Lan Parties

danb21t · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:24

Anyone in the Bucks area (High Wycombe) host any Lan Parties?

cheers

tres · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:28

it's like you've quantum leaped from the late nineties.

that's what the internet is for!

danb21t · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:39

I agree, but there are quite a few people that host them but dont have websites..

I was only curious to see if there were any member on here...

ssharp59 · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:41

internet isnt anywhere near as fun as a decent lan party, not to mention the simple fact that at a lan party there is no reliance on the internet speed etc etc..

Multiplay events are in my memory

J.B · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:47

You can come to my basement...you might not leave.

DB_SamX · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:48

My friends and me still have mini lan parties among the 4-7 of us every 3 months or so.

When it's 4, it's usually an afternoon and evening Saturday session of AoE3 with footy on SSN in the background, and all sorts of snacks, bevs and banter.

The larger ones take place over a whole weekend with 7 of us staying at the host. We fit in football, going out, takeaways, sampling lethal alcohols we've bought from places with visited over the previous months, Fifa.

Just picture it: 7 mid twenties guys in a 2-bed flat, laptops, PCs, cables strewn across a lounge/dining room and the host's gf hiding in a bedroom sulking at the mess everywhere.

Not what OP is after, but lan parties truly alive here!

ssharp59 · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:53

I think with tactical based fps its great with fast communiction. Likewise games like diablo were always great as a lan based game.

Nick1881 · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:58

I want to go to a LAN party. Had a few with friends, only 4 of us though.

sammo62 · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:59

Not really LAN parties as such, but Im really starting to enjoy the rise in online Coop gaming, and then just me and my brother using both PCs. Red Alert 3, L4D etc.

Anim · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:07

the i series is in newbury at easter

Malt_Vinegar · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:08

Cant believe they are still going. My first was i7 (i think) and kept going till about i19?

danb21t · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:20

You can come to my basement...you might not leave.

Interesting proposal! lol

I used to host one in the local Sea Cadet grounds, but our fail was trying to play too many games on the agenda.

Also found LanSE (lanse.co.uk) which is based about 10mins from my house but never actually made it to one of this events.

Biohazard · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:23

lans parties are a bit of a gay, having to drag a rig off somewhere when you can type an ip and scream abuse over mic anyway..

danb21t · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:23

You can come to my basement...you might not leave.

Interesting proposal! lol

I used to host one in the local Sea Cadet grounds, but our fail was trying to play too many games on the agenda.

Also found LanSE (lanse.co.uk) which is based about 10mins from my house but never actually made it to one of this events.

el_dazza · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:31

There was one I went to in Watford many moons ago but can't remember the name of it, they used to host a couple per year, only 30-40 people though, nothing on the i-series scale.

Makunouchi · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:34

Nice, another Wycombe-ite

There are more of us about than you think.

I know someone who used to go to LANs with the Wycombe group, I'll ask him next time I see him on MSN for you, there is definitely a group that does it though.

danb21t · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:40

Makunouchi said:
Nice, another Wycombe-ite

There are more of us about than you think.

I know someone who used to go to LANs with the Wycombe group, I'll ask him next time I see him on MSN for you, there is definitely a group that does it though.

sounds good, cheers