What was it like back then?
you didn't get banned for calling someone a fag or saying nigger
https://youtu.be/C7QCh-l-EJM
>>12650386dunno, i was too busy playing the superior SOCOM II
It was the beginning of the end. Matchmaking is cancer. Paid online is cancer.
>>12650386You can just play it today, Halo 2 is active every night.
>>12650738which third party service is the most active?
>>12650808Insignia
>>12650386amazing. magical. novel. everything that it was hyped up to be and more. XBL had FPSs releases before halo 2 (the RTCW port and unreal championship come to mind) but they were obsoleted overnight by halo 2. getting into a match with a few button presses was a dream. being able to take a whole console of your friends and go online in 16 player matches was a fucking orgy of pleasure.it was a veritable "you had to be there" moment. one of those lightning-in-a-bottle times that was only possible with rapidly advancing tech.doomer crybabies like >>12650617 didn't exist but if you didn't like curated matches you could easily go on PC and play dozens of games that had dedicated servers with active communities.>>12650738>>12650808the problem with this (and the official MCC servers) is that they're filled with the same boomers that have been no-lifing the games since they came out. if you're new/casual you don't stand a chance. every couple months i'll hop on some halo 3 custom servers (which sadly are all zombies) and just get smoked. not enjoyable. i don't even touch the playlists.
>>12650909>boomers that have been no-lifing the gamesNot at all there's hundreds of people on things like BTB nights and most people are just looking to play, not flex on a 25 year old console. It's a very easy going atmosphere.
>>12650386 >>12650610>console onlinenever happened. MMORPGs and PC FPS were the hottest shit for online gaming. LAN shops popped up everywhere due to them.
>>12650386No idea, Xbox wasn't a thing here, and absolutely no one used their PS2 online. We all just went to a cyber cafe to play Quake 3, CS 1.6 and MOHAA.
>>12650386>What was it like back then?n-word functionality and no in-game stats like k/d. glorious.
>>12650386I didn't get "hi-speed internet" until 2006
>>12651202Yeah, I played Phantasy Star Online on dial-up, but besides that I didn't play console games online until Street Fighter IV in 2009. In retrospect, I regret missing out on Halo online. I loved Halo LAN parties and split-screen multiplayer, it would've been great playing Halo 2 and 3 online back when they were new. A friend even tried to convince me to get Xbox Live in 2004/2005, but for some reason I never did.
>>12651202same :(i tried playing a couple online games back then but on dial up you're looking at 500ms of latency and nobody liked that
>>12651138maybe in whatever brown shithole you come from, sure
>>12651259>brown shithole you come fromIt's called ameturdrica
>>12651295Yeah South America sure is full of em!
>>12651295"LAN shops" were barely a thing in America. and the ones that did exist weren't called "LAN shops."what impoverished backwater "nation" are you from?
>>12651363he likely hails from a far off land known as "anywhere else". the USA for many purposes lives in a bubble, for better or worse.
>join>multiple people screaming nigger instantlyIt's been pretty much the same until recently when they started using ai to auto ban people for abusive voice coms
>>12651363they were called LANdromats here
>>12651259>>12651295its called being first world with cheap cable /fibre interwebz.
>>12651550interwebz cafes.>>12651363 >>12651392anyhow. first "LAN shop" was called "gaming and entertainment center", located in a USA college. but it also had arcade machines and consoles. 2006.> https://web.archive.org/web/20120329054453/http://www.emich.edu/focus_emu/112806/gamingroom.htmlTLDR: you're all zoomers who were not there in 2006+. or chatbots posting AI search results.
>>12651583Internet cafes weren't really a thing in the US the way they were in other countries and virtually nobody was playing games in them.why are you larping as an American?
I lived in a town in PA where there was/is an internet cafe that's actually a swinger's club.
>>12651638They weren't as big as in other countries, but some still existed in America, especially around colleges. For example, the website is still up for a LAN center that was in Davis (college town in California) that closed in 2005. https://localwiki.org/davis/PC_Game_Arenahttp://www.bloodstrike.50megs.com/>Here is the list for the current game we have in the store:>Half-life:>Counter-Strike>Team fortress>opposite force>WarCraftIII beta>Diablo2 and Expansion>StarCraft BloodWar>EverQuest>Unreal Tournment
>>12651681The photos on the site are pretty cool to look at now
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>>12651681in a few cosmopolitan regions of the country they had everything. that doesnt really mean much for the rest of the country.
>>12651638internet cafes were the best place to get into a fistfight in the 2000s
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>>12651192>and a few am radio stations
Wouldn't Helldivers be kind of the current day equivalent atmosphere?
>>12651701damn. the decline of arcades was rough in the 00s
>>12651741does it have free join/leave lobbies?
>>12651701dunno about Merica but remember horror stories of stabbings over counter strike shenanigans in various places
>>12651638i posted archived evidence to prove it. and i was there. im Gen X. are you another AI bot who can't read?
>>12651681>>12651682>>12651684you can smell the booty sweat from those pic...
>>12651363>>12651259>>12651694>you're poor n 3rd worldly if you play online PC master rice games!!!111>but nooooo, only cosmos regions in USA have gaming things, only the poorfaggotrons like me matter!i swear you're all dumbass AI bots.
>>12651986you posted one article from some collegereal life ain't like a university chief, you'd know if you went to college and weren't underage
