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Posted by michael on from the bang-bang-you're-dead dept.

CaptTrips writes "C|Net has an interesting article on the growing wave of LAN parties. Michael Duarte best puts it when he says "being able to play as a team, talk with the people next to you -- it's just a whole different aspect than playing online. For me, it's just more fun to put a face with the name of the person you're playing with." I agree!" This is a good excuse for us to link to QuakeCon. GameSpy has extensive coverage of the con - they've got some interesting screenshots and previews up.

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  1. LAN parties rock by alptraum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    LAN parties are definately a lot more fun than playing over the internet IMHO, my friends and I would get a bunch of people together and play CS or other FPS and not have to worry about all the cheaters. Plus we could coordinate team assaults a lot more effectively since we could grab a piece of paper and scribble some plans on it and show it to the team mates.

  2. (i)max games by macsox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i hope no one in the south bay area forgot about the max games yesterday at the tech museum in san jose.

    nothing like halo on the imax dome. except, maybe, grand theft auto, which some reason was verboten.

    come to think of it, i'm glad some people from the south bay did forget to go -- it would have been awfully crowded.

    --
    go get it
  3. I would LAN more... by Howzer · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If it was easier to move my computer. I mean it's not that hard, just a pain. And moving any screen bigger than a 19 inch monitor just plain bites.

    I've often thought a cool business plan would be to set up a "LAN Party" hall, with monitors and speakers, all the kiddies have to bring are their CPUs, keyboards and meece. $3 per person per hour, if you kept the room booked you could do pretty well.

    Anyone know if this has been done, anywhere? Or does the whole idea suck for reasons not yet known to me?

  4. Re:Lan Party Fun by Freedom+Bug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Back in the day, we had to deal with DOS network stacks and 10Base-2. I think I'd take DOS over Windows: I kept a stack of boot disks with appropriate drivers, and that would get most people going. Anything with something wierd either had the drivers along or didn't play. The biggest issue was updating everybody to the same version of Doom.

    But somebody who has never dealt with 10Base-2 (ethernet over coax) is allowed to complain about setting up LAN parties.

    I've still got a stack of about 6 ISA NE2000's along with the cable, T's and terminators. You can borrow it just to experience the pleasure.

    Bryan

  5. Not always that great in person by yeoua · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Remember... that your actually sitting next to the person you just destroyed 20 to 1...

    Just make sure they are smaller than you.