What LAN Games should I get?

Okay here's the deal. I'm currently in the process of opening a LAN gaming center and have to choose which games to have. I have a list of 19 games, and I have to narrow it to 10. Your job? Choose the ten games you would like to see on that list.

Here is the list:

• Half-Life: Counter-Strike
• Battlefield 1942
• Warcraft III
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault
• Diablo II
• EverQuest
• Half-Life: Day of Defeat
• Soldier of Fortune II
• Dark Age of Camelot
• Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
• Neverwinter Nights
• Age of Empires II
• Starcraft
• Unreal Tournament
• Aliens vs Predator 2
• Empire Earth
• Command & Conquer: Renegade
• Asheron's Call
• Quake 3

Choose 10 and let me know what you would want to play.
cheers,
xmaddness



EDIT: Yes, you can add ones not on the list also.. ;)

Neverwinter Nights
Diablo II
Quake III
Unreal Tournament
Dungeon Seige
EverQuest
Dark Age of Camelot
Starcraft
Command & Conquer
Half-Life (either)

Best of luck on the venture!

-Keisha

counter strike
diablo 2
evercrack.. err.. everquest
starcraft
warcraft 3

i think those are the most important for you to get for such a venture
however both Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Neverwinter Nights would be really good too just my opinion

1- Counter Strike
2- Medal of Honor:AA
3-SOF2
4-Age of Empires 2
5-Empire Earth
6-Everquest(this is actually a tie with CS :D)
7-NeverWinter Nights
8-UT
9-Battlefield 1942
10-C&C: Renegade


As for my suggestions, Gangsters 2/Age of Wonders 2/Rogue Spear/Risk 2/ and of course America's Army though it's glitchy as heck

/me waits for the invite :D

Edit:

Quote:

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erm a bit reciduous are we?

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I got that in my APs, and I for one for the life of me can not figure out what "reciduous" means :D

dailbo 2 star-broodwars age of empires 2 war3

Half-Life: Counter-Strike
Warcraft III
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Diablo II
Soldier of Fortune II
Starcraft
Unreal Tournament
Aliens vs Predator 2
Command & Conquer: Renegade
Quake 3

I've played a most of these, and they are all fun in their own ways. Shooters are definately going to draw lots of attention. Also you might want to keep your eyes open for Doom3 when it comes out, as that will probably be an awesome MP game. I know its supposed to focus mainly on Single Player mode, but I'm pretty sure they will give it MP capability too.

* Age Of Empires 2
* StarCraft
* Diablo II
* WarCraft III
* Quake III
* Unreal Tournament
* C&C Renegade

Another terriffic multiplayer game is Return To Castle Wolfenstien... it's cheaper now; pick one up!

albn

Half-Life: Counter-Strike
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Diablo II
EverQuest
Half-Life: Day of Defeat
Age of Empires II
Starcraft
Unreal Tournament
Command & Conquer: Renegade
Asheron's Call

I would say Quake 3 but no one plays it much anymore, sadly. :(

You should have Wolfenstein and Ultima Online as well. ;)

return to castle wolfenstein
counter strike
mediaval total war
war 3
starcraft
quake 3
ut2k3
Battlefield 1942
Soldier of Fortune II
american army
and of course diablo 2

These are my opinion and don't reflect anyone else's....some of these games I myself would not play (CS) but they definitely get the people in the door.

No particular order, so here we go...

1: Counter-Strike
2: Day of Defeat

Those would cover your Half-life junkies...

3: Warcraft 3
4: Age of Empires 2 (or Age of Mythology which would be much better)
5: Empire Earth

Those would cover your RTS fans...AoE2 is popular but with others out looking better, even I find it less appealing and I played that one into the ground. WC3 is pretty good but I think some people find it leaving something to desire. Empire Earth...long game to play on some levels so it might be hard to do Q&D's (that's Quick and Dirty).

6: UT2K3 (skip UT/Q3)
7: Save this slot for either Doom 3 or Quake 4 (gah, Q4?)
8: Battlefield: 1942 (MUST HAVE)

This covers a majority of your FPS fragging (UT/Quake-style) as well as the ALMIGHTY BF:1942, which is madly popular right now. UT2K3 just came out and would be a very good game but it's TAXING AS HELL (and weighs in at 3gb install). Doom 3 would be just as taxing, I'm sure. BF is a must though...must must must...

9: AvP 2
10: C&C:Renegade

Those would be the gimpy side-events when people were looking for something different. Both were fun, but didn't hold me very long.

And remember, gotta have those stands of shirts that say 'j00 d3@d f00!'...

