Xxain speaks volume of wisdom. His double X gimmick makes him one of the most electrifying man in forum entertainments today. Unrelated to this thread, but Xxain, get Dead Island. You probably won't like it because it's first-person and plays like your generic WRPG, but it's actually kind of fun. It has co-op if you didn't know.
Some thoughts on things:
1. People claiming that we're near the end of the gen and no big recent news caused the lack of discussion. WRONG! That didn't stop neogaf and, to a lesser Xxtent, GameSpot from having quality gaming discussions. Max Payne 3 recently came out; where are the discussions of that game? I see them a lot of them in GS, but not here.
2. Official news threads discourages some people from participating. We won't know where to look in that thread for certain news, and by the time we see the news on the title, the people most likely already discussed about it and moved on to the next piece of news. A recent example was in the movie discussion thread. (I don't know why we have a movie discussion thread when we have a forum dedicated to such thing). Anyways, in the movie discussion thread, a few users were discussing the movie Drive. I saw that Drive was in the title and decided to check out the thread, so I could talked about it as well. When I got there, I was already a day or two late. The users already finished talking about the movie and moved on to discuss something else. I just said my piece and left the thread without having an actual discussion.
3. Unrelated to the OP, but the moderation here is terrible. You get banned for the smallest things like calling someone a troll or fanboy despite if it's true or not. Also, posting a negative opinion on a certain game causes a ruckus among the community. Back then, you had no fears about disagreeing with the majority and stating a negative opinion on a popular game. Now, you get reported and possibly even banned for saying something negative about a game even if you have played it. I believe Kyliedog was a victim of this. It's like some users can't handle negative opinions and just want a place where everyone agrees that *insert game/console* is awesome.
