Offical GAMES Thread #1: Tourneys?

[TheSmJ]

Ok, here's the first OFFICAL games thread. The purpose of this one is simple; find out if anyone is interested in an organized tourney for any game, not just a particular game.

If enough people vote "Yes" to organized tourneys, we will then start the process of which game(s) to hold them on (with a series of votes. If not enough people are interested in organized tourneys, we will begin looking into which games will be "Officially Sanctioned". Again, with more voting.

The type of tourney will depend on the games played, and will also be handled with a vetoing process. In the case of games with more than one type of gameplay mode (such as Deathmatch, Team DM, and so on) this will be sorted out later, and multiple types of tourneys can be held on one game as the people wish.

This will be either a "Yay" or "Nay" vote here, guys. That means, if you don’t plan on playing any games, vote 'No'. Furthermore, if you plan on playing any games, but don’t feel like participating in an organized tourney, vote 'No' as well. If you feel you would like to participate in such a tourney for ANY game, vote 'Yes'.

EDIT:

If you do vote "Yes", please post what games you would be interested in playing in the tourney. These games will be added to the voting list if things go in the tourney direction.

Also, it would be nice if everyone coming would please vote either way.

[Mr_Bojingles]

I am up for pretty much anything.

Unreal Tournament 2003, Halo, Starcraft, C&C Generals, and pretty much whatever anyone else wants.

I am not to picky when it comes to games. It doesn't matter to me on how other people want to get owned! :D

[Black Hawk]

I would like:

Battlefield 1942 w/ Desert Combat
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
Raven Shield
Unreal Tournament (or 2K3 if enough people want it)
C&C Generals

Dunno any more games but I'll play any other game except CS :ninja:

[Thrax]

Tournies make people wait.

Waiting at a LAN party is dumb.

I vote no.

[test_tube_tony]

:thumbsup:I'd say bring anything thats easily "rip-offable" and lots of CD-Rs lol (shame on me). Games are games, they are all fun.:D

[Clutch]

I vote yes.

Counter-Strike
UT2K3


anything else, what ever is the most popular I will go out and get if I don't have it

[primesuspect]

Yes.. BF1942 and UT

[GHoosdum]

Yes:
Halo
C&C Generals
GTA2 (w00t!!!!11six)

[TheSmJ]

Thrax had this to say
Tournies make people wait.

Waiting at a LAN party is dumb.

I vote no.

Not really.

In the case of team vs. team (there would be two total teams) why would anyone have to wait to play, as everyone who wants in on the tourney, would be playing.

In the case of a FFA, people who are cut, are cut. They wont be 'waiting' to get back in, because, quite simply, they wont be let back in.

I will warn others though, expect to make "sacrifices". For instance; if a group of people want to play StarCraft, but you're in a UT2K3 tourney... it would really, really displease the gods (me) if you ducked out.


And I am a vengeful god. :rarr:

[Camman]

I might only do up the UT2k3 tourney if there is one, maybe Generals, but you gotta do teams with that. I vote yes. Even if there are tourneys going on, theres gonna be enough people that you'll have other people to play games with while a tourney is progressing

[qwikk]

I'll probably suck at any game we play (my skill is erratic, dunno), I'm up for CS, Wolf: ET, Starcraft, UT2003 (still gotta go snag that for $20).

[Shorty]

UT.

UT.

UT.

UT.

UT.

UT.

UT.

UT.

UT.

UT.

Did I mention UT? :D

[QCH2002]

Crimsion Skies!!!
I guess Unreal Tourn.

[McBain]

I say we do a 2vs2 Tourny in C&C:Generals

Counter-Strike...Its just too much fun to be left out

UT2k3

Never played BF1942

[mmonnin]

W/E we play is fine with me.

[Norge]

I voted no since I am not sure if I will have the games chosen for a tourny. Nor am I sure if I would want to play in those games. I might participate; however, if it is BF 1942 (no DC). Aside from that I am up for just playing whatever game is sanctioned or whatever people are playing at the time. The games I would like to play are:

BF 1942 (DC is ok but I prefer classic)
Diablo II
Age of Empires II
Red Alert 2 (or generals if I can find a copy though I've never played.)
Halo
Any other games I can get my hands on.

Norge

[TheLostSwede]

I vote no cause there are always some sort of problems coming up on a Lan. Game's that runs on one client but won't on the other etc. If that leaves the others waiting, it's getting annoying in the end. On the other hand, i have never attended a REAL LAN such as this one so i might be way out of line here.