# alf-Life: Counter-Strike
# Warcraft III
# Diablo II
# EverQuest
# Half-Life: Day of Defeat
# Neverwinter Nights
# Age of Empires II
# Unreal Tournament
# Empire Earth
# Quake 3
and my own personal fav LAN game that rox0rs your box0rs - Quake 1 with trent reznor narrating. You got nails!

edit >> too many selections.

Well I haven't posted in a long time... :airoff: and I didn't really take time to read the above posts, I saw alot of games in those lists I really like to play.

Here is an uncompiled list of what I like to play:

*Battlefield 1942
*Unreal (yes the latest)
*Quake (latest)
*Jedi Knight II
*Medal of Honor (pretty much any are good)
*Return to Castle Wolfenstein
*Neverwinter Nights
*IL-2 Sturmovick
*Icewin Dale II

And Last but not least.

*Secret Agent Barbie for windows XP (this game 0wnz m3) ::ha-sign:

StarCraft
WarCraft
DiabloII
Quake3

Would be my choices....I was hoping to see some tribes 2 but ohh well. Wouldnt a poll have been easier? Good Luck buddy.

Here's my top 10 picks:

1.Half-Life: Counter-Strike
2.Medal of Honor Allied Assault
3.Half-Life: Day of Defeat
4.Neverwinter Nights
5.Quake 3
6.Unreal Tournament
7.Aliens vs Predator 2
8.Battlefield 1942
9.Soldier of Fortune II
10.Diablo II

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So many good games out there, its hard to choose.
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FATALBREED

WarCraft3
Half-life (all-of-them)
Quake 3 arena & team arena
Operation flashpoint & rainbow6 games are cool
unreal turnament
AvP is really tight.... cloaking behind the enamy or crawling up a wall... its tight!!!!

Hiya,

Actually, at my high school the tech dept. are holding a LAN party this weekend and there are some pretty hardcore gamers in the group (just look at some of the machines at charles0.freeshell.org, one of these machines has over a gig of RAM in it :D). So really we would have a fair taste of games to play. I'd play:

Half-Life: Counter-Strike
Warcraft III
Diablo II
Half-Life: Day of Defeat
Soldier of Fortune II
Starcraft
Unreal Tournament
Aliens vs Predator 2
Command & Conquer: Renegade
Quake 3

Hope these help with your selection of games to buy :)

Cheers,

I would definetely have to go with the following games. They all are great for LAN games. Goodluck with your business.


Half-Life: Counter-Strike

Warcraft III

Medal of Honor Allied Assault

Diablo II

EverQuest

Half-Life: Day of Defeat

Neverwinter Nights

Starcraft

Unreal Tournament

Quake 3

I don't feel very competent at recommending games, but have you considered the security aspect of the LAN center?

Do you have a way to keep unscrupulous users from stealing the CD keys or identifiers which you use? It could cause you problems later, especially if you plan to allow people to come and play online with the outside world. You don't need to worry about cheaters or accountability, right? I mean, you have all the computers there, under control, and you can find out which machine had which IP address and what customer was using it, right? So set up games (where possible) such that they don't care about cheaters or ID, and you might get by with less complication and with single keys for several clients on a game.

Do these LAN machines have external connections? Can users walk off with data? Can they view the registry keys for certain games and note down sensitive information, taking it home and effectively 'stealing' your copy of the game? How to prevent users from installing little keyloggers?

I would recommend having a central point for users to go to if they wish to import or export data from the network, a 'drive server' if you will. Each client would have no easily accessible means to add/remove data (CD, Burner, ZIP, unsupervised webmail, even floppy)

Blah blah blah... and all that stuff. :)

Yep, The security is goiing to be tighter then hell. All the games are going to be locked up in a ghost server preloaded with all patches, optimal config with the OS. They are going to only have access to the server, and the whole lan is going to have an openbsd firewall, and one seperating the ghost db from the comps. The reg and stuff is going to be all tied down. They arn't going to have floppy drives etc installed. If they want to save a game or save screenshots, game movies etc, they will have to go thru the main data outlet behind the desk (and pay a few bucks for em ;) ) As for the cd-keys etc, I'm prolly going to have to set up the configs for each game, and then save a copy of each reg to upload after the ghost via the server. But it really depends on the way each game has their site licensing up. All in all, It will be tighter than fort knox.

if you like the roleplaying thing i sugest neverwinter nights... i find its as close as yo ucan get to real D&D on a computer. Medel of Honor, and unreal tournement are good FPS in their own respects. counterstrike always kikcs ass i think, and Diablo 2 can be cool if you like simpler RPG/action. i ifind quake 3 to be a bit to doctored up grfx wise (which kinda takes away from the games) , and lastly ive heard jedi knights is really good multiplayer game.

quake
half life - CS
aoe
these r the only lan games i play at a cafe!

