But who was JohnLuvas? =P what did he do that no one else around here can do now?

It sounds as if we all just have to come together and force the admins to change the layout after our needs!

Yeah, I understand you miss 'em; female gamers are RARE! espacially if they know what they're talking about! I kinda feel sad for you old timers... It's like you're Ents and all your Entwife have gone wandering off...

Oh, I sucked at making threads.  A good thread was usually one that left a lot of room for differing opinion.  It wouldn't hurt if the OP was batshit crazy or controversial, either.  For example, if you said something about how all Xbox players just play shooters.  The Xbox players could come in and show how they played multiple genres but the people that believed the argument could show how shooters dominate XBL sales.  It was open for interpretation, left room for personal experience, jokes, and some fine stealth trolling.

We need a common enemy.  We need somebody that would come in and get us all riled up and make us go to bed at night thinking about how we're going to prove that WE were right and HE was wrong.  We don't have many of those guys, now.  Today, the OP often asks and answers the question in the OP.  There isn't really much room for debate, anymore.

So many funny, intelligent and great members that I miss. So many good threads and lots of really interesting discussions. The main difference between now and then is the overall level of acvitity, we had fewer active users but they were more, well, active.
And the game related threads were often long and very deep.
Let's not forget some of the epic pissing contests either!

We had crazy predictions (truly insane, nothing like today) and people making deeper anlysis, it just seemed like the average member cared more about games.

I still love vgchartz but it has changed over time, but I honestly can't say whether its for better or for worse. That the site is a lot better from a technical point of view and in terms of recognition if beyond anyone to question though.

There are some members who have arrived in the last two years who have proven to be real assets as well, and I am thankful for every single one of them.
For epic threads, basically anything started by John Lucas, Avinash, Crazzyman or Starcraft is a good place to start. Some of them had utterly ludicrous premises and OP's but could lead to truly good debates and discussion and I feel like I learned a lot from all of it.
All in all, my time on vgchartz is by far what has given me the most growth in the field of debating and reasoning and that is valuable of every segment of one's life.

That's what I'm saying :D This place is like a savanna: dry for long periods of time, but then comes the e3 and all the announcements which brings new life!

Aaaw man, that DOES sound kinda epic :D Unfortunately I can't stir up that kind of commotion for ya... But as far as I know there's been quite a few Nintendoboys trolling the Vita thread... But that's perhaps just to blunt trolling?

Who was this ultra-PS3-fanboy? He said stuff, like - when PS3 starts in Europe it will dominate, ok didn't happen, but when Motorstorm comes it will dominate.

And what happened to the prediction-league?

Mummelmann said: So many funny, intelligent and great members that I miss. So many good threads and lots of really interesting discussions. The main difference between now and then is the overall level of acvitity, we had fewer active users but they were more, well, active. And the game related threads were often long and very deep. Let's not forget some of the epic pissing contests either! We had crazy predictions (truly insane, nothing like today) and people making deeper anlysis, it just seemed like the average member cared more about games. I still love vgchartz but it has changed over time, but I honestly can't say whether its for better or for worse. That the site is a lot better from a technical point of view and in terms of recognition if beyond anyone to question though. There are some members who have arrived in the last two years who have proven to be real assets as well, and I am thankful for every single one of them. For epic threads, basically anything started by John Lucas, Avinash, Crazzyman or Starcraft is a good place to start. Some of them had utterly ludicrous premises and OP's but could lead to truly good debates and discussion and I feel like I learned a lot from all of it. All in all, my time on vgchartz is by far what has given me the most growth in the field of debating and reasoning and that is valuable of every segment of one's life.

But don't you think that the insane predictions will return come e3, this year or the next? Why do you think there is no crazy ass predictions or deep analysis now a-days?

What kind of epic threads did they start, the old timers? Could it be that you, all the vets, have learned so much that you just shot down all those crazy statements now?

Yeah.  I tried it once.  It was when Mass Effect came to the PS3.  I pretended to be pro-Sony and said that the series should be made for the PS3 because it would only be one disc on that console and that the 360 was holding Mass Effect back.  Of course, most people knew I was just starting trouble since I'm pretty pro-360.  It's like how your girlfriend gets bored so she picks a fight just to stir things up.  But like you guys said, E3 is coming.  If that doesn't do it, nothing will.

Oh well.  More time for Xenoblade, I guess.

the what now?