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Hang 'em high is the best multi-player level ever; no bullshit to hide behind, you have skill or you die. I miss those days of having 4 boxes networked throughout a house with 2 teams in one room in an 8 on 8 game so nobody could screen look. Good times.
The old days of IRL lan parties were incredible. There's a certain atmosphere that can't be replicated over the internet. Nothing quite like making friends and enemies over video games and pizza.
My cousin, brother, and I would have LAN parties with our systems over at my house. My brother and I didn't really worry about screen peeking because we always knew each other's movements anyway. My cousin, however, was paranoid about screen peeking so he would always set up on the other side of the room. For a while he was sitting directly in front of a big mirror on my living room wall :P once he figured that out he moved to the next adjacent room entirely. Like good cousins, we started listening for his TV's activity, so we'd know what he was doing and could sometimes figure his approximate his position. He dug out this old headset to stop us, but it had this weird "feature" that would dial the volume way back if the noise ever got too loud. We'd take advantage of this by throwing frags across the map until one landed close enough to turn off his volume. BANG. BANG. BANG. "Dammit!" "He's over there!" It was a constant arms race of intel and counter intel.
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Haha I love it. Not related to your story, but it is another tale of pissing off people. My friend had a 4 year old kid who had been playing since he was 3. He had a madkatz controller (very small) that worked for him. His handle was "a 4 year old"(or some abbreviated form that still read as the same). If we were playing a particularly inept team and they didn't want to gamble with us, we'd tell them that if they placed the bet, they could pick which one of us would be subbed out by the 4 year old. It was always funny to hear men in their early 20's bitch from another room "FUCK, I got killed by a 4 year old". Either that or a girl that played with us went under the name "a chick".
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The reason it's my favourite is because the ending basically took Super Metroid and made it in to a shooter, with a "destroy the core" finale and then a mad dash to escape at the end with that epic music playing.
Mmm Halo PC was so great. I spent countless afternoons and summer days on my clan's server. Wasn't really a fan of this map though since I prefer CTF with vehicles.
[–] ScottRockview 0 points 24 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago (edited ago)
Hang 'em high is the best multi-player level ever; no bullshit to hide behind, you have skill or you die. I miss those days of having 4 boxes networked throughout a house with 2 teams in one room in an 8 on 8 game so nobody could screen look. Good times.
[–] deerhoof_fan 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
The old days of IRL lan parties were incredible. There's a certain atmosphere that can't be replicated over the internet. Nothing quite like making friends and enemies over video games and pizza.
[–] whatthehelldamnguy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Agreed. Youngins are missing out.
[–] ScottRockview 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Also, setting up tournaments and making bets and coming out of the night with hundreds of dollars.
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The smell on the other hand is a reason I will never attend another one....unless bathing is strictly required.
[–] ChillyHellion 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My cousin, brother, and I would have LAN parties with our systems over at my house. My brother and I didn't really worry about screen peeking because we always knew each other's movements anyway. My cousin, however, was paranoid about screen peeking so he would always set up on the other side of the room. For a while he was sitting directly in front of a big mirror on my living room wall :P once he figured that out he moved to the next adjacent room entirely. Like good cousins, we started listening for his TV's activity, so we'd know what he was doing and could sometimes figure his approximate his position. He dug out this old headset to stop us, but it had this weird "feature" that would dial the volume way back if the noise ever got too loud. We'd take advantage of this by throwing frags across the map until one landed close enough to turn off his volume. BANG. BANG. BANG. "Dammit!" "He's over there!" It was a constant arms race of intel and counter intel.
[–] ScottRockview 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Haha I love it. Not related to your story, but it is another tale of pissing off people. My friend had a 4 year old kid who had been playing since he was 3. He had a madkatz controller (very small) that worked for him. His handle was "a 4 year old"(or some abbreviated form that still read as the same). If we were playing a particularly inept team and they didn't want to gamble with us, we'd tell them that if they placed the bet, they could pick which one of us would be subbed out by the 4 year old. It was always funny to hear men in their early 20's bitch from another room "FUCK, I got killed by a 4 year old". Either that or a girl that played with us went under the name "a chick".