New top notch Gaming cafe

Fracture

Hey all,
I was just wondering if any of you have been to the new gaming cafe?
Its down the alley on the left next to subway at the bottom of eyre square (i cant remember the name of the street).
If any of you are into games id check it out, i've been to loads of internet cafe's but this is by far the best i've been in. Its brand new and all the pc's are really high spec. Im lookin forward to gettin back to galway after christmas to get into it for a few hours.
Any of ya been there yet?

leninbenjamin

the new one on Foster street? heard about it off a few people alright.

Blood-Martyr

Yeah it does look really Impressive all right. Can't wait for some promotional nights or some all nighters

Steyr

Blood-Martyr wrote: »

Can't wait for some promotional nights or some all nighters

Clan used to do that.....The guy who owns Square eyes used to work in Clan, top guy too! dead on sound!

leninbenjamin

heh, kinda coincidental, but i might actually be heading down there tomorrow if it's open.

Fracture

leninbenjamin wrote: »

the new one on Foster street? heard about it off a few people alright.

Yeh thats it alright.

Blood-Martyr wrote:

Yeah it does look really Impressive all right. Can't wait for some promotional nights or some all nighters

I gave them my number, it would be cool to have an all nighter soon.

Steyer wrote:

Clan used to do that.....The guy who owns Square eyes used to work in Clan, top guy too! dead on sound!

Thats what its called! I couldnt remember His name is Ronan, he's dead on alright. I know him from a few nights in clan too.

Its amazing the number of gaming cafes there are - Clan, Wired, Quench (they have games, but think people rarely play em now), this one, and is the one in the Bridge Mills still open?

Tar.Aldarion

Which of these is the cheapest and do any have warcraft III?

I assume they all have css.

Steyr

Deleted User wrote: »

and is the one in the Bridge Mills still open?

Thats long gone Danny. As is the one from across the road at Cullinanes.

Fracture

Quench is gone aswell.
Port gaming is good, nice computers and big monitors.
Im not sure about the warcraft III Tar, its worth a look tho.

mike o

don't forget wired on domnick street

Blood-Martyr

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Which of these is the cheapest and do any have warcraft III?

I assume they all have css.

Nah , no way I know of has War3 but ofc they have CSS.

Steyr wrote: »

Clan used to do that.....The guy who owns Square eyes used to work in Clan, top guy too! dead on sound!

Yeah , Ronan is dead on

mike o wrote: »

don't forget wired on domnick street

Never been there but I've heard its just a CSS hole (I'm personally sick of it CoD4 and TF2 ftw!)

I was don't there today with some mates. There were doing some promotional games of CoD4 and CS ( I won the CoD4 one ) got myself a premium card too (cheaper rates and points for every euro spent for extra time).

Steyr

Yeah i think Wired has taken alot of Clan's business, i was in Clan about 3 Saturdays ago for C&C ZeroHour with 2 buddies and we were the only ones there!!:eek: Wired was packed to the rafters with CS and CSS gamers.

Gone are the days/nights of going to Clan at 6PM on a Saturday night and staying until 3 or 4 ( Or til when the kebab house was about to close ) playing CS and C&C and then onto Age Of Empires and then finishing the night with the best game i have ever played...Operation Flashpoint, and thats when there were 20 of us in there........Oh we had fun!:)

Steyr

Steyr wrote: »

Thats long gone Danny. As is the one from across the road at Cullinanes.

Seriously? That mustn't've lasted long so. It seems gaming cafes dont last very long in our city. And when did Quench stop doing 'em?

leninbenjamin

Blood-Martyr wrote: »

Never been there but I've heard its just a CSS hole (I'm personally sick of it CoD4 and TF2 ftw!)

I ended up in there today actually, and at one stage practically everyone in there was in the same CoD4 server. it was pretty good actually, until by the end some guy named mike o logged on and started raping me.

couldn't get TF2 going though, Steam decided it would take a crap when we tried to run it.

Blood-Martyr

Well I reckon a date needs to be made for some good olde Shooting gaming fun in square eyes for us (the less CS the better :P)

Steyr

:DHow about a big ol game of Flashpoint? Using the Irish Army Camo of Course!!

Tar.Aldarion

Great games.

Galway lan?
Nah, would never work!

