How mind-blowing was to play games online on consoles in the early 2000's?

It was big experience, very special :)

>>11865126 (OP)
>early 2000's
Wasn't really practical for 99% of people until widespread broadband. I didn't go online with a console until the Xbox 360 which was like 2005.

>>11865126 (OP)
ever heard of matchmaking?

>>11865126 (OP)
It wasn't all that interesting to me, I had already played my share of online Starcraft and the novelty wore off once I realized I hate online people just as much as real people

>>11865126 (OP)
For the few times I tried it back then, incredible. For the times I've played it now, unforgettable. You should play on Insignia if you aren't already.

>>11865126 (OP)
LAN gaming > WAN gaming

>>11865161
I think the first online console game I played was Demon's Souls.

>>11865126 (OP)
A thirty something guy I was playing mortal kombat deadly alliance with (or perhaps the one that came after DA) asked me if I was a real person and was blown away he was talking to another person across the country while playing the game on Xbox live. This shit was mindblowing to especially to consolefags.

>>11865161
>early 2000's
>Wasn't really practical for 99% of people until
Plenty of kids at my middle class middle school had Xbox live before Halo 2. Definitely not “99% unfeasible” for most people.

>>11865126 (OP)
A huge step into the future in the console arena. It was one of the defining features of the XBox and at the time I felt like it would usher in a golden age. After all, PCs had had modems and broadband capabilities for a while and I played the shit out of Quake, Half-Life and its mods, C&C, Starcraft, and Diablo II with friends and strangers.

I didn't own an XBox, but I heard from people that did that you had to pay a subscription fee to use the online for some games. I laughed and assumed no one would actually do that when the PC was free, but they did it in droves and it became a standard feature of consoles within two generations. I was never so furious with the masses in my life, paying money for things that should've been free, particularly when Games for Windows Live tried to implement it on the PC as well.

>>11865126 (OP)
>mind-blowing
I was already playing PC games online since the mid 90s so not very?

I don't think I've ever done this, even now. I occasionally get really really into a multiplayer game but it's always on PC.

>>11865161
At least half of people had broadband by 2003

how mind blowing was it to play SNES online with xband?

>>11865126 (OP)
SOCOM online in 2002 was peak future + comfy

>>11865161
Dreamcast dude. The speeds were great.

>>11865126 (OP)

I never played PS2 online.

>>11866002
Xband played like ass, there were a handful of games specially coded for Xband but most weren't great. Also some people would just pull the plugs when they thought they were losing.

>>11865126 (OP)
>How mind-blowing was to play games online on consoles in the early 2000's?
i'm starting to believe other anons when they say this board has a serious bot problem.

>>11865126 (OP)
I was so excited to buy a PS2 network adapter, Midnight Club 2, SOCOM 2 and Tony Hawks Underground. None of those games worked online except Midnight Club 2 because they all used Sony's DNAS drm. My PS2 was chipped and all my games were pirated (bought at a chinese mall) and didn't work with DNAS. At least Midnight Club 2 supported usb keyboard for chatting so that was kind of neat.

>>11865161
>Wasn't really practical for 99% of people
Just because you were an inner city nigger doesn't mean everyone else was too.

>>11866110
Your modchip didn't have a stealth mode?

Also, are you like Malaysian/Singaporian, etc?

>>11866002
I used to see ads for XBand all the time in magazines but I never knew anyone that actually had one. Not even sure how you'd set it up for online play.

>>11866121
Yes I'm from the Philippines we all had modded PS2 here. Don't know what stealth mode is since my modchip came from the chinese mall too, but it sucked that I couldn't play most of my games online despite buying the PS2 network adapter.

