Best LAN games?

[Miktar]

What do you consider the best LAN games to play with some buddies?

My current list:

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C&C3
Supreme Commander

[Ruandre]

Counter-Strike v1.6 and Source, The Specialists (Mod), Day Of Defeat: Source, Prey, UT2004, Quake 3 Arena, Co-op Diablo II & Lord Of Destruction with TeamSpeak. I love the Tony Hawk series on PC, especially over LAN, but no one else ever wants to play it :(

[Fredder]

Well here is the standard game list for a regular LAN with my buddies:
-Quake III deathmatch & CTF
-CS 1.6 &/or Source
-UT2004
-Dota/Warcraft III
All above are ALWAYS played and then when we have cycled through that list we
usually play some co-op Diablo II,COD I,Starcraft . . . pretty much old school.

But I would love to play some Supreme Commander at a LAN and perhaps some Prey deathmatch as well.

[Gambit]

AVP2 - being an alien rocks.
DOTA :(
C&C3
SupCom - nice 2 hour gaming blocs eat the day away.
SWAT4 - it is great fun to shoot your teammates with a tazer or non-lethal beanbag shotgun.

[Azimuth]

UT2004. I'm a menace with a flak cannon.

I used to play a lot of Starcraft and Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear back in the day too.

[Boggle24]

The hidden source is an excellent LAN game.

We all usually play the old buggy version but we recently discoverred the new Beta 4 a, which has a lot of new abilities for both the experiment as well as the marines.

It's awesome just for the tension it creates, being able to sneak up to a marine and pig sticking him is one of the joys of gaming everyone should experience.

I wish we'd lan more C&C 3 though, but for some reason it gets really laggy over the network, and more often then not someone gets kicked by the game.

[Q-Man]

Am I the only one that still digs MOHAA at a LAN?

UT2k4 is my game of choice though.

[PerVert NexT Door]

DoTA: (to my dismay.)

Rainbow Six: Vegas.

Alien Vs Predator.

Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction.

And I wish Supreme Commander

[BLACKWOLF]

Call of duty 2
BF2 and BF2142(only if you are a large number)
C&C3
C&C Generals Zero Hour.

[GeometriX]

C&C3 (infantry-only games are infinite awesomeness)
Company of Heroes ("I said hold the bridge, damnit!").
Pretty much any WCIII Tower Defence, but especially Line TW and the classic Azure. Just no DotA - ever.
D2 & LoD is also a classic, just tends to dominate the evening - not that that's always a bad thing.
And, of course, UT2K4 - packed to brim with mutators for that extra flavour.

[SplaT]

Lemmingball Z

[LazyDemoni]

Am I the only one that still digs MOHAA at a LAN?

UT2k4 is my game of choice though.

Yep, UT2K4 is my game of choice too. MOHAA is great fun too but recently COD2 has replaced that.
Diablo 2
Red Alert 2
C&C 3
UT2K4 with CarBall mod
Soul Calibur III and KOF when we're bored of the PCs

[MonGooS]

We normally play : Warcraft 3 / DotA
: C&C3
: UT2004

I wish they would play Diablo and CoH but non of them like it so I have to resort to single player :( *sob*

[Karuji]

what we play wc3 (just about everything)
SC-Source
CoD2(not to my taste)
Quake3 (anything goes)
BFME2

What i would like to play
UT2k4
PREY
StarCraft
Tribes2 CTF (imo the best ctf ever)

[Mic]

very boring but...

WC3
Dota
CS:S
BF2(but it sucks with only like 4-6 players)

would kill to play:
C&C3
Defcon
Diablo 2(but to late I guess)

[CaptainCrunch]

Don't LAN much these days, but i used to enjoy:
Starcraft
Quake series
BF1942
1nsane ("Return The Flag" in offroad bakkies with no weapons = awesome)

[DeMoN]

CS Source
COD2
Toca Race Driver 2
BF2
UT2004

[Fredder]

Looks like everybody plays more or less the same stuff.
I forgot to mention:
-Doom deathmatch
-MOHAA deathmatch

[Repline]

well here is something you can add to 'ur list.