DEmeant0r

Glan Ftw!

mike o

leninbenjamin wrote: »

it was pretty good actually, until by the end some guy named mike o logged on and started raping me.

my bad,it just your so shootable

It seems that with all of it apparent downfalls and whatnot, Clan is the only Gaming cafe that has weathered the storm, as it were.

Fenster

Is it Martin from Clan who's running it? Christ, I remember the all-nighters we had when they were still out past the Terryland Dunnes. Nothing like getting off work at 9 on Friday, playing until 7 and then going back into work before I did it all again.

/nostalgic glow

A double pity was that I used be on Prospect Hill before I moved to the desert. I need to find out if Vegas has any quality gaming cafes.

SimpleSam06

Deleted User wrote: »

It seems that with all of it apparent downfalls and whatnot, Clan is the only Gaming cafe that has weathered the storm, as it were.

The Clan shop is run by a family and has been for decades now, they have no real expenses besides staff and a few bits and bobs. Whatever sort of a profit it turns they can afford to keep it open.

Fenster wrote: »

Is it Martin from Clan who's running it?

Ronan McDonagh is the man responsible I think, nice guy all round in my experience. More power to him and I hope it goes well. He needs to get advertising that place though, I never knew it was there until I read this thread, and neither did my gaming addicted brothers! It would be a shame for it to join the packed ranks of closed internet cafes in Galway.

Tar.Aldarion

Deleted User wrote: »

It seems that with all of it apparent downfalls and whatnot, Clan is the only Gaming cafe that has weathered the storm, as it were.

It's far too expensive for me to step foot in there though...

Fracture

Clan are selling all there pc's now, there getting a new load of systems in, and there is word of them doing up the garage part at the back aswell.

BrokenArrows

just spent a few hours in there. Very nice place but far too expensive in my opinion. Maybe they will cut their costs after being open for a while.

Its a very big place and i dont see them every getting a full house with those prices.

Although its the only viable option these days.

Clan has gone to ****. The last time i was there the games kept crashing. Tried many pc's and game selection was not up to date.

The place across the road from clan is really cramped but they have nice systems.

The prices dont seem that bad once you get the premium card. Ends up at 5 per hour in that stage.

I guess they are just trying to recoup as much money as quick as possible.

Steyr

Fracture wrote: »

Clan are selling all there pc's now, there getting a new load of systems in, and there is word of them doing up the garage part at the back aswell.

Yes Enda told me that too, i may ask him for one..:) And Ronan is a real sound guy, the AD's are out there in the Advertiser etc and he sends us text messages almost daily etc.

Fracture

Steyr wrote: »

Yes Enda told me that too, i may ask him for one..:) And Ronan is a real sound guy, the AD's are out there in the Advertiser etc and he sends us text messages almost daily etc.

Thats not good news! I want one but i cant afford it until my wages come through next week.

awhir

Steyr wrote: »

Yes Enda told me that too, i may ask him for one..:) And Ronan is a real sound guy, the AD's are out there in the Advertiser etc and he sends us text messages almost daily etc.

how much for the systems any idea's ?

Steyr

He didnt mention but i woudnt hazard a guess.

DRakE

I was in there couple days ago and it's absolutely amazing. so so so impressive, its unlike anywhere else i've ever been.

though, its expensive enough (15e for 2 hours) and the french dude at the counter has very very french english and he's hard to understand

Fracture

awhir wrote: »

how much for the systems any idea's ?

They are 240 euro for the system(inc mouse & keyboard) or 260 inc monitor.
Getting myself one tomorrow

gufcfan

I thought ronan's place was way too expensive.

There is a lan place in carraroe with savage systems and if you have an account, 20 quid gets you 7hrs 45mins. 20 wouldn't even get you 3 in square eyes.

having said that, the setup in there is impressive, but im not prepared to fork out what theyre askin. that whole 75 euro premium thing seemed a bit of the wall...

TerrorFirmer

Fracture wrote: »

They are 240 euro for the system(inc mouse & keyboard) or 260 inc monitor.
Getting myself one tomorrow

You might think that's a good deal but it probably isn't. I was in Clan a few times, and most of the PC's are crap. Several of them could only run Call of Duty 2 on low-mid settings - and thats a game that even a 90 euro card like a 7600Gt can run at high effortlessly, so it goes to show the hardware that must have been in some of those machines. And this was after the 'upgrade', at the time. Of course, some of the PC's were better, but there's always the danger you could end up with an ancient Pentium 4 and a crap graphics card for 260....

