How was the VGC of Old?! Newbs and Vets welcome alike!

[MaxwellGT2000]

Signalstar said:

A brief trip down memory lane:

LBP will be huge!

I blame Wii Fit!

"Whats the first game you played that made you shit yourself?" <-- This was an actual thread title

ioi-->Brett-->ioi

ioi 2 best selling game of all time.

Every game was considered a flop.

"Are you a virgin?" <-- possibly greatest thread ever

"Taylor Swift: she's the female Beatles" <--- I can't believe I actually miss this

FFXIII for 360 announcement broke the site and the rest of the internet.

GTAIV will kill the Wii.

Kirby 007 (Let's sing Bohemian Rhapsody)

What happened to BengaBenga?

That dude who did a bunch of drugs, had sex with his cousin, and convinced d21lewis that he was a girl.

Kudos to those who get all of these references.

 

 

I get them all.

And Rath pretty much hit the nail on the head, we had batshit crazy members that were fun to mess with as a collective, but they never caused any harm, they didn't start flaming usually if you called them on it, it never derailed the thread, so it was all good.  

Biggest things were the deeper thoughts on development, business, and sales (demographics and such).  We had a lot of threads on these topics, usually doing it to death, but once a new spike in sales happened we had new reason to dive deeper into why... then late 2008 hit and the site got very popular and with popularity you get members that didn't jive with these types of discussions, if you called them on their wild assumptions it turned into flame wars and thread derailment, and then only the most basic of insights were discussed about the gaming industry... so yeah the VGC of old was better community wise, though I think VGC did what it needed to do to get bigger, just QC should have happened.