Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House 175
Zothecula writes "Anyone who has a attended a LAN party — where people connect their computers on one network in one location to play multiplayer games together — can tell you that they can be both very fun but also kind of a hassle. Playing games with your friends all in the same room: fun. Having to organize all your friends to each haul their usually-oversized gaming rigs to one person's house, ensuring they all have the same software, and inevitably dealing with one or more people having trouble connecting: not fun. With that in mind, it makes sense that one Google employee decided to bypass all that inconvenience and just build a house specifically for LAN parties, complete with multiple networked computers and TVs connected to game consoles."
Must be nice... (Score:5, Insightful)
...to have this much cash. By my standards, a LAN party is fancy when nobody's sitting on the floor.
the days of lan play supporting games are over (Score:5, Insightful)
In the past you had classics of LAN play, like NWN1.
Now? Modern games remove the feature. Diablo 3 - yanked, so they can make you play through their servers. Same for many others. It's all about control. When games directly supported LAN play, it gave the players and the community control over their experience. It let them play without permission, and that is a thing that couldn't be allowed to stand.
LAN play was some of the funnest gaming to be had. Far, far better than trying to share a single screen on a console. But it's dying. Killed because we must ask for permission to play the games we bought.
Bad layout. (Score:5, Insightful)
1) People are facing a wall, not each other.
2) There's no table central to all players, where pizza resides.
3) A single-line of players means players on the ends have trouble communicating verbally.
4) There's uneven lighting across the gaming spots, and it looks like more lighting behind the players than in front of them
5) Those chairs are not comfortable enough.
/you have to consider these things if you want to keep going all weekend
Re:Good ventaliation (Score:4, Insightful)
Wireless? Serious gamers don't want their frag count affected by the hot pocket they just put in the microwave. So no. Probably not a consideration.
Re:Who hosts LAN parties anymore ? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Good ventaliation (Score:4, Insightful)
If you are a true gamer, your rig will provide enough ventilation.