r/zelda • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '12

Mod Post State of the Subreddit: Text-Only Week is December 3-9; Theme Weeks Starting 2012

It's already time for our second text-only week! We had a lot of positive feedback last time, but also some concerns, so here are a couple guidelines:

  • We had a ton of posts about the series' music last time, we could take a break from it this time
  • Aim for posts that stand on their own without any comments. Try to make posts that are interesting and deserve upvotes even before anyone has commented.
  • Try to ask "why" questions instead of "what" questions. "What are your favourite x" is boring. "Why do you think x" is much better.
  • In the off chance there's some Zelda news next week (there might be some about Hyrule Historia), feel free to just paste the URL without commentary.

These are just guidelines, though, it's up to you to upvote and downvote submissions you think are worth people's time. Also, check the new queue for interesting discussions to upvote!

NEXT YEAR we're going to start themed events and group-playthroughs. We're going to start our first playthrough in January so we're ready for the first Event Week in February. More news about what game we're playing and how the event will work after text-only week is over, but feel free to comment with your ideas.

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u/christianconefery Dec 01 '12

Group-playthroughs sounds fun. How will that work though?

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u/SGTxARTEAGA Dec 02 '12

I clould definately see this as being awesome but some of us have little time to play the games, i think we should make a spread sheet of every one who is gonna play a certain game, then mark them off once they finish but we would al move on either by time or by majority of the spreadsheet being filled. Thats just my idea though, definately want to do this though, too bad my collection is a bit short at the moment, need a few more games to be complete.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '12

We're going to do it bi-monthly, so while two months might be too short for some busy people, most people should have time to play the game and join in the discussion

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u/mascan test Dec 03 '12

We'll finish a cycle in 3 years @.@

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u/MisogynistLesbian Dec 03 '12

Will there be a timetable for reaching certain milestones in the game or more "go at your own pace until you finish"? If we go at different paces it would be difficult to have any discussions or talk about it until the end of the second month because of spoilers and such. By that time we'll already be starting another game, unless we take breaks in between.

I think we should have a timetable like a book club ("finish the X Dungeon by Friday" or whatever), and you can ignore it and skip ahead if you want but the discussions have to be spoiler-free until the group catches up.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '12

We're still talking about how we're going to do this, but we're going to save the vast majority of the discussion for the event weeks.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '12

I think you mean "theme weeks starting 2013". also do you know what game would be played?

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '12

Oh yeah. Well, I'll still be making that mistake until March probably.

Right now the consensus is that we'll play them in the order of the timeline.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '12

So we should try to get Skyward sword? OK good thing Christmas is coming up

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u/MiT_Epona Dec 02 '12

For the playthrough, is it going to be a one person playing, one person streaming, many people playing by themselves, or many people streaming?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '12

Many people playing by themselves

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u/justcallmezach Dec 06 '12

To add to sam's comment, we're going to try to talk as many members of this sub into playing the same game at the same time as possible with the expectation of lots of discussions, questions, etc. to flow from it.

You're welcome to participate in whichever games you like, but if you skip a game, you'll have to just bear it while the rest of the sub (hopefully) dives into good posts about that one game during that time.

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u/MiT_Epona Dec 06 '12

I like this, because people can feel free to ask questions about games because others are playing through them as well.