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"Anyone interested in console LAN gaming?"

I expect everyone kows what a LAN gaming centre is, well its predominantly for pc's but would anyone be interested in one for consoles, if you could play online against other people using fast braodband access, on all three major consoles!

can anyone here please register their interest, and whether they would be interested.

thanks

Like i said, you both need broadband adapters, and you can connect them directly. It won't happen with this monkyball though. You'll have to wait until the third.

Me and my mate was on about this today. The PS2 kind of has LAn gaming with GT3 i-link, but what would be good is if we could link our Cubes up and play Monkey Ball 2, 8 player LAN.

Untitled wrote:
> just one more question on top of the main one, do u think u would be
> put off if the tv's there were only say, 17" or less, or would u
> expect larger screens

17" is ok, but if the TV's were bigger you could have splitscreen.
Having said that, splitscreen wouldn't be neccessary in a LAN network.

Solskjær wrote:
> Strafex wrote:
> "You could train at home and then bring your character on a
> memory card for LAN play."
>
>
> That's a brilliant idea!
> I reckon it'll work well with the compatibillity between the console
> and arcade versions of F-Zero, but that it'd be even better with if
> you could use your own memory card and game data in a LAN center.

exactly, then even with games without internet connectivity, you could see how good u really are against other people, rather than jsut friends, and there would be monthly competitions with prizes, also it would be a really good place to meet people who who could form teams with and clans to compete online against others in FPS, dont forget this is the very early stages of console online gaming, who knows what will happen in the future

Strafex wrote:
"You could train at home and then bring your character on a memory card for LAN play."


That's a brilliant idea!
I reckon it'll work well with the compatibillity between the console and arcade versions of F-Zero, but that it'd be even better with if you could use your own memory card and game data in a LAN center.

just one more question on top of the main one, do u think u would be put off if the tv's there were only say, 17" or less, or would u expect larger screens

thanks, this is what i was hoping for, sensible replies and not sarky responses (insane bartender)

i just want to know if in theory, whether people would like to play games this way

LAN gaming was one of the initial reasons why I wanted an Xbox.

Halo 16 player sounded great until I realised I'd need 4 Xbox's (not so bad in itself - I can find 4 Xbox owners), 4 TVs (again, a pain but I have 3 adequate TV's in my house and could probably get a friend to bring one), and 15 players (oh dear... I don't have enough Xbox owning friends and the controls aren't exactly "pick up and play". And I'm not bringing 15 or so total strangers into my house!)

Playing it at a LAN centre sounds pretty good though.

Gamecube Phantasy Star would be pretty good too.
You could train at home and then bring your character on a memory card for LAN play.

As it is, I don't think that Phantasy Star online is worth it.
After buying the game, AND the keyboard, AND the modem adaptor, you not only have to pay dial-up fees/broadband line rental, you have to pay a fixed amount a month to subscribe - Xbox live is cheaper and that includes ALL Xbox live games.

Playing at a LAN centre would be nice way of playing without having to pay all these extra costs (just a few pounds or so for an hours play - cheaper than arcade machines).

So yep, I'm all for LAN centres for consoles.

I'd be interested.

In theory.

Yeah, I reckon it'd be a good idea.
Just as long as we had the right games.

I know a lot of people who liked going to play PC games at a LAN place (before it shut-down), and I think these places would be a bigger-success, just because more people play console games than they do, PC's.