Just saying something.

[ninjarygar]

I actually like this forum.

It's not overpopulated. That's often times a good thing as long as the members are active.

Nobody here gets stupid and tries to be funny with ancient internet humor. You know the ones... who type nonsense in all caps, misspelling words on purpose, using infinate exclamation points with intentional ones at the end... I've had just about enough of that crap.

Speaking of which... even though we're obviously all gamers... nobody here is stupid enough to type with numbers instead of letters. Not even to be funny. You guys got the memo I guess that that was not funny in the first place.

From what I can see, you don't judge people by their post count, but rather the content of their posts. A rare sight.

You're all extremely knowledgable about a vast amount of games... yet none of you seem to participate in imature bragging rights contests to see "who can be the MOST hardcore gamer" or anything like that. After using the internet for so long, you come to expect that from certain forums. You don't bicker and argue about stupid things trying to outsmart the other. That is... from what I've seen so far.

So far, since my frequent vists... I haven't seen the word "flamewar" ONCE! That's amazing... since usually it comes up in every thread.

And in general... the people here seem smart and courtious. You don't make fun of each other for no reason... you don't go throwing around pretend administrator power... and you actually type what's on your minds without being offensive. That's pretty awesome.

This isn't ass kissing... this isn't clever sarcasm... I'm being serious.
Allow me to explain... I used to frequent a message board dedicated to a game called MUGEN... I'm sure you heard of it. Anyway, if you know anything about then you know that the community turned into a HELLISH NIGHTMARE. After trying to deal with it and try to make it better... I gave up and have since had a bad vibe from all forums. I normally join, post one or two messages and never return.
But I don't really want to start a conversation about mugen, I'm just saying that I like this forum. You can actually discuss things with smart people without worrying if you'll get banned, or being completely ignored because you're not elite enough, or being insulted because your opinion goes against the norm. I joined a while ago but recently decided to become active because I love the articles on this site. So I guess this is my formal introduction.

[YourAverageJoe]

LOL WUT R U TOKEN ABOOT LOL??!!?!!!!'''1111 U HAEV TEH 2MENEE BEG ORDS

Sorry, it just felt like the right time for some irony.

Anyway, my first serious forum membership was on Planet Megaman, a pretty intelligent forum at the time, but still not above the occasional silliness. It was good, and there you could both choose to talk serious and silly if you just went to the right place. Then something happened, they decided to make one huge forum by combining with a few others. It got really bad, and for some, the forum died that day.

After that there was Trinity of Evil, which was a small forum dominated by /b/tards, but it still had some of my favourite members from Planet Megaman. Man, I hate the mods there, who somehow got the idea that being abusive was funny. After some time I went to a forum kinda related to ToE, called Entrance to Infinity, which was a little better, but it got stale, and every member seemed keen on abusing one 4chan meme or another instead of actually discussing anything. I'd been reading some articles on HG101 and finally decided to leave that awful community and start fresh.

Man am I glad I did, you guys freaking rock!

[Isao Kronos (BANNED)]

I like here, it's pretty small. I wish we'd get a host and move to some decent SMF forum software but that's Kurt's decision.

[kal]

You know, just incase you're still interested in Mugen this is a pretty nice pack (which as you know is a dirty word in Mugen).

Fine words.

[vysethebold]

I have no idea what you're talking about, 1 M T3H 1337 h4x0r!!!!111
All kidding aside, this is the only forum I'm actively participating it. It has people I know and I trust their opinion. Everyone here is willing to help you out when you have a question. Most importantly, if someone gets out of line we collectively make sure they are not welcome here. I will continue to be an active member here and I hope all of the current regulars do, too. Plus, there's just something special when a bunch of hardcore gamers can make one of the best resources for obscure games and all of their versions and sequels.

[ahnslaught]

Hey, I'm pretty new here as well, but let me join in the back-patting marathon!

Seriously, this is the forum I go to for quirky and general games alike - it's only one of like three forums I post in (shmups, here, and Talking Time, though it's a little too FFXII-vased ATM). I think you're right when you say a forum is good if it's relatively small...just reading one page of a thread in places like gamefaqs makes you cringe.

[steven]

I agree that this board is nice because of how nice and knowledgable folks are here. Not only that but there are no lame flame wars. It reminds me of a condensed DigitPress.com

If you want to see the sheer opposite of this site, go to the Neo Geo forums. Hell, they have a forum called "War Room" lol. There are a bunch of characters on that site. I like it though, and have been posting there since March 2001.

I like different boards for different reasons, but yeah, this one is definitely ace

[solleks]

This is the only forum I'm an active member of, and I think it's interesting to be able to spend enough time here to get a feel not only for the forum as a group but the individual members.

[ninjarygar]

vysethebold said:

I have no idea what you're talking about, 1 M T3H 1337 h4x0r!!!!111
All kidding aside, this is the only forum I'm actively participating it. It has people I know and I trust their opinion. Everyone here is willing to help you out when you have a question. Most importantly, if someone gets out of line we collectively make sure they are not welcome here. I will continue to be an active member here and I hope all of the current regulars do, too. Plus, there's just something special when a bunch of hardcore gamers can make one of the best resources for obscure games and all of their versions and sequels.

That's the truth. I could go on and on about how great the site is too, but.... some other time.

[vysetd]

I, too, like this site, though I haven't had the time to really contribute anything yet (though I've gotten software now that let's me view .png files...strange I couldn't before). The people are cool here. While there are plenty of cool people on sites like Gamefaqs...well, they are almost as hard to find as a needle in a haystack.