this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Patient Gamers

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A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe then we just need to mirror that activity here.

[–] TeaHands 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Zeus 2 points 1 year ago

it would be nice if it were expanded/mirrored to here - i try to avoid discord for obvious reasons