[primesuspect]

I'm of the same opinion as Camman:

If you don't want to participate in a given tournament (for example, I suck at and dislike RTS games, so I won't be participating in any RTS tournaments), there's still gonna be other people that are gonna be playing what you want to play. Nobody said you can't play whatever you want while you're "waiting" for the tournament.. I can't imagine how any waiting is gonna take place....

[TheSmJ]

primesuspect had this to say
I'm of the same opinion as Camman:

If you don't want to participate in a given tournament (for example, I suck at and dislike RTS games, so I won't be participating in any RTS tournaments), there's still gonna be other people that are gonna be playing what you want to play. Nobody said you can't play whatever you want while you're "waiting" for the tournament.. I can't imagine how any waiting is gonna take place....

My thoughts exactly.

As far as what Mack says:

The servers will be running the latest update of the official server for each game. Due to this, we will strongly advise everyone to have all games fully updated to the latest version. Keep in mind the... method you acquired... a particular game may effect it's stability when played over a LAN.

For instance, UT2K3's server will actually kick all non-legal keys from the game, as these keys get checked with the master online server. This means, that even when playing a burned copy of UT2K3 over a LAN, and being connected to a dedicated server, you will be instantaneously knocked out of the game. I have seen others experience this with my own two eyes, so I know it for a fact.

In short: As long as everyone has legit, fully updated copies of whatever game played, there shouldn’t be any problems. If you are using an illegally acquired game, and you are having difficulty connecting/playing because of it, that’s tough sh!t. This is why legal copies of these games is advised.

[Camman]

TheSmJ had this to say
[QUOTE]primesuspect had this to say
[B]This is why legal copies of these games is advised.

I buy them cause I like the box. Like the guy on the UT2k3 Box looks all badass and like he's gonna kick my ass, so, I put the box on my desk in front of my keyboard and whenever I'm getting my ass kicked in a game and want to quit I look down and say "no, don't quit, start kicking ass and taking names, if not for yourself, then, for that guy and his big gun"

[Camman]

update: <img src="http://store5.yimg.com/I/guybuys_1765_4494322">

[Clutch]

Camman you are a weird guy, haha You could always put a picture of me in front of your computer and everytime you look up you will be like "ohh baby" lol

[TheSmJ]

so is it 10/7?

I dunno.... being as I doubt all 10 of you wont be all playing the same games, I doubt a tourny would be worthwile...

I'll conspire with Psudo.

[GHoosdum]

That's still only 17 of 42(?) votes.

[JLunar]

Frankly guys, I probably won't be playing a hella lot of tourneys. why? I suck. I'd be done in the first fifteen minutes or less. You'll find me by the consoles, where I suck minimally less.

but I voted yes, since I know 40 people raring to play games never works well without some organization. Plus, I have a copy of Halo around here some where. I'll have to dig for other things, but I'm ALWAYS good for Diablo II.

[TheSmJ]

Well, we need to get everyone here, and Psudo and I would like to get things finalized soon (at least I would).

[SimGuy]

UT2003, UT, Quake 3 and CounterStrike should be the only "official" tournaments. Realistically, are we going to have time to play all these different tournaments in the 48 hours allotted?

You need some organization to playing games, but invariably, you are going to get people who don't want to participate in the tournaments. :)

[Norge]

JLunar had this to say
Frankly guys, I probably won't be playing a hella lot of tourneys. why? I suck. I'd be done in the first fifteen minutes or less. You'll find me by the consoles, where I suck minimally less.

but I voted yes, since I know 40 people raring to play games never works well without some organization. Plus, I have a copy of Halo around here some where. I'll have to dig for other things, but I'm ALWAYS good for Diablo II.

Yeah I'm gonna make sure I have my copy of D2 along also. I'm always up for that. We could have a non-official D2 dueling tourny too. That might be fun. It wouldn't have to be formal but anyone who was playing D2 while the other tournies were going on could join in.

Norge

[pseudonym]

TheSmJ had this to say
Well, we need to get everyone here, and Psudo and I would like to get things finalized soon (at least I would).

I would also :)

[TheSmJ]

Well ok, umm...


Psudo and I will decide on the specifics. We're thinking UT, BF1942, and possibly Starcraft.

If a decision gets made that you do not agree with, blame Psudo.

[Norge]

Those would be the only games we play? Not that they are bad games but we could fit in more than 3 couldn't we?

Norge

[GHoosdum]

Halo - Halo - Halo - Halo...

[TBonZ]

I'm actually wondering now if I should be there, I haven't played any of the games you guys are posting which also means I don't own any. The only game I'm good at is HL and nobody else plays it.

BTW - I voted no.

