Refining Discussion Techniques Project: Group Discussion [HERE'S THE FULL ESSAY]




For my group discussion I gathered three of my friends to Discuss whether the New California Republic would win the war against the legion in Fallout: New Vegas. I believe Everybody made their points effectively and clear, with all of us deciding unanimously on the New California Republic.

To prepare for the discussion, I played Fallout for half an hour and read through some Fallout comic books, this prepared me well. We each spoke in turns, making all of our points seperately to present them more clearly. Our perspectives may have affected this because many of us may have been biased toward the New California Republic.

We debated heavily at times, but using examples of previously successful endeavors usually settled those debates, and we always remembered to stick to the facts. While many of our perspectives are similar there were many differences, like when Cain had a more lenient opinion of the Legion since he was the only one who had beat them on his first play of the game, this influenced all of our opinions in part and made us think of them in a different way.

We tried to keep the discussion grammatically correct, but it often delved into casual conversation given the subject at hand. I used proper enunciation during any points where I wanted it to be remembered. Eventually toward the end we all started agreeing when we all thought of the way the Legion approached their first battle to take the hoover dam, this was the event that cleared up a lot of the disagreements we were having about the Legion’s ability. All in all the discussion was very fun and strengthened all of our opinions significantly about the subject.