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Having some buds over this Saturday for some LAN action but don't know what some fun LAN games are. We have played the traditional RTS (Age of Empires 2 and Starcraft) before but am looking for new ideas.

A few of the cpus are not necessarily gaming rigs and a couple years old which is why I am looking for some fun older multiplayer titles.

Anyone have any favorites?

I was reminded of Team Fortress but I recall it being player vs player only without any cpu bots. One buddy really hates pvp so us against bots is nigh a necessity. Am I right in remembering its just pvp?

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

Maybe, but CS is bottable. Also, I'm pretty sure Quake II would have bots as well.

But there's nothing like WCIII on a LAN. 6v6 matches are a pure joy.

Never played a 4v4v4 though. That would be incredible.

Thought about WCIII as well. May have to see if we can find it cheap.

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

Unreal tournament.

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I say... Duke Nukem 3d.

or....Commander Keen

maybe...Original Doom?

haha...

Nah, Warcraft III works ( I like the tower mods )

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The Cord
Occasional Caretaker of the Horde Maelstrom Guild
Ex-Section 3 Director

Absolutely. Specifically, UT2K4. That's been a highly favored game of the past four LAN parties I've had at my house. An oldie but a goodie and since it is an oldie, the lower-end machines should be able to run it --- plus it's pretty easy to find a very cheap copy, if ya know what I mean

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

I have the original Unreal. Betting Tournament is soo much better tho. Might have to see what I can dig up.

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

Ahhh, I remember the old Q3 Instagib fun I used to have. Hours, and hours, and hours of nothing but instagib It almost rivals the time I spend in Warcraft these days.

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Nasiobo Aprillis
Star Wars: The Old Republic | Jedi Consular (Nasiobo)
Slicing, Scavenging and Cybertech

No love for Call of Duty? Though that probably takes more people for it to be as much fun. If a FPS noob like me can have some fun in UT2K4, then anyone can play it

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Duke Nukem 3D

Don't get me wrong, I love CoD and CoD2 but those games are a little more difficult to collect multiple copes, which I assume Krynn will want to do.

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

That and the fact that the CoD series does not support bots of any kind. Big downer since the single player and pvp multiplayer is so good. Love it on the 360 so PC would be amazing.

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

I honestly cannot remember how it works, but I believe you only need 1 copy of WC III for every two players.

Don't know about the others as I have never hosted, only played at work back in the good old days. sigh...

Well that would be nice since a bud has a copy already. Getting 1 more copy is cake.

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

Freelancer is good too.
Play it alot with my cousin and friends...

Got everybody hooked on it
It does allow the possibility for soloing and also helping eachother out.
Trying to get into Rheinland as level 5 is hard and unless you're good you can't do it alone..

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1st Feb 2008

Descent and Descent II

I used to kick ass over the network in those games.

Tested WC3 last night. The 3 cpus we had connected just fine. I was actually amazed how easy it was since one was a work laptop that has the added security features so was worried it would block some network info.

Random team gen made me Undead for the 1 short bettle we did. Took me a while to figure out how to use them and what units did. Turns out I really suck as the cpu Night Elves ended up rolling over me. Don't think any of my heroes won a single battle they were involved in. Cpu always targtted them first.

Question - should I always enable unit special abilities to be cast? e.g. entangling webs, deathcoil, etc. Seems like a lot to manage when fighting to use abilities of each unit and target a specific enemy unit.

Gonna read the manual at lunch today.

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

When I played WC3 I always did random. I always felt it left the other guy guessing and allowed me to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each army better.

The undead were always the best zerg army, with good early defenses. I loved the Lich King as he had a good aoe spell and dark pact was great at regaining mana.

Gah. Im gonna have to reinstall that game.

When Cord and I used to work together in the computer labs we could spend entire weeks on the WCIII tower defense maps. Those were great games for co-op. Some of them are tricky though because you have to have enough players or you just get creamed.

I also liked Freelancer as well, it was a cool rpg and space simulator. Also Diablo 2 (or even Diablo 1, I liked the magic system better in that game anyway) is also a classic multi-rpg.

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Well last night went fairly well. We tended to get steam rolled by the cpu in 4v4cpu, 4v3cpu, and even 4v2cpu matches. Most of it had to do with none of us knowing the game and races very well and never paying too much attention to the spell aspects. We all come from an Age2 background where micro-managing unit spell casting were not an issue. You just click to attack and your little army goes and kills.

We also learned you had to expand to a second gold mine fairly quickly given the 5 worker/peon per mine limitation (again, not like AoE2).

I loved the undead once I got some necromancers and meat wagons in the mix for support. Can rack up quite a force with those raising any dead corpse.

All in all challenging and frustating at times but still a good time.

I'll have to look into Freelancer next time. And yeah I love Diablo 2

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"I built me a bomb and dropped it on every MFer who got in my way!"

who is this Cord, he sounds like some uber-dork...you guys must have been computer dork buds or something...LOSERS! I bet your both fat and pasty.

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The Cord
Occasional Caretaker of the Horde Maelstrom Guild
Ex-Section 3 Director

That's really interesting, because he IS both fat AND pasty. Did I mention a jerk as well?

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80S - Madson-(450 BS / 450 M)...........80H - Madera-(447 Eng / 412 Enc)...........80K - Madala-(450 Herb / 450 Skin)
65L - Madwyn-(430Ins / 329 Tail)........61M - Madran-(300 M / 250 Enc).............64P - Madmon-(315 M / 347 JC)