sharing screens it would be pretty good.
This is probably like a decade away, but for those of us with IRL friends who have moved really far away so hanging out in person frequently isn't an option, it could be a ray of hope.
Would still rather just meet up and crash over at one of our places with takeaway pizza taking turns on Resident Evil 1 until 3am.
Glory days of Halo Reach / (hot take) Halo 4 / (even hotter take) maybe even a little bit of Halo 5 (but we don't speak of the early days of Master Chief Collection) were my favourite era of Xbox multiplayer.
Halo Infinite is pretty good as far as mechanics go, but the community aspects are a shadow of its former self, and I'm not sure 343i ever completely understood this.
(I'd probably say "I wish we had Bungie back" but as a Destiny player I'm pretty sure Bungie is slipping too.)
Maybe 2002 2003 my friend and I invited one of the lonelier kids from highschool to my friends house for an overnight gaming night. Turns out the lonely kid has an og Xbox and a dreamcast.
End up playing Marvel vs. Capcom for a few hours then completely beating halo!
One of my fondest memory's.
Why do I always feel like one of the very few who fondly remembers this feeling with Super Smash Bros. Melee? Still do, with Ultimate.
Then the one kid shows up and wants to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
Mine was Goldeneye. LAN parties weren't a thing when i was a kid really. Now get off my fucking lawn.
Oddjob, knives only in aztec
Sorry
Yep exactly. But with WoW 12 years ago. It was genuinely the best time of my life. I still tal about that era.
I still watch Machinima and the great kodo song and cinematics with nostalgia. My alarms are wow soundtracks and I alternate my messages between between portal and the horde captured the flag sounds. Great times indeed.
You're just missing genuine community and human interaction. It is a huge lack of it in today's world. But you can fight back just you know group up with your friends and have that lan party you miss
My issue mainly is that people get married and have children and then don't have time anymore.
It always used to be a hassle to get people to even show up and I feel having families won't make that any better.
As a married man with a kid, we may have less time than others, but the loneliness is still there for many men.
Ironically in our group it's the people with kids who have the most availability/flexibility to meet up, but the ones who are single or don't have a family who are always busy.
You will always be welcome to play some games in my home, if you're ever in the area. I have multiple computers so we can always play lan games.
But what I mentioned is what I hear most of the time when I ask people if they want to hang out. They don't have time, too busy, etc. Maybe it's me and they just don't like me?
but how do you make friends?
Moved to a new town, looking for groups to participate in... Instead I made an acquaintence out of the barista of a coffee shop I regularly go to
Hey, at least the barista recognizes you even if they're told to smile.
Even if the interactions are fake, I still feel good about it.
but how do you afford coffee? Its Like 5€
I don't go there every day
Me and the boys with timed challenge modes and raiding in WoW. At least we got realm's best on Scarlet Monastery :')
Same thing but with StarCraft.
It blew my mind back in the mid 90s the first time I played Doom in lan with a couple buddies. His dad had some sort of tech job and set up a couple desktops in the basement for us.
MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER IN A HOUSE?!
Best sleepover ever.
My friends and I played a ton of Doom on my company LAN back then. Getting it set up and working was a challenge but so worth it. Very fond memories.
My friends would just bring their computers to each other's house for a sleepover. Along with their 50 pound monitor. I was amazed the little card table we sat at didn't collapse.
I miss spending hours using forge to build a pair of bases, then try and invade each other for capture the flag.
Hmmm, which of these 6 teleporters takes you to the flag, and which 5 dump you into a trap...
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