[quote name='simmias']x360a is OK, but TrueAchievements is truly awesome, especially when you're talking about finding partners for older games. I was able to get a Splosion Man partner recently to finally run through the multiplayer, and was even able to find someone local to go through the GH3 local co-op. You set up gaming sessions and get feedback on other gamers based on whether they were cool or a dick in their sessions. They have it down to a science, keeping track of your sessions and e-mailing reminders before they start. Honestly, it sounds like what a lot of you guys are looking for. TA.com is one of the main reasons I get all my cross-platforms on the 360, since I know I'll be able to set up a gaming session with ease. It's also great at tracking your achievements and telling you the relative difficulty of any achievement if you're into that.[/QUOTE]
I'd say both sites are good for different reasons. X360A is nice for it's achievement road maps and games themselves tend to have more discussion in the sense of an actual form than what TA does. So if a TA guide doesn't have what I'm looking for, I'll look on X360A. I prefer TA though as there's more to the site and I find the news to be updated there much more frequent. Sessions are a lot easier to find and create as well. Problem is, if it's not a boosting session, people don't tend to join from my experience. So doing a "for fun" type of group may be what the doctor ordered.
[quote name='fatboyjam']I think we're on the same page here. What if we used the CAG groups to do something like this:
CAG Card and Board Group
Just a quick little mockup of a group that's pretty niched and specific (so it'd appeal to that type of gamer and promote a little community.) It could include discussions for planning game nights, achievement hunting, maybe strategy, etc.
I know it's off topic and the sales are about to pick up again. However, if anybody's interested in fleshing this out, please PM me. Maybe we can work out a format that would be appealing to this forum and then add a few links for these groups to the 1st or 2nd post of this forum to build it.[/QUOTE]
Not to shabby. I'll admit I originally thought of running a thread when I first saw your idea, but doing groups may be better. Only problem with running a thread is it could easily get cluttered and if interest died off, it could fade off into obscurity.
Admittedly have never used groups before. Not sure how active they tend to be, but could be better for the sake of organization.
A little burned out right now from work (retail is hell this time of year), but maybe I'll see if I can figure something out in a couple days.