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ITboss

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Hi,

I would like to host a small LAN Party for my friends during the coming holiday. I'm not really a gamer but would like to know what games would be fun and great to play over a LAN, cause I have no idea. All I know is Quake3 and Need4Speed Underground. I want to have games that is intense and stressfull but also some relaxing games for the evenings like Tiger Woods PGA 2005. What other racing games are fun to play??

My PC's will all be the same specs running 3.0Ghz HT, 512MB RAM, 128MB VGA. :D

All you cool gamers, please help!

Thanks!
ITboss
 
Counter Strike Source
Warcraft III
Battlefield 1942 (not sure how well BF2 will run on those GFX cards)
 
Usually we run the following at our LANs :

CoD:UO .151
UT2004
CS:Condition Zero ( runs on every flipping PC known to man )
FEAR MP Demo
TOCA 2
Serious Sam:Second Encounter
Dawn of War

And the latest titles when they are out :

FEAR
CoD2
Quake 4

Thats about it.
 
Standard James Lan consists of the following

CSS
CSS / BF Secret Weapons or Special Forces
CSS / BF Secret Weapons or Special Forces
Copious ammount of take away
CSS
Bloody Rune madness and carnage (untill clicking finger has cramp)
Enter the RTS, either Act of war(at the moment), Warcraft3
Rape the network for any goodies while the noobs have gone to sleep.
Any other game that has multiplayer that people are willing to try out.
 
James, you forgot about the most time consuming part... well for my LANs anyway...
Setting up all the pc's. Always some okes who don't know how to change their IP, etc.
All part of the fun though :)
Cheers, Nick
 
Nickste said:
James, you forgot about the most time consuming part... well for my LANs anyway...
Setting up all the pc's. Always some okes who don't know how to change their IP, etc.
All part of the fun though :)
Cheers, Nick
Click to expand...

Got that sorted now.... Just run DHCP and tell every one to set to auto IP. Awesome program to get for lans is BORG chat (if if is a big lan). Awesome way to find shares and post what you looking for and general chatting. Any lan with more than 1 room and/or 16ppl it is a must.
 
Hehe, yeah most lans these days consists of some form or the other of CS, i have been at lans were they still play 1.3 (can any one say bunny hop!) and css is also very big! On the strategy side war craft 3 DOTA esp DOTA thats all I hear these days "Hey man DOTA!!" not realy into strategy. nfs Underground, nice play and momentum breaker after 10+ hours of fps we slip into racing.

<rant warning = “this may offend Intel users, but hey if the shoe fits!”>

Only one thing, is th HT for Hyper transport or hyper threading, because if it is the later then you are in trouble!! hehe! The combined power output and heat generation from those puppies will let the paint in a small room radiate and melt!!! And that at no, i said no, performance increase!!

Maybe if you UPGRADE to an AMD based system your lans would be more enjoyable.

</rant>
 
I am very happy with my AMD 3200 64bit. Runs nice and cool, it is just my gfx card (6800GT Gainward GS) that heats up and is a noisy bastid too.
 
Mmmmm,

Nickste..i like ur post..but did u tell everyone that it was *YOU* that couldn't change ur IP?



OnlY joKing




*Nickste can ChanGe his IP*
 
Lol, Zippo :)
LAN tip, learnt the hard way by Zippo:
Don't go to sleep!!!

Especially when permenant markers are in the close proximity.

Cheers, Nick
 
LAN tip, learnt the hard way by Nickste:
Don't overstress the hard drive!!!!

Especially when an ice-pack is not in the close proximity.

;)
 
Unreal Tournament 2004 is a must
Battlefield 2 / Counterstrike Source
Age of Empires 3 is great for 'realistic' RTS fans
Warhammer: Dawn of war (and expansion) great sci-fi RTS
 
Zippo..nickste...Flippit..

Plz, this is a open forum, for many 2 view..plz dont turn it into a private one, sharing ur *sick* lan jokes.

Luv ZIPpp0
 
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