Hey! This is the general thread for anything relating to Tech Clubs and LAN Parties.
[release][b]What are LAN Parties?[/b]
LAN parties are parties where many people get together and play games on a Local Area Network. They range from just two people to 10,445 people! They are a lot of fun, in my opinion, as you have people yelling about their recent death, people helping others with games, and lots of food and fun.
People usually bring a laptop for games, but more serous parties have people bringing their desktops.
While it is not always as some argue "the nature of a LAN party", there are sometimes consoles at LAN parties. People will either do Halo games spanning multiple consoles, Super Smash Bros. matches on Wiis, and Littlebigplanet games on PS3s.
My personal favorite is having Gamecubes, they are extremely easy to set up and leave in a corner for people to play Super Smash Bros or Mario Party on.
[b]Great games for LAN parties[/b]
[b][u]PC[/u][/b]
[b]Half Life 2 Deathmatch[/b]
Garry's Mod
[b]Quake[/b]
[b]Unreal Tournament[/b]
[b]Left 4 Dead[/b]
[b]Team Fortress 2[/b]
[b][u]XBox 360[/u][/b]
[b]Halo 3[/b]
[b]Halo Reach[/b]
Gears Of War
Guitar Hero
[b]Rock Band[/b]
Call of Duty
[b][u]Wii[/u][/b]
[b]Super Smash Bros. Brawl[/b]
Mario Kart
[b][u]PS3[/u][/b]
[b]LittleBigPlanet[/b]
[b]Rock Band[/b]
Guitar Hero
Call of Duty
[b][u]Gamecube[/u][/b]
Mario Kart
Super Smash Bros
[b]Dance Dance Revolution[/b]
[b]MEDIA ON LAN PARTIES[/b]
[u]What a LAN party is[/u]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf_rb_yJHOc[/media]
[u]Random song about LAN parties, pretty much sums it all up.[/u]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3eyhACb3ZE[/media]
[u]Some server stuff for LAN parties[/u]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IO1tw_psCg[/media]
[u]How to host a small 6-16 person LAN party[/u]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEw2Y8etBf0[/media]
[b]Pictures![/b]
[u]Your average LAN party setup[/u]
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[u]An organized, large LAN party[/u]
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[release][b]Tech Clubs[/b]
Tech clubs are clubs that talk about technology, usually including and a lot of the times focusing on video games.
If you have a large school, your school probably has one. If not, make one! Just ask the leading technology teacher.
Anyways, the average tech club organizes LAN parties, helps out with general techiness (helping people in the club build computers and general tech support) and awesomeness.
The main draw for these is the large amount of people, and getting together and playing and discussing the latest (or retro) technology. It's also a great place to meet new friends.
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[release]Now this thread is generally for the LAN party portion, but I threw the tech club thing in there for the fact that the two commonly go hand-in-hand.
[b]WHAT TO TALK ABOUT IN THIS THREAD[/b]
-Your tech club or LAN party experiences
-Seeing if people are at a tech club nearby (Hey, I go the *school* tech club and was wondering if anyone else did?
-Chatting about what games are great for LAN parties
-Anything generally dealing with LAN parties and technology clubs[/release]
[release]Please tell me if you want anything included![/release]
Yeah the Tech Club at our school hosts semi-frequent LAN parties, however I usually dislike going to their weekly meetings since they're fairly boring to me.
For the most part not many people have the same kind of games in our LAN parties so we look for a free game that everyone can play. I introduced an awesome standalone game called [url=http://www.urbanterror.info/news/home/]Urban Terror[/url], it's free and doesn't need any wild specs to play. It's also really simple and fun.
[QUOTE=Amez;24832119]Yeah the Tech Club at our school hosts semi-frequent LAN parties, however I usually dislike going to their weekly meetings since they're fairly boring to me.
For the most part not many people have the same kind of games in our LAN parties so we look for a free game that everyone can play. I introduced an awesome standalone game called [url=http://www.urbanterror.info/news/home/]Urban Terror[/url], it's free and doesn't need any wild specs to play. It's also really simple and fun.[/QUOTE]
That sounds like a fun game, I'll have to show that to people if I really like it.
I'm going to try getting people to try out Minecraft when it goes LAN as well.
We used to play Soldat on our college's LAN. That was awesome.
But yeah, I went to some small scale LANs here. Nothing over 8 people, but always a blast. We usually played Star Wars Battlefront 2, Battle for Middle-Earth 2, Rome Total War, Freelancer, Doom (with the Skulltag engine), and a bunch of other games. I would have to say one of my favourite LAN games though is "The Specialists" mod for Half-Life 1.
Went to TBG27 (South England), about 50 heads. Lots and lots of fun (Friday -> Sunday)
[QUOTE=leach139;24832334]Went to TBG27 (South England), about 50 heads. Lots and lots of fun (Friday -> Sunday)[/QUOTE]
I want to go to a bigger LAN event. That would be so cool.
