Now 29 years old, career, condo, 4 year relationship with a none gamer... I am just looking back at the sad yet free girlfriendless days... (And I would do another Lan party in a heartbeat if I could free myself for a weekend !!!)
I am sure most of us have been there, All gathering at a friend's house to have a sweet LAN party !
Obviously there are some great success stories, but I am sure we all wasted a load of time getting setup and well having many wonderful issues.
I am looking for success or frustration stories.
What has been your best LAN game, what has been your worst.
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Frustrations:
-Hardware
Setup in the past with windows 95/98
Getting everyone's LAN configured with both TCPIP and IPX... but that was easy.
All in all I never had too much issues resolving the above...
-Game
No game in this world has given me more frustration for Lan parties then a game I can call one of the best, most amazing strategy games ever.
Company of Heroes.
This game, refuses to negotiate with username's NAT
And this is recent compared to the good old dos/win98 days.
Pleasures
GTA1 with 5 people, with 10Mbit Lan built out of COAX and BNC connectors. I never got GTA running in a lan properly after that age of networking.
Duke3d, Blood, Shaolin Warrior. Those build engine games ran flawlessly on good old DOS Lans.
Warcraft2 and Starcraft... Need I say more. (nothing more reliable in this world)
(Note, Don't try to Lan War2 or war2bne. IPX/SPX required and no longer supported after Windows XP)
Battlefield 1942 / Desert Combat mod, me and 3 friends, against 28+ bots doing mass slaughter with helicopters and all kinds of vehicles.
Cossacks.
Feel free to share your best titles.
I am sure most of us have been there, All gathering at a friend's house to have a sweet LAN party !
Obviously there are some great success stories, but I am sure we all wasted a load of time getting setup and well having many wonderful issues.
I am looking for success or frustration stories.
What has been your best LAN game, what has been your worst.
_____________________________________________
Frustrations:
-Hardware
Setup in the past with windows 95/98
Getting everyone's LAN configured with both TCPIP and IPX... but that was easy.
All in all I never had too much issues resolving the above...
-Game
No game in this world has given me more frustration for Lan parties then a game I can call one of the best, most amazing strategy games ever.
Company of Heroes.
This game, refuses to negotiate with username's NAT
And this is recent compared to the good old dos/win98 days.
Pleasures
GTA1 with 5 people, with 10Mbit Lan built out of COAX and BNC connectors. I never got GTA running in a lan properly after that age of networking.
Duke3d, Blood, Shaolin Warrior. Those build engine games ran flawlessly on good old DOS Lans.
Warcraft2 and Starcraft... Need I say more. (nothing more reliable in this world)
(Note, Don't try to Lan War2 or war2bne. IPX/SPX required and no longer supported after Windows XP)
Battlefield 1942 / Desert Combat mod, me and 3 friends, against 28+ bots doing mass slaughter with helicopters and all kinds of vehicles.
Cossacks.
Feel free to share your best titles.
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