Everyone playing Diablo III has sparked many nostalgic conversations about the days of Diablo II thrashing LAN parties. Diablo II wasn’t always the pivotal game for face smashing; Quake and Unreal Tournament were often the games I played at LAN parties for destroying faces.
All this talk of LAN parties and Quake has me wondering if people still have LAN parties? Or has the MMO genre eliminated the need to have everyone in the same room consuming ridiculous amounts of calories from pizza, chips and Mt Dew? I hope not because there was something about getting a group of friends together, in the same room, to destroy faces and laugh at newbs. I do find it ironic how those of us that were labeled geeks were considered to be anti-social when the primary attraction of going to a LAN party was to socialize, but I digress.
I was attending 1-2 LAN parties a year between the time I finished school and moved to Ohio. Granted they weren’t the kind of LAN parties that lasted 36 hours. Usually we would all end up leaving at 1 or 2 in the morning hopped up on adrenaline and caffeine.
What are some of your fond LAN party memories?