It’s nothing against online play. It’s that it is basically not possible anymore. Practically no recent game allows basic server-client over LAN anymore. Like, with a good old TCP or UDP server listening on the host machine.
You need internet for everything and the more people you are, the more you need a solid connexion. And once the server closes, you are done with the game forever. Halo CE LANs will never be done as long as physical support continue to work.
Exceptions are maybe MK8D and SSBU (are there other ?) on Switch but that’s basically it, and there are hard limitations in number of players and I doubt the Switch will last as long as the Xbox as a device (because of battery and cartridges).
And there is this little thing of setting up everything, organizing the room for everyone to have a place to play and while having enough room to put your beer on but yeah, I acknowledge it, _that_ part is nostalgia ;)
Ohh it's nothing against online play, except most of the article that complains about online play.
You all want to wax nostalgic about LAN parties when most of the time everyone was playing pirated versions of games and burning copies of copyrighted content and p*rn onto CDs.... Them's were the days.
It’s nothing against online play. It’s that it is basically not possible anymore. Practically no recent game allows basic server-client over LAN anymore. Like, with a good old TCP or UDP server listening on the host machine.
You need internet for everything and the more people you are, the more you need a solid connexion. And once the server closes, you are done with the game forever. Halo CE LANs will never be done as long as physical support continue to work.
Exceptions are maybe MK8D and SSBU (are there other ?) on Switch but that’s basically it, and there are hard limitations in number of players and I doubt the Switch will last as long as the Xbox as a device (because of battery and cartridges).
And there is this little thing of setting up everything, organizing the room for everyone to have a place to play and while having enough room to put your beer on but yeah, I acknowledge it, _that_ part is nostalgia ;)