Comment on I wish videogame culture would take more cues from readers
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 days ago
Treating games like books in a book club - where you play through something for the first time alongside a friend who’s also playing through it for the first time, and discuss it as you go, is a lot of fun and often leads to a greater insight into the storyline or mechanics or whatever else than you’d have gotten alone.
In that vein is a podcast that I listen to: New Game Plus. They pick one retro (15+ years old) game and play it for a week and then discuss at the end of the week.
You can find them on their official site, over at YouTube or whichever podcast app you use.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 days ago
Totally. I wish I had some friends to get that experience more often. Closest I’ve been have been online discourse when playing certain games around launch, like Blue Prince, E33 and Elden Ring.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 days ago
I especially love it with puzzle games like Blue Prince, where it’s less about sharing solutions and more about sharing theories and ideas. “Hey, maybe if we do X…” “Oh, that’s a neat idea - oh, wow, I bet if we used Y there it’d do Z…” type discussions. You get those neat eureka moments of shared inspiration riffing off of each other.