I've never seen the forums as dead as they are right now

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

happydolphin said:

Khuutra said:

Then the answer is "no" and that's why you can't hold a conversation with me; I want to talk about games.

I'm not sure I understand how talking about the presentation aspect of a game is not talking about a game. Do you mean you like to limit your convos to gameplay?

Also, I know you're a castlevania fan. I'm curious as to why you never made a thread for that game, about anything Castlevania related, be it sales, graphics, gameplay, timelines, characters. On the subject, how did your Mass Effect thread go?

Because to me I feel like there's room for improvement in terms of your participation, as well as some other invaluable posters, but something is stopping you. Have some of your favorite threads been sabotaged?

The long-suffering graphic conversation is a pissing contest about console abilities, not about the games in question, and as consequence is not a good conversation about games.

I thought I had made a Castlevania thread, actually, though if I didn't it's based on prior experience; I made a big Mass Effect thread (as you have mentioned) wherein I put in a lot of effort, and there was a Fire Emblem thread in much the same vein, and perhap a few others

All of them met their inevitable fates because I was, in the end, the only person positng in them; if you have to post three times in a row in a topic to keep it alive, it is time to let it die because the conversation is simply not there. So too happened with the "Zelda marathon" thread, and some others.

I have been trying to get good conversations going in this forum ever since I noticed there was a problem in that respect (about three years ago, maybe a little less). They never last long, in spite of how hard I try. People here just aren't that interested in talking about games for the sake of games, they - or at least, many of them, it's not fair to characterize everyone this way - are in it for pissing contests, for oneupsmanship, and for spam. It's an altogether adversarial, non-constructive environment, and it stifles conversation wherever those seeds are desperately sewn.

My efforts to troll the thread aside, i thought your Metroid thread did decently well.

The Zelda marathon thing i don't remember well, but i remember that my issue with it was a matter of time. I lacked the resources to participate, and therefore did not, which i imagine was the issue with others as well at the time.