Given the recent post on videogames on this "videogame"/nerd culture sub and that we already have a book club going on, I was wondering how many people here would be down to do a videogame club in the same fashion. I also have more free time now that my main game is giving away free pride related shit that I don't want in my inventory lol.
We could give people a month to play through the videogame or have weekly discussions if the game is chapter-based. Feel free to list the videogames that you would want us to play and we can have another polling post to choose the most voted videogame.
And if the cost is an issue, there is always the high seas.
Possible Videogames:
- Dishonored 1
- Dead Space 1, 2
- KOTOR I, II
- Elder Ring
- Portal
- Half Life
- Witcher
I like the idea, but what about unusual / unique games? At least for some of the months.
I have just played through Simulacra 2 after quite loving the first one, and those are definitely unusual as a gaming experience. I also wanted to make a recommendation thread for such games, but have not gotten around to do so.
Hmm, unusual/unique games sounds pretty cool. I can do a rotation system where we vote for unique games in one rotation then normal games in another rotation.
I’d definitely be all for more vidyagame talk in general around here, the constant culture war shit gets a little old sometimes.
I’d be up to have a Mario golf league or something of that nature
So like a videogame scoreboard or a locals for KIA2?
I'd nominate the Ys series. If anything, the original era games (1 & 2) would need 1 week each, the Action Adol era (Felghana, Origin, and Napishtim) maybe 2-3 weeks each, and the Full Party era (Celceta, Seven, Dana, and Nox) would definitely need a month each.
I tried the first Ys and had to drop it when I got here: https://i.imgur.com/DI5yA8X.png
Looked for opinions online and discovered that it really is supposed to be as absurdly hard as I found it. Assuming I'm only the median in terms of skill (Sekiro reckons I'm a bit higher but w/e) you can expect maybe half of everyone to drop it here. So idk about that one as a group game.
In the middle of Ys 8 right now and liking it just fine though. Classic action JRPG, just what I needed.
Ys 1 demands a large amount of grinding and maxing out your equipment at every possible opportunity. Without these things it'd be a half hour long. Not that grinding is a valid replacement for progression, but the game is 34 years old. Gotta appreciate what's there in the context of its time.
I'd play most anything I have the hardware for unless it's something I straight up know I'd hate. I already have most of that list so would be all good. I'd love a probably 6th Dead Space playthrough. I'd even do The Last of Us as someone else suggested, albeit on PS3. I just got rid of my PS4 and that's not coming back.
Damn, there's no port for the PC and my current PS3 is broken. I should include in my poll next week what systems people currently have so we can get the most amount of people participating.
I support this as long as $60+ titles aren’t chosen.
/u/Pandelume Furi sounds gud ill vote that if a poll actually happens.
Always kinda liked the look of Disco Elysium, but never wanted to give the commies money. Thankfully someone either here or on c/Gaming showed me the world of goodies available at gog-games dot com.
Would be interesting to see what everyone's take is on that game.
It stinks. Now you know.
Saved me a few hours. I appreciate that. 👌🏻
I actually think DE would be one of the more interesting ideas for a game club. Having played it, I think it comes off as little more than a promising tech demo for a larger game set in the same world, which would have been better served by non-commie devs or at least ones who were better able to prevent their commie bias seeping in. But in those respects alone, it offers a fairly short play time and a lot of material for discussion and criticism.
It deals with a lot of political perspectives, and probably to the devs minds it does so even-handedly - to the extent that many tone-deaf normies just see it as a murder mystery, missing all the political notes - but in the end, to the discerning eye it's an example of how such types can't resist turning everything into a propaganda vehicle. All the same, there are several things to like about other aspects of the game (at least for fans of text-driven RPGs) and I reckon it might get a variety of interesting responses on here, even if negative.
That was my hope; playing something that we could discuss. There are tons of games on my list of shit I need to play, but this is one of the few that would be worthwhile in a book club-type setting.
I think it would be a hard sell on here precisely because few people want to fund or read sermons from woke progressives. But the tone of the game is such that I can envision users here disagreeing a lot over its faults and strengths, which would at least be interesting. The lack of any real gameplay beyond stat-picking and dialogue choices might be another hurdle for many, however.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It's chapter based, and pretty absurd with a lot of nice moments of normativity. No fags or agendas here.
I second this. I haven't played it, but a good friend always recommends it to me as a 10/10 game.
Agreed on Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Or any Yakuza game really. They are good manly games where u can sing cute jpop songs in karaoke or play slot car racing with little kids. Hyper masculine.
Witcher... half life... portal... gag.
Get some new off beat games and I'm in. Playing recycled shit is boring.
Well I'm open to suggestions lol
That's what we all want. I'm just kinda over the reruns ya know? No fault of yours tho because most new shit is ass.
For an old simple game I recommend Faster than Light on steam
I'd be down for kia2 coop game nights.
I've been wanting to play Pulsar Lost Colony with a good group. But roguelikess like Ember Knights or Hammerwatch are always fun. Any traditional coop games too.
Domina and corporate lifestyle simulator, both are made by the same dev.
I'm not participating in the book club. I would not participate in the game club, but if you were discussing a game that I played I would maybe get in and write something.
The problem would be that I played those example games years, decades ago....and my memory would be fucked. So unless I would preface my comment with such a notice...
TBH, I don't rate any games' writing very high on the "thought provoking" writing list. There's some comedy gems and highly entertaining gung-ho pulp fiction writing, but nothing that I feel would be worthwhile to dissect post-hoc like a book club.
There is one kind of gaming club I have often thought about doing though. There are a whole bunch of amazing old multiplayer games I know that are ghost towns now, and if you keep an eye out for sales you can grab them for just a couple of bucks fairly often. I'd love to have a club that picks one of these missed gems and as a mass revives the chosen game for a few hours every weekend or so.
But op-sec wise there's no way in hell I'm going to tie my Steam account to anything here, so alas I couldn't participate in that here but can suggest some obscure but good games.
Voting down the Witcher, CDPR is woke.
Should be something on Game Pass.
Are we looking to play something good or something fun to talk about? It might be fun to rip the shit out of propagandist crap if we can get it free.
Well the old Witcher games seem pretty based, even though the current company is woke af, sailing the high seas would be your best bet if you didn't want to support the company but still participate.
Honestly looking for something good, I already see enough propagandist bullshit irl lol
Should not be something on Game Pass.
I think it would be more difficult to break it down for discussion. Books have chapters, which offers a nice finite chunk of time, effort and content experienced. Vidya is a lot more free form in how it can be consumed.
The ending was so dumb.
It just turned into blasting every body and you the character having no choice in it.