These days, people who talk to me about video games hear a key phrase from my vocabulary. “Oh, I saw my friend playing this game at Gamer Night.” “I finally finished it during Gamer Night.” And he changed everything for me.
I’m not just bragging about friends, though I’m very grateful to have them. If you grew up as an only child like I did, you probably understand my amazement at making consistent friendships, let alone year-long commitments to (virtually) seeing the same group of people every week. Maybe you are thinking I don’t have any friends who want to do that. Or you might be thinking: We are all too busy for that.
I was thinking about all these things too, not too long ago. Before it became embedded in my life as a permanent weekly commitment (although any of us could miss it since there were four of us and Gamer Night is fun with three or two), the whole idea of ​​Gamer Night seemed so big that the schedule was unnecessary and maybe even impossible Before Gamer Night, I had a more relaxed gaming style. Every now and then there will be a great multiplayer game that I want to try and sometimes I can convince a few friends to play it with me. It’s always going to involve some annoying planning maneuvers and doesn’t happen as often as any of us would like. It was a great way to survive. But I didn’t know how much good Maybe it could be you.
“Gamer Night in My Life” originated from a group of gamers organizing a multiplayer game. It started in the fall of 2019 when two friends and I entered into a wonderful relationship Destiny 2, which contains many three-player cooperative activities. This led us to experiment with some raids, which are high-intensity co-op multiplayer activities. Destiny 2 It requires six people and therefore requires a lot of recruitment coordination. In the end it was too tiring for all of us to stick it out, but over time the four of us spent a weekly evening together, very interested in the idea of ​​constantly meeting for a simple voice call and playing a game of Discord together. . We called it “Gamer Night” because it was fun. It stuck.
It didn’t take long for Gamer Night to evolve into a more perfect formula. It’s no longer a weekly multiplayer gaming event – at least not necessarily. It’s still game night with friends, but that doesn’t mean we’re all playing the same game. We might be playing four completely different games. Maybe we’ll play a game together Monitoring 2 Play together while another person watches and a fourth person plays Al-Din-Ring. Three of us could watch the game in fourth person evil ghostOr give advice when needed or let our lives flow freely. It could be that we all never play a game and instead watch a live stream of the game on Twitch and talk about it. All these activities are Gamer Night.
Perhaps the most important thing about it, at least for me, is that Gamer Night only lasts two hours. I arrive at 7:30pm and leave at 9:30 (unfortunately I’ve discovered that if I play a video game too late at night I can’t sleep – hence the early checkout for sleep hygiene reasons). ) Sometimes my friends start early or finish later, and like I said, sometimes none of us can be there. But it almost always happens because the results are rewarding. The original goal was to have time to play games together without the hassle of scheduling, especially multiplayer games – but it ended up bonding the four of us more together than we started with, which is pretty impressive considering we were all already there. Like each other, some very little.
So I leave you with this advice: plan a weekly gamer night. It lasts for two hours – starting when you finish dinner and ending before you get ready for bed. You spend time playing video games, which is fun, but you do it really Better to make time for your friends. You will not regret it.
