Site News: Welcome To The Official Pure Xbox Game Club!

Love this! @ralphdibny doing great work!

One day I will have time to join in more…

Woah, we are official!!! Awesome! Nice graphic too 😃😃

Thanks @FraserG !!!

Nice shout out @ralphdibny good to see some good in the forums. 👍

I thought I'd repost and edit a bit of the explanation from Post #1 in that thread here too:

It will be one game a month with Life Is Strange: True Colors as our current game

Play the game at your own pace and discuss it here!

We normally choose the games from game pass ultimate

You don't have to join in every month

You can play on any platform you like if you have the game there and/or don't have game pass: PC, Xbox, even PlayStation, Switch or Commodore 64 (if available). It will be interesting to see if the experiences are different across platforms in terms of performance or features. You could even play an original version of a game if we are playing a remake! (Some users at PushSquare played the original resident evil 2 over the remake as their monthly game a little while back)

Discussion and light tangents are also allowed (catch ups with other users, discussions on related games and past game club games).

Please use spoiler tags if you are discussing plot or key moments in the game! You do so by typing [spoiler] insert text here [ /spoiler] without the space between [ and /

We don't carry votes for games over from the previous month's when voting for next month's game. The reason for this is that people's schedules change or somebody might drop off the face of the earth so it would kinda suck if an absent user's old vote is counted toward a month they won't be participating in. All votes start from Zero every month.

We don't repeat games, there is a list in Post #1 of the games we have played as part of the club in the past so they won't be available to vote for again in future. Other than those games, feel free to throw suggestions out (in the thread) and I will add them to the list of possibilities.

It should go without saying that people should be respectful of other people's opinions if they choose to join in. We are all wired differently and are free to think what we want without making other people feel bad about what they think. I am sure we are all fairly passionate about video games even if the intricacies of our passions don't fully line up. I think we are a good bunch though anyway so I think everybody will be welcoming to new faces!

Let me know if you want to be added to (or removed from) the tag list for the thread. It's basically just a list of usernames that I copy and paste into the announcement posts so that everybody gets a notification when we change game. I normally only use the tag list once a month but I will occasionally use it a second or third time if there is either a tie for votes between two games or if we need to vote on something additional to the next monthly game.

Other than that, pop over, see what it's all about. Relax, enjoy and discuss some games with the rest of us. Welcome!

@rjejr @K1LLEGAL cheers peeps! The community is doing the good work too by keeping it alive!

@ralphdibny well the best thing is theres no pressure. We can dip in and out depending on how much free time we have and if we have played a game before (so want to skip a month) etc.

The only question I have, as being a long-ish term member, who is @ralphdibny? We still don't know. It's been a mystery all this time...

@K1LLEGAL oh yeah for sure, I think most of us have got enough on our plates in real life for our hobby to become just as arduous!

@KilloWertz lol and it's perhaps likely that you never will 😅

@theskelf I see what you did there! 😃

@djshep1973 sweet, I'll get you added to the tag list shortly!!

It's nice to see the discussions on the topic on games you also played or play. That way I get to see what other people think about it and if it resonates with what I thought about it. You can get some interesting points of view that way. And since everyone has acces to the same library it's easier to chose a game. That's why I signed up. I still have to replay this month's game. But it's a short one and early in the month so still have some time.

@ralphdibny this sounds great, and coincidentally I just finished up with Life is Strange 3 the other day

Could you add me on to your tag list please?

Can I join but just not do every month? Not really interested in Life is Strange.

@ralphdibny you made it to the big leagues.... probably gonna get that big royalty cheque next month!!! Lol. But seriously we've said it many times, thank you for your efforts in keeping this going. A lot of work on your part to bring folks together.

@xMightyMatt14x no!! We need your social security number, them digits on the back of your credit card... everything. It's all mandatory!!!

Or you just play what interests you and add your two cents if you played it already. There's a way to hide spoilers as well if you want to talk about something key to a story. Just don't complain about cutscenes to @Killowertz lol

Great idea, Looking forward to following along

@Krzzystuff haha cheers but somehow I doubt any cheques will be incoming 😤😅

@xMightyMatt14x yeah of course, it's super casual. Do you want to be added to the tag list for it?

Don't listen to @Krzzystuff though, we won't need your bank details or anything. We only needed Krzzy's bank details so we could buy loads of old FMV games for them to watch! 😃🤣

@TooBarFoo heya, wanna be added to the tag list for the thread?

@ralphdibny Yes please

@WCB what kind of research you doing? Just want to be sure I'm not funding something...."seedy"

@ralphdibny Just don't ever take the glasses off I guess.

@Krzzystuff Hehe, haha, go fu..... I mean lol....

Thanks for the lovely post Fraser G

This is really exciting. Thank you to @ralphdibny for setting this up. I would have loved to join in last month. I am looking forward to this.

@Dydreamr heya, want to be added to the tag list in the thread?

I just want to give a shout out to @LtSarge helping to create the game club by creating the original Push Square game club and providing key feedback that shaped what the Pure Xbox Game Club became.

Also want to give a shout out to the rest of the original Game Club crew that were present for the original confusingly titled thread and provided feedback for and stuck through the beginning of the new one! @Tothington91 @MAC26 @XBontendo @Justifier @LtSarge @Tjuz @nessisonett @crippyd @Krzzystuff

@Xiovanni The games voted for are all on game pass so you don't really need to 'pick up' anything (as long as you have game pass obviously).

@ralphdibny Sure. Would love to. Thanks.

So I’ve finally got round to starting this. The music first of all is superb! Absolutely superb. First impressions are very good indeed. Looks beautiful.

Voice acting. Superb. Special - really moving rendition

Love this! @ralphdibny please add me to the tag list.

@liljazzy2 brilliant, will do! I'll be updating the list later on so I'll let you know when it's done!