It's the only gaming cafe I know that half the machines could run a game at decent settings and the rest at low-med settings.....hardly far on all customers paying the same price. Not to mention visual quality aside, it makes it much harder to play well on a machine where you can only see a bunch of messy pixels in the distance....is it a person? Or is it a bush? etc...

Steyr

gufcfan wrote: »

There is a lan place in carraroe

Ok you should have stopped at the word Carraroe:p:D:p

The price decreases as every hour passes in Square eyes im told.

wet-paint

Anyone remember Future Zone?

nobodythere

Is anyone up for a boards.ie gaming session some time?

DRakE

was in playing cod4 again yesterday for a bit...
got my premium member card for €15 (supposed to be €40)

ronan's doing a deal where people who he knew went to clan a good bit get a decent rate on the card. i think its 5e per hour with the premium card and after 4 hrs its 3e an hour.

oh and you get 2cents back on every euro you spend.. not much but at least its something

DRakE

also yeah it'd be interesting to see what a lan from 10pm to say 4am would be like

Caliden

Was in there with Drake yesterday and the setup was awesome. Cod4 on high settings on a 24" flat screen is some sight

po0k

Drake - hold on to that thought.
Thar be wombles in the pipeline, huffin the gas.

TerrorFirmer

I'd definitely string along for some lan-age. I'd say the GF would too.

Fracture

HavoK wrote: »

You might think that's a good deal but it probably isn't. I was in Clan a few times, and most of the PC's are crap. Several of them could only run Call of Duty 2 on low-mid settings - and thats a game that even a 90 euro card like a 7600Gt can run at high effortlessly, so it goes to show the hardware that must have been in some of those machines. And this was after the 'upgrade', at the time. Of course, some of the PC's were better, but there's always the danger you could end up with an ancient Pentium 4 and a crap graphics card for 260....

It's the only gaming cafe I know that half the machines could run a game at decent settings and the rest at low-med settings.....hardly far on all customers paying the same price. Not to mention visual quality aside, it makes it much harder to play well on a machine where you can only see a bunch of messy pixels in the distance....is it a person? Or is it a bush? etc...

True,
I wanted a particular machine in there but when i went to get it i was told that there was a deposit on it, aswell as all the other good machines. I had to settle for one of the crapper ones.
Although he did clean the machine out, reformat it and deleted everything, it is working really well and im very happy with it. Now for some custom upgrades of my own!

grasshopa wrote:

Is anyone up for a boards.ie gaming session some time?

Thats a great idea, id be up for that. Id need to know at least a week before hand tho, i work nights and its hard for me to attend any lan unless i can book that night off work a week or 2 before it happens.

Steyr

Im game for some War!:D

gufcfan

Steyr wrote: »

The price decreases as every hour passes in Square eyes im told.

its 7, then 6, then 5, then 5, then 5, then 5, then 5...

I still think that is too expensive. Personally i dont care so much, but for their own sake, and keeping the business going after the initial novelty wears off for some people, i think the price point they chose was a little high.

I do understand that he has to pay all his staff and finance all the PC's in there.

I dont like the whole speaker idea though. If im in there again ill have to remember headphones coz its buts in there with everyone with their speakers turned up.

Fracture

So if i organised a night and tried to get a deal for the night would anyone here be interested in a lockin? Id try and gat maybe a lock in for 30 euro a head if i can.

Blood-Martyr

I'd deffo be intrested and I could probably convince a few more too. It will all depend on the day tho ...

Sniipe

I'd be up for a bout...

nobodythere

6 hours is a bit hardcore for me.

Still pretty expensive, the one across the road from clan is €7 for 2 hours.

OK everyone tell me some days and times that suits and I'll throw up a poll. I can bring about 4 more people also, in case of disaster

TerrorFirmer

So what kind of games would be on? I really don't like Team Fortress 2, or Counter Strike Source, probably the 2 most popular online games...ever.

I do play Battlefield, Call of Duty 1/2/4, etc...

Blood-Martyr

Well I personally can't stand CCS anymore but I still love TF2 ( although without a big groups its not as fun) .

Hopefully if Ronan listened to me the last day , we could get a game of this going : http://www.moddb.com/mods/4506/goldeneye-source

Bring on GOLDENEYE!!!