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   07-22-2009, 6:20 PM
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Unofficial Gamerparents Play Date/Meet & Greet Thread

Welcome to the official/unofficial Gamerparents monthly (hopefully) gaming night! This is a thread created for two specific purposes. First and foremost for fellow Gamerparents to game together with people more their ages and possibly have things in common with. Second, and just as important to serve as a meet and greet for new and old Gamerparents.

 

I know that, as a parent myself, making commitments like this is hard. Having a family means that schedules can change most often with very short notice. Not to mentioned the other things that can come up with family. So, if you can make it that would be great. If you cannot, don’t worry about it.

 

The way this works is simple. We get together once a month on a set day, it will be posted below. In the two weeks starting from the day after the game night is when we start nominating games for the next time. The only criteria are that the game has co-op (4 or more players) or/and multiplayer capability. After that period of time passes the game that wins the vote for that month will be posted with a reminder of said day, date and time. In the two weeks after voting is when you sign up if you’re interesting in playing for that night and game. That period of time will also be used to determine how many are interested in playing and how many room leaders will be needed. The only other thing to consider is that a game cannot be nominated for a consecutive month if that game was just played. That way we can assure that we have some variety. Any game is up for grabs. Don’t worry if it’s popular or not or if a lot of people have it or not. This is about bringing many people of differing backgrounds together to game. There are plenty of games that will be played that I don’t have but may consider renting it for that specific play date. Maybe you should too as it will give you an excuse to try a game that you don’t own. Plus it will be fun.

 

The following is a friendly reminder. The COC will be enforced both in this thread and in the game sessions. Moderators and ambassadors will check this thread (just like other threads in these forums) and may even be involved in the gaming from time to time (probably more than you realize). So no flaming, trolling, phishing or spamming in these threads. No abusive language, disruptive behavior or anything inappropriate of any nature. You will be reported and possibly banned. Again these threads are to vote for games to play, find out the game being played and to meet and greet. Sorry about the wall of words, but I wanted all bases covered here. Please enjoy.


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   07-22-2009, 6:21 PM
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Here's an example: If a game like Halo 3 is nominated each room has control and will be set ahead of time as to what type of game is played. For instance one room leader will lead 16-player co-op on legendary (for you achievement hunters out there). The other room leader will do the social slayer/multi-player room. If it’s a game like Gears of War 2, one leader for horde and one leader for multi-player map. Similarly for other games if possible.  In those cases I will try to post who will lead what room and what they will be doing so that people can get in the room they want. We may even do a revolving room where people can go from one game type (as mentioned in original post) to another.

 


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   07-22-2009, 6:24 PM
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The first date is going to be on Friday, September 11, 2009. 9:00PM Central time. 10:00PM Eastern.

I wanted to give this some time to gather speed. Also, with football season about to start I thought it best to consider all of those fantasy football players as well.

Let the game nominating began.
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   07-22-2009, 6:32 PM
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Since I'm starting this thing I'll put up the first nomination.

Halo 3
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   07-22-2009, 6:53 PM
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Sounds good Oldtimer001
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   07-22-2009, 7:00 PM
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Halo 3 huh? I would have never imagined anyone nominating that one. Indifferent [:|]




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   07-22-2009, 7:03 PM
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 Celidus wrote:
Halo 3 huh? I would have never imagined anyone nominating that one.



Just trying to pick something popular to start. But please, nominate any game that fits the criteria I mentioned earlier (4 or more co-op/multi-player). You never no, it might win and get played.
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   07-22-2009, 7:06 PM
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Call of Duty world at war
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   07-22-2009, 7:49 PM
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Actually, since it is Sept. 11, I think COD4 would be more fitting.
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   07-22-2009, 8:27 PM
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Put me down for that COD4 vote.
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   07-22-2009, 9:08 PM
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 CS BlackGhost wrote:
Actually, since it is Sept. 11, I think COD4 would be more fitting.

You know, it didn't even click. Maybe a COD game would be best. Since it's September 11 I'm changing my vote to World at War (only because we can do both co-op rooms, multi-player rooms and zombie rooms) After all, we all know that the war against zombies rages on. Wink [;)]
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   07-23-2009, 1:25 AM
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Put me down for that COD4 vote.
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   07-23-2009, 1:38 AM
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Put me down for COD4 as well.

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   07-23-2009, 4:34 AM
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Zombies all the way!!! COD: WAW

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   07-23-2009, 2:19 PM
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I'll go with COD-WAW as well.

