RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE: Are you gamer/retro/batshit enough to join the I Love Games Players Club?

So here's my proposition: I'd like to start an ILX board for those interested in participating in a gaming club, a'la Vintage Game Club... basically a game nerd version of a book club; a place where ILXors can play a game on their own as part of a collective while taking notes and looking for points of interest... then sitting down to discuss nuances, plot, trivia, preferences, hidden points of interest, etc. on board.

Five or ten people (or more!) simultaneously playing/replaying through classic or recent games on a timeline ("everybody get to level six by wednesday and meet back here to talk about it")sounds like a good time to me and quite a lot of you folks seem the type to be nutty enough to wanna join in!

I don't think this can/should fit on ILG; it needs some room to stretch out onto multiple threads to discuss music/gameplay/control issues/storyline/fave quotes/etc that would get clogged on a single thread. My thought was that it'd prolly be best as an invite only board to keep the signal to noise ratio well balanced and avoid trolling and general ass-flashing, but it's invite only in the same way Curtis Borad is; the walls are up to keep you in, not out.

Anyways, Tombot seemed open to trying this little skinner box on for size, so he got-r-done and we're a go to actually do this!

The first game we'll be playing is the newly-free-on-gametap classic Fallout 1, so if you have a PC or a Mac (which seems like a safe bet) you can join regardless of your current console generation ownership level.
Future games will run the gamut; I'd like to try drastically different genres and give folks an excuse to try on something they've never done: a JRPG or a shooter or a FPS or a text adventure or a SCUMM system or Peggle etc. etc.

The upshot is that if you'd like to take part in The Players Club, all you need to do is post your name on this thread saying so and we'll invite you in. I'd love to have a mix of people who've never played the game (and that includes me for the first one), people who played the Gzeus Chrono Trigger out of it and some "I think I played it in 97?" types too. Gamers from all countries are welcome. More details and rules and scheduling and other nonsense will be posted on the new board once we wrangle up the initial guild o' folks.

So who's in?

I would do this maybe, but I can only do 360 and PC games that don't require fancy systems.

I'm down. I've actually got Fallout 1 on the Mac, but otherwise games will have to either be Mac available or emulatable (or on the 360) for me to play along. But yeah, this sounds cool. Count me in.

Oh, and I've basically Gzeus Chrono Trigger'd Fallout. But I love the game. I could play it again.

i was totally into this, but if you go to gametap, fallout is not available for the mac os. :(

I want to be in on this, I like the sound of playing the shit out of an old game I've never played before. And I've only played Fallout very briefly before it crashed, that might have been Fallout 2 tho.

I'll join in

Sure, I'm up for it.

Lurkers, non-gametap folks (there are other ways to play of course), people who only have PC's or Macs etc are all welcome; nobody's getting graded on this. It's for fun!

I'm glad there's some interest; let me write an intro thread and a few starting study questions and I'll send out invites shortly.

Mordy, can you contact me off thread? If you've really Gzeus'd this game, I might want you to lead the conversation.

Incidentally, I'll need your email to invite you to the board, so if it's not listed on your profile, ilx mail it to me off thread and I'll put you on.

I love this idea!

For my actual login email though take the +ilx off of my email address that's in my profile.

mine is in my profile

Not exactly sure why you all feel like you need a private board for this. It's not like there's so much traffic in I Love Games that a monthly thread full of interesting discourse on just one game would get lost

any solution to how to get this for OS X?

Jeff: I'd like to make this more of a community than what ILG currently is and also stave off non-game woolgathering. The aim is to do 12 games a year. More discussion on this point will be made there.

Euler: I'll do some legwork and post some likely places to obtain Mac/PC versions on the board.

I'll send out invites by the weekend once I get a few posts/infrastructure built on the new board.

ok thanks!

thx on the osx quest dude. ill do some poking around tonight myself and see if i can turn anything up.

lol fallout 1 for mac is going for $80 on amazon used wtf

There are ways to get pirated versions, but I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to post those on ILX. So let's just say that some of the private torrent communities have OSx versions.

I think the general agreement is that we cannot use ILX to exchange pirated versions, as that is WRONG and also might cause some damage to our lovely host.
I think posting links to places where such material might exist (rather than a direct link to said file), especially in cutthroat cases like mac fallout, is okay...? Tom?

In any case, one is compelled to point out that typing "fallout mac" (not in quotes)into google gives you a few immediate download options on the first page, so it's not really that difficult to find.

Btw, forks, I messaged you my email addy.

dude anybody who can't google their way to mininova or whatever does not deserve an invite. nuff said.

xpost, not reading today.

if you can offer a few more tips on how to find it for os x, that would be great; I don't know how to get torrents, is that the only way?

