Competitive Gaming

GodlikeRed

Anyone know of any gaming socs in TCD?

dog_pig

I think I saw something about a gaming society; however I think it may be more based around console gaming and the like.

I' d say it'd be hard from anyone living on campus/halls to partake in competitive gaming with the steam ports etc. blocked

Jonathan

There is du gamers. Dunno what they do tho tbh.

RexMundi

I'm fairly certain that DU Gamers are more card, board and roleplaying based than console games.

Boston

competitive gaming, when you absolutely can be bothered putting you post in context.

There is no console gaming society in trinity.

Craguls

http://www.sfsoc.com/index.php?id=34

Not particularly extensive but it seems this is it. Maybe suggest to them to expand the games section?
No PS3:(

Jonathan

Craguls wrote: »

http://www.sfsoc.com/index.php?id=34

Not particularly extensive but it seems this is it. Maybe suggest to them to expand the games section?
No PS3:(

More of a catch all nerdsoc than a console gaming soc.

Craguls

Jonathan wrote: »

More of a catch all nerdsoc than a console gaming soc.

True I imagine that any attempts to start a console gaming soc would be rejected or merged with sci fi though right?

skregs

I thought this was about a gambling society.
Competitive gaming like monopoly for money? Or Gears of War for money?

Or I am completely up the wrong tree here?

Sabre0001

skregs wrote: »

I thought this was about a gambling society.
Competitive gaming like monopoly for money? Or Gears of War for money?

Or I am completely up the wrong tree here?

That would be the one.

Boston

For money? Can't see the CSC liking that.

Whatever happened to the Card Society?

boblong

Maybe we should make a TCD Steam group. I'll do the honours if you want.

Jonathan

Fire ahead. Post up a link after.

boblong

*Deleted lol*
Let me know if you want to be an admin or an officer.

PurpleFistMixer

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tcd

^^^^ There is already a group. : p

boblong

Oh. Never mind. I'll delete the new one then.

Peleus

i'd love to join a gamers society, the only ones on campus are du gamers and scifi soc. Gamers just play jenga and other board games and sci fi just show movies and play super smash brothers in their society room.

i remember going into them with a few friends last year to find them all in the corner huddled around their N64. They do give out a lot of free beer and run assasin which is pretty cool.

a 360/ps3 room would be great for playing a bit of COD4 between lectures but I cant see the college providing funding for all the consoles/tvs let alone finding a room for it.

a mate of mine went to CSC last year to try set up a society and they said that there were already too many and that the college couldt afford to fund any new societies. Not sure if this is still the case but i wouldnt be surprised if it is.

Ruined_Silver

I have a 360 and a ps3 in my house & play online a bit. But when I do, I friggin' hate losing! lol. So a competitive gaming soc would be right up my street!
The Science Fiction Society looks like the closest we've got to it though....

Steve Higginson

Scifi does have a Playstation 3 now, the website just hasn't been updated.

Dongasaurus

Hey

The Computer Science society (DUCSS) is organising an intervarsity tournament with other dublin based colleges. There's gonna be a small one in a few days but seeing how TCD isn't back in college we're gonna miss it.

Come up to the stand during freshers week and we'll talk.

Groinshot

Pc/ ps3 or what?
I play CSS and TF2

Dongasaurus

From the talk of the other societies it seem slike mixed. There'll be some 360 games but I think it's mainly PC (SC, CSS, TF2, Q3)

Groinshot

Dongasaurus wrote: »

From the talk of the other societies it seem slike mixed. There'll be some 360 games but I think it's mainly PC (SC, CSS, TF2, Q3)

coolcool, Ill see what the craic is, im not the best but always up for a laugh on it at least

Ruined_Silver

I'm not really into PC stuff tbh.. D'you know what console games will be played??

spektr

CS 1.6 5x5 lan competition in hamilton computer rooms ftw!

Fedule

The basic breakdown is:

CCGs/RPGs - Gamers
PC Games - Netsoc
Consoles - Sci Fi Soc

I happen to be the Games Librarian (or, my much cooler title is Gamesmaster) for SFSoc this year, so if enough people bug me for us to get a particular game that I haven't second guessed yet I can suggest we buy it. Our room is open for people dropping in most of the time, and if (majority of) people in the room want to play games, games will be played. We also have regular tournaments and less regular freeplays, depending on how compellingly I can argue for us to buy certain games.

Craguls

Any chance of getting a PS3 then since the price dropped?

