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Whats the best LAN game? What do you think....
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Posted 11 July 2009 - 04:26 AM
every lan game is good(well kinda)
because being with your friends makes it good
laughing when you shoot and kill them over and over again lol(we used to put halo and unreal T on the school comps and play em lol)
because being with your friends makes it good
laughing when you shoot and kill them over and over again lol(we used to put halo and unreal T on the school comps and play em lol)
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Posted 11 July 2009 - 09:41 AM
Well you won't be playing Starcraft 2 at lans (without fiber)! http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1...ft-2em?from=rss
I can't help but laugh at this one. To me it's a weak business model and quite unnecessary. I assume it's a move against piracy; however in my opinion, lan parties are a perfect place to recruit new players to buy the game. Anyway, this goes back to the ongoing debate over intellectual property and is off topic for the thread.
My suggestion for planning games at lans is this: agree ahead of time with the attendees. Nothing kills a lan faster than 10-20 people who show up with 10-20 games in mind. You'll loose focus, everyone will start playing their own games, before you know it you've got a splintered group of people sharing a network rather than a cohesive lan party.
Ultimately this matters more than the specific games. It's not about the latest and the greatest games; it's about a group of friends lugging their machines to a garage to share their hobby.
I've found the best strategy is to plan a lan around a specific game, if not a specific genre. I have one group of friends that I host/attend RTS lans with; another group for WoW lans; yet another group for FPS lans. There are a few folks who cross those lines but the important thing is that people who attend the lans know ahead of time they'll be playing their games of choice.
There are just too many games out there, people are very specific about what they play anymore.
At the same time, it's fun to have "filler" games as well. For example: at RTS lans, after several multi-hour games of Supreme Commander, it's good to rest the noggin a bit with some good ol' fashioned FPS mayhem. A few map rotations of Counter-Strike: Source and it's back into the "meat and potatoes" of the lan. So you end up with an RTS lan that is in fact 70-30 RTS-FPS. But again, everyone leaves feeling like they got their "strategic mojo" on.
Hope this helps.
I can't help but laugh at this one. To me it's a weak business model and quite unnecessary. I assume it's a move against piracy; however in my opinion, lan parties are a perfect place to recruit new players to buy the game. Anyway, this goes back to the ongoing debate over intellectual property and is off topic for the thread.
My suggestion for planning games at lans is this: agree ahead of time with the attendees. Nothing kills a lan faster than 10-20 people who show up with 10-20 games in mind. You'll loose focus, everyone will start playing their own games, before you know it you've got a splintered group of people sharing a network rather than a cohesive lan party.
Ultimately this matters more than the specific games. It's not about the latest and the greatest games; it's about a group of friends lugging their machines to a garage to share their hobby.
I've found the best strategy is to plan a lan around a specific game, if not a specific genre. I have one group of friends that I host/attend RTS lans with; another group for WoW lans; yet another group for FPS lans. There are a few folks who cross those lines but the important thing is that people who attend the lans know ahead of time they'll be playing their games of choice.
There are just too many games out there, people are very specific about what they play anymore.
At the same time, it's fun to have "filler" games as well. For example: at RTS lans, after several multi-hour games of Supreme Commander, it's good to rest the noggin a bit with some good ol' fashioned FPS mayhem. A few map rotations of Counter-Strike: Source and it's back into the "meat and potatoes" of the lan. So you end up with an RTS lan that is in fact 70-30 RTS-FPS. But again, everyone leaves feeling like they got their "strategic mojo" on.
Hope this helps.
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