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For the past year I've been watching as myself and others suddenly decline in posting, having no real emotion to do so anymore... and now, it seems so clear. There is a reason to this.
WE ARE TAKING OURSELVES TOO SERIOUSLY.
For Gods sake. Who cares that the PS2 sucks, there are no decent games for it, or the Gamecube is for kids and the X-Box will fail? What the hell happened to a bunch of guys in a room laughing and poking fun at eachother?
We've got our heads so far up our own beliefs that we can't see that we're driving ourselves insane by not having any fun! We complain about the decline of the forums, and it's because of us, not anyone else!
If you come to these forums, then it's to have fun, and cheer yourself up. We make more effort to write about why the next generation of games will affect ourselves in the future than we would trying to entertain eachother. Topics are not sodding documentarys, they're entertainment, and it's so bloody obvious that this isn't happening it's driving me around the bend.
Hasn't it ever occured to you that the topics that get the most replies are simple topics all in good fun? Meka's longest topic in a while was one that was him laughing at a man who locked himself in a shed late at night while he was "browsing the web", while other excellent topics about his views on gaming and prices at the moment are ignored. No offense Meka, I'm just trying to prove a point.
We need to spend more effort on having fun, and less on writing "our point of view on today's society of gaming". What crap.
And before you all say "FUTURE OF GAMING", go back to last year here on the forums. The only topics that were about the future of gaming were mostly by newbies trying to win games, or the regulars in an offish mood. The rest of the topics was wondering where everyone is, and orginising game tournaments. Never took off, but were fun to do.
So why can't we do stuff like this any more? Why hasn't someone just come onto the forums, and asked if someone wants to play Unreal Tournament or something, like they used to?
Because we're so hooked onto making topics "epic", we've forgot what the fun of it is all about. I say we stop writing so much uninspiring tosh, and go back to basics.
This is why I demanded a caption contest, and I know why now. I still demand one.
I demand that we buy a multiplayer game and go play it together. Organise a day for us all to play. Once a month will do. Once every two months is fine... we just need to do it.
I demand that we spend more time doing fun things, discussing fun topics... sod what you think Sony will be doing in two years time, what did you do today? What game are you thinking of buying next? Tell us about a game we haven't heard of. Who remembers Road Rash? What would have happened if Nintendo made the first ever FPS?
I demand we at least do something. This isn't something you can just say: "Yeah, that's a good idea, let's ask Tony..." This is something we can do ourselves. Boring boring topics about the future... we should be looking to the now, and what the hell we can do in the meantime.
This is why I love the stories. It's just a bunch of us all doing something together, none of it is that serious... even though I do get carried away every now and again... :0)
So I ask you. Suggest stuff that will make the forums a more fun place to be! Polls, we could have polls.
More varied competitions, we don't need GADS to be award to them, we could just mess around. A competition for the best drawing of Mr Snuggly.
Quizes. I'm not saying stop writing that gaming topic and go make a quiz, I just think that people should try and make an effort to do something like this.
Come on! Ideas!
WE ARE TAKING OURSELVES TOO SERIOUSLY.
For Gods sake. Who cares that the PS2 sucks, there are no decent games for it, or the Gamecube is for kids and the X-Box will fail? What the hell happened to a bunch of guys in a room laughing and poking fun at eachother?
We've got our heads so far up our own beliefs that we can't see that we're driving ourselves insane by not having any fun! We complain about the decline of the forums, and it's because of us, not anyone else!
If you come to these forums, then it's to have fun, and cheer yourself up. We make more effort to write about why the next generation of games will affect ourselves in the future than we would trying to entertain eachother. Topics are not sodding documentarys, they're entertainment, and it's so bloody obvious that this isn't happening it's driving me around the bend.
Hasn't it ever occured to you that the topics that get the most replies are simple topics all in good fun? Meka's longest topic in a while was one that was him laughing at a man who locked himself in a shed late at night while he was "browsing the web", while other excellent topics about his views on gaming and prices at the moment are ignored. No offense Meka, I'm just trying to prove a point.
We need to spend more effort on having fun, and less on writing "our point of view on today's society of gaming". What crap.
And before you all say "FUTURE OF GAMING", go back to last year here on the forums. The only topics that were about the future of gaming were mostly by newbies trying to win games, or the regulars in an offish mood. The rest of the topics was wondering where everyone is, and orginising game tournaments. Never took off, but were fun to do.
