Andy at a LAN Party

So I was invited to a LAN some time last week, and it was last night. This was my first big LAN event (the last one I went to was one I hosted myself, and only 3 people showed up.) This one was hosted by Play by Wire, so I was quite nervous at first, but I eventually settled in. And after 13 hours of Counter-Strike: Source, Starcock (our slang for Starcraft... well, their slang), and Call of Duty 4, I have made a few observations.

1. People don't play Team Fortress 2 anymore.

I mean, seriously, why not? It's a fantastic game. Fun, with a fast respawn time, easy to pick up yet tough to master, appealing visual style, excellent variety of gamemodes and maps (if not enviroments), and a pleasing amount of humour. Yet no-one has been playing it. It seems no-one has played it since before the Scout update, since every single computer that had TF2 installed needed to be updated. Therefore, we played no TF2. What the hell.

      2. Counter-Strike: Source needs map changes, and is excellent with low grav

We played Counter-Strike a lot, and it was heaps of fun (especially when unexpected headshots occured and made everyone angry, or the mexican wave of "aaaawwwww!!" when a server shut down accross the room).  But... freakin' de_dust2 makes me mad now. I can never play that map again, I figure. The fatigue set in so fast, and Charles (the guy who was running the LAN server) didn't know how to change the map. So we stayed at de_dust2. At this point I left. Though near the very close of the evening (morning?), I had the excellent idea of revisiting old maps with low grav. So we set gravity to "50". Then we had flying wars. Hahaha, good times.

    3. Left 4 Dead kicks ass

Even more so than thought possible. We played it twice, once to open things up (a versus match), and a campaign match for people who wanted to keep playing later on. It kicked ass. There were so many epic moments I don't know where to begin... but this is all stuff you knew before, man. Left 4 Dead is king of online co-op, no question. 

...there was heaps of other cool stuff that happened, too, but I'm very tired and need to get to sleep now, and when I wake up I'll probably have forgotten everything which is why I am writing it down, now. Well, off to sleepytown then. Goodnight. (It's morning.)