Treating games like books in a book club - where you play through something for the first time alongside a friend who's also playing through it for the first time, and discuss it as you go, is a lot of fun and often leads to a greater insight into the storyline or mechanics or whatever else than you'd have gotten alone.
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Everyone takes turns bringing in an old console and a game. Or a new console. Or a PC. Whatever.
Show and tell. Pick a save point, walk people through the narrative/gameplay, explain why you feel it's such a compelling game.
I think this works better than actually handing off a game to a newbie and letting them dive in. I've quit so many games (looking at you Fallout and Skyrim) because they just didn't spark my imagination. They started with slow grind and I didn't see an end to the grind. But for a passionate voice of guidance, I might have finished those games.
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