LAN <> Console gaming.

So next weekend my mate's wife is away for the weekend. What better infact than to get us round, play some games and have a drink?

Well, for a start I love LANs, it's the main reason I have a Laptop instead of a Desktop. They're a good laugh and I love them.

But, this won't be a LAN, people won't be bring PCs, what we'll end up doing is playing on an XBox, and what better to play than Halo 3?

Well, after playing CoD4 I kinda started to like First Person Shooters, i'd gone off them somewhat after Goldeneye (not because of Goldeneye) when I started to move into PC gaming instead of Console Gaming. Playing Doom and Quake and I got bored easily, the basis of the game being to get the best gun and run around with your finger on the trigger. I tried a few different FPS games on the PC, but wasn't impressed with many of them. CoD4 on the other hand seemed to involve skill and tactics behind learning how to strafe, and I really liked it.

I bought TF2 and L4D (on the same day infact) and have never looked back at these older games.

Then I started going to my friends house, and we'd occasionally play on the Xbox, and it seemed all the stuff was just like the old games I remember. On top of this, I'd been playing with a mouse so often, that I became extremely annoyed with the joypad, it's a bugger to aim with after you've used the precise mouse.

I've never played Halo3, but I'll not like the aiming (since it's not on the PC) and no doubt it'll be picking up a machine gun and firing lots. No doubt it'll be like playing a Heavy on TF2, who runs like a scout, doesn't have a medic, and doesn't need to worry about spys, and no doubt it'll be as appealing as a version of TF2 where everyone is playing that.

I think i'll take my laptop anywhere, after a couple of hours I could play TF2 or whatever, assuming of course I can connect to his network. Console heavy people tend not to be overly helpful with connecting to their network...