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As someone from that region I know the reason: it's the hot seat feature[0]. You only needed one copy of the game and one PC for you and your friends to play t
by Tade0 3y ago
As someone from that region I know the reason: it's the hot seat feature[0].
You only needed one copy of the game and one PC for you and your friends to play together. Every class in school had at least one guy who had his own PC, who often invited friends over to play after class and since commie blocks are particularly walkable, we could all return home on our own.
I spent a good chunk of my preteen years like that.
[0] really badly translated to what directly translates back to "flaming buttcheeks".
- isolli 3y agoThanks for sharing. What time was that, if I may ask?
- Tade0 3y agoLate 90s largely - we started with H2 and when H3 came out, enthusiastically switched to it as soon as the two guys who would always have friends over got their copies. They always had the latest stuff because they were upper-middle class and back then even such people would live in commie blocks, since it was free real estate, and send their kids to public schools. H4 didn't make such a splash because even though it was better balanced, it felt like a downgrade in many respects. I went to a different middle school so when I regained contact with my grade school friends they were already either exploring alcohol and sex or got sucked into WoW - in one case even both. Anyway H3 left a mark on my generation thanks to its great replayability and social aspect that fit well into post-communist reality, with walkable, but hideous architecture and absent parents, majority of whom were working overtime(by western standards at least).
- isolli 3y agoThanks again :)
- bombcar 3y agoBrings back memories of using the "spawn copy" feature of Warcraft/Starcraft and some similar games to play multiplayer on our parent's PCs. But H3 flaming buttocks was the best, because then you could talk and party whilst only one person at a time was distracted. Ah, youth
- jerjerjer 3y agoWell into the aughts.