Fedule

We have a PS3. (pre price drop though). Sadly, however, it doesn't see much use or demand on account of a general lack of offline, 4P friendly games. But like I said, I'm all ears for recommendations, especially for stuff we can run tournaments and freeplays on.

gearoidof

The main reason for a lack of comp gamers is that it's a very grey area, there's no official society for it, sci fi soc netsoc, ducss and gamers all have run comp gaming events.

So, the CSC sees that there are already societies with an interest in it, and they think one of these societies should take the mantle, so setting up a new society seems like a waste of money to them.

Señor Juárez

It is completely pointless trying to set up a new society for something which is already catered for. Doing so would only be for the sake of a more obvious name, anyone wanting to do gamey stuff in college can just get involved in SciFi, DUCSS, Netsoc, Gamers, whatever.

Hell, even the LGBT are doing the odd Wii tournament these days.

Dante

spektr wrote: »

CS 1.6 5x5 lan competition in hamilton computer rooms ftw!

Yes please.

Groinshot

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

Yes please.

+1

not a BYO jobby though, my laptop wont run CS. my desktop is staying at home

Jonathan

Groinshot wrote: »

+1

not a BYO jobby though, my laptop wont run CS. my desktop is staying at home

So who is going to be supplying these computers?

Groinshot

in the computer room? :S

gearoidof

then who's gonna install the programme with their administrative priveleges...
ofc it would be a BYO job

Jonathan

gearoidof wrote: »

then who's gonna install the programme with their administrative priveleges...
ofc it would be a BYO job

Never mind that Ger, good luck trying to run anything on integrated graphics

Dongasaurus

Hi guys,

If theres genuine interest in getting a game going ducss would be happy to donate the society room (In the Hamilton building) for a good gaming session during freshers week.

We've got 3 very good machines and one alright one so enough for 2v2 at least and LOADS of space for laptops.

papu

Dongasaurus wrote: »

Hi guys,

If theres genuine interest in getting a game going ducss would be happy to donate the society room (In the Hamilton building) for a good gaming session during freshers week.

We've got 3 very good machines and one alright one so enough for 2v2 at least and LOADS of space for laptops.

Savage , Hopefully see ye all around , got my lappy so all's good in the hood

d-a-s-h

Just wondering did anyone end up joining the sfsoc in the end just to check? If so was it any good in the end?

nDakota

1.6??!! are we 30years old now? css all the way!

Dante

nDakota wrote: »

1.6??!! are we 30years old now? css all the way!

1.6 gameplay shíts all over css gameplay....Only thing better about source is the graphics. FACT! God mark, I thought you woulda known this.

Ruined_Silver

d-a-s-h wrote: »

Just wondering did anyone end up joining the sfsoc in the end just to check? If so was it any good in the end?

I was wondering the same thing myself! I never joined it. But I was told they'd be getting Modern Warfare 2 and having some sort of an intervarsities league with Halo being played?

Fedule

Ruined_Silver wrote: »

I was wondering the same thing myself! I never joined it. But I was told they'd be getting Modern Warfare 2 and having some sort of an intervarsities league with Halo being played?

Modern Warfare 2: Very true, damn right we're getting that. We also recently got Halo ODST, and every now and then we have 8-player system link using its Halo 3 disk and our copy of Halo 3.

Intervarsities: You heard right, but you heard wrong. This is actually going to involve FIFA '10 and is being run by EA in cooperation with societies in each university. This was originally going to happen yesterday but the organizers (not EA themselves, but a 3rd party) messed up and now it's on next Tuesday.

On top of that, we'll be getting the Beatles: Rock Band "soon". And if you show up and get enough people to yell, we're always open to suggestions for games to buy.

Sir Ophiuchus

Gamers has LAN nights occasionally, which might whet your computer-gaming appetites. A bunch of us head out to a LAN centre (currently GametheWorld on Grafton Street, or Spiderlan on O'Connell Street if we're feeling cheap), book it for overnight, and play all night.

Sign up for the mailing list and find out when we have the next one.

nDakota

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

1.6 gameplay shíts all over css gameplay....Only thing better about source is the graphics. FACT! God mark, I thought you woulda known this.

better graphics, with the same game play and more competition

Tar.Aldarion

Gameplay is different, I prefer it though. 1.6 is awesome as well, but I've moved on...
It'sdead here/uk.

Anyway, I play css competitively, would love to see a games thing going on.