Poll: The good ol' LAN Party...

[Mr Shrike]

Every week or so, for the last year, my friends and I have all braved the harsh English weather and dragged our collective assess to one lonely little house in the middle of nowhere (about 10 mins walk away). At this house, with the curtains drawn and the lights off, the 6 of us sit down and play games such as Rome: Total War, Star Wars: Battlefront and Midtown Madness. Face to face.

Amid accusations of "Screen-Watching" and play fighting there's always a lot of swearing, shouting and spilling of drinks but all in the name of fun. These PCs are hardly what anyone would call powerful, some of them struggling to run Windows ME.

However, it is extremely refreshing to play games with someone that you can actually slap if they anger you, eliminating (nearly) all cheating and general faggotry that I see when I play online. I'm not saying that everyone cheats on the internet, but there are those out there that do, and it's not cool.

LAN Parties are fairly uncommon, apart from the odd Starcraft or CS:S Tournament with online gaming taking the throne of Multiplayer.

Your question, should you choose to accept it, is given the choice (and the resources), which is your preffered method of multiplay?

 

[CRoone]

LAN party? Count me in! I'll go dust off my old PS2...ah, brings back memories. Me and my buddy, playing co-op missions in SOCOM: Combined Assault on Admiral difficulty, just because we were *determined* to beat the insane, broken AI...yeah, those were the days. If your buddy screwed you over, you could slap him across the head and keep playing! *sniff* Now I'm getting all...nostalgic...give me a moment...I recently lost him to Modern Warfare 2, and haven't seen him since. I'm...still trying to get used to it. It'd be nice if he'd stop hogging my PS3 for it, though.

 

[Keepitclean]

We do this every friday in the engineering room at school. Don't tell anyone. It increases the competition and you get to swear your head of at people and not look like a jerk.


LAN>Internet

 

[Blackadder51]

LAN Killing Floor FTW!!

Of course you need a Internet connection for it to work... (Fucking steam)

 

[Betancore]

LAN parties, of course. I like being able to throw cans at my opponents/team mates. And I can tell my parents that gaming is a social activity. We don't haul our rigs to one another's houses, we go to an internet cafe of sorts that caters especially to gamers. So that makes it a lot easier. I don't think we're quite committed enough to do it otherwise. Nor do any of us have the living room space.

 

[faspxina]

you don't get lag and you get to hang out with your buddies at the same time

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

LAN Killing Floor FTW!!

Of course you need a Internet connection for it to work... (Fucking steam)

This is my group of friends LAN game of choice. It never fails to be awesome.

I almost always play games with my friends over LAN because there's a gaming center right down the road from where we all live.

Playing games from 10PM to 12PM the next day is always awesome and a bucket of laughs.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I was actually playing WoW and while doing a dungeon (Five people group together to complete and specific quest that is impossible to do alone unless a MUCH higher level that the quest), and I was grouped with 4 people that were all running on one router. They lagged alot and they were typing their little bickering into the chat box for my viewing pleasure, but it was pretty awesome to hang around with them.

Playing with anonymous people can be alot of fun, but I love having a ton of friends around me when I play, to be able to banter and trade crude remarks with.

 

[Socken]

LAN is always better in every way. LAN is the highest form of video games.

This is the truth.

 

[yoyo13rom]

Every week or so, for the last year, my friends and I have all braved the harsh English weather and dragged our collective assess to one lonely little house in the middle of nowhere (about 10 mins walk away). At this house, with the curtains drawn and the lights off, the 6 of us sit down and play games such as Rome: Total War, Star Wars: Battlefront and Midtown Madness. Face to face.

Amid accusations of "Screen-Watching" and play fighting there's always a lot of swearing, shouting and spilling of drinks but all in the name of fun. These PCs are hardly what anyone would call powerful, some of them struggling to run Windows ME.

However, it is extremely refreshing to play games with someone that you can actually slap if they anger you, eliminating (nearly) all cheating and general faggotry that I see when I play online. I'm not saying that everyone cheats on the internet, but there are those out there that do, and it's not cool.

LAN Parties are fairly uncommon, apart from the odd Starcraft or CS:S Tournament with online gaming taking the throne of Multiplayer.

Your question, should you choose to accept it, is given the choice (and the resources), which is your preffered method of multiplay?

Aaaa, this brings back memories.
Man, do I love LAN parties!
Me and the gang used to do them all the time(or once every month), but now that everyone moved it's pretty hard to do them any more.
Once we convinced the school principle to let us organise a LAN gaming competition (we played DOTA, although Team Fortress 2 was a close second) for the school's "birthday".
Man was it epic...
Those were the times...

 

[Ben Jamin]

I love a LAN party. Nothing better than 5 people staying up to 6 in the morning hyped up on caffeine/alcohol with music blasting in the background and of course the games. (usually WoW, Warcraft 3, Killing Floor, Starcraft 1 & 2)

Good times. Gooooooooooooood times.

 

[mrwoo112]

LAN partys

I got to a LAN gameing shop every so often, baiscly rent out some top notch PC's for 6 hours with all your freinds and go wild.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

I remember a few years back when some mates and I grouped up with a collection of ancient pc's and LAN'd some Neverwinter nights, was great fun until a dragon killed us all...

It's much more entertaining sitting in a room drinking with friends while playing oldschool videogames then being online stuck with what unfortunately tend to be complete retards (hi, MW2).

 

[Chamale]

LAN parties are just too hard to organize. More fun, but online games get more fun per unit of time wasted setting it up. I'd rather play real baseball instead of virtual baseball too, but I don't have 17 guys waiting around with bats and gloves.

I do have some good LAN party memories, though. Playing Bolo on an Appletalk network with computers from the early '90s... Good times. I like the opportunities that I get for LAN parties, but in my opinion it's not worth organizing all the computers together.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

While it isn't quite the same thing, the fighting game community still tries its best to get players together offline, be it via a tournament, an arcade gathering or just some dude letting people in his house to play some games.
I guess the 3rd of my examples is basically a LAN party, just swapping keyboard and mouse for arcade stick.

I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that if you want offline gameplay on almost a weekly basis then get into competitive fighting games.