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Brannon said:
Please note that NeoGAF was mentioned prominently in the Official XBox Magazine, and that one of the posters, m0dus, is developing a game called Last Alarm for XBLA.
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Well, yeah, but the article about m0dus and Ghost was written by someone from the forums anyway.
 
alistairw said:
Well, yeah, but the article about m0dus and Ghost was written by someone from the forums anyway.
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so for it to qualify it has to be written by someone who doesn't visit GAF.... how is that going to work exactly?
 
polg said:
I think this could fit this thread:
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=509632

"why are there forums like neogaf?"

From early 2007, but I just found it last week
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NEO GAF is seriously the worst game forum in the world. What fun is forum when you cant express your opinion?
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oooh, did you hear that GAF? Are you gonna take that from TXB? Hmm? You gonna let them talk about you like that? :lol

But WAIT, we have a hero!

bsinnott
Banned
Re: Why are there forums like NeoGAF?

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All you **** teamxbox users can go **** your ****ing ghetto Xbox ******s.

GAF FOR ****ING LIFE
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bsinnott: you're aaalright.

Anyway this coming from the site that has threads like "Is Wii more powerful than the Xbox?," "Star Wars Games Blow," and "i'll take viva pinata party animals over little big planet any day."
 
Scrow said:
so for it to qualify it has to be written by someone who doesn't visit GAF.... how is that going to work exactly?
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Well, I'd say not. I meant that the fact that the article mentions them isn't a sign of GAF's notability.
 
So I take it from the wiki that Gaming-Age began in 2000? I bet it was awesome, too bad I missed out. Didn't touch gaming sites since happy puppy in the ninties.
 
Here's that thread about GAF's shout out in Sonic Rivals PSP credits.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133085&highlight=Sonic+credits

And the pic for those too lazy to click on the link.

sonicrivals_gaf.jpg
 
rakka said:
Why do you even bother, it'll be deleted before.
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Because it's actually grown. The more resources you can find that links GAF to being one of the forerunners in gaming industry news, the better the chances are of having that wiki page stick around.
 
lips said:
So I take it from the wiki that Gaming-Age began in 2000? I bet it was awesome, too bad I missed out. Didn't touch gaming sites since happy puppy in the ninties.
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That bit of info is wrong. The forum was created during the 90's. I joined GAF back in January 2000 and it was already a thriving community at that time.
 
Yeah, that was a bit of a guess on my part, as I was poking around GA and saw a news article mentioning a new forum that was dated 2000. I've been here some time, under a different name back then, but I completely forgot when I first joined (whether it was in high school or when I was already in university). Maybe somebody can e-mail Jim Cordeira and ask him when exactly they opened the first forum?
 
I frequent the GAF since a while now. But I have to admit this is the most complete, fast and amusing place to inform and discuss about videogames. A crazy place, sure. But between all the jokes that circulate around, the best news (and the most) comes from here. And the analysis of the market are current value here.
 
If anyone's interested, I'm cleaning up the following articles (in order of priority):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_Wild_World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Age:_Train_Your_Brain_in_Minutes_a_Day! (gonna put it through the Peer Review [a thing where people tell you if anything at all is wrong with the article])
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi-Robo! (I need someone who's beaten the game to write-up the plot)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_Moon_64
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby's_Dream_Land (managed to get it through to "Good Article" class, working on A class, and hopefully "Featured Article" class)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_A_Link_to_the_Past (it's got a long ways to go - I've only really worked on the plot section, and I'm not even half-way done with that)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UmJammer_Lammy (worked on gameplay, have to work on everything else now)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires:_The_Age_of_Kings (worked on it - if anyone wants to do their own independent copyedit, be my guest)
 
These forums have been around since the late 90's. I remember stumbling across some kind of proto GAF way back in the day that was similar in appearence to the old Next Generation forums, and I started posting here as GDGF around '97 or '98 Also, maybe my mind is playing tricks, but wasn't Gaming-Age something else before it was Gaming-Age? I thought the website proper was renamed sometime before the second E3...
 
Evilore owns NeoGAF and should be considered the creator of the "NeoGAF" version of these forums, along with a couple of others, I'm sure.

GAF was created by Jim and probably a couple of others when it was Gaming Age's message boards.
 
Someone should do a write up about the whole Ohpah-Age saga, how we got around EZ Boards charging the forum, and a list of forum Moderators and Administrators (*cough*) we've had over the years.

(cause you can't really talk about Neo GAF without talking about GAF proper)
 
Stumpokapow said:
This is pretty much exactly what should NOT be in a potential NeoGAF article and exactly why previous articles were deleted. If your idea of approaching a wikipedia article is "I CAN'T WAIT TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW COOL SOMETHING I LIKE IS" rather than "I plan to write an article that provides information that is necessary to understand an important question or another article", you should not be writing Wikipedia articles--you should be making a Geocities fan page.
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Wow. seriousbusiness.gif?

I honestly don't see what's wrong with showing people the community side of NeoGAF. I guess it might not be very encyclopedia-like, but it's friggin' NeoGAF.
 
if you're going to have something you should have something about neogaf's interviews/podcasts like the one with wasabiking interviewing david jaffe, etc etc. that's pretty notable
 
Nominated for speedy deletion.
This place is just another forum; it is not 4chan, it is not Something Awful.
Take it to Encyclopedia Dramatica; that's where in-jokes, pages about cliques and all that other shit belong.

