Individual Vid Game Threads

[Southpaw191679666239]

I realize this has been brought up before - in fact I probably mentioned it once - but what is the harm in having individual threads for Video Games? I find it very difficult to have to read back through the video game thread; just to see if anyone has posted something new on a certain game.

[Banedon]

Pretty much for the same reason that we only have one Movie thread for all movies. It just keeps the forum cleaner.

 

What trouble do you have with browsing the video game thread? It's not like it's so busy it's hard to keep up with. I'm not following what your trouble is with it.

[Guest]

My initial thought is that you'd spend almost as much time looking through the social forum for a thread on a given game as you would searching the Video game thread for posts on a certain game.

[Southpaw191679666239]

Pretty much for the same reason that we only have one Movie thread for all movies. It just keeps the forum cleaner.

 

Okay, the forum is cleaner, but the 192 page thread is a mess.

 

What trouble do you have with browsing the video game thread? It's not like it's so busy it's hard to keep up with. I'm not following what your trouble is with it.

 

Well it is difficult to keep up with from my perspective. I'm not a big gamer, and I mostly play just sports games. Therefore, when I want to see what the latest comments/questions on MLB10: The Show are, I have to wade through the comments and lengthy quoted comment posts on other games, just to see something relevant. Then when I do see something related; it's usually not an original comment; but a quote on something earlier -- and the scrolling back process starts again.

 

My initial thought is that you'd spend almost as much time looking through the social forum for a thread on a given game as you would searching the Video game thread for posts on a certain game.

 

Here's the difference though; if I don't play those games, I can skip those threads entirely. If I don't visit the Video Game Thread regularly, there's no way I'm going to remember what page in the near 200's I left off at. So then I have to go back and see what the latest post was on the game I'm interested in reading/writing about.

 

If each game that warranted discussion had its own thread, I can easily search for the thread using the Find function or a forum search. If I search in the video game thread, I'll get a bunch of old posts as returned hits to the search because it featured that word string in a comment.

[tfarks]

Your best bet is to go to Neogaf.

 

Best video game message board by miles. More comments in a day about the game you're looking for then you will see in a month on this site.

[Tracer Bullet]

I think tfarks is right. this isn't intended to be a video game site. So having a thread for every different video game clogs social at the expense of many posters that don't care about video games for the convenience of a few. I can understand why this is burdensome for you, but unfortunately for you in this case, your convenience is outweighed by the convenience of many others.

[NCCubFan]

Playing devil's advocate a little, we have threads for individual TV shows (The Office, Scrubs, and 24 come to mind) in addition to a general TV thread. I don't know why video games should be different in that regard.

[Tracer Bullet]

so further down that line of thinking...do we have a thread for every individual album or band? no we have a music thread. those 5 tv shows (some more than others) are heavily discussed. maybe a separate thread for 1-2 video games makes sense, but i don't think the benefit warrants it at this point.

[Guest]

Playing devil's advocate a little, we have threads for individual TV shows (The Office, Scrubs, and 24 come to mind) in addition to a general TV thread. I don't know why video games should be different in that regard.

 

Because they don't generate nearly as many posts.

[NCCubFan]

I think there are legitimate points on both sides of this. Would a possible compromise be to turn threads such as the general TV, movies, music, etc. threads into subforums within Social, then allow threads on specific TV shows, albums, etc. within those subforums?

[Tracer Bullet]

I wasn't using music to suggest it's wise to have a separate topic of 3 posts for each new album that's released. Even if those are contained within subforums, it would clutter those subforums. I just don't see the need here, especially when the search function would allow you to find the specific posts about a particular game fairly quickly.

[Derwood]

you don't need to remember what page you were on last.....just click the little orange symbol next to the page numbers and it'll jump right to the last post you read. Then you can Ctrl+F (on Firefox) and search for MLB or whatever

[Banedon]

Here's the difference though; if I don't play those games, I can skip those threads entirely. If I don't visit the Video Game Thread regularly, there's no way I'm going to remember what page in the near 200's I left off at. So then I have to go back and see what the latest post was on the game I'm interested in reading/writing about.

 

If each game that warranted discussion had its own thread, I can easily search for the thread using the Find function or a forum search. If I search in the video game thread, I'll get a bunch of old posts as returned hits to the search because it featured that word string in a comment.

 

See, now on the other hand, I get really sick of reading everyone's updates on their personal progress on sports games. I could care less if someone is hitting .350 on their AA player on a video game. I play the game, so I understand how you can get caught up in it, but that doesn't mean others care.

 

If there was to be a separation, and I'm not entirely sure there should be one, I think having a "Sports Video Game thread" and a "Non-sports video game thread" would be the way to go. When the MLB season is over, the amount of discussion on MLB The Show is going to drop significantly (though maybe not completely given the nature of the message board). It'd be good for the Madden, NCAA, and other sports seasons to be included in that thread as well. You'd still have to sort through some stuff, but it would be a lot less, and those of us that don't want to read about that as much would have an option as well. And it would only add one thread.

 

Thoughts?

[Southpaw191679666239]

See, now on the other hand, I get really sick of reading everyone's updates on their personal progress on sports games. I could care less if someone is hitting .350 on their AA player on a video game. I play the game, so I understand how you can get caught up in it, but that doesn't mean others care.

 

If there was to be a separation, and I'm not entirely sure there should be one, I think having a "Sports Video Game thread" and a "Non-sports video game thread" would be the way to go. When the MLB season is over, the amount of discussion on MLB The Show is going to drop significantly (though maybe not completely given the nature of the message board). It'd be good for the Madden, NCAA, and other sports seasons to be included in that thread as well. You'd still have to sort through some stuff, but it would be a lot less, and those of us that don't want to read about that as much would have an option as well. And it would only add one thread.

 

Thoughts?

 

While I agree on the personal progress updates (even though I've chimed in before), I think questions/comments, etc. on a particular game would be helpful. I realize this isn't a video game forum, but it is geared to be a "one-stop shop" since there are more than just Cubs and baseball discussions here. I really enjoy talking with the community here, and I thought I could get more coherent answers and discussion then say, the PSN Forums where they love to type in all caps and ask asinine questions.

 

I wouldn't mind a sports and non-sports game threads. Or just a few based on genre alone. Whatever might be easier. As I do play Madden, NCAA, etc. :) However, if at the end of the day it makes more sense to keep things status quo, that is okay as well. I just thought I would bring it up for discussion.

 

As for the suggestion of NeoGAF, I tried to register an account, and it won't allow registration with a free email account. Is anyone here registered there? How did you get around that? (Aside from work e-mail, which I don't want to use.)