Weird, I downloaded fallout 1 myself just the other day, and I've been getting around to starting it. So yeah, I guess I'd be up for this. Except that I agree with Jeff, I think it'd fit fine on ILG, and I'm very much down on the whole secret board idea in general, so I'm not sure I'd want to join one really.

i'd kind of like to look in on this w/o really joining... i think you should keep it here, personally. plus being googled only helps this kind of thing.

Yeah I don't see why we don't keep it here.

I'm in, i guess, as long as it doesn't cut into my Classic Doctor viewings

forks: I sent you a webmail with my address.

Euler: I hear Fallout for Windows works with Wine/Darwine emulation in Mac OS X. When we start this thing officially, I'll give it a shot, since I still have my old Windows CD-ROM. If it works out, you can buy it DRM-free from GOG.com for $6. (I actually just nabbed Fallout Tactics from there) There's also some unofficial patches out there fixing old bugs.

I agree that this board's low-traffic enough to work for this, but I'm amenable however you want to do it.

Add me to the VIP ILG please!

Although, as others have said it, if you decide to keep it on ILG, I'm cool with that too.

Funny, I just started Fallout 2 for the first time, just the other day. I haven't played the first one either though, so I don't mind switching over.

major opportunity missed in thread title:

http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Bad_Dudes_NES_ScreenShot3.jpg

that should have been mentioned in the debate last night

i haff obtained fallout for mac so i am in

man i never played tha first fallout so i am DOWN for this imo

"Senator Obama has said that if he were kidnapped by ninjas, he would, without preconditions, authorize Joe Biden to send two bad dudes to rescue him. You don't do that! You don't say that out loud!"

I got Fallout 1 off of Gametap but I don't know if I'll be able to give it a good play so thank you thread for telling me how to get Fallout for free but I'm not in for the club.

Okay, it's up and running! Took awhile because I was playing Bioshock all day...

If you haven't received an email (or would like to join in midway or for future games), please ILXmail me and I'll add you to the board list.

I've spent quite some time crafting an environment for us to talk about the game in; hopefully it'll prove to be time well spent and not me being OCD again. Just click the posts

Hope to see you there.

check yo ilxmail, forks!

ok yer in!

I sent you an email just now, forks.

can i join in an observer capacity

ZS, I need your email to add you in.
S1ocki, observers are welcome, just give me your email.

Ummm I think I might be intersted but I don't know how much time I can devote so mebbe I kibbitz too? leeeee (THAT IS 5 E's) at the geeeeemail.

cankles, still need your email and a few others. leee, you're in.

eattothebeat @ gmale

i replied to your email with "what the fuck is that i dont like that kind of music dude" before realizing a) oh yeah, fallout club b.) i was responding to the ilx mailbot

i'll email u my email now~

Ade, you're in. Slocki, it's not recognizing that email. Sure it's spelled right?

i didn't receive the cool email.

neither did I, still : (

Hey guys,
There's no email to get. Go to Boards and scroll down to ILG Players Club. You should be able to get in now.

Sorry about the confusion. I've never tried to run a board before and it shows.

forks can u add slytusk @ gm

could you also add vietgrove at gmail dot com please? Thnx

Fallout 1

"This game sux!"

Ste

Both added. Concise explanation, Ste.

oh right, so you need my ilx login, sorry thought it was an e-mail

skiplevels @ gmail.com

hey, i am one of the aforementioned lurkers. This sounds like fun (if i can manage to play regularly). Anyway, count me in. jb germain @ gmail (no spaces obviously)

You're both on.
Here's the basic starting spots:
Manifesto
Week One Discussion
Introduce Yourself

Hm. Not linking. Some glitchy stuff happening on that board; I'll put in a request on the mod center.

bump! so what's happening here ?

Meeting on Friday for first long form discussion. Are you on the board, Ste?

Can I get another invite? I think BT thought it was spam. Cheers.

what's your email?

...that you used to sign up for ILX with.

Aaah, sorry

mfirth✧✧✧@btinter✧✧✧.c✧✧

the missing bits -

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I'm mostly connect at gmail - could I get an invite?

You're all on. Just check the boards list and scroll down.
Let me know if you still can't see it.

When's the big discussion? And where are we supposed to have played to?

I was hoping you could tell us!
Three hours or so in, as far as you are now would be a good signpost. Big discussion is now through Sunday; I have family in town and may lag.
Mordy, can you kick it off?

Started it up. I'll post a few more "segments" with questions as the night wears on.

Thanks man!

This is now open to the public!

I'll write more on this eventually, I'm falling behind due to lots of travel this month.

Could I get an invite please? I've been meaning to replay Fallout for ages. Rmail is in my profile, just remove the obviously added ILX bit.

erm, that was meant to be email not Rmail obviously :/

It's open to the public! Just go to the boards and scroll down.

Score one for my awesome powers of reading comprehension.

can we do this again

maybe with something less fallout-like

Please

up for this

we could go through the console games poll winners? everybody have an emulator?

I'd be down for this just as much as before.
Sigh, I remember Gametap. SO OLD.