Basic idea is to have the community all play the same game and then talk about it and our experiences.
I feel the games should be either very inexpensive or free. Even a demo or “Prologue” would be an easy way to make it free. In regards to selecting games we could use community engagement and vote in some fashion, or have a pool of games which everybody contributes to and one is selected at random.
This is just a random idea I had but wanted to throw it out there.
Thanks for listening!
Honestly I disagree with some comments here. I wouldn’t make a separate community. Just do it here. The community is small as-is, no need to splinter it down any further.
Also, I don’t think games would just have to be cheap, they’d also have to be short. That makes the barrier of entry a bit lower.
Make a community! I will be happy to hop on!
The the xbox game pass subreddit has been doing a similar thing for a while, just voting on what game on gamepass to play together and then discussions throughout the month. It’s neat.
There’s already a Gameclub on the official Patient Gamers Discord (https://discord.gg/patientgamers). Every month they choose a Long Game and a Short Game to discuss and play together. This month’s games are Hotel Dusk and Hitman: Blood Money.
If you’re on Backloggd, there’s also the unofficial Backloggd Discord Game of the Week, with a greater focus on weird/obscure short games.
Oh my gosh, this is great! Thanks for posting about this. I’ll scoot on over to their Discord.
That sounds pretty fun. I would absolutely be down for this.
I would love for that to be a thing!
I agree that it should be done in this community instead of creating a new one. If you need any help with anything, please let me know as I would be glad to help
This sounds fun
It’s a great idea - I don’t have much time for gaming anymore, but I’m sure others would be keen to participate!
If you’re interested, Patient Gamers discord has been running Game of the Month for a while now. Each month, two titles are picked via nominations & voting (people running it first choose a theme, be it genre, feel or whatever, then games are chosen), one long game, one short, then people can discuss.
Maybe then we just need to mirror that activity here.
Maybe whoever runs it could be convinced to post the game here each month too?
Would be fun to know all of us patient gamers are playing the same thing whether we prefer forum thread or group chat format for discussing it.
it would be nice if it were expanded/mirrored to here - i try to avoid discord for obvious reasons
Fan of the idea, thought of something like this for a couple of friends I have on Discord, and it is both fun and valuable, since the suggestions come in a more natural, discussion-like manner between a circle of passionate people, instead of the algorithmic approach of Steam and critic aggregates. Please do such a community and let’s get this started!
It’s a great idea. You should definitely create the community for it.
I’m all in with this idea! Maybe we could even make a Discord/Zoom call amongst all the participants and record it as a 1.5h/2h audio episode for those who want to listen the community’s thoughts while running, driving or whatever!
I’m so slipping in a hentai game to the pool
