r/lanparty

Me and my friends (despite all being 2007-8 kids) miss the classic PS3 era from before we got ps4s, I even played my ps3 daily until 2017. We are gonna munch on Mountain Dew and Doritos for 2 consecutive nights ordering pizza for dinner, classic 2000s we never even experienced

ANYWAY, we are hosting a LAN party at my house between 6-8 of us and we are using 2 70 inch TVs and 2 PS3s connected with 1 Ethernet cable.

I was wondering what games would be best for all of us to play at the same time 3-4 each console.

We already have all CoDs on the PS3 (twice) and we just need games that aren’t shooters to play, any recommendations are appreciated, THANK YOU!

As a gaming girl, I’ve been trying to upgrade my setup a bit because I mostly play on my laptop, and games like GTA and racing games just don’t feel as immersive on a small screen anymore. I like moving around a lot too. Sometimes I’m in my room, other times at a friend’s place so I don’t really have a fixed desk setup.Lately I’ve been thinking it would be nice to have a portable monitor so I can just plug in and turn any space into a proper gaming setup. Something light, easy to carry, budget friendly but still smooth enough for gaming without lag or screen issues.The problem is, when I started looking into it in Alibaba, I realized there are so many options with different displays, different screen sizes, refresh rates, USB-C vs HDMI, and some even marketed specifically for gaming setups. I don't know which one to go for because every model seems to have its own advantage depending on what you’re playing.So now I’m just wondering, for people who actually use portable monitors for gaming setups, especially for games like GTA, which monitors are really worth it and give the best smooth experience especially for gaming setups?

It’s a university event with approval and everything but, I asked and I’m waiting for a response but I’m not confident they’ll let me whitelist games to run through their firewalls, I’m opting for something closer to a wlan party then, as I understand it you cannot host lan games by just being connected to the same router of wi-fi? So I tried making a hotspot on one PC (hotspotting of their own wifi which I figured would have the same restrictions as their lan, but maybe it doesn’t?) and having others connect to it, this works. I don’t have admin rights so I can’t install any tunnelling software or anything like that and sometimes the results are spotty, are there any tips I should know in order to make this go any smoother?

My proposed lineup is
Halo 2
NFS Most Wanted 2005
Quake 3 Arena (this actually works over the normal lan network for the class oddly enough)
Unreal Tournament 2004
Left4Dead 2
And there’s also PCSX2 which I would have loved to link up for gran turismo 4, there’s no solid documentation for new builds but for what people have figured so far it seems that needs tap drivers so it may be out of the question.

I’m also worried for some of the higher player count games like Halo 2 that having the hotspot be host to 16 other people would lead to instability, though this is something I’m gonna have to get IT to let me test. (Windows limits to 8 but you can raise it with 16)

I’m not entirely sure whether the lan truly doesn’t work in class cause of firewalls or what have you, but Halo 2 for instance can create and see games, but it fails when you try and join unless you use a wifi hotspot to connect. Same with most wanted. I’m hoping the lan thing is just a fib because it would be so much easier and foolproof.

Edit: There’s 48 PCs, they’re all in ones and the layout of the class is something like this
There’s 6 rows of 8 PCs with a split in the middle of the room for people to walk through
So one table has 4 PCs on them.
Everything runs wired to a network server in the room routed through the tables, but the PCs also have wi-fi of course.

We will be hosting the 9th(!) instalment of our annual LAN Party, the TesLAN! Organised by Thor, the Electrical Engineering Student Association of Eindhoven University of Technology.

Open to everyone with cool prizes you can win in many competitions! But you are free to play relaxing (board)games as well!

The timelapse of last edition can be seen here.

TesLAN 8

Be sure to check it out at: teslan.party

Went thru some old videos photos and found this gold piece , had potato phone but still recorded. This video gets in my feelings every time .

And on every first night of the lan 500+ people would raid Statoil a gas station , fun times.