>>11865126 (OP)
super cool. first game I played online for console was SOCOM, game sucked but the experience was neat. Later on a friend of mine was playing one of the THPS games online and plugged in a keyboard to talk shit with the other dudes in the lobby

>>11866121
>Also, are you like Malaysian/Singaporian, etc?
Most asian dads go for the chinese mall meta in the late 90s to early 00s. If your asian dad had a CD-RW or DVD-RW burner in the family computer, then they go for the blockbuster (or equivalent) meta, rent that shit and dupe it. At some point in the 2000s torrenting became popular enough so the kids can take care of themselves. Yes I know irc existed. No I don't know if my chipped PS2 had a stealth mode.

>>11865126 (OP)
No shits given about my PS2 network adapter until it was useful as a piracy enabler.

>>11865126 (OP)
Wasn't really practical for the first Xbox, it was mostly used for LAN parties. Xbox live was in its infancy too.

It was from 2005 onward that it started becoming increasingly huge. Halo 2 and the 360 were both big deals and leveraged online play heavily.

>>11865126 (OP)
We had an Xbox and a PS2, both within like 3 feet of where we kept a router for the PCs to have internet, but we never gave a single shit about using the consoles online until Halo 2 in 2004 where we tried it for a couple of weeks then disconnected it and never used it again. I have no idea why using consoles on the internet didn't interest me at all but it took literally a decade for me to think it was normal. It just didn't seem like the purpose of consoles.

Maybe just because I was so used to using keyboards for chatting in MUDs/BBS/chatrooms/IRC etc? That was part of PCs to me.

>>11865126 (OP)

Hot take - I was 12/13 when I got Xbox Live setup with Halo 2 and it was a game changer. We had all 3 systems and prior to getting an Xbox I was pretty die-hard for the GC (didn't play the PS2 much).

Once Xbox Live was setup - we pretty didn't touch another system aside from the Xbox that gen. Felt like the evolution of console gaming (because it was). I will say, I was one of maybe 2-3 guys at my school that had the Xbox setup for online so it wasn't very popular until the 360 / PS3 era.

Other annoying thing was my dad refused to let me have a headset which made playing online super annoying. He was convinced I was going to be talking to pedos or whatever because to catch a predator was so popular at the time. Ended up throwing out a headset that I bought with my own money.

First time experiencing it was playing Tony Hawk Underground. Before that it was PC online gaming WITH MMOs.

>>11865161
You didn't go online with a console until 2005 because your parent wouldn't let you and your hands were too small to hold the controller. You also grew up in the connectivity 3rd world. I had broadband well before 2000 as did nearly everyone in my area. Its was very common in all major cities throughout the developed countries in Asia.

>>11866276
That was the first game i played online on ps2 as well. It was fun playing on moscow and then doing a combo that continued 20 minutes after the game ended.

>>11865126 (OP)
Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast remains my favorite gaming experience ever and I doubt anything will ever top it. I enjoyed the GameCube version too, but it was still diminishing returns by that point.

Never had contemporary consoles or high speed internet growing up in the country : <
Did get to play runescape at the library and WoW free trial on my brother's PC which was mind-blowing to me at the time
I always felt so envious of kids who got the latest technology with their friends and their parents would pay subscription costs

>>11866141
Wholesome

>>11865126 (OP)
Here's the thing: it actually kind of wasn't that mind-blowing because people still played each other in person quite a lot, so you weren't really so starved for it.

>>11865126 (OP)
My first online experience in a console was with the Dreamcast.
I found a guide on how to play Quake III online on a magazine and I couldn't believe my eyes when it actually worked.
I played tons of UT and Q3 on it, it was an amazing experience.

>>11866141
I duped tons of blockbuster VHS tapes using 2 VCR's.
Also did that to quite a few PSX games, kids would buy a pirate game, dupe it, then return it to the store in exchange for another game, claiming they didn't like the first one lol

>>11866976
I was quite the exception, then. When online console gaming started becoming a thing it was the single thing I looked forward the most in my life.
My frieds were real assholes, I couldn't wait to play competitive games against people without depending on the same 3-4 retards for that.

