That’s fine and all but I’m technically an elder Millenial, and we definitely played online pvp games when I was in high school. I was there for the first counterstrike alpha/beta. My brother and I spent an entire week playing CS one time while my parents were in a trip, 10 hours a day with breaks for pizza. We had a system for sharing play because we only had the one desktop… lol.
We had quake lan parties and even did a quake tourney in our school computer lab because this was before they really sorted out locking the computers down. I feel like tribes and unreal tournament were out pretty quick as well. Quake arena. Half life multiplayer and then CS, day of defeat, etc.
Super toxic online was sorta a thing, but I feel like that didnt mainstream until COD lobbies on consoles, and the advent of voice chat. Or rather most of the servers I played on were specific servers, hosted by people with admins, and while people would misbehave, you generally wanted to not get banned and keep coming back—you knew the other names and such, so that had an ok moderating effect.
I had some pet birds when I was younger and played in those cesspool cod xbox lobbies. I would end up derailing the vitriol because everyone would be like, “the fuck, is that a bird? Why is there a bird?”
It was a half-life mod just like CS and DoD. PVK wasn’t very popular but it was damn good fun. Three teams against each other, and each ‘race’ had three separate classes in each. Playing as a pirate captain and sending your parrot to go attack another was the highlight of my playing time lmao.
That’s fine and all but I’m technically an elder Millenial, and we definitely played online pvp games when I was in high school. I was there for the first counterstrike alpha/beta. My brother and I spent an entire week playing CS one time while my parents were in a trip, 10 hours a day with breaks for pizza. We had a system for sharing play because we only had the one desktop… lol.
We had quake lan parties and even did a quake tourney in our school computer lab because this was before they really sorted out locking the computers down. I feel like tribes and unreal tournament were out pretty quick as well. Quake arena. Half life multiplayer and then CS, day of defeat, etc.
Super toxic online was sorta a thing, but I feel like that didnt mainstream until COD lobbies on consoles, and the advent of voice chat. Or rather most of the servers I played on were specific servers, hosted by people with admins, and while people would misbehave, you generally wanted to not get banned and keep coming back—you knew the other names and such, so that had an ok moderating effect.
I had some pet birds when I was younger and played in those cesspool cod xbox lobbies. I would end up derailing the vitriol because everyone would be like, “the fuck, is that a bird? Why is there a bird?”
Hahah brilliant, love it. Definitely the best way to end that stuff—surprise them or confuse them.
Oh thanks for the nostalgic trip! Tribes was so fun. CS was so fun. Day of Defeat was my jam! Did you ever play Pirates Vikings Knights? 😆
I think I missed pirates viiings knights, sad now!
It was a half-life mod just like CS and DoD. PVK wasn’t very popular but it was damn good fun. Three teams against each other, and each ‘race’ had three separate classes in each. Playing as a pirate captain and sending your parrot to go attack another was the highlight of my playing time lmao.
Edit here’s a game play video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKxkIxnNsg