![]() Reliant on teamwork, co-ordination and not-fucking-up is a recipe for the most Hormonal teenager and hardcore gamers into 5v5 teams that are inherently The MOBA genre isīoth one of the best, and simultaneously worst, multiplayer genres out there. Me to another group of friends I still play with years later. The ultra-competitive nature of MOBAs introduced Our gaggle of nerds also discovered DotA (WC3 map) and subsequently Heroes Killstreaks, non-dedicated servers and a playerbase of clones using the Witchīuild*. ![]() Unbalanced gameplay mired in a stinking slimy scum of achievements and ![]() Was released and the downfall of the CoD series had begun in earnest. My later years at uni were subsumed by rage. Fighting games, JRPGs, sports, 3-D platformers (like the LEGO games): all better on console. The fact that CoD out-sells BF attests that something in CoD triggers more fun in a pre-teen's brain than BF. The fact that consoles out-sell PCs attests to that. "Console kiddies aren't gamers" / PC Gaming Master Race I can't dispute PC gamers are the master race, but the console kiddies are gamers too. could even make an argument for Call of Duty.To run through games I've gotten extremely invested in as a direct result of LAN parties and gaming nights at other's houses (note the MMOs): Collective interest in both of those started out from LANs. The two games that have absorbed more of my time in the last 3-4 years than any other are Dota and Minecraft. The only reason everyone I regularly game with isn't sick of me dragging my rig around to their houses is because I'm in a different country. I organised LANs at high school and uni, for consoles and PCs, with and without internet access because I enjoy gaming with others more than playing single player, or not being in the same room as the people I'm playing with. As one of the comments said: You can't high-five over the internet. To hell with back pain from sitting on shitty chairs and cramped, sweaty, smelly rooms. To hell with the hassle of shifting a rig or TV. I still prefer to go to a LAN than game via the internet. An old dinosaur of social gaming struck down by an internet meteor that blocked out the sky with trolls, squeakers and bads. It's been argued that with Skype/Vent/Teamspeak/Mumble, the internet, and disappearing menu options, LAN gaming is a thing of the past. ![]()
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