LAN party hosting help

[Thorax]

As of Christmas, a lot of my friends and I have update our computer hardware and such or have gotten computers. So I had the great idea of starting up LAN parties at my place and it sounds like a great time. The only problem is a good selection of games to play. So, what would you guys play at a LAN party?

Now, before posting, keep this in mind. We don't have much money lying around and our specs aren't the greatest, so games that don't require as much will be the best.
Between us, we have PC's, a few 360's, a PS3, a couple Wii's, 2 GCs, and an N64. I'd like the games to be on PC, but we can play other ones.

Last thing you should look at before posing, I'd like variety. Please don't post a bunch of RTS's or FPS's if there are already a lot of them on the lists. Unless they are unique in a big way (Not just map, weapon, or slight gameplay differences), please post games of different genres so we have a wide option.

Here's what we've decided to play thus far:
The Specialists (One of the most fun FPS's)
Starcraft (First one cause we all have it and it doesn't really get old)
Super Smash Bros. (Doesn't matter which one, they're all good)

Later on we'll probably be playing The Ship, so that's in the que.

Ok, now start suggesting!

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[Chrono]

Rakion would seem fun to play with just LAN players. Do not consider playing against people in public rooms. Hellhole of cashed summons and armor that sends you flying when they take damage.

Although you have to connect to the game's server, the engine does detect players through LAN, and will connect to these players through LAN, as it's a Peer to Peer game.

And if you consider this... can I please join..? I wanna play it again but I cannot bear playing in public games.

[Thorax]

Oh. I was actually going to post this in the OP. This will be open to you guys as well.

I'm mainly doing it for my RL friends, but if any of you want to join in, that's completely fine so long as we're having a fun time.

So yes, that'd be fine Chrono.

[brickybob]

Project Blackout

It's free, like Rakion, but it's a FPS.

[NickTheSushi]

Bloody Good Time would be a good one. It's on the Steam for $5

[Thorax]

Bloody Good Time would be a good one. It's on the Steam for $5

AKA The Ship

But I'll consider it.

[Destiny/Zack0Wack0]

Minecraft
Blockland

[NickTheSushi]

AKA The Ship

But I'll consider it.

Still pretty good, cigarettegit.

Minecraft
Blockland

[Thorax]

Project Blackout looks pretty good.

Minecraft would be cool aside from no real objective, so that's really something I'd do on down time.

Blockland will depend. My friends haven't really played it, so it's up to them.

[brickybob]

Minecraft
Blockland

[NickTheSushi]

TF2
L4D (Campaign or VS depending on amount of people)
Worms Reloaded
Madballs
ZeroGear
Zombie Panic Source

[Destiny/Zack0Wack0]

Minecraft would be cool aside from no real objective, so that's really something I'd do on down time.

Blockland will depend. My friends haven't really played it, so it's up to them.

Minecraft is awesome for LAN. In online SMP it can get boring but when you're playing with real life friends (who probably haven't played it before) just the act of building a base is fun.

And come on, everyone can go for Blockland. Unless your friends are the usual "lol stuffty graphics everything must be fps or it sucks ok!" everyone will enjoy building houses, or space ships, or whatever floats your boat.

[Thorax]

TF2
L4D (Campaign or VS depending on amount of people)
Worms Reloaded
Madballs
ZeroGear
Zombie Panic Source

TF2 is good, I'll see
L4D for 360 is probably an option, but it depends on how many people show up or whatever

I'll have to look up the others except Worms. I'm not a giant fan of worms, though it's fun.

Minecraft is awesome for LAN. In online SMP it can get boring but when you're playing with real life friends (who probably haven't played it before) just the act of building a base is fun.

And come on, everyone can go for Blockland. Unless your friends are the usual "lol stuffty graphics everything must be fps or it sucks ok!" everyone will enjoy building houses, or space ships, or whatever floats your boat.

SMP is ok, except the friends that do have it are mean and wreck what I'm building and think it's too "boring" to do anything else.

And as far as BL goes, most of them haven't played it, and most of them are the "COD GRAPHICS OMG" type kids.  Though, I'm sure I could talk them into trying it.

Also, the more action their is, the better. A few of my friends are "gamers" that'll play games that require more than just reflexes and a gun, but the majority of them are like "Hurr durr, so boring, why can't I kill everything?" But my other problem is that I don't want it to be all FPS's and RTS's. So yea.

[Destiny/Zack0Wack0]

If you and your friends are into RTSs, check out Warzone 2100 http://wz2100.net/. The graphics are actually pretty decent for an old game. It got released as open source by it's original developers and now some new developers are working on it. It is seriously under-rated, I've made plenty of topics about it.

Basically you can choose to start off with a good base or a week base then you build it up obviously. The cool part about it though is you can research unit parts and create new units using the parts put together. It's really fun. Although I recommend having no bots and just you and your friends FFA or team, because even on "no intelligence" the bots still own me within 30 minutes :(

[Thorax]

If you and your friends are into RTSs, check out Warzone 2100 http://wz2100.net/. The graphics are actually pretty decent for an old game. It got released as open source by it's original developers and now some new developers are working on it. It is seriously under-rated, I've made plenty of topics about it.

Basically you can choose to start off with a good base or a week base then you build it up obviously. The cool part about it though is you can research unit parts and create new units using the parts put together. It's really fun. Although I recommend having no bots and just you and your friends FFA or team, because even on "no intelligence" the bots still own me within 30 minutes :(

Ok thanks for the tip. I'll consider it.