Do any games even HAVE local network support anymore? Sheesh, what's a LAN party? Just play on XBL or PSN on your couch, nerds!
Each year, at least for me, the trip to FITES seems to be less and less about gaming and more about just hanging out with a group of people who share the same interests, and visiting friends/family from back home.
Its getting hard to get interested in the tournaments. Games this old I've lost interest in years ago. We played in the Cod4 tournament last year and made it past the first round, solely because just happened to know Backlot. The 2nd map we got raped. None of us have played in so long only one person knew the map.
I've brought up Battlefield tournaments before, and network config related hurdles aside, I've come to realize how silly it would be. How many FULL teams could there possibly be? Esepcially with BF3 you NEED big teams. You certainly dont play BF3 for Squad DM. Id like to see some sort of coordinated event though. Not a tournament, but a time set aside where everyone knows that everyone from the event will be playing in the same server. Maybe screenshot the scoreboad after each round. Post the results. Nothing official, but something other than just having a free play server out there. Which begs the question if there will even be such a server?
We play a game called Blur at our LANS. Its fun. Like Mario Kart with real cars. We have a blast with it. Full LAN support, even from the.... *acquired* version.
Last year I played BF2 with a mod called million bot march I think it was. That sounds like fun.
*EDIT* After trying to google for this mod. I'm not so sure its a mod. I just remember there being TONS and TONS of bots vs just 8-10 of us.
A few fun non-reshashed LAN games do exist.
Not sure where I was going with this but I remember hearing Czar saying over a vG podcast once that when they have a LAN Party that they focus on the word "party". That is what I focus on as well.
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