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FromAbyss

[WSIB] LAN Party Games?

[PC]

A group of friends and I (around 6 to 8 people) are organizing a LAN party, is there anything you recommend?

Some of us would be playing on controllers, so it'd be nice if there was native support (not JoyToKey, please!). FPS are fine!

EDIT: Some games we already play:

Zombie Army Trilogy, Left 4 Dead 2, League of Legends, Borderlands 2, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 4, Civilization V, Portal 2, Dead Island (Both games), Castle Crashers

Posted Nov 29, 2016, 12:57 AM UTC · edited

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code-sloth•

Gang Beasts

Duck Game

Both have short rounds so you can rotate people in and out easily.

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FromAbyssOP•

Gang Beasts looks right up our alley! Thanks for the suggestions, I'll bring them up.

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4309qwerty•

You might be interested in r/haloonline If you and your friends have ever been interested in Halo, Halo Online is amazing and is great fun to play with friends over lan again. Albeit complicated to install but the subreddit is very helpful and has guides to help you.

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FromAbyssOP•

Thanks! I'll take a look, it seems to even support controllers.

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SirFruity•

Flatout2 is often on sale for cheap and is to this day my favourite lan game.

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FromAbyssOP•

Huh, I never played it back in the day. Steam says it doesn't have multiplayer... Is it vanilla or a mod?

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SirFruity•

It has multiplayer.

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AmuseDeathBronze Level•

Starcraft: Brood War

Download it for free here and don't worry, it is legit:

http://iccup.com/en/starcraft/sc_start.html

You can play on teams, versus computers or play custom maps like tower defense.

Team Fortress 2

It is free on Steam.

League of Legends or Dota 2

Both are free, Dota is on Steam.

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CrazyBread92•

I wish more played broodwar. It's such a good game.

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Daorange1•

Can't believe no one mentioned rocket league for a lan party.

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Fever_twitchtv•

I organise lan parties with friends playing XCOM Enemy Unknown multiplayer. That's great fun if you work out a matrix where everyone plays each other in various styles (alien vs human, psionics vs human, etc). Matches are not too long they get boring and it's funny to watch over your friends shoulder.

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