Welcome ladies and gentlemen to our little video game club. It's like a book club, but for video games! The first game we are going to play is Fallout New Vegas
Basic Game Information:
Fallout New Vegas - 8.5 on GameSpot
Price on Steam - $9.99 $4.99 (Steam Sale) Link to page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/22380/
How To Partake and Questions:
How do I join in? All you have to do to participate is to play the game at least once a week and then write something about the game here on this thread.
What should I write about? Anything that's about the game! Here's a couple ideas of things you can write about:
1) A journal/diary that documents your experiences so far (in the first or third person if you so wish).
2) Simply talking about your progress so far in general
3) Your thoughts on the overall gameplay experience. Everything and anything from the AI, the shooting, the weapon models, weather effects,etc.
4) Taking one single aspect of the game, say plants in the environment for example, and analyzing that single thing and either criticizing or praising it.
5) Your thoughts on the stories, characters, quests, and other narrative experiences found in the game.
6) A short guide of how to do a quest or find a specific object. Either voluntary or if find some other user needs help.
There is a ton of content packed in Fallout New Vegas, so I doubt we will have difficulty in finding things to discuss.
I encourage all users to write as much as possible and as in much detail as possible. This is so that we can have more critical discussions about the game and so it can motivate us to post more. The other thing that this thread is meant for, other than getting through that Steam library, is to become smarter thinkers about video games through discussions with others.
What about spoilers? Since I imagine no one wants to see a page full of big black spoiler blocks, you just have to give a small warning that you will discuss something spoiler-y in your post. The only time when you have to leave a spoiler warning is when you see other users not as far along as you in the game.(You can tell be their posts)
Do I have to play at the same pace as everyone else? No. Though it would a nice if we can all play at the same pace, I know that is really unrealistic as everyone's schedule is different. So you can play as fast or as slow as you want. Just make sure to play once a week for a good amount of time (1-2 hours) and post up your writings here.
What about screenshots? You can post screenshots of your experience on here, but only a max of 3 screenshots for a post. If you want post up more, you can do that in the PC Game Screenshot Thread.
Can we play with Mods? Yes you can. Just make sure you indicate within your post when you are talking about the mods.
When do we start? We will officially start tomorrow, Monday December 22nd, 2014.
If you have more questions or ideas for making this a more exciting and better experience, feel free to ask me either through an @reply or a PM.
Have fun and game on :)
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Original Post
Since I imagine almost everyone on here has a huge Steam backlog and unsure where to start, I decided to steal a NeoGAF thread idea I once saw and try it here. So here is the basic concept: We all pick any one game that we all have (or can buy if we don't currently own), we play it at least once a week, then we come back to this thread and post up what our thoughts of the game are as we play it and discuss it with others. We would talk about things like what our personal progress is,what we think of mechanics and other gameplay parts,what we think of the story so far and where it might be going,etc. So we'll be talking critically about games. Basically like a book club, but for video games!
You don't have to constantly play the game (you can if you want), just once a week is good enough.
We are not making anything official yet, just pitching the idea to everyone. If a minimum of 10 users sign up for this idea, then we could start it off, but if not, then I guess I can try it in the other discussion pages.
The end-goal for this project is so you can complete more games in your Steam Library and also so you can critically think better about games by talking with other users on here.
If you are interested in participating in this thing, then say so below in a post. We will decide what game to play later after we are complete with sign ups.
Spread the word to other discussion pages and threads if your interested! The more better!
So, what do you think? Are you Interested?
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I have now added a sign up chart to show which users are interested in participating. If your interested in signing up, all you have to do is say so in a post below. If you don't want to participate anymore and want your name remove from the chart, reply in this thread or PM me and I will do so. We will decide what game to play later when we have everyone that wants to participate sign up.
Sign Ups
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| @zanelli |
| @nulld |
| @Arthas045 |
| @DefconRave |
| @pyro1245 |
| @thehig1 |
| @Jacanuk |
| @phbz |
| @Planeforger |
| @verbalfilth |
| @PredatorRules |
| @top_lel |
| @groowagon |
| @airshocker |
| @lawlessx |
| @SaintSatan |
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