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   07-23-2009, 2:23 PM
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OK, so far we have:

Halo 3 - 0 (cuz oldtimer changed his mind Stick out tongue [:P])
COD4 - 4
COD WaW - 4

Looks like it's a tie so far.  Hey oldtimer, how long were you planning on having the voting/nominating go on for?
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   07-23-2009, 3:41 PM
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Normally we'll have about 4 1/2 weeks between games. So I was thinking 2 weeks in those cases for voting. But, in this case, we have almost 7 weeks time what with peoples kids about to start school, football season and other assorted things. We can let this run its course for a couple more weeks, maybe a full four weeks since we have so much time. However if the vote starts getting real lopsided before then I'll just say voting is over and try to start to get an idea of the commitments.

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Just a reminder to everyone, if a game gets nominated and played it will not be up for vote next month. That way we insure some variety in our game together experience. In fact, I'm thinking of taking it out of the rotation for three months to really insure variety. Besides, if you meet some cool gamerparents playing a particular game you can always get together with them anytime for said particular game. Which is one of the points of this event.
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   07-23-2009, 3:45 PM
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Well then, on that note, I foward nominate L4D for October.  Yes [Y]
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   07-23-2009, 3:46 PM
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Hmm I have both games.. but prefer playing COD4 with mature gamers.. if this was a thread for anyone and any age I would have chosen WAW.

So COD4 takes my vote :-)

P.S. By the way how do we all join a specific game/server? Do we add to friend list or what? Just for future reference. Thanks.
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   07-23-2009, 3:50 PM
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 MarkAK34 wrote:
Hmm I have both games.. but prefer playing COD4 with mature gamers.. if this was a thread for anyone and any age I would have chosen WAW.

So COD4 takes my vote :-)

Young people are allowed as long as they understand that the CoC will be in play both here in the thread and during game play. So vote if you're interested.
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   07-23-2009, 4:23 PM
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I'd be up for whatever, I will have my box back by then.  I can do Halo 3 or CoD4, and I can probably do World at War as long as I know far enough ahead of time (so I can have my wife rent it from BB).  Since I'm a fiend, I'll throw a vote for Halo 3.

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   07-23-2009, 4:27 PM
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I would like to get a game of UNO going sometime. I'm not very good at FPS games.
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   07-23-2009, 4:53 PM
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^^^ UNO is a fantastic social game as you can jibber jabber while hitting the A button pretty easily.  Good choice! I agree that UNO should hit the list sometime.  But I'm still sticking to my COD4 vote for this first run.
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   07-23-2009, 7:46 PM
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Yeah, UNO's a good "get to know me" game.

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   07-23-2009, 8:31 PM
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 Geargarious wrote:
Yeah, UNO's a good "get to know me" game.

Agreed. It has one vote so far. If it doesn't win this month, put it up again next month. I think games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour would be fun to nominate as well.
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   07-23-2009, 9:07 PM
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One other point to make. Hold off on sending FR's for right now. As we get closer and determine how many people are interested that will determine how many room leaders will be needed. At that point those GT's will be listed and you can choose which room leader you want to game with. Also, after that night, room leaders will clear all GT (added for that event) to ensure they have space for the next event if needed. It will be their choice to keep someone on or not. So nobody take it personal if you are knocked off their FL right after the event. I, personally, will be keeping a large number of spaces cleared just in case.
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   07-24-2009, 2:17 AM
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 Oldtimer001 wrote:

Here's an example: If a game like Halo 3 is nominated each room has control and will be set ahead of time as to what type of game is played. For instance one room leader will lead 16-player co-op on legendary (for you achievement hunters out there). The other room leader will do the social slayer/multi-player room. If it’s a game like Gears of War 2, one leader for horde and one leader for multi-player map. Similarly for other games if possible.  In those cases I will try to post who will lead what room and what they will be doing so that people can get in the room they want. We may even do a revolving room where people can go from one game type (as mentioned in original post) to another.

 


I vote for Halo 3, just to try out this 16-player co-op of which you speak Surprise [:O] Wink [;)]

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   07-24-2009, 3:02 AM
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Call of Duty:World at War all the way.Wink [;)]


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   07-24-2009, 6:43 PM
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 lostassassin13 wrote:
I'd be up for whatever, I will have my box back by then.  I can do Halo 3 or CoD4, and I can probably do World at War as long as I know far enough ahead of time (so I can have my wife rent it from BB).  Since I'm a fiend, I'll throw a vote for Halo 3.

Will two weeks be enough notice for you?
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   07-24-2009, 6:48 PM
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The latest tally:
Halo 3: 1 vote
COD 4: 5 votes
CODWAW: 5 votes
UNO: 1 vote
L4D: 1 forwarded vote for next time Wink [;)]
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