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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Sagebrush posted:

lol if this is your earliest memory of multiplayer gaming

callin up my buddy to play descent, mom don't pick up the phone

#545-3089
AT &F1

Battle.net just worked so I didn't have to gently caress with things until lan parties in middle/high school

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

lol if you started playing multiplayer games after battle.net was a thing

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i was wasting my life WELL before you were, you scrub

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Citizen Tayne posted:

That was a charity event, not someone actually playing it.
technically he still played it, but even ignoring that, there still are servers/websites around and people playing it

for example, steam stats for quake 2 - https://steamdb.info/app/2320/graphs/
i doubt majority plays it through steam

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


kalstrams posted:

technically he still played it, but even ignoring that, there still are servers/websites around and people playing it

for example, steam stats for quake 2 - https://steamdb.info/app/2320/graphs/
i doubt majority plays it through steam

No one is playing it.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




kk

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Sagebrush posted:

lol if this is your earliest memory of multiplayer gaming

callin up my buddy to play descent, mom don't pick up the phone

#545-3089
AT &F1

this except you can't remember how to set it up so you have to keep disconnecting the modem to phone your friend and ask

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

Sagebrush posted:

lol if this is your earliest memory of multiplayer gaming

callin up my buddy to play descent, mom don't pick up the phone

#545-3089
AT &F1

*fires up dwango*

faxlore
Sep 24, 2014

a blue star tattoo for you!

Citizen Tayne posted:

No one is playing it.

i know this is probably a joke but there are some NA servers that are populated throughout most of the day.

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Sagebrush posted:

i was wasting my life WELL before you were, you scrub

oh yeah, yes, very much the same

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


faxlore posted:

i know this is probably a joke but there are some NA servers that are populated throughout most of the day.

No, there aren't.

faxlore
Sep 24, 2014

a blue star tattoo for you!

Citizen Tayne posted:

No, there aren't.

~*~ur right~*
http://q2servers.com/

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

unreal tournament was released a year after quake II and this is its server browser right now

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

Sagebrush posted:

unreal tournament was released a year after quake II and this is its server browser right now



people still play q3a

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003



None of those have people playing on them.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Citizen Tayne posted:

None of those have people playing on them.

except for the nine that do, of course

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Sagebrush posted:

except for the nine that do, of course

None of them do.

Don Lapre
Mar 28, 2001

If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Hed posted:

** feverishly puts LH and DEVICEHIGH statements in front of every line in autoexec.bat and config.sys **

Just run memmaker you loving lpb

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
gently caress I forgot where my manual was so now I can't find character 3 in word 7 of the 10th sentence on page 42 so I can play kings quest

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i played leisure suit larry on that online old dos game emulator and i totally got all the age testing questions right even though i would have been a child at the time the game came out, not sure what this means

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

also leisure suit larry is loving terrible

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Sagebrush posted:

also leisure suit larry is loving terrible
The story behind the remake and its kickstarter is pretty hilarious

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
sersetup -com2 -answer

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
*fires up telix*

*downloads doom 2 off a bbs via a 2400 baud modem over a period of 3 days*

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
*sits on couch reading printed usenet article re: pros & cons of kermit vs zmodem*

Don Lapre
Mar 28, 2001

If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Wirth1000 posted:

*fires up telix*

*downloads doom 2 off a bbs via a 2400 baud modem over a period of 3 days*

How poor were you? Doom 2 was 1994, you shoulda had 28.8 by then.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
went from a 2400 baud -> 14.4k -> 33.6k -> cable

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Fabricated posted:

The story behind the remake and its kickstarter is pretty hilarious

so tell us the story!!!

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


Notorious b.s.d. posted:

people still play q3a


theres still people who set up games and play each other over the sega saturn netlink

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Sagebrush posted:

lol if you started playing multiplayer games after battle.net was a thing

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
its the late 90s

i'm on ms zone playing checkers and jedi knight

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Wirth1000 posted:

its the late 90s

i'm on ms zone playing checkers and jedi knight

rip ms gaming zone you were too beautiful for this world
Jedi knight was awesome to play normally and with the dumb hacks because the game had no protection or validation whatsoever

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

ahmeni posted:

rip ms gaming zone you were too beautiful for this world
Jedi knight was awesome to play normally and with the dumb hacks because the game had no protection or validation whatsoever

i liked jedi knight 2 (much later than the 90s here) because remember in episode i where darth maul kills qui-gon jinn by stabbing backwards and impaling him? well they modeled that specific move in the game too as an unblockable instakill on anyone you got with it. so any multiplayer match with light sabers immediately turned into everyone running backwards all over the map doing that move over and over again

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Sagebrush posted:

i liked jedi knight 2 (much later than the 90s here) because remember in episode i where darth maul kills qui-gon jinn by stabbing backwards and impaling him? well they modeled that specific move in the game too as an unblockable instakill on anyone you got with it. so any multiplayer match with light sabers immediately turned into everyone running backwards all over the map doing that move over and over again

I played so goddamn much of JK2, duelling servers and FFA was all fantastic poo poo and the movement was tight
JK3 got a bit loose with the gameplay and the ridiculous dual sabre poo poo

~*grip kick 4 lyfe*~

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

cloud city dueling arena represent

that game actually had a surprisingly solid close combat fighting mechanic. easy to learn, plenty of depth, nowhere near as spergy as any real fighting game. well put together.

another good game with v solid fighting mechanics was Oni. drat i want to play that again now. probably gonna reinstall it.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Sagebrush posted:

unreal tournament was released a year after quake II and this is its server browser right now



the difference is unreal tournament was actually fun

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Main Paineframe posted:

the difference is unreal tournament was actually fun

is this the thread to get mad at them for gimping the shock rifle in ut03 onwards? poo poo was my jam, up until it wasnt

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Sagebrush posted:

nowhere near as spergy as any real fighting game



jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Fabricated posted:

The story behind the remake and its kickstarter is pretty hilarious
prove it

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lord funk
Feb 16, 2004

had a 5 player marathon lan setup a few times. iirc: powermac 9500, powermac 9600, powermac g3, powerbook g3, and i can't remember the last. probably a performa or something

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