I remember making a long cable with RJ-12 to serial port adapters for local games, file transfer, etc. I also remember calling friends on the phone ahead of time to set up what we are going to play on a modem before connecting. Then having to let everyone know I'm playing a game, don't touch the phones or it will drop, and it did, often.
Jedi Survivor is just the latest in a long line of such that includes, most infamously, SimCity and Diablo 3. It really is a retarded choice and always has been.
My last experience with LAN gaming was trying to play Left4Dead 2 on the xbox 360 about 10 years ago. After being forced to download something like 20 GB of updates that was going to take a couple hours before the console and/or game would let us play, we just said "fuck it" and hit the bar instead.
Whenever Steam cloud or Steam community has a fit I remember that it's Tuesday or Thursday. At the very least, unlike other server/service outages, Steam's usually consistent in its timing. And overall pretty reliable most of the rest of the time.
I remember making a long cable with RJ-12 to serial port adapters for local games, file transfer, etc. I also remember calling friends on the phone ahead of time to set up what we are going to play on a modem before connecting. Then having to let everyone know I'm playing a game, don't touch the phones or it will drop, and it did, often.
So I guess I'm old?
''How old are you?''
This old.
Jedi Survivor is just the latest in a long line of such that includes, most infamously, SimCity and Diablo 3. It really is a retarded choice and always has been.
Ah, modern gaming.
No!
Glad I mostly play story driven single player games... And factorio.
My last experience with LAN gaming was trying to play Left4Dead 2 on the xbox 360 about 10 years ago. After being forced to download something like 20 GB of updates that was going to take a couple hours before the console and/or game would let us play, we just said "fuck it" and hit the bar instead.
Whenever Steam cloud or Steam community has a fit I remember that it's Tuesday or Thursday. At the very least, unlike other server/service outages, Steam's usually consistent in its timing. And overall pretty reliable most of the rest of the time.
And random people taking out fiber substations. Repeatedly.