[Event] The PokeCommunity Game-Along IV: A New Gaming

Welcome back to the PokeCommunity Game-Along for our fourth edition with a new thread and a new entry into a series of threads with increasingly less funny meme titles!

For the uninitiated, these are pretty simple! On the first day of every month, I'll be posting a theme of some sort in this thread. These themes can be as specific as a genre of game or even a singular aspect of gameplay, or as vague as just a general vibe we're shooting for. Really, it could be just about anything. Your task is to play and beat a game (meaning you must finish the main story mode/see the end credits) that fits whatever the given theme is by the end of the month.

For example, if the theme for the month was Soulslikes, you could play anything from Dark Souls, to Elden Ring to Fallen Order. If the theme were to be JRPGs like we closed last year on, you could play anything in that genre (Final Fantasy, the Tales Franchise etc etc). You can play any length of game, it can be a replay or a game you've never played or it can even be a game you are already playing. Whatever works for you. The only requirements are that it must fit the theme of the month and you must finish it by the end of the month.

To enter, all you have to do is respond in this thread with the game you have chosen and let us know here when you finish it. Of course, we all love to see each others updates too. For that, you could post short little snippets here but the best way to do it is to keep track of things in one of our gaming journal threads.

There is no obligation to participate in any of the months, although I encourage you to try for the bragging rights. You can join at any time during the year for whatever theme we are up to at the time. Gaming is meant to be fun after all and that's really the goal there. For hard quotas, you'll want the 2023 Gaming Challenge.

If you want to keep track of how things have been going, this post will be periodically updated with the current theme and participants.

If you have any questions or suggestions for monthly themes you'd like to see, feel free to post in here or DM me.

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As always, we kick of the New Year with an Old Theme. We're all still getting out of the holiday haze and we've all gotten new games as gifts or because we spent too much money on the Steam Summer sale and now have a bulging backlog to do something about (yes, you. You know what you did).

It's Free Choice for January. Play whatever the hell you like as we ease ourselves in to whatever madness these themes may yet spawn.