What is the general feeling of playing some other games at the next York LAN?

 I personally am getting bored playing the same type of rounds in UT2k4 and would not be extremely dissapointed if the game did not get played.  Counterstrike is also getting boring to play all the time since it really has not changed in 6 or seven years (guessing on the exact year).  BF1942 and BF2 seem like we never have enough to play a full round for whatever the reason.

Here are my proposals:

 1.  What about playing something like a Rainbow Six or  Swat 4 type game.  This may involve reaching into the vaults of previous games, but the cost to get these games is cheap.  Everyone's system should be able to run these as well.


2.  What about playing something like Civ4 or C&C generals?  This has been discussed previously and sounds like it could somewhat work.

3.  What about a flight game or racing game? Acekilla brought up the idea of a new air combat game tah supports 64 people.

These are just some ideas to liven up the routine of the same FPS games over and over.  Throw in your thoughts about mixing some other games with the FPS standards.

 

Some things I was thinking about this weekend.

1) BF2142 is supposed to ship that week.  If it does, I would love to play some of that.

2) I played the Zombie mod to CSS this weekend.  I had a blast with this game.  Not alot of skill needed, just a lot of blood and mayhem.

3) Agent was telling me about a mod for UT called Killing Floor.  Seems to be a team based zombie mod for UT.

4) Is there any sort of local game option for Company of Heroes?

I agree with shadow but. Do you really think many people have those games? (like me) I thinks it's the best experience if everyone playes a selected game and is really into it rather than 5 or so people

Well, I will be bringing a server with CS:S Zombie mod and Gun Game.  I am not too sure if gun game would get that much intrest, but Zombie Mod is fun!

Cuzz played on my internet server and had fun. The round starts with everyone running off and hiding and fortifying their postion then suddenly someone will turn into a zombie with 5000 health!!! That person then trys to knife more people. Every person they get joins the army of the undead trying to take over the humans! So the next zombie turned gets 2500 health and each consecutive zombie gets 2% less health. Apparently the strain of zombification virus gets weaker.

On my config rilfes are turned off but ammo for other weapons is jacked up! So it take teamwork and good planning to fend of the zombies, but the blood and gore is everywhere.

Just to make a point about how popular it is and how many people join our server, we had a problem yesterday... I USED MY 100GIGS OF TRANSFER FOR THE MONTH!!!
So right now I am moving hosts for more monthly transfer. LOL

This game will be a fun staple for a little bit, but I don't expect it to last too too long since the map selection is only about 10 or so really good ones, but more are on the way. Speaking of which, I am hoping to have my map themed after American McGee's Alice ready by the LAN!  Hopefully this will give a sureal gameplay for a little change from good'ol urban scenes.


But as for other games... I would like to see a good flight combat game that has a low learning curve and I will jump on that. The reason I want the low learning curve is so that we can get more people to jump in and keep it fun and not have the team of ace pilots and team of n00bs.

This has been my scatter brained post. Thanks for reading. Hopefully it was understandable.

I definitely used to love the original Rainbow 6 game (I think I still have it at home!) but I haven't tried any since. I know I won't be at the York LAN but this is something I would definitely be up for at the next big LAN. I too am tired of the same games. Half the time I end up sitting around not sure what to do because I played UT2K4 for several hours already or no one's playing BF42 (a game I can't even bring myself to play anymore, sadly). Good mods for UT2K4 or other games with different gameplay would certainly be a welcomed change.

Maybe for the next big LAN we could get two different types of games to be the "Main Attractions" and advertise them as so! This may bring others in with the promise of something different in their normal gaming routine.

We could also play some FEAR. I know dayo and I had fun with that at the 150. It's easy enough to get into and play.

Another game to try would be freespace 2.  I am not sure of how big a server you can make but it is a freeware game and it is fun to play.

I have a very rare RTS that if anyone who has ever heard of Frank Hubert would love to play. Anyone remember the Dune Series, Dune, Dune 2, and Dune 2000? Great games, here is a piece of trivia:

What was the last game ever made by Westwood Studios?

Answer that and you will know the game that I have is very rare and hard to find.