I still do LAN parties, smaller ones though

I am curious to know if I am unique, even with robust online environments my friends and I still tend to get together for multiplayer.  We like to make a day of it get a day off form our wives bring the monitors and PS3s together and play through a co-op campaign.  We will fart around with competitive multiplayer online, but we tend not to do anything requiring serious coordination across a headset.  Does anyone else go to this extent?  Maybe this could be another win for Vita or Wii U as not having to lug the monitor around and still play the full fledged game (in the Wii U case I would still need to bring the console). 

I am curious to know if I am unique, even with robust online environments my friends and I still tend to get together for multiplayer.  We like to make a day of it get a day off form our wives bring the monitors and PS3s together and play through a co-op campaign.  We will fart around with competitive multiplayer online, but we tend not to do anything requiring serious coordination across a headset.  Does anyone else go to this extent?  Maybe this could be another win for Vita or Wii U as not having to lug the monitor around and still play the full fledged game (in the Wii U case I would still need to bring the console). 

Back when i was stationed in Georgia me and my friends would all jump on my wireless router and play strictly lan games of black ops on our 360's. We would be screaming from are rooms to each other down the hall death threats and how much they suck for camping etc. It was a good time and I miss doing it. Since then, I have trouble playing games online because of the lack of interaction with other live people.

We do it here fairly often (PC), between 5-10 times per year.
It's also very common here in Sweden to have PC LAN's.
ALWAYS a ton of fun!

My friends and I exclusively play split-screen, because none of them have PS3s or XBox Live, and I don't have an XBox. So we're stuck.

And I tried to play Magicka locally with one of my friends the other day (so that I could dodge the fact that both Steam copies were mine), but I couldn't get the LAN thing to work, so I gave up and just bought my friend a copy, and we played online, despite being about 20 feet away from each other.

We're bringing it back!

Most of the people i know still live in tiny apartments so we don't get to do that too much. I do host fighting game get togethers at my house from time to time but its not quite the same thing. I would certainly like to do the lan thing more but space is always a problem.

LAN's are common here, my school even organizes one.

Not that console-heavy though, mostly PC.

Ive never done a lan party before, but I did suggest one to my roommate yesterday. So at least I don`t think your weird.

I've never done a LAN party. I never played multiplayer with more than four people until I got an Xbox for my tenth birthday and one year later I convinced my mom to get me Xbox live. Yea I was a twelve year old on Xbox Live, sue me.

Left 4 Dead 2 lans on xbox happens a lot with my friends. We set up projectors and have 4 v 4 matches.
 
I also want to start doing some Halo 2 lans.

We have Starcraft 2 Tournaments here where I live. Because SC2 does not allow LAN, it isn't technically called a LAN party, but it still captures the feeling.

We have LAN parties a couple of times a year. It's mostly small scale 4-10 people.

It's happening less often though, because with real life interfering it's hard to get a group of people together for a full weekend of gaming.

Always a lot of fun though, with some moderate drinking, snacks, and yelling at each other playing Left 4 Dead (The last two LAN parties were pretty much dedicated to L4D2 :) ).

Regarding your point about the Vita: Me, my brother and a friend already had DSs, so we took them out during a get together at my place once and everybody pretty much just played Mario Kart the rest of the evening. Next week everybody owned DSs :D

From then on we had a lot of impromptu 'LAN parties' playing Mario Kart. So it could work out if you have a group of like minded people.

We do it here fairly often (PC), between 5-10 times per year. It's also very common here in Sweden to have PC LAN's. ALWAYS a ton of fun!

My roommate typically hosts 360 LAN parties once a month or so.

Haven't had a LAN party since the 1st GTA on PC. Too much hassle these days when I can just go on Live. Kinda miss them tho. An I only have 1 good TV :)

@h0lgr said:

We do it here fairly often (PC), between 5-10 times per year. It's also very common here in Sweden to have PC LAN's. ALWAYS a ton of fun!

I've never had a LAN party, sounds awesome!

Do you have a spare room I can come and live in?

@h0lgr said:

We do it here fairly often (PC), between 5-10 times per year. It's also very common here in Sweden to have PC LAN's. ALWAYS a ton of fun!

I've never had a LAN party, sounds awesome!

Do you have a spare room I can come and live in?