I want to host a small LAN party

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PS3 is going to require HDMI splitter if you want video out of it on anything but the main monitor. For your first time I wouldn't worry about that but in the future you may want to record matches if things start getting more serious. Try to get an idea of how many people are coming to play so you have enough ports on your switch for all those PCs. Honestly one is probably going to cover you, don't expect everyone that comes to play and don't expect players to just camp PCs. Some will but most will be more social and only play a match or two then move on to something else.

I should warn you that video games kill a party unless it's the main focus of the party. So don't get upset if some people come and get bored out of their minds. They won't complain about it if you have alcohol for them. When I host tournaments a lot of people come that aren't even interested in gaming but they'll get drunk, watch for a bit, and eventually start rooting for one of the players. Since players need audio you can't play music or anything so it's hard to have non-gaming activities for people to partake in that aren't playing.

After you host a couple of times it'll thin out and be mostly players and their friends. You'll start getting the hang of throwing a large party and know what to expect.

t. faggot that have a private bar and throws 2-3 massive parties a year.

It sounds cool, I will probably start to have those more frequently as I get better at hosting them
The first time I will probably with just some close friends, with games as the main focus, so probably an 8 ports switch will be fine
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Make sure when you're picking games that you don't pick a game where one of your players is that much better then the rest. Reason we can't play UT99 anymore

it fucking is. Have you ever tried to play videogames with people you know? They all fucking blow.

You need a lot of wall power sockets too, can't just use extension cables to plug all the computers into one socket. Not a good idea.

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We will probably run through a list of games of various generes

they do, if the only person you know is your mother and your grandma

Yeah, i was thinking about that, but I should have enough sockets per room for everyone
Once I know how many people will be, I will see if I need some extension cords

Sounds like a personal problem user. I have two friends that play fighting games. We all have arcade sticks. We have tons of games to play. It's comfy, we hang out together and git good. We go to tournaments together and see how we match up with the other people that go.

fucfking kill yourself

I tried before I had a social life user. The pills didn't work and I was too much of a faggot to pull the trigger. I'm just walking around now waiting on something to kill me.

Worst bait/10, playing with friends is fun, user.

Don't you have friends, user?

LAN parties are really easy to setup nowadays

Just this weekend all of my friends brought laptops so we just connected over Wifi and played Quake in about 5 minutes.

Then again most games usually don't have LAN support nowadays for some reason. Like I tried playing Left 4 Dead with them and it was much harder to setup over LAN than a Quake dedicated server was.

L4D1 has LAN play on Xbox and PC I think. Not sure about L4D2. When you set-up the lobby there should be an option to select local/LAN instead of WAN.

And I did that but when I setup a game it didn't appear in the menu. I had to add everyone as a friend and create a friends only game inorder to do it

I do, I was just pointing out his dumb argument

Maybe it only works with a cross over cable on the console. I know I played some LAN matches against a friend when L4D1 first came out. I have a dedicated server for it now so I haven't play local in years.

Just remember that winners don't do drugs and that people need to be rotated constantly and joke a lot so that they don't get so salty. Too much salt can ruin the party. So have a party game ready or a funny card game like cards against humanity.

Nobody actually LANs at these things, don't waste your time unless you go with friends.

Watch Dr Who
and swap files

LAN is pretty much dead. Thank the anti-piratefags for that.

And MOBAS.

First rule: No girls allowed to begin with

mobas have lan mode though

The first dota-like games in starcraft had lan, dota had lan in wc3. Both wc3 and starcraft were popular because of lan.
The first thing to be called a moba was LoL and it had no lan.

Sure, but people that used to meet up for LANs previously now only play MOBAS with their buddies over the net.

I had a group with which I did Lans every other month, and lo and behold, LoL slowly infested what were quite fun evenings with many different games. When they first began to play it during the LANs I played along reluctantly (I don't care for ASSFAGGOTS), but sooner than later, the LANS were >60% LoL when you previously had anything from WC3 custom maps to Destruction Derbies to Half Life 1 Arena matches.

The group broke apart not much later, because why met up when you also can angrily shout at your friends over the internet?

Wait, I thought LoL had no lan feature ?

That's the entire point. People went to a fucking LAN party only to play a MOBA that doesn't even have LAN.

Too few games support the damn feature nowadays. I'm looking for a newer title to try and all I find is indie platformers.