EDIT:
Before I get accused I did not just vandalise the page.
 
Bowen_B said:
Nominated for speedy deletion.
This place is just another forum; it is not 4chan, it is not Something Awful.
Take it to Encyclopedia Dramatica; that's where in-jokes, pages about cliques and all that other shit belong.
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I removed it, because with people actively working on referencing, there's no practical reason in deleting - the only thing it could do is prevent the article from being referenced.

Also, you're supposed to put it on the top of the article.
 
Jackson said:
if you're going to have something you should have something about neogaf's interviews/podcasts like the one with wasabiking interviewing david jaffe, etc etc. that's pretty notable
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Wasn't there one with Cliffy, too?

And hell, there's basically been a community-level interview with you on several occasions, given that you've taken questions on and discussed the game you designed / are directing.

Bowen_B said:
Nominated for speedy deletion.
This place is just another forum; it is not 4chan, it is not Something Awful.
Take it to Encyclopedia Dramatica; that's where in-jokes, pages about cliques and all that other shit belong.
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Attitudes like these are precisely what's wrong with ideas like Wikipedia.
 
Evilore aka Tyler Malka is the owner and creator of NeoGAF

GA proper was created by Sam Kennedy.
 
Bowen_B said:
Take it to Encyclopedia Dramatica; that's where in-jokes, pages about cliques and all that other shit belong.
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Encyclopedia Dramatica has a couple of paragraphs about NeoGAF already, on the DS page:

The most important hub of gaming fanboyism on the internets, the NeoGAF Forums are a nauseating potpourri of hype, unsubstantiated claims, and pathetic dick-measuring. Recognized and frequented by a host of gaming "professionals" and "media," it is the foremost authority as to which silly game-related memes will be parcelled out for acceptance amidst the mainstream internet community.

Though formerly an endangered species on these forums, the Nintendo fanboy has parlayed the DS phenomenon into an inalienable siege upon the limited mindshare of both NeoGAF posters and moderators. At the center of their cachet is the weekly thread of Japanese hardware and software statistics, which starkly enumerates the DS's unprecedented domination of the Japanese gaming market. An empirically-supported circle jerk of all things Nintendo, these threads are a weekly platform upon which fanboys claim personal achievement and credibility through giddy admiration of their favorite video game company.

Furthermore, these threads are an absolute minefield for anyone not hopelessly enamored with Nintendo, as the mere suggestion that DS isn't the best invention since movable type will get you an instant permaban. Such practices have since infected the remainder of the forums, making NeoGAF the place to be for gamers who want to have their thoughts moderated by an autocratic dumb****.
 
So the inventor of GAF and basically the internet as we know it got his mod privilages revoked? Rough.

I don't think that mods should be able to dethrone other mods. I think it should be like the Greek gods and mods should have to enlist a champion to do their bidding.
 
radiuhm said:
Wow, I totally forgot gaming-age was still around, haven't visited that sight in ages. Looks like I'm learning something from your Wiki page already.
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Your not alone, most people who posted on GAF didn't visit Gaming-Age either.
 
Jeebus that place really is up-tight. I made an accidental omission of the actual current owner of the site yesterday, and after some people tried to correct it, I was made aware. This one established editor keeps reverting their change, and so I have now tried to recorrect it, but with a reference, and so he accuses me of being a "sockpuppet." These people truly have too much time on their hands.

Edit: And this being AFTER I was the one who originally listed the "creator" and edited a huge amount of unrelated parts of the article, most of which remains untouched.
 
DarthWoo said:
Jeebus that place really is up-tight. I made an accidental omission of the actual current owner of the site yesterday, and after some people tried to correct it, I was made aware. This one established editor keeps reverting their change, and so I have now tried to recorrect it, but with a reference, and so he accuses me of being a "sockpuppet." These people truly have too much time on their hands.

Edit: And this being AFTER I was the one who originally listed the "creator" and edited a huge amount of unrelated parts of the article, most of which remains untouched.
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If you want me to, I'll go beat him up
 
Who is editing the page?

I tried correcting the owner/creator as per a previous post, but it got changed right away and I got a message about it.

I go on there now and I've got a message saying that someone has accused me of 'sock-puppetry'... WTF?! :lol
 
Somebody keeps adding a snippet about piracy with extremely poor grammar, even after I repeatedly undo their changes.
 
cjelly said:
DarthWoo, have you seen you're userpage? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DarthWoo

You've been suspected as being a sock puppet of me! :D
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DarthWoo said:
Jeebus that place really is up-tight. I made an accidental omission of the actual current owner of the site yesterday, and after some people tried to correct it, I was made aware. This one established editor keeps reverting their change, and so I have now tried to recorrect it, but with a reference, and so he accuses me of being a "sockpuppet." These people truly have too much time on their hands.

Edit: And this being AFTER I was the one who originally listed the "creator" and edited a huge amount of unrelated parts of the article, most of which remains untouched.
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:P
 
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