In the vein of our much coveted Watch-A-Longs, I’m debating starting a CHUD monthly gaming club. In an attempt to gauge interest, what form should such a thing take?
Option A: We pick a multiplayer title and play the shit out of it as a group, or even better as a clan. We pick a night, we pick a game/console(s) for that night, and we clean house. Old Republic seems like it’d be a likely, easy, and AWESOME target for this.
Option B: We do it look an actual book club. We pick a title (likely an older, well-respected/little-played, or at least interesting one, that we can put on the back burner to an extent), play to a certain point, each week, discuss on the boards, an article might accompany. Something like Alan Wake that was the source of many a differing opinion, would be great for this.
I think we could do both, but with alternating weeks for MP and SP/Co-Op/ what not. However I voted for book club style just because it’d likely be easier on everyones schedules.
I went with Option B. For one, I’m just not that big a fan of multi-player. And really, that sort of thing seems like it could be organized at any time, without the impetus of a “club”.
I would also like to add a suggestion, that we should only do recent games. And it should be put up to a vote as to which game we play. Or maybe which style of game we play at least. IDK i’m on a cafffene rush
Everything picked would be current gen, but I dont wanna limit us as to be too recent. One of the titles batting around in my head as an option is the original Condemned, which is still sitting unplayed on my shelf.
AThe multiplayer thing is a good idea and I’d be willing to participate, but I 'd prefer option B.
I don’t have a dedicated gaming PC so I’d be stuck with games that I could play off of my macbook pro. I do have Windows 7 installed through bootcamp so it’s not really a compatibility issue. I just vastly prefer playing games with a controller rather than the keyboard, and a lot of PC games don’t have controller support built in.
But if we’re talking about multiplayer console games I’m in.
I don’t think we should keep it too recent, just to avoid this hitting our budgets too hard.
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I’d be willing to check out Condemned. I still hear it being referenced when people are talking about games that perfected First Person melee combat.
Justin, as you know, I’m good for both, I think it’d be great to connect more with our great community here at Chud.
I think it’s possible to do both as separate things, for sure. Game Club and Community Playdates, etc. I definitely won’t be partaking in The Old Republic, as I don’t have it, probably won’t ever get it, lol.
Games I’d like to offer up for Game Club:
Condemned
Kane and Lynch: Dog Days (seriously, my favorite gaming experience of 2011, though the game came out in 2010, I only got to it this past year, but I’m dying to play through it again)
Bayonetta
Gears of War 3
Bastion (gotta rep my indie love somehow)
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
Calling (Wii)
Games I’m always down for, multiplayer-wise (XBLA):
Halo: Reach/Anniversary
Battlefield 3
Gotham City Impostors (so much fun)
Call of Duty 3 (not Modern Warfare) (community is thriving)
The PC side of things is out for me since I have a laptop that can barely play Civ4, but on the xbox side of things I’m all over it. I selected option B, only because it’s a bit hard to tee anything up with you guys when time zones are so disparate.
As far as older games we can compare notes on, I’m going to be incredibly selfish and nominate the original The Darkness, as I have it and am playing it currently. It might also be nice to revisit for many since the sequel is getting so much attention right now.
I went with B, but I wouldnt mind some multiplayer events from time to time; one of the best multiplayer experiences ive had was a CHUD Cod:MW match were we played in the smallest map with the max number of players; life expectancy after respawing was 10 to 15 seconds top, and it was a glorious frag fest.
Some Old Republic would be nice, since I need to start playing that one in multiplayer or do the flashpoints.
On the xbox side,Space Marine would be nice; game has a really nice, fun and easy to pick and play team based multiplayer; Red Faction: Guerilla is a blast online too.
If everyone had it I’d say RDR for multiplayer 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. Getting a posse of film geeks together to ride the plains is some serious, serious wish-fullfilling fun.
I’m on the PS3, and I’ve never been able to successfully connect with a friend on RDR. So frustrating. I don’t know what the deal is. I can join some random game just fine. Same thing happens with Uncharted 3.
It never seems to be a problem for racing games like Burnout Paradise, Blur, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.