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'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.