The night before last I was crashing at some friends’ dorm room and someone suggested playing Counter-Strike (wasn’t me! I don’t like that game and I’m not even good at it.) We all had laptops and wireless networking was at hand (so may call it a WLAN party!) and we got started.
Just a quick note. Don’t do games on wireless LANs, or not with so many people, or at least buy a good switch/access point (we hadn’t.) The lag was awful. The game was fun though.
There were 9 of us and we shot and killed each other till 5-6 in the morning, and if it wasn’t for the easiness of those terrorists (eat that!) it would have lasted longer. It was the highest number of people I’ve played anything on a LAN against, and I can conclude two things:
- Counter-Strike is easy and does not deserve its reputation and status. I had played CS for a total of less than an hour before the other night, and yet I was the numerically best player of my team (we were CT, so you do understand that it was harder to win, and there were two players with higher kill counts on the terrorists team.) Quake III Arena still rules!
- I’m going to try and organize such get-togethers more often if I can. There’s no hope for it here in Mashhad. We would be constrained about place and people and equipment. I may have to move to Tehran after all!
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MatGill | 10-Mar-08 at 6:37 am | Permalink
You reminded me of the allnighters we used to keep at UT. I remember playing Unreal Tournament (the old one) 6v6. And guess what, they were people waiting in the line to join! There were 20 of us there, and some played CS while we were doing capture the flag.
Then it changed into Age of Empires (I’d say best MS game ever). And then it changed to DotA and stayed like that till I left. We played at least 400-500 games in the last 2 years, each about an hour. Man I miss those days. Nowadays I can only play online in public games with people I don’t know. Maybe I join a clan sometime soon.
yzt | 10-Mar-08 at 8:04 am | Permalink
I guess that’s one of the benefits of living in a dormitory, the excess of enthusiastic gamers!
I’ve never played any of the Age of Empires games much; never liked them. But they are not developed by Microsoft. Microsoft is merely the publisher. Among the games Microsoft has published, most people would pick Halo series as the best, but my pick would be Dungeon Siege and I would hold that belief at least till tomorrow (because I’m not going to buy any more games till then!)