I do miss the old VGchartz sometimes. I lurked for about 2 years before I joined and always got a lot of entertainment from reading the threads. There were some really crazy threads; the console "wars" had just begun and everyone was a hardware/marketing expert coming up with mad predictions. Some of the PS3 fans in particularly were incredibly memorable. I think leo-j even got a full blown article written about his time at VGchartz after requesting a ban and MikeB used to start massive threads about how great PS3 hardware was but would never admit when he was wrong
The game related threads were truly passionate too. Users became synonymous with the games they were hyped up for.