LAN's can be extremely frustrating but we still do it anyway from time to time. The last one we had consisted of lots of Heroes of Newerth(Dota minus Warcraft), maybe some Starcraft and then people started drifting to other things solo or not, but as long as your in the same room its still pretty entertaining. We had Borderlands on the 360 with a bigscreen right next to the main table of computers, I think there was some Guitar Hero and if I recall the night ended with someone pulling out the SNES and retro gaming began. The real key to the successful LAN is in the organization beforehand, and not just food etc, but in making sure you have a decent to large selection of games that EVERYONE OWNS A COPY OF, and that the network will work properly. I've had more LANs ruined to those two things then anything else. As for FPS games, we used to just create a local server and expose it to the internet to let other people join and play, it wasn't perfect but it let us get somewhat larger games.
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