Q3,
Counterstrike,
Neverwinter Nights &
Battlefield 1942.

They HAVE to be on there for dead certs, cos they're pure mutli-player stuff. And thats what you're primarily aiming at.

Okay, first of all, I'm a little upset that Mechwarrior 4, C&C Red Alert 2 and Tribes 2 weren't on the list. I may not be able to recover, but here're my top choices from your list: :bigsmile:

- Battlefield 1942 -- this looks like it will have a strong following
- Counter-strike -- have you seen how many servers are still out there?
- C&C Renegade -- I have no clue about this one, but it seems like a nice thing to say
- Starcraft -- RTS fans would drag you out into the street and shoot you, if you didn't have this
- Warcraft II/III - again RTS fans, yadda, yadda, yadda
- AVP2 -- Munching heads, glowing blades of death, what's not to like?
- SOF2 -- the shooter for the realist crowd. Big market.
- NWNights -- I hear it's popular.
- EverQuest -- see above.
- Diablo II -- solid gaming action with mulitplayer angles.

That would be a solid arsenal to begin with. Make sure you offer all the latest and greatest accessories to complement such a bitchin' gaming selection!

Headsets? (w/mic, or without...whatever)
Joysticks?
Mice of quality? (boomslang, IR, etc)

And above all...HAVE COMFY CHAIRS!

1) CS
2) Medal of Honor...
3) Unreal Tour.
4) Quake 3
5) Warcraft III
6) StarCraft
7) AOE III
8) EverQuest
9) Neverwinter
10) StarWars Jedi Knight

Those are all good games and it's a tough choice to pick just 10. Also, my suggestions are:

Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Rainbow Six: Covert Ops
Mafia
MechWarrior4
No one lives forever 2: A Spy in h.a.r.m.'s way
and Age of Mythology


Good luck with the LAN gameing center. Maybe I'll visit sometime. :)

Ya I have the headsets and microphones idea in the bag. I'm setting up a system where you can communicate with your teamates and talk with them realtime. I have also thought about figuring out a voice over ip system for use during major tournaments with other LANS. I'm not sure on what kind of mice I am going to use, but I am going to study em, and maybe have a selection for people to use, i.e. rollerball vs, optical, some different joysticks, etc... Chairs will be big pimpin, since I want people to sit as long as possible. heh

I say the GOLDEN Oldie 1:Total Annihilation with TAUIP
2:Warcraft 3
3:Starcraft with various mots

Well, Thank you for all your replies, it really helped me in my decisions. Well here is my starting list:

• Half-Life: Counter-Strike
• Quake 3 Arena, World etc..
• Unreal Tournament 2003
• Warcraft III
• Diablo II
• Starcraft
• NeverWinter Nights
• Battlefield 1942
• Everquest
• Half-Life: Day of Deafeat

This is going to be the package I start out with. The other games will get added eventually also. Again thanks for all your replies. You can't even pay for this kind of market drafting. :D

CS,MOH,UNREAL,QUAKE,AOE,SOF,WARCRAFT,DIABLO,STARWARS,EMPIRE EARTH...........I THINK THESE ARE A MUST FOR ANY GAMING CENTER...:)

TRY ADDING GTA-3,SIMCITY 3000.....LIST GOES ON

xmaddness,

Just a little advices (if you are still in this after 3 months):

1) Take care with kids playing in your LAN. They usually don't know what to do and bother other gamers connecting and disconnecting form the game in progress.
2) Make exclusively games weekly competitions.
3) From the very first day, never but never erase the gamers scores, try to save them in your database. They could complain for that, believe me!!! :D A friend of mine, made a weekly competition and forgot to save the scores and so they a lost a lot of people that complained to him, because they played a whole week for nothing.
4) Announce weekly/monthly winners and write their names somewhere, this keeps people inside the competition always playing and playing to maintain their names at the top of the list.
5) Keep a good security in the place (i don't mean LAN security but real police or security guys). Sometimes people you don't want enter the place and players are so concentrated in the games that they forget about their own security so sometimes they could be robbed if nobody's watching.

You couldn't have chosen a better list so well done!!!

By the way, maybe you should add the Midtown Madness series for the racing fans (they go well with your nick, hehe!!!). :D

Good luck!!!

DKRR

Where are all the racing and flying games?? Warbirds, MS (Combat) Flight Simulator, ... I can't actually come up with any good names right now because I don't play too much anything but I'm sure some people do play those... And where's Civilization 3: Play the World? Maybe 3 RTSs, 3 shoot'em'ups, 2 racing and 2 flying games would be nice?