>>11865126 (OP)
I played online on PC before that, but it wasn't my PC. First time for me was phantasy star online. I thought it was cool but sadly that also wasn't my console. I had a PS2, unfortunately, no adapter, but I did play aoe and warcraft 2 online in the early 2000s and that was fun. I didn't have an online console until the PS3 and I mostly play waw and burnout paradise online.

>>11866110

>>11867005

>>11865218
>the novelty wore off once I realized I hate online people just as much as real people
What the fuck...

>>11865161
>99%
Well yeah if you're counting people that didn't have access to electricity or even clean water. If you could actually afford an Xbox and had something plug it into aside from the dirt then you probably already had dial up and DSL was only a service call away.

>>11865126 (OP)
For a PC player? Beyond pathetic

>>11865161
I went online via dial-up on my gamecube.

You want mindblowing? Try DLC.

For the Game Boy.

I only played online games on the PC until the Vita. Brood War and Diablo 2 with others from school was fun.

Playing PSO on the DC was mind blowing for me. But that game was special.
Playing and talking with people all over the world was something, it was a bland new world

Only got a PC later. But the people i knew played mostly online Quake or UT.

>>11866451
Shame that magic lasted like 2 years at most .. i could barely play PSO v2

>>11866979
I played both UT and Q3 on DC, it was fun even with controller. It surprised me how burned discs still worked for online games on console
Fucking Q3A had cross play with PC..

>>11865126 (OP)
If you have to ask, you're too young to be here.

>>11865126 (OP)
Back in 5th grade we got our first pc, 200mhz, 16megs of ram, windows 95. I remember playing a ton of Age of Empires 1 and Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 while on America Online dial-up.

>>11868964
Did they use many racial epithets on voice chat back then or was it a more innocent world?

>>11869603
>voice chat
Didn't exist really. A few niche games supported it but it wasn't until the Xbox that it became mainstream on consoles.

You could get racial epithets in text chat though. Shit was basically unmoderated back in the day and the expectation was that if you were going online then you weren't a little pussy bitch.

>>11866095
It's a fact at this point.

>>11865126 (OP)
Not at all, because i'd had PCs since 1992 and got online with a local ISP in 1995

>>11865126 (OP)
i never got to because my divorced dad had only a bare cable modem at the time and didn't get router/switch until much later. Actually, my brother got one when he was living there and that didn't change until the cable company's modems included one.

now he's married to a fatty he initially met through a personal ad in the 90s like the suburban ducking losers they are

my brother met his wife through okStupid

meanwhile, i'm being a baddie and slutting it up with other baddies i meet irl. topping girls is kinda mid compared to Fallout: New Vegas

>>11870025
>divorced
Sega genesis legacy lived on with the xbox

>>11865161
This but unironically. LAN parties were still ahuge thing in the XBOX era but when 360 came out gaming became modern and people played with random Mexicans and Basketball Americans on Xbox Live instead of with their friends. Also people started playing western shitslop games including nigsimulator nig city hood gangsta and stuff.

>>11870028
is it my fault that's become a meme here?

>>11870071
Yes

>>11865290
>>11865667

This depended very much on where you were. In the UK, if you were in London - probably broadband was pretty widespread if you could afford it by 2003/4. If you were in nowheresville, probably not.

Also - echo other Anons, Halo 2 via Xbox Live on the 360 was the first online console experience I had, after playing games online on PC before that. My thoughts were 'man, these games suck when they let 8 year olds play', and that has been the theme leading up to Fortnite ever since.

>>11870086
it was so jarring seeing dial-up used in a 2005 or later episode of Doctor Who

i finally got cable at home in 2003. and then immediately installed Mandrake Linux

>>11866979
>I found a guide on how to play Quake III online on a magazine and I couldn't believe my eyes when it actually worked.
DAMN...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqQY1BfyEAA

>>11865161
Thirdworlder

Mind BLOWN!

>>11865126 (OP)
When I was playing PSO on my dreamcast It was probably the happiest time I've ever had as a gamer.