First post, by mr_bigmouth_502
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- Oldbie
I want to host a LAN party for my friends and I sometime in the near future, and in particular I want to do an "oldschool"-themed event because I'm not really into newer PC games, and I want to show my friends just how much fun older games can be.
I used to host LAN parties on a semi-regular basis, but they would often not work out for the following reasons:
- People would bring in their computers at the last minute and I would have to spend extra time getting them to work on the network
- Oftentimes a "divide" would develop between the people who owned certain games and those who didn't own those games
- Sometimes the computers that were on hand were just too crappy for the games we wanted to play
- People would forget to bring refreshments and we would run out really quickly
- With some games (Unreal Tournament and StarCraft: Brood War in particular) I would have to spend time ironing out compatibility issues on people's computers
Now, to avoid some of these issues, I'm actually thinking of obtaining/building a small "fleet" of computers for playing these games. Here's a short list of games I'm thinking of playing:
- StarCraft: Brood War
- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
- Unreal Tournament: GOTY
- Quake III: Arena
And some optional games that might be fun as well
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
- WarCraft II: BNE (I'll have to search Ebay for this since I only have the DOS version of the unexpanded game, but I would prefer this version because of the speed fixes)
- Quake II
- Carmageddon/Carmageddon II
- Serious Sam: The First Encounter
- Command and Conquer: Renegade
- Warlords III: Darklords Rising
What specs would you recommend for these games? I want to sort of preserve that "oldschool" flavor, yet at the same time I want the computers I'm running these games on to run them smoothly.
On a related subject, what's a good guideline for making sure my guests bring enough refreshments?
Also, what other games would you recommend? I kind of want to diversify my selection beyond a bunch of FPS games and a handful of strategy games.
On another note, how would I convince my friends that this is a good idea? A few of my friends enjoy some older PC games, though most would probably just want to play TF2/MineCraft/SC2/LoL/whatever.
On a final note, what other advice do you guys have to offer? I really want to know how a successful LAN party can be done.