The basics about the gaming evening

[GohanSSJ]

The Basics:

The basics to the gaming evening is quite simple. It's a bunch of guys (girls don't exist on the internet!) playing games for fun together over voice chat.
We will start around 7PM GMT every Sunday and will end whenever people are done.

To make sure as many people as possible can play we will look for games which are free or cheap, don't require top notch specs and are easy to get into. With that last part I mean that it won't require a lot of time or any time to join up with the rest of us. Obviously some games will offer playes that have been playing longer better items, specs etc etc, however we will stay clear of games that will require people to play for countless of hours before they can finally join up with the rest.
All game choices will be discussed before hand so that we all get the games we like.

So to sum up:

-Voice is required
-Games that can be played by most
-All about fun!
-Together we decide what we play


Voice chat:

Because voice chat not only makes it easier to play but also makes it so much more fun to interact with each other, everyone is required to use voice chat and actually have a mic. You are not required to talk a lot, but since this is a social thing, some communication is wanted. Of course if you got a off day or your mic is broken or whatever then it's no problem, but in general it's most fun if we all chat together.

In general we will keep the group in 1 room, however there might be cases where we could split the group to add some competition. Obviously this will be decided on the spot with those who are playing at that time.

We will be using Teamspeak 3, the IP is 66.85.132.174 and the PW is RZsunday


Games:

Since we want to make it accessible for most people, we will look for games with low requirements, free to play or cheap and easy to get into.
A list of games we play can be found here.
If you got a game that might be good to play, post in that topic with the info.

Obviously we understand that some people do want to play other games, this can range from MMORPG's to the latest shooters. This is fine, but get a group together on other days, obviously it's very welcome for anyone to organize this. To do this post a request in this topic (link will be added later) first so that we don't get cluttered with a lot of (well intentioned) ideas that might not end up being used.


Fun and rules:

I've mentioned it already, but I can't stretch this enough that this is all about fun. Now obviously it's hard to decide what fun is and what the rules should be, however I think most understand that if you are going to camp real bad in a shooter, or constantly trash talk others etc etc, then that won't be considered as fun.

As such there won't be any rules, but I'm sure we all know when we are being a jackass, I know I do, so when you are, try to remember that these are the people you are supposed to have fun with. Keep the hardcore competitive playing for those random jackasses. ;)


PS: You can join our Steamgroup here - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/RaGEZONE

[Steven]

For one of the games, me and some mates usually play "Draw my Thing" on OMGpop, it's free and usually really funny. The downpart is only 7 can play at a time. You could do a tournament or something? :)

[Tyler]

Steve, it's a great idea. Kinda reminds me of Shawn's favourite game, Haxball but I think we're thinking more along the lines of a more "hardcore" game so to speak. Something that has a much longer playtime than a half hour.