It's not summer without a LAN, Official comment topic Options

[Dark0ne]

Well it seems like the British summer has once again been reduced to a two month period (surprise surprise). It's been raining down here for 7 days straight and the five-day forecast points to more rain on every day. Probably for the best that I'm heading off to the UK's biggest LAN tomorrow for a weekend of pure, unadulterated gaming with the occasional rainy visit to the pub.

2,000 gamers bring their own PC's to game it up from 6pm Thursday to 4pm on Monday. Major players in the industry such as Intel, EA, Codemasters and Ubisoft will be setup in the exhibition hall with many competitions and freebie give-aways (last year a friend walked off with a 32" TV, 8800GTX graphics card and £150 in cash!) as well as some of the largest tournaments in Europe taking place where we get to see Europes finest "pro-gamers" fight it out in Counter-Strike: Source, Call of Duty 4, Battlefield 2 and Warcraft 3, among others. Even if you're not a fan of the games it's always an entertaining watch.

Multiplay's "iLAN" has been going on for quite a while now, this being the 34th iLAN to date, and I've come to make quite a few friends at these events (and from my various online gaming forays) who I am looking forward to seeing. On the gaming agenda at this iLAN? Eve Online, World in Conflict, Warcraft 3 (DotA), Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2, various HL2 mods, Diablo 2 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

At the last iLAN I went to last summer I saw a few folks showing off their Oblivion characters and I'll be sure to snap their ugly mugs with my camera this time around for your viewing pleasure should anyone be playing. Playing Oblivion at a LAN seems a bit anti-social when you're directly connected to 2,000 other gamers, though!

Have you ever been to a large LAN? Got any stories to tell? Drop a comment here.

[ravenland]

Never been to a huge one, especially with prizes, but I wish there were such in Azerbaijan x(

[del_diablo]

Oh heck i want to join, just recently got done with a private LAN myself
Good luck pawning those nubs mate

[Rifleman Joe]

I've been to a large Halo 3 lan party. I also had people screaming "God -blam!-it Rifleman Joe!" over and over again.

Best. party. ever.

[Forgottensteel]

I've been on a couple Lans, but none a big as iLan - sounds like good fun ^^

Well one time on Quake 2 (this was when i was in my first year of highschool) One guy across the way was saying that you couldn't play it as a run-an-gun shooter, he started camping in a dark corner and i just ran by (i didnt know he was there at first) "I'm much better at sniping. Watch, i'll get this guy" All of a sudden i'm hit in the chest with a rail gun, but dont dead thanks to a high armor count. I stood still and watched around me to see where the fire was coming from, then when he fired again i piled 5 rockets into his hiding spot. I heard him start complaining that about "How the &*$& could he see me!!" and the casic "Thats unfair! He's cheating!" the guy was so much older than me and was whining like a five year old....luckly he didn't know it was the first year ten seats down from him...i dont want to think what could have happened -_-'

Another one was the TMOG opening (i can't say the PC gamer event cause it was over the net, but that was so much fun ^^. I will gladly add it if DarkOne is ok with it)
There was this huge game of Counter Strike Source going on! And loads of guys on the Lan must have played it for a long time - some pro's were there too. It didn't help that i barely now what i was doing, thankfully the guys were giving me tips ^^. Well after a couple of rounds and finaly starting to play towards my strangths (Sniper, give me a shotgun and i wont be able to hit the broadside of a barn and pointblank with it) This guy behind me looks around and asks "Who's Just shot me?" I very tentivly put my hand up "I $*%&ing hate you! You keep killing me all the time!" It was kinda funny because i could barely get a kill on any of these guys! But that the wonderful thing about Lan you can play with players a thousand times better than you, and still have a laugh about it ^^ Escpecially if there all really nice and are just playing for fun ^^

[Big Mad Tony]

I went to i32.

I'd go again if I had the money and a smaller case. Especially since I had to lug it on the train from Birmingham...

[zoostation07]

didnt realise this was based near my city (coventry).. ill be goin next year now, i didnt even know this lan party existed otherwise i would have went this time round, ill make sure i have a more powerful gamin machine for next year now

[haza321]

well i never... well can you do us all a favour? u see anyone showing off their oblivion chars and dont have a login to this site? well you gotta show their asses up!! and if they do have a tesnexus login... well, lets just say they need a lot of publicity ^^

[JaceX]

Ah... The LAN. I havn't lanned since my earlier high school years. The only time I have been a part of a large lan was at a large gaming party. There were about 50 people in a mansion of sorts (darn rich nerds...) I wasn't playing, but I watched as people did DOTA and CS and the like. Man, I got in on some CS and I liked how everyone called me a noob at first... But I showed them with my m4a1 spraying lucky headshots. Woot.

[XilenceSR]

Hey! If you see a guy that calls himself Kaidence, slap him for me, my name is David .