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 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.