How many gaming focused forums are still around?

[Apexnexius]

Steam is a great client and gaming sales platform. That said;
Where are the popular gaming forums 2020?
Not thinking of things like Reddit and its different sub-reddits based on upvoting and downvoting, and the like. Discord does not cut it for me.
I feel like social media is for the creators, publishers and public relations, not for us average gamers. Most "threads" seem like creative stealthy PR. And threads that are popular disappear just as fast as they popped up, thus making everything hectic and lacking in continuity and community.

I'm thinking of proper gaming related chronologically post-forums that are still popular.


I only know about a few old ones..

GameFaqs
NeoGAF
VGChartz
IGN, EuroGamer and Gamespot (are these three forums any good these days or are they just as bad as they used to be?).

Buying games on Steam and discussing them elsewhere would be great. The game specific forums here on Steam is a spoiler cesspool and lack active moderation.

Do you guys know of any good gaming focused forums?


Edit: Typos.

[Apexnexius]

Originally posted by Game Over:

> good forum
> gaming focused

Pick one.

There has to be a good forum out there that is also gaming focused !

[Edge_Master]

There's probably no "Good" solely gaming forums, but most other fourms that focus on a particular topic be it cars or mountain bikes or something will generally have a gaming sub forum or a gaming thread in off topic.

[BARTMAN]

THERE IS ONE PEOPLE ARE USING CALLED FACEBOOK NOW

[BARTMAN]

MY DAD AND GRANDAD ARE ON THERE AND ONLY POST ABOUT QANON THOUGH

[Masque]

OP

There are quite a few forums.

Rock Paper Shotgun, Polygon, Dark Side of Gaming, Gamepressure, Destructoid, PC Gamer, to name just a few I read on the regular.

[Dwerklesberry]

Once the pronouns crowd take over, it stops being about gaming, its just about them, so no.

[Apexnexius]

Originally posted by N-95 Masque of Clavicus Vile:

OP

There are quite a few forums.

Rock Paper Shotgun, Polygon, Dark Side of Gaming, Gamepressure, Destructoid, PC Gamer, to name just a few I read on the regular.

Thanks for the serious reply N-95. I'll check them out. I remember buying the PC Gamer magazine back in the 90s. Polygon, Rock Paper Shotgun and Destructoid.. knew about those, but didn't know they had forums. Dark Side of Gaming sounds intriguing (cool name). Gamepressure, never heard about it!

Again thanks for the good suggestions N-95

Helpful people like you are exactly what I remember from good forums many years back.

Thanks again :)

[Masque]

Originally posted by Dwerklesberry:

Once the pronouns crowd take over, it stops being about gaming, its just about them, so no.

That's most gaming sites I listed. All except DSoG, actually. Destructoid is less political, but Polygon, RPS, and PCG are mob-run. Of the three, Polygon has the least toxic conversations between people who disagree, but, like here, there are a couple of commentators whose reason for existence seems to be finding and fighting the boogymen. And of the three, RPS hates everyone to the right of Castro.

I've seen a few reasonable debates at Polygon. None at RPS that I can remember have been reasonable disagreements. You agree with the lockstep, or you are a "trash human being" and deserve "a brick".

[Masque]

PC Gamer locks comments on a lot of articles, because they're cowards.

Destructoid sticks to games, and its writers do too. Which is why I like them second best.

I like Polygon the best, because the articles, though mostly far to the left, are well-written.

[Apexnexius]

I remember back in the 1990's discussing gaming together, reading and enjoying other peoples opinions and posts online. That was a huge difference for me compared to the 1980's (back in the 80's the only people I could discuss my gaming hobby with was my friends).
The 1990's was just like "the floodgates are opening" for all of us who shared gaming as a hobby.
I miss that.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Apexnexius:

I remember back in the 1990's discussing gaming together, reading and enjoying other peoples opinions and posts online. That was a huge difference for me compared to the 1980's (back in the 80's the only people I could discuss my gaming hobby with was my friends).
The 1990's was just like "the floodgates are opening" for all of us who shared gaming as a hobby.
I miss that.

Intelligence agencies started specifically attacking them because of it.

Most obnoxious sjw and qanons are actually balding alcoholics who work for an alphabet company, just like how 70% of reddit traffic comes from Fort Lauderdale and 1/3 of Wikipedia was “written” by a lone border patrol agent.

Unhappy people are too tired to complain, and too angry to organize.

Easier to just hate on the first person who won’t suck it down for you.

[Von-Reaper]

I miss the old 90's/00's gaming forms especially 5th and 6th gen it was nicer back then.
I miss it,can we go back to that?
Instead of political bs?

GameSpot use to be good idk what happened to it though.

Idk if newgrounds exists still but i Haven't been there in ages.

[Apexnexius]

VGChartz seems to be very dedicated, but to the point of being kind of absurd.
The console wars are still raging in those forums under the guise of sales reporting.

[BARTMAN]

HAVE YOU GUYS TRIED OUT FACEBOOK?