[DevonCory]

Let me make something clear: I like this place. ;D It's my kind of forum: well maintained, well moderated, with nice, coherent, mature users and a minimum of bullshit.

Now, two of my great passions in life are completely opposite of one another: gaming and training. And while Amaz0ns is a great place to talk about training, muscles and muscle growth, the same can't be said about the gaming stuff. A thread or two is ok, but there's so much to talk about that it wouldn't feel right to clutter the "Fandom & Nerd Stuff" section with gaming geekiness. Now while Lingster is Mister Websites, I doubt that he has a gaming forum hidding up his sleeves and so, I was wondering if anyone around here had a site to suggest me. Something with the feel of this place, but for games instead.

Thanks! 🙂

[Sludig]

Well, what sort of gaming? Role playing games, mini's games or video/computer games?  For All three there is RPGnet, they have sections for all three of them. http://forum.rpg.net/index.php

As a side note, I'm a gamer as well, all three of those categories as well. 😀

[DevonCory]

Well, what sort of gaming?

Oh ish, sorry. Forgot to specify. Video games.

[Debido-San]

Gamefaqs.com is pretty much the most obvious and well known site for video gaming discussion and walkthroughs (discussion on game-specific forums, but not so much as a news site)

IGN and Gamespot are both fairly old gaming news sites, but I don't visit them very often. I often hear about how Gamespot's reviews are biased based on who's currently sponsoring them.

For gaming news, I have 1up.com bookmarked and ready to go. The editors are pretty much the same editors as Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) Magazine, which I've been reading for years, and they have video podcasts that make it entertaining to catch some of the latest news on a few games every week (Last week's 1UP Show was about Fallout 3, Resistance 2, and LittleBigPlanet) http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3145462

Finally, if you just like to -watch- things, with minimal reading, there's Gametrailers.com. They have a few shows to watch as well, and fairly unbiased reviews. Of course, their main thing is *ta da!* game trailers! Better quality than YouTube, and downloadable at that.

Hope this helps!

[BlackKusanagi]

Well said Debs.

[TC2]

Actually Gamespot is not the one that is considered biased, rather IGN is.  Gamespot in fact had posted some "controversial" reviews on games that were supposed to be popular and also heavily advertised.  For instance Kane & Lynch, shortly after the negative review was posted the reviewer was fired, but the score and the review remained the same.  Terrible!

I would say gamespot has the MOST news and reviews that would be worth checking out.

[Lingster]

Aren't they all just flacks for the game manufacturers?

[Debido-San]

Aren't they all just flacks for the game manufacturers?

lol oh Lingster, you haven't changed a bit!

That's the suspicion for pretty much any video game website these days. The best thing to do in every case is read the review, and not look at the number/letter based score. A lot of reviews will list fault after fault, (The camera sucks, the story is dissappointing, the gameplay is choppy) but just because the graphics are pretty, the game may get an A or 9.0 kinda score. From what I've noticed, rarely do reviews outright lie in the text part, but will give the score a nice little boost.

lol and TC2, I forgot to mention that IGN is biased as well, that was what I lumped IGN and Gamespot together for, it just kinda slipped my mind.  😀

[DevonCory]

Thanks for the info guys, but I got these sites all covered: Gametrailers, GamePro, GameSpot, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Screw Attack… I keep an eye on most of these.

The problem is that their forums are, to put it simply, dreadful. Don't expect a coherent discussion or an intelligent opinion there, you won't get one. And that's what I'm basically looking for: a nice little gaming forum. Like I said earlier, a place like here, but for video games.

[TC2]

Ah a FORUM!  Wow, that's much harder to come by.

I don't even know where to start, ironically the best places I've found for some game discussion are the MMO forums like in City of Heroes, but you would need a subscription to participate there, so that's out of the question.

Hmm… don't know, good luck finding one though!

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