I remember playing the UT2004 demo, and the Halo Demo at school frequently. Pretty fun too. Had 12-32 players.
Serious Sam First Encounter and Second are great for co-op, and they also have some other modes. You also have a choice of normal or HD ones depending on the rigs people are using.
One fun game is Garry's Mod. You can just mess around with friends.
Going to the INTEL Lanfest in October.
I actually host a quarterly LAN party for me and my friends. We're actually onto our fourth LAN party so far. We usually play Halo, CS:S, Starcraft and an assortment of other games.
We try to get more people to come but I'm running out of space in my house and not enough people play PC games in my school.
[QUOTE=HyperGenesis;24833923]I actually host a quarterly LAN party for me and my friends. We're actually onto our fourth LAN party so far. We usually play Halo, CS:S, Starcraft and an assortment of other games.
We try to get more people to come but I'm running out of space in my house and not enough people play PC games in my school.[/QUOTE]
It's just the opposite in our school.
At our first tech club meeting, most of the people raised their hands as primarily a PC gamer.
Never been to a lan party in my life unless you count playing on an Xbox.
My town doesn't have people that like PC games really. Apparently there are a few small underground lan parties that go on downtown once in a blue moon, but I've never been and never heard of them before now because of my part of town never having that kind of interest or culture.
The only tech club in my school is headed by the resident fat Xbro fagload who takes his own opinions as law. :saddowns:
I cant go to the parties that my friends host due to the fact that they are 10 hours of really technical HoN or LoL play :saddowns:
get owned erryday 420~~
[QUOTE=Luuper;24834811]I cant go to the parties that my friends host due to the fact that they are 10 hours of really technical HoN or LoL play :saddowns:
get owned erryday 420~~[/QUOTE]
What's HoN and Lol?
I'm suggesting Warcraft 3 with expansion. It's the most varied game I've ever played, it's cheap, and you can either play custom games like TD or skirmishes against eachother.
Forgot also AvP2 and Starcraft
Me and my friends play:
Garrys Mod
Warcraft III
Diablo 2
Starcraft
Starcraft 2
Alien Swarm
Here in North Carolina we have this LAN that happens ever few months. We get about 20 - 40 people and play anything from Gears of war to Counter strike source. We have Rock Band tournaments, which me and my band have won form 2 years straight, and Halo cash tournaments if people bring money. They do a good job hosting the LAN and everything but really it seems dead at the start of the LAN. Only the PC people come in at the start and then in the morning the Consoles come in for the halo stuff.
They really need to spread there halo and gears tournaments out so we have a good amount of people through the 24 hours.
Also if anyone is in the NC greensboro area, or near it, here is the site.
[url]http://www.ncgaming.com[/url]
Man I've had some good lan parties with my friends. Theres nothing like having all your technology in the same room and having tons of people gaming together.
I don't think L4D would work that well in a LAN party unless it's a really small group.
That aside, Delta Force, ArmA 2, OFP, and of course the classic Halo PC.
I have LAN parties with a couple m8s all the time, L4D2 all night. Alien Swarm too.
But yeah, my school doesn't have anything like this. Ghetto highschool.
Each birthday I invite a few friends over and we tend to play a lot of Halo 3 and mess around on forge (Not a console player, though when friends are over I play). Last year I brought my PC, a friend's PC and my mother's PC into the basement, then hooked up a pile of parts I had laying around (20 GB hard drive, 1.6 GHz Athlon, Geforce FX 5200) to the TV. Had a few games of Assault Cube and Nexuiz.
I really suggest Nexuiz for LAN parties. It's fast paced, can look extremely good or dial it WAY back to run on older hardware. Fairly easy to setup too.
[QUOTE=HyperGenesis;24833923]I actually host a quarterly LAN party for me and my friends. We're actually onto our fourth LAN party so far. We usually play Halo, CS:S, Starcraft and an assortment of other games.
We try to get more people to come but I'm running out of space in my house and not enough people play PC games in my school.[/QUOTE]
I'm one of the attendee's for the LAN's he hosts, It'd be great if we could get more people in...
Though as he said, we don't have enough space, and don't have enough people to make it cost effective to rent out a space.
A friend of mine is thinking about hosting a LAN party soon. Besides space and food what else do we need? Buy a switch board or something for Ethernet cables?
Buy a patch panel if you need one, but if you can just kick his mum or something off the network for a day, it will save you 30 bucks.
Basically, try get everyone to bring headphones
Plan to go out for lunch (at our series we walk up to a local shop for chips and a drink for lunch), because as fun as it sounds it can get a little... painful to sit down gaming so many hours straight.
Make sure everything you want to play is installed before the party (a few times we've sat around waiting for one idiot to get a game installed)
Also, Don't plug everything into the same ring circuit.
Use extensions if needs be, Just spread out your power sources.
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