Xbox 360 owners may have noticed the arrival last week of a new dashboard channel for Events. In addition to highlighting game launches – see Halo Wars above – it also acts as a call-out to Aussie gamers to jump online for a series of Community Playdates. We’ll be organising one of these playdates and want to hear your suggestions for what game to play.
The idea behind Community Playdates is to provide a focal point for Aussie gamers. If we’re all getting online for the same game at the same time, then it should alleviate the lag issues that we so often experience when joining games hosted overseas. The theory follows that it’s also a good way to meet local gamers and add them to your friends list.
We’ll be getting in on the act soon. But we want to know what game you’d all like to play. Leave your suggestions in the comments below and stay tuned for the first Kotaku Community Playdate in the coming weeks.
Hopkins
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:19 PMi reckon we should all get on and play either Left 4 Dead or F.E.A.R. 2
degenerate
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:23 PMWhat about Battlefield: Bad Company. It’d be good fun to fill a server with Aussies.
An older game that people might not play so much any more might be fun too. GRAW 2?
Bruno
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:35 PMI’m up for FEAR2 online sick of lagging USA players. Tag: SNEAKY184 :)
Mr Explody
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:41 PMI’d be more inclined to pull out a relatively older game like Burnout Paradise. I haven’t played that in ages, and as such, haven’t seen any of the new content.
I’d also like to see some of these done on multiplayer XBLA games. At lest then, if a person doesn’t have the game, it will cost less than $15 to buy it and join in.
I was going to say we should try a Community Game, but forgot we don’t have access to them in Australia yet…
Steve
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:46 PMA Street Fighter IV tournament would be awesome.
AJ
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:51 PMShadowrun! Come on, the game deserves SO much more love than it gets. And anyone who doesn’t have it can pick up a second hand copy for $20.
I’d just rather it was something I wasn’t all ready playing all the damn time like Left 4 Dead, GoW 2 or Halo 3.
Mr Explody
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:56 PMSo, a Space Marine, an Ork and a Tyranid walk into a bar… Damn It! Wrong Page!
Drongo
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 2:34 PMShadowrun
HotDamn!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 2:36 PMI need to pick up Fear 2 anyway (since I didn’t bloody win any of the competitions! Damnit! lol), so that one could be fun.
SpanPanic
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 2:39 PMI vote for Burnout: Paradise. That game is awesome online.
David Fowles
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 2:56 PMOver at Hyper Forums [url=Sunday Burnout Thread]http://www.hyper.com.au/forums/showthread.php?t=17774[/url] we are looking to have some regular Sunday Night action, with Burnout Paradise this coming Sunday 1st March. It totally makes sense with all the updates, I was showing off the delorean to a non-believer just last night, Criterion should pay me for this.
I hope my attempt at a url works.
Pete
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 3:19 PMI like the idea of older games.
GRAW2, Shadowrun, Prey, Timeshift, etc
Matt H
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 3:24 PMYeah, Burnout Paradise, Left 4 Dead, Halo 3, possibly even something like Frontlines, or TF2 would be good!
Cat Tactics
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 4:21 PMPrey would be good. simply impossible to play with anyone overseas.
Duncan
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 5:30 PMIf there was ever a game that needed a “play-date” its the bungled online mess that is gears of war 2. But given that it uses the highly impersonal lobby set-up al la Halo, I doubt it would be very social or ‘community-like.’
So I might also swing some votes towards Shadowrun. Its really not the most polished game, but it can be alot of fun on occasion.
Jordan
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 7:05 PMLeft 4 Dead!
Though some Burnout Paradise would be nice too
Dave
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:49 AMFar Cry 2 ,Timeshift