- All the usuals (C&C3;Diablo2;Generals;Redalert;WCIII;CS-S etc)
- Homeworld 2
- Citizen Kabatu (only fun if your 3 players +)

[R33KO]

-Quake 3 Arena
-Ut2004 (Which my n00bish friend scratched and doesn't want to replace)
-Quake 4
-Call of Duty 2

[brazed]

I still enjoy a game of quake 1 (allthough, it's incredibly fast).

Otherwise, I don't get much chance to lan. I'm keen to try C&C3,

[Toi]

I've never been to a LAN before but if I had to choose which games I'd looove to play it would be these:

Forza
C&C3
Gears of war
The Darkness
Shadowrun
Quake 3
And maybe a RPG just to fool around and have fun with.

[Squid]

MOHAA (Especially awesome with City nights mod)
Quake 3
AOE 2
Team fortress classic (Flagrun rocks)
COD2
FEAR
Tower defense
Swat 4 (Awesome co-op)
Serious Sam the Second encounter (^^ ditto)
GRAW (Ditto ditto)
UT2k4 (Onslaught, bombing run and assault)
HL1 DM
HL2 DM
THUG 2
Infestation

And the favourite:

Rune: Halls of Valhalla

[dislekcia]

*Gasp!*

Nobody mentioned Natural Selection! What are you, Philistines?

Also, Monochrome has never not created a gleefully shouting crowd when played at a LAN ;)

-D

[Squid]

*Gasp!*

Nobody mentioned Natural Selection! What are you, Philistines?


I'm still yet to try it actually...

[Chippit]

I'm still yet to try it actually...
Lemme put it this way. If ever you liked Savage, trust me, you'll like NS too.

As for my list, this is what we usually play, among other random things

UT2004
Quake 3
Warcraft 3
Alien vs Predator 2
Titan Quest

[Karuji]

Lemme put it this way. If ever you liked Savage, trust me, you'll like NS too.

oo i should get it then (I LOVE SAVAGE)

[X-Ploding_Shoes]

Call of Duty 2. If you have yet to face me in that game while I brandish a Sniper Rifle, count your selves lucky! Hahaha.

[kHayne]

Don't lan much/anymore these days, but best times I've ever had, were Action Half Life.
Fondest of memories.

[Miktar]

Action Half-Life took far too many hours from my life - we used to jam it at the cyber cafe where I worked non-stop throughout the night, it was great.

[Frozenfireside]

F.E.A.R. combat
I can't wait to sink my teeth into CNC3 as I have just updated it to 1.6 and will be playing online ASAP.
Trackmania nations is sweeeeet, So is Call of duty 2 (Great maps!) but I don't like DOTA as its a but to elitest and they hate a nub.

[T3RM1N4TOR]

I usually play the following with my friends:

- UT 2004
- Titan Quest
- Trackmania Nations

Sometimes we'll play a bit of Battlefield 2.

[R4mzy]

> BF2 (if there are enough players)
> CSS
> DotA (between friends, it can be awesome) as well as a good ol' normal WarCraft III game, or tower defence
> Company of Heroes
> Rainbow Six Vegas (co-op, but good teamies are hard to come by)
> Freelancer
> Splinter Cell (any, but I haven't tried DA)
> Dark Messiah

[dislekcia]

Oooh yes! Splinter Cell rocks with the right crowd of players... I still reckon that it could be an awesome competition game if only we'd get rid of boring CS. It would totally enthrall spectators, plus smaller teams means more games for all ;)

-D

[CaptainCrunch]

Splinter Cell rocks with the right crowd of players... I still reckon that it could be an awesome competition game if only we'd get rid of boring CS. It would totally enthrall spectators, plus smaller teams means more games for allWould it really? I reckon you'd need the right group of spectators as well. I can't see the slow pace involved in such a stealth game that enthralling to the general gaming spectator.

