Depends on the game. They usually have them for JRPGs. The new ones are fancy HTML ones with embedded pictures and videos too.
Does it ever strike you that Resetera is a ‘forum’? Those are practically dead.
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Depends on the game. They usually have them for JRPGs. The new ones are fancy HTML ones with embedded pictures and videos too.
I only semi recently discovered this place (I may have had an account at the old place like 10 years ago, but I never really used it back then) but I remember like 8-10 years ago going onto different specific game forums (the old Bungie.Net, CODZombies forums, official Activision forums etc) and I always enjoyed that. Really sucks that pretty much all of them are dead now adays.
Really glad this site exists though. It's fun to talk with very liberal people who also play and enjoy video games on here.
Really glad this site exists though. It's fun to talk with very liberal people who also play and enjoy video games on here.
I've looked for some Age of Wonders guides, and neither 3 nor Planetfall have any. By contrast, Shadow Magic has five.
Second this, I exclusively use Apollo for Reddit. I don't even use Reddit in desktop.
I love Era but even it seems like its slowing down now.
I miss how active the old place was at its peak.
The seasonal Anime thread for example, i'd peek in there every couple of days and people would post multiple images per episode they were on like everyone did it.
So i'd just scroll through and find a bunch of interesting looking shows.
I miss how active the old place was at its peak.
The seasonal Anime thread for example, i'd peek in there every couple of days and people would post multiple images per episode they were on like everyone did it.
So i'd just scroll through and find a bunch of interesting looking shows.
the problem with twitter (and other modern sites like reddit, etc) is that threads aren't chronological. they all use an upvote system, which makes actually discussing anything a total pain. it's fun to read and interact with, but it absolutely does not replace a forum.
It's just way easier getting a hold of someone on Discord/Twitter/etc. than it is on a forum, and conversations feel more alive obviously. But I just hate that there's really no active forum (haha) to have in-depth discussions without clogging up the discord channel. It's usually small talk (+ memes) for the most part, which is fine and has a place, but eh.
Also, others probably feel the opposite way - but I don't like having all of my communities under one account. I've had school projects where people set up a group discord or something and it's just... urgh
Also, others probably feel the opposite way - but I don't like having all of my communities under one account. I've had school projects where people set up a group discord or something and it's just... urgh
Anything that gives me vibes of that bygone age i call my youth is welcome, so this forum is part of that of course!
"Those are practically dead."
I like a good forum for news and whatnot. Nothing wrong with discord, I use it every day, but for announcements, news and stuff I like to use a forum.
So are we :\/
I like a good forum for news and whatnot. Nothing wrong with discord, I use it every day, but for announcements, news and stuff I like to use a forum.
I actually think about this fairly often. I remember being a part of a bunch of different forums. I think TeamXbox forums has my fondest memories. Then forums mostly died and are still dead. Thats why I like this place.
It's utterly unreadable for any sort of real discussion though. Maybe there are subreddits that are better than it, but most of the posts I see the upvote system rarely elevates quality posts to the top, even when top comments are not a contest of who makes the best pun it's very rare to see any sort of real discussion. Outside of heavily moderated subreddits like AskHistorians, which are not meant to be useful for discussion.
To be fair, I've found IGN walkthroughs to be absolutely excellent for this. They seem to cover most modern games, are nicely formatted, include pictures and/or videos and are very thorough.
Forums are really my favorite part of the internet. I used to spend a ton of time on the Gamespot forums back in the Xbox 360 days... Great memories. The old place was good for a time and I've also enjoyed some Box Office forums from time to time.
Social media just leads to people striving for attention and likes. Real discussion rarely happens, I feel like. Just a waste.
If this forum were to die, I think I would spend a lot less time on the internet...
Social media just leads to people striving for attention and likes. Real discussion rarely happens, I feel like. Just a waste.
If this forum were to die, I think I would spend a lot less time on the internet...
yeah there's not much like a miscellaneous forum like this, where you can see basically any and all topics being discussed in one place.
This is how I feel about forums, and why all these social media ways of chatting does nothing for me:
So here I am
Growin' older all the time
Lookin' older all the time
Feelin' younger in my mind
And here I am
Doin' everything I can
Holdin' on to what I am
Pretendin' I'm a superman
Likewise.
So here I am
Growin' older all the time
Lookin' older all the time
Feelin' younger in my mind
And here I am
Doin' everything I can
Holdin' on to what I am
Pretendin' I'm a superman
Likewise.
It's a huge shame that forums are becoming less popular.
Every other alternative is terrible for preservation. Discord is basically only good for the here and now and reddit is terrible if you try to actually follow a conversation. You have to play a game of trace the line just to find out what comment another one is related to.
I just don't udnerstand how they haven't changed their way of handling threads. If I go back to a thread it's impossible to find new comments even if you sort after new.
It's like reddit only got popular because everything under the sun has it's own subreddit andn ot because it's actually user friendly.
Every other alternative is terrible for preservation. Discord is basically only good for the here and now and reddit is terrible if you try to actually follow a conversation. You have to play a game of trace the line just to find out what comment another one is related to.
