Be Excellent To Each Other

As you might know, I'm getting married next month. Time being short and my friends being difficult to organise, I'm not having a traditional stag, but I figure we can at least do a gaming night instead (which is more my style anyway).

So: on Sat 6th Aug Fri 5th Aug I'm going to have a proper old-school Beex Xbox session. You're all invited. Bring your headsets and your alcohol and let's shoot each other's faces off.

We'll be starting at 7pm and aiming to roll through to whenever people give up (but late). We'll play the following games in the following order, with about an hour or so per game depending on how it's going; I'll post to the "Playing online: now and soon" thread when we change games.

Everyone is welcome but (obviously) these games are capped to 8 players at once so we might struggle to fit people in. Hopefully, the game rotation will encourage people to come and go though, so no-one who wants to play is left out.

• Gears of War 2 -- Horde if we have less than 6 people, competitive multiplayer with more people
• Forza 2
• UT3
• Burney Pee
• Bonus latenight round if only four people are left -- Left 4 Dead 1 co-op (because Versus mode smells of wee).
• Optionally, anything else we think of on the fly.

Hope to see you there!

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To avoid dithering, I will use my privileged position to rule with an iron fist and dictate that we rotate through a couple of classic games from our back library, perhaps including (but not limited to) Gears (2), Forza, Left 4 Dead (1, I think), Burny Pee, and UT3. That way people who don't have all the games can still get involved, and we can work around smaller player caps in some games. It might help if we set time limits on each game too (e.g. "we'll be playing Forza from 9-10pm") so people who want to play Forza and not anything else aren't twiddling their thumbs looking at a party full of people playing Gears. Or something. I dunno, I'm winging this, pitch me ideas for how to organise it (and games to include -- and no CoD or Halo, I don't have them and I AM THE BOSS OF THIS) so as to not exclude people.

Do I have your axe?

Blates.

Saturday is the 6th of August.

What happens when someone shouts 'grenade'?

Yes. I have totally changed time.

What?

I have non of those games anymore, but I'll drink and shout at you.

I might still have Gears 2 actually.

I'm trying out my new trendy street hat. It doesn't fit very well. That's a contraction of 'blatantly', or alternatively 'yes'.

I think I have people round that night, but will try my best to pop on for a little bit (and renew my Gold).

Sounds good to me. Assuming I'm not forced to do something else in stupid real life.

In , but three questions :

If its a stag do , does that exclude the various non-male members of the forum ?
Can you expand out the list of stuff you have thats multiplayer
Can you add Bomberman to the list and we can blow each other up as well ?

And a suggestion for the organisation - have a post on here with times your playing each game for and have someone post "we're now changing to game X" , or "we're changing to game X in time Y" to allow people who dont have the current game to get ready to switch (you could also do this using the beexonlinegamingtwitterthingy)

No, of course not!

Uhh, yeah, but I'll need to be infront of my games shelf. I'm really aiming to cover mainstream old school Beex titles here though.

Well, I don't have it, so not unless tons of people say "buy it just for this you fool"

Yes, this is a good idea.

Can we disrupt fun for the whoring of cheevos? This is a dealbreaker.

Can I come round to Cwmbran and join you there, not having an X-Box myself? I shall bring beer/wine.

Its 800 microsoft space bucks , a good interpretation of the classic game , supports 8 players online , supports the vision camera , and its a way to probably get Romanista and Mimi to join in.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Produ ... 025841083f

I'll come on at some point but I'm not going to make any sense.

I am, regrettably, not available. Have a good one though

Looks like you wore your asshat. And it fits like a glove.

A Beex-Stag do eh?
This sounds brilliant and I wouldn't miss it for the world. But I have a sinking feeling that I might

No. Also: duh.

How quickly can I get a live subscription?

I think they're doing a monthly deal thing on the dashboard at the moment, so as soon as you can turn your Xbox on, I guess.

Aaaah, don't you need a credit card for that? Or do they accept debit cads?

Debit card is a-ok.

That's changed from a few years ago, then. I think.

Anyway - yay!

I've always used my debit card.

I don't doubt that's true - I am, after all, a big spacky twatter with the world's worst attention span and memory.

You couldn't initially - at least if you had Switch. The benefit of Visa debit was always that most automated systems thought it was a credit card.

I note, with some dismay, that you have not taken the oportunity to leap to disagree with the other aspect of my post.

Correct. Twatter.

I'd love to do this, but I'm afraid I can't due to having the in-laws visiting.

Fair point.

This sounds awesome. If I had an xbox, I'd be right in! Hope you have a topping time anyhow, and that, in classic stag night tradition, you still somehow end up getting drunk and handcuffed naked to some railings.

Just as I read this thread I had a text asking if friends could stay on our floor that weekend. Otherwise - I'm there.

* floor

Another mystery solved by the world-renowned cheese expert, Crasty Craster.

Halo is the quintessential BeeX game isn't it?

(It's the only one I haven't traded in just in case WTB organises another night.)

(And then flounces an hour before)

BREAKING

My dear friends were caught in the middle of arranging a night at the pub in my honour which is to take place on Saturday 6th. I can't miss that (I don't have enough honour to go around), so I have to move this Xbox shindig to Fri 5th instead -- hopefully that's fine for everyone.

Oh, and I forgot to look at my game shelves last night. I'm still thinking that Gears/BP/L4D/Forza is a good mix of Beex all-time classics though.

I don't have it so we're not playing it This is not to say, of course, that someone shouldn't arrange a Halo night. There isn't enough Beexgaming these days.

Friday night was the night we were planning to drive down to South Wales, kidnap you, helicopter you to Jordan, and leave you cuffed naked to a post in the middle of a Bedouin camp though.

You're just so bloody difficult sometimes.

Fri 5th is much better for me.

I appreciate you making the change to accomodate me, but the inlaws are arriving that evening, so I'll be sitting in silence.

That might actually work for me! Thanks Doc

Why not Friday? Telly is shit after all.

Don't forget to bump the Playing online: Now and Soon thread accordingly in case some are avoiding the stag thread thinking it means an evening out in Cwmbran.

I will indeed (although this thread subtitle does state "xbox gaming").

Bump -- more details in first post.

just seen this, sadly I am unavalebla er due to bbeing stuck in Devon with the in-laws.

I'm still in for this, and I have ALL TEH GAMEZ! I really need to stop going out and spending money now seeing as I'm gonna have to furnish a house in a month or so, so this is ideal. Also, hopefully this'll encourage a Bezzie Night revival of sorts.

I was pondering this. Seems like the biggest obstacle these days is procrastination. What if we had a system where each week a different beexer was "king", and could set date and time and game at will? Then the next week's King is chosen from that week's turnout.

I've been reminded we are having dinner with guests.

I'll try to make it on, but it will be LATE.

We did this, I seem to remember. It lasted about 2 weeks.

Uneasy is the head that wears the crown