So why can't we do stuff like this any more? Why hasn't someone just come onto the forums, and asked if someone wants to play Unreal Tournament or something, like they used to?
Because we're so hooked onto making topics "epic", we've forgot what the fun of it is all about. I say we stop writing so much uninspiring tosh, and go back to basics.
This is why I demanded a caption contest, and I know why now. I still demand one.
I demand that we buy a multiplayer game and go play it together. Organise a day for us all to play. Once a month will do. Once every two months is fine... we just need to do it.
I demand that we spend more time doing fun things, discussing fun topics... sod what you think Sony will be doing in two years time, what did you do today? What game are you thinking of buying next? Tell us about a game we haven't heard of. Who remembers Road Rash? What would have happened if Nintendo made the first ever FPS?
I demand we at least do something. This isn't something you can just say: "Yeah, that's a good idea, let's ask Tony..." This is something we can do ourselves. Boring boring topics about the future... we should be looking to the now, and what the hell we can do in the meantime.
This is why I love the stories. It's just a bunch of us all doing something together, none of it is that serious... even though I do get carried away every now and again... :0)
So I ask you. Suggest stuff that will make the forums a more fun place to be! Polls, we could have polls.
More varied competitions, we don't need GADS to be award to them, we could just mess around. A competition for the best drawing of Mr Snuggly.
Quizes. I'm not saying stop writing that gaming topic and go make a quiz, I just think that people should try and make an effort to do something like this.
Come on! Ideas!
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Goatboy wrote:
"Doesn't that take the fun out of it?"
I could just tell everyone to stop being idiots and start making some sensible topics, but it wouldn't work the way I would hope.
"Doesn't that take the fun out of it?"
I could just tell everyone to stop being idiots and start making some sensible topics, but it wouldn't work the way I would hope.
Goatboy wrote:
> Being told to have fun?
Doesn't that take the fun out of it?
don't get all quizical on us.
were here to have.... fun
> Being told to have fun?
Doesn't that take the fun out of it?
don't get all quizical on us.
were here to have.... fun
Being told to have fun?
Doesn't that take the fun out of it?
Doesn't that take the fun out of it?
And when the Gamecube and X-Box are released we WILL want to talk about them... but in the meantime, let's go mess around.
Is this room really failing though? It has always been the case that, while the games industry has nothing interesting going on, the site is dead.
I expect that after the launch of the GC and Xbox, then the site will spring back to life... if people can drag themselves away from their consoles!
Sonic
I expect that after the launch of the GC and Xbox, then the site will spring back to life... if people can drag themselves away from their consoles!
Sonic
your wish is my comand grix
*pokes grix's in the face*
"aaahhhhhhh!!!! my eye!!!!!!" screams grix in pain.
opps!
*pokes grix's in the face*
"aaahhhhhhh!!!! my eye!!!!!!" screams grix in pain.
opps!
:-D
How dare you call me serious.
I resent that.
Damn Dirty ..er...something
I resent that.
Damn Dirty ..er...something
I've never made a GAD attempt. Muaha. All I come to FOG for is to chat on WLT and laugh at the stupid monkeys in Chat. You want my attempts, look in DVD. That forums actually quite dead too. Wonder why that is..
*ClapClapClap*
Hit the nail on the head there. Fair enough, I've only been around sice summer, even I've noticed that there's less to reply to now than in those first few weeks - I think I did about a hundered posts a week for the first month, and then in the three or four months since then about a total of 150. Why? There's just nothing fun/interesting to talk about.
I think a big part might have been due to the large number of school kids here - now they're back in classes all they have time for is Generic GAD Attempt #XXX. Sure, do that if you want - but it would be nice if, say, the DVD forum without its promises of free games got a bit more attention too.
Ah hell, I don't know. It's Monday morning for goodness sake. I'm just trying to put of the super fun rush hour traffic that'll be building up right about now... better get a move on.
Hit the nail on the head there. Fair enough, I've only been around sice summer, even I've noticed that there's less to reply to now than in those first few weeks - I think I did about a hundered posts a week for the first month, and then in the three or four months since then about a total of 150. Why? There's just nothing fun/interesting to talk about.
I think a big part might have been due to the large number of school kids here - now they're back in classes all they have time for is Generic GAD Attempt #XXX. Sure, do that if you want - but it would be nice if, say, the DVD forum without its promises of free games got a bit more attention too.
Ah hell, I don't know. It's Monday morning for goodness sake. I'm just trying to put of the super fun rush hour traffic that'll be building up right about now... better get a move on.
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