I just don't udnerstand how they haven't changed their way of handling threads. If I go back to a thread it's impossible to find new comments even if you sort after new.
It's like reddit only got popular because everything under the sun has it's own subreddit andn ot because it's actually user friendly.
Discord is great for a conversation in the moment, but it fucking sucks if you want to look at past discussions or if you're active at the wrong time. Forums are always superior for having pages that I can go through at my own pace.
I don't miss the days of signatures or status updates on forums though, ugh.
It also sucks that a lot of fan communities are on twitter where content isn't tagged consistently, so if you miss an update it's nigh impossible to search for it...
I don't miss the days of signatures or status updates on forums though, ugh.
It also sucks that a lot of fan communities are on twitter where content isn't tagged consistently, so if you miss an update it's nigh impossible to search for it...
I think forums are the best structures to have a meaningful discussion for more than a couple of seconds. Reddit and Twitter are most of the time millions of people screaming into the clouds with some rare echo.
I couldn't get into Discord, similar with how I didn't really use IRC chats back in the day. Like it was fun for a couple of days and then it just seemed pointless.
I couldn't get into Discord, similar with how I didn't really use IRC chats back in the day. Like it was fun for a couple of days and then it just seemed pointless.
Have you heard of ResetEra Platinum?
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It invariably boils down to chatroom search functions being a dumpster fire.
People will come back to forums onze they finally realize that Discord and Reddit and Twitter are all completely useless if you want to have a conversation over a longer period of time than 5 minutes.
No they are not , Discord/Reddit/Twitter etc will probably get outclassed by newer apps , social media won't die out anytime soon.
ERA age, how old are you?
I was just curious on the overall age range of this forum and all. I'm 22, how about you guys?
www.resetera.com
100% the latter. Essentially no younger people find this place, or at least they don't make accounts here.
Pretty much lol. Places like tumblr are just as incomprehensible, but maybe that's because they want to be more like a chatroom too..?
Something Awful still exists. Parts of it are bad, like GBS, but Lowtax has been defeated and it's got one of the better traditional/tabletop games communities on the internet, and some really good pictures of cats. If you think the leftists here are insufficiently decorous when they talk about Bezos going to space, C-SPAM will blow your mind. Also a fair few well-educated and experienced experts willing to post cool stuff about their specialist subjects, and I'm not being sarcastic, there are some cool historians and published authors and such floating around.
Still gonna cost you :10bux:.
The user-created iOS app is free, though, and a really solid and well-updated browsing experience.
Still gonna cost you :10bux:.
The user-created iOS app is free, though, and a really solid and well-updated browsing experience.
ERA age, how old are you?
I was just curious on the overall age range of this forum and all. I'm 22, how about you guys?
100% the latter. Essentially no younger people find this place, or at least they don't make accounts here.
wow, that is super interesting - each new generation will grow up in a different corner of the internet from now on
Reddit for more specific sub-communities, Discord for more instant conversation, and Era for a more permanent, broad news discussions and topics is how I divy things currently. There's room for both, and I honestly think in time forums could still make a comeback in some form.
They can pry mine from my dead, cold hands.
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Lol brilliant, you made me all nostalgic
I miss how the internet was when I was growing up, but I realize that the internet while I was growing up that I miss is never coming back because it was a part of my naivety of our world's issues that made it what it was. Like I look back and the amount of casual racism and sexism me and high-school friends shared through memes and internet references is staggering, yet I never had a second thought about it back then.
And that includes forum culture, I doubt it would be the same because I'm actually aware and realize that alot of my and fellow posters actions in those forums weren't actually the greatest.
And that includes forum culture, I doubt it would be the same because I'm actually aware and realize that alot of my and fellow posters actions in those forums weren't actually the greatest.
Yep totally agree with this.
I was a frequent contributor on a wrestling site: smashwrestling during my early 20's and it was a really great place to talk to folks, expanded out beyond WWE wrestling and I remember having some really constructive and heated debates with people who I will likely never meet and have obviously completely lost touch with.
Also the old Through The Looking Glass (TTLG) from the original Thief video game days was really special.
I was a frequent contributor on a wrestling site: smashwrestling during my early 20's and it was a really great place to talk to folks, expanded out beyond WWE wrestling and I remember having some really constructive and heated debates with people who I will likely never meet and have obviously completely lost touch with.
Also the old Through The Looking Glass (TTLG) from the original Thief video game days was really special.
Yeah but I appreciate it exists. It's not the only forum I use, but it's the most active.
I miss forums, Discord is more like a chat room and difficult to scroll back and find the stuff you missed. Reddit is a mess of people climbing over eachother to get the most liked comment.
I'm also really happy that they're not modernizing this forum with "likes" or a similar system. Let's talk (or react accordingly).
I miss forums, Discord is more like a chat room and difficult to scroll back and find the stuff you missed. Reddit is a mess of people climbing over eachother to get the most liked comment.
I'm also really happy that they're not modernizing this forum with "likes" or a similar system. Let's talk (or react accordingly).
I don't see a conversation advantage of forums vs Reddit comments/replies