[Squirly]

CoH
Starcraft Co-Op matches are still fun.
Haven't played SupCom LAn yet. :(

[Squirly]

Oh ****, Splinter Cell co-op, definitely. Haven't managed to gather the amount of players for a proper VS match.

Like dis said, %$#@ CS.

[dislekcia]

Would it really? I reckon you'd need the right group of spectators as well. I can't see the slow pace involved in such a stealth game that enthralling to the general gaming spectator.

The game is around suspense. Watching a spy pull off a successful sneak by the skin of his teeth is literally nail-biting. That kind of tension translates very well, especially to crowds that don't necessarily know how the game is played, meaning they can enjoy it just as much as people that appreciate exactly how hard it is to drop the crate on someone in the museum.

-D

[Hooden]

Cod 2
BF 2
COD 4 (when it comes out)
Dawn of war Dark Crusade
CS:S
Red Orchestra
C@C3
Thats my list

[CaptainCrunch]

The game is around suspense. Watching a spy pull off a successful sneak by the skin of his teeth is literally nail-biting. That kind of tension translates very well, especially to crowds that don't necessarily know how the game is played, meaning they can enjoy it just as much as people that appreciate exactly how hard it is to drop the crate on someone in the museum.Sounds intriguing...is this Double Agent?

[H1TMAN]

MOHAA
CNC3
CS:Source
Lord of the rings ROTWK
OpenArena
Warsow
Warcraft 3
Trackmania Nations

Yip , all those games are great but what is this "DOTA" ,can som1 plz tell me where can i download it? and whats it about?

Thanx

[Vexo]

Warcraft 3
FEAR
Quake 3
Quake 4


Yip , all those games are great but what is this "DOTA" ,can som1 plz tell me where can i download it? and whats it about?

Are you serious ?
If so Dota is a custom map for Warcraft 3 that has gotten very popular.
I am personally not a big fan but give it a try.
All you need is Warcraft and then google Dota to download it it is free.

[H1TMAN]

Ok kwl .Thanx ,i realy didnt knw that. I dont play much warcraft 3

[dislekcia]

Sounds intriguing...is this Double Agent?

No, Double Agent totally changed the way the game plays and not for the better IMHO. Chaos Theory and Pandora Tomorrow are both great though.

-D

[CaptainCrunch]

Chaos Theory and Pandora Tomorrow are both great though.What a lovely bunch of coconuts! (http://www.take2.co.za/product.php?id=1530932)

[BattleMoose]

Supreme Commander ^^

[Mic]

well... last weekend...(the one that just pasted) we had no other game to play except CS:S and halo ce.... we were so bored of playing CS:S all the time so we tried out halo... and it was AWESOME!!!!!

[Seraphin]

We used to play Duke Nukem 3D through the night. AVP is also a classic, scaring the crap outta ur buddie. Red Alert 2 also comes to mind, seeing your buildings vanish before you hear the chrono legionaire chrono away. Priceless.

[fr34k]

Lord of Destruction ftw! And Q3 still has it alll, even after all those years!

I stumbled over this page a few days ago: http://www.network-games-collection.com/
There's a tutorial on how to play the best game in history GTA San Andreas multiplayer. Does anyone have ever tested that?

[Cleric]

Wow. That's a MONSTER necropost. I think that deserves a medal of some sort :p

[RaptoR]

For FPS multiplayer definitely CS:Source :)
Otherwise i play Age of Empires 2/3 bit of COD 4 and thats about it.

[Inferium]

WoW @_@

I think the dead just stood up and ran over the forum....
2007...

Anyhow - DoTA for me. and CoD4. CSS. Those are probably the most favorite games of a "larger" LAN.

[RaptoR]

I definitely think NAG should host a Readers Night once a month. CSS, COD 4, TF2 (neva played it b4)