Some of my best memories from college were when we had four or five of us crammed into one guy's bedroom in the dorms with all the bed frames cleared off and set up a Diablo 2 LAN game. We all ran skelemancers except for my one friend who ran an Enchantress build so we actually had the necessary damage output. We rolled through all three difficulties without much trouble, but the best part was definitely shouting at each other for a town portal every two minutes because we were too lazy to walk anywhere that didn't involve picking up all of the loot in our wake.
Kids today will never know that joy because they never had a culture of couch based multiplayer that leads to the idea of all cramming into one room for what would otherwise be an online game with everyone sequestered away in their homes, isolated and alone. It's a genuine societal level problem, this breakdown in basic human socialization. But sure, we should just all get on XBox Live or Discord and pretend it's a real equivalent to actually sitting down and playing with your friends all in the same room.
LAN parties were making a comeback a few years ago. The prices of PC's may have slowed it down. But, I think more people are waking up to SaaS being bullshit.
Some of my best memories from college were when we had four or five of us crammed into one guy's bedroom in the dorms with all the bed frames cleared off and set up a Diablo 2 LAN game. We all ran skelemancers except for my one friend who ran an Enchantress build so we actually had the necessary damage output. We rolled through all three difficulties without much trouble, but the best part was definitely shouting at each other for a town portal every two minutes because we were too lazy to walk anywhere that didn't involve picking up all of the loot in our wake.
Kids today will never know that joy because they never had a culture of couch based multiplayer that leads to the idea of all cramming into one room for what would otherwise be an online game with everyone sequestered away in their homes, isolated and alone. It's a genuine societal level problem, this breakdown in basic human socialization. But sure, we should just all get on XBox Live or Discord and pretend it's a real equivalent to actually sitting down and playing with your friends all in the same room.
LAN parties were making a comeback a few years ago. The prices of PC's may have slowed it down. But, I think more people are waking up to SaaS being bullshit.