[Aranyic]

;) honestly I think everyone will have a great time even if they don't play all the games. A lot of the lans that are made up of people from the same site/clan/etc where people have known each other for a while degenerate from gaming to just hanging out. My last lan my clan had (3rd or 4th one) they decided not even to bring computers. Everyone just likes to get together and have a good time

[QCH2002]

TBonZ had this to say
I'm actually wondering now if I should be there, I haven't played any of the games you guys are posting, which also means I don't own any. The only game I'm good at is HL and nobody else plays it.

BTW - I voted no.

I own HL and play it. I haven't been into FPS in a few years due to lack of other people to play against. I have started again in order to sharpen my (very dull) skills. I am going to the LAN to meet people and hang out with the best online community around. I will be playing games as much as I can. I <b>WILL</b> be fragged more times then I can fathom but that's not the point.

SM is my online family. You guys are my family...:bawling:

[TheSmJ]

Nonono. Those will just be the tourny games. You guys will be able to play whatever you want.

[TBonZ]

Oh ok, just don't want to feel left out that's all. Forget what I said, there is no way I'll be missing this, games or no games. :)

[qwikk]

I need to fix my damn video card problem, otherwise I won't be able to play anything. stupid thing crashes my comp after 10 minutes playing anything... and that's with the best drivers, other ones crash it in a minute or two. :(

[DogSoldier]

I'd like to see a Call of Duty tourny. I'll be sober should I should really own it up.

[mmonnin]

Gonna have to add UT2004 to the list. Only a few more days and I will have mine shipped to me.

[primesuspect]

I have a feeling that things have changed significant since november, when we first started planning this. I am pretty sure UT2K4 will be the game du jour at the LAN.

:D

I can't wait.

[Norge]

Yeah I ordered a copy of UT2K4 the same day mmonnin did. It even comes with free logitec microphone headset. :bigggrin: March 16 is the day it comes out if I am not mistaken.

I'm defintily up for some fragging action! UT2K4 isn't my best game but the demo is a blast. A tourny would be great even if I am at the bottom of the ladder. Well second to the bottom, mmonnin will be there after all...

Norge

[mmonnin]

Hehe yeah I suck.

[GHoosdum]

OMG - CBDroege, CrazyJoe0813, CBDroege and I (and about 6 other folks) all played the UT2K4 demo at our Nexlia LAN 2 event over the weekend of March 5th and it rocked us so much we all went out and preordered it within days... w00t.

[Crazy Joe]

Indeed. Never liked any Unreal games until this one. I even ordered a new DVD player off of NewEgg so I could play the DVD special edition version. Gotta love a game that takes up over 5 gigs!! Double W00t!!!

[mewashere03]

ah... whatever we play is cool. I dont really care I'll play any game, I know my big bro will set me up. hahaha.... :bigggrin:

[sharkydart]

lol - i really couldn't believe my plan worked to get everyone at Nexlia on UT2k4! >:) I'll play anything. I'd definately play ut2k4.

[GHoosdum]

Yup, sharky pwned us good!

[oCoMiK]

Unreal Tournament, UT2K3, or UT2K4
Incriminating Skies, i.e. Crimson Skies
Battlefield 1492 - Columbus Sails again, i.e. Battlefield 1942
Jedi Knight
Serious Sam
AOE II, AOM
Pong

The orginal UT is probably my favorite but I'm open to play anything. I've heard a lot about CounterStrike but never played it.

Ocomik

www.ocomik.net
www.ocomik.net/blog/index.html

[Clutch]

Do we have a final list of games? Just wondernig what games I need to run out and buy.

[primesuspect]

Oh yeah! JKIII for sure!

And, serious sam totally pwns.. We used to have so much fun with that game-- how could I forget....

The cannon == best gun EVAR!

[TheSmJ]

Do we have a final list of games? Just wondernig what games I need to run out and buy.


No offical list really... at least yet. But we WILL have dedicated UT2k4 and BF1942 servers set up.

[Clutch]

No offical list really... at least yet. But we WILL have dedicated UT2k4 and BF1942 servers set up.


Ok, thanks. At least I do have those two games already :)

[Norge]

No offical list really... at least yet. But we WILL have dedicated UT2k4 and BF1942 servers set up.
Dedicated BF1942 server... *falls to the ground and starts drooling*

Norge

[][v][AGIC]

someone bring a console, we need soul caliber duce action.

[mmonnin]

Norge is bringing his PS2.:)

[TheSmJ]

Cool, cause we have a couple TVs we could use.

[CB]

We should have a bracketed Rise of Nations Tourney!

I volunteer to run that one.

[Norge]

Norge is bringing his PS2.:)
I am? I don't remember being informed of this but what the hell. I'll bring it. I have a copy of SC2 so don't worry.

Norge