Reviving old mods/old multiplayer games

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Reviving old mods/old multiplayer games Anonymous 07/08/15 (Wed) 19:35:43 No.3014

Are there any communities specifically for reviving and enjoying old dead mods? Hosting servers and encouraging people, setting up community events to enjoy the nearly forgotten hard work?

There are too many awesome, unique mods out there with no one to play them, or no servers up. Some of my favorite gaming experiences have been setting up local servers and 1v1ing my friend on weird old HL1 and HL2 mods, like Train Hunter or Earth's Special Forces or Zombie Master. These are some of my favorite games of all time, and unfortunately its near impossible to enjoy them as they are meant to be played nowadays.

The same goes for old ass multiplayer games that don't have a community anymore, either. Things like Majesty or other LAN games.

Please let me know if you guys know any communities that celebrate the heritage of modding, and in appreciating the thousands of hours people labored over unique experiences that not enough people got to enjoy.

Or if you guys are interested in such a thing. I think a place to share and kickstart communities again would be fantastic.

Anonymous 07/09/15 (Thu) 09:01:20 No.3020

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While you're seeking those communities, why not use this thread as a repository for all the good mods /vr/ knows about?

At worst, you'll each uncover a few mods you hadn't played before.

And you might generate enough of a community in and of yourselves.

Anonymous 07/09/15 (Thu) 13:23:13 No.3025

>communities specifically for reviving and enjoying old dead mods?

this board would be a good place to start. you need to firstly find people who also want to do it before anyone new will get interested.

thankfully most old games would let you make your own server, rather than today's "kids are too dumb to port forward" approach.

ideal thing would be to host a lan party with your irl friends, but if we had a few friends into /vr/ we wouldn't be on /vr/.

Anonymous 08/31/15 (Mon) 21:10:22 No.3714

There's a Steam group that popped up recently for playing GoldSRC games together with other people.

steamcommunity.com/groups/goldsourcegaming

Anonymous 09/03/15 (Thu) 03:00:25 No.3726

I just made /gsrc/ if you want to swing by and talk about old mods. If we can get enough people with a good enough schedule I can throw out dedicated servers to play some older/dead mods.

Anonymous 09/03/15 (Thu) 18:39:10 No.3729

>>>/gsrc/

It'd help if I linked it correctly.

Anonymous 09/09/15 (Wed) 00:25:40 No.3765

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