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What's a good LAN game for old pentium iii's?

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The Green Bean

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Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Anything but Starcraft.

LAN parties, in my experiences, were always ruined by Starcraft. Lets say there were 12 guys at a Lan party. 6 of them wouldn't play because they know Starcraft sucks...and then the other 6 would play ONE GAME for over 3 hours...until the rest went to sleep. Happened every time. I hate the game...it's lame.

LOL you probably suck at it.
 

BlancoNino

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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Anything but Starcraft.

LAN parties, in my experiences, were always ruined by Starcraft. Lets say there were 12 guys at a Lan party. 6 of them wouldn't play because they know Starcraft sucks...and then the other 6 would play ONE GAME for over 3 hours...until the rest went to sleep. Happened every time. I hate the game...it's lame.

LOL you probably suck at it.

After this one time I built a TON of battlecruisers and sent them over to be destroyed by a TON of turrets...I decided the game was either won by rushing (which is never fun) or by sitting there mindlessly doing the same thing over and over for hours and hours until somebody runs out of resources. Rise of Nations is better because of nukes and such when the game gets long plus you dn't run out of resources.
 

GundamSonicZeroX

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AVP/2, WarCraft 3, MechWarrior 2/3, BattleField 1942(notice the three extra numbers), Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
 

Sphexi

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Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Anything but Starcraft.

LAN parties, in my experiences, were always ruined by Starcraft. Lets say there were 12 guys at a Lan party. 6 of them wouldn't play because they know Starcraft sucks...and then the other 6 would play ONE GAME for over 3 hours...until the rest went to sleep. Happened every time. I hate the game...it's lame.

LOL you probably suck at it.

After this one time I built a TON of battlecruisers and sent them over to be destroyed by a TON of turrets...I decided the game was either won by rushing (which is never fun) or by sitting there mindlessly doing the same thing over and over for hours and hours until somebody runs out of resources. Rise of Nations is better because of nukes and such when the game gets long plus you dn't run out of resources.

I used to love Starcraft, until I got sick of the limits on units, and how many you could select, and all that. TA is such a better game, although not nearly as pretty. You can mod it to have up to 5000 or more units per person (kills even new computers at that point), there's nukes, extra units you can download, extra maps, create your own maps, select as many units as you want, group them, whatever.
 

secretanchitman

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crysis...lol

-starcraft
-ut
-quake 1/2/3
-warcraft 2 and maybe 3 (ran fine on my brothers p3 700Mhz @ 1.06Ghz machine years ago)
-diablo 1/2
-tribes 1, possibly 2
-emulation!!!
-age of empires 1/2