New forum?

red_ice

I just aquired an xbox and i was patroling the games boards in search of a board suitable to post some questions when i noticed there was no boards suitable to post on...

So, i would think that i am not the only person to have an xbox, playstation, playstation2, gamecube or even atari jaguar!

hows about a 'console' board?

Cheers

sceptre

Ignoring the forum suggestion for the minute, there have been quite a few console questions/discussions in the Games forum so you could post your questions there.

red_ice

fair enough, there is a board for general games..but there seems to be no board for consoles and console games only! There are online games that have their own colums, but i think there is a lil console community out there that wouldnt mind their own board!

R_Tribesman

Yeh, i totally agree, i've got a ps2 and maybe an xbox on the way. Point takin about the games forum, but 'games forum' is pretty vague. Considering that some games are so big they need their own forum its probably not right to have just to have a 'games' forum for every platform.

sionnach

i think a console board is a good idea, especially seein as they're makin their way into online play. Im not a console gamer myself, but they shud b treated just as well as pc gamers

Shinji

Er, the Games board doesn't say "PC Games", it says "Games". We've had PC and console discussions there living happily side by side ever since the board was started up - and given the huge number of cross-platform games these days, I don't see any good reason to split that up, as for the majority of people it'd just mean they have to visit two boards in order to find the same information as they could previously find on one.

DeVore

Games *is* getting kinda busy though. This could be a good way to split it and keep the thread-flow manageable.

I read games every week or so and theres about 30 threads to get through.

DeV.

DeVore

Also with xbox live and online console gaming (which I'm kinda getting into) it might also explode that direction. I personally know a good 20 people who play halo on a lan on xboxen every month.

I cant think of another way to split games ***... and I think its getting to the splitting stage.

DeV.

DeVore

Actually looking at the Games section its very long.

We might want to think about a higher level division too...

like 3-4 big definitions it ">>" beside them.
Ala Sci/Tech....
Thoughts anyone?

DeV

patch

Why don't you make a section for consoles Q+A then?
I quite like games the way it is now, a nice broad area of info.

Praetorian

Two sections would be ideal. Games (pc) and Console Games.

CuLT

*Shudders*

What about all the other types of games?

If it's getting crowded an entirely new structure might be ideal. Like what was done for Sci/Tech .

Shinji

Also with xbox live and online console gaming (which I'm kinda getting into) it might also explode that direction

Well, if it does, then there's obviously grounds for creating a forum specifically for Xbox Live and/or PS2 Online discussion. Actually, that might not be a bad idea - lets people swap GamerTags and discuss network issues and so on without flooding the general games discussion board with it.

I'm strongly opposed to the idea of splitting up PC Games and Console Games into separate forums, however. You say 30 threads a week as though this was some kind of unmanageable size of a forum; that still represents less than six threads a day being created (assuming quieter weekends). Any smaller than that and you end up with two far smaller and less useful boards.

I guess there's a fairly major difference of opinion here over how well the whole board splitting thing works, though. Personally I think the new Sci/Tech tree is utterly shit and have completely stopped using any of the boards in it, which I would previously have casually browsed through once every couple of days - so obviously enough I'd prefer not to see the same happening to the Games section, as it would put me off using that area as well.

amp

As usual on these matters, I agree with Shinji's viewpoint. Games is busy, but easily managed. Most gamers tend to play both pc and at least one console. An increasing number of console games end up on the pc and visa versa. Also I think it'd ruin the "vibe" as it were on the Games forum.

jesus_thats_gre

How about a Games forum and a seperate Fanboy forum? Nah? Didn't think so...

I personally think it would be best to leave it as it is for a while longer and see what happens.

richindub2

r_tribesman and red_ice for mods and it gets my vote!

woosaysdan

and maybe somewhere for game cheats or a game cheats forum???

Rabies

Originally posted by woosaysdan
and maybe somewhere for game cheats or a game cheats forum???

I don't think there is enough traffic in the games forum to warrant a cheats forum. Splitting up the forum is a bad idea in my opinion even if it is consoles/pc divison. leave it as it is. the mods are doing a decent job with it.

woosaysdan

Originally posted by Rabies
I don't think there is enough traffic in the games forum to warrant a cheats forum. Splitting up the forum is a bad idea in my opinion even if it is consoles/pc divison. leave it as it is. the mods are doing a decent job with it.

you'd be surprised

Earthhorse

If you were to split the Games board as suggested then what would become of the various interesting discussions on boardgames? I realise you could create a Boardgames board but its unlikely to get the traffic that any interesting threads would ever take place.

Two of the best threads on the board in recent times were about Risk and Go if I'm not mistaken.

Also it's pretty obvious form the titles of threads which ones are of interest and which aren't so I don't think it's a big job for any user to get what they're looking for out of the board as it stands.

Shinji

you'd be surprised

Wow, good point!

Pepe LeFrits

Well i'm swayed...

amp

Personally, I'm shocked we didn't think of that before.