Deerock71
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Somebody needs to animate Thanos flossing.Why fight it?
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We are a dying breed, how do we adapt?
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Melon Husk
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Just wait until Reddit implodes due to some bs corporate controversy, plenty of newcomers then
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ShadyAcshuns
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What are these "bommers" you speak of? They sound terrifying.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
ByWatterson
Member
Gen alpha is getting trained on Switch (trust me, I have two).
We got this, bro.
We got this, bro.
Success
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Which games get attacked like the ones you mentioned? I can only think of The Last of Us posts.
Also do you have some examples of these edge posts. I am curious to see what you are seeing.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Forget forums, the industry itself will probably be very different in another 10-15yrs.
Glad I was around for all the good shit like magazines, arcades, and booth babes.
Glad I was around for all the good shit like magazines, arcades, and booth babes.
March Climber
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Here is a thread that was recently derailed:
Opinion - Hyper Light Breaker | IGN Exclusive First Hands-On Gameplay Preview
If I could, I would spend hours in the world of Hyper Light Breaker doing nothing in particular. I’d settle my character on the edge of a bright pastel cliff and gaze into the distance, where crumbling skyscrapers and strange rock formations silhouette against a neon sky. I’d let the soothing...
Most of the posts have been removed by now, but here are a couple of threads that still contain that edginess:
News - Drama - Cringe - Capcom Cracks Down on Racial Slurs Used in Street Fighter 6
As players jump into the game and engage with the community, they’ve encountered a pattern of racist and bigoted behavior. Given the history of offensive language in gaming, one would expect that Capcom had put measures in place to mitigate such behavior. The individual responsible...
Feel free to browse through them and check out what I mean. Also, there is no need to come back to this thread to try and 'defend' the two threads I've linked, because I'm not 'attacking' this website. I'm simply showing that it is what it is and I simply find it to be detrimental at times.
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How true even is it that traditional console gaming is becoming less popular? I know loads of people in their early and mid 20s who play proper games on a console or PC. I'd actually say they're much more likely to do so than my peers were like 15 years ago. It's certainly WAAAAY more socially acceptable and even cool now.
At the very least there's another generation of hardcore gamers beyond the likes of us in our 30s and 40s.
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IAmRei
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yea, my studio is using it, i told them to use WhatsApp's if they need me. I dunno, the UI didn't click in me
IAmRei
Member
we can short it into BooZer
IFireflyl
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Here is a thread that was recently derailed:
Opinion - Hyper Light Breaker | IGN Exclusive First Hands-On Gameplay Preview
If I could, I would spend hours in the world of Hyper Light Breaker doing nothing in particular. I’d settle my character on the edge of a bright pastel cliff and gaze into the distance, where crumbling skyscrapers and strange rock formations silhouette against a neon sky. I’d let the soothing...www.neogaf.com
Most of the posts have been removed by now, but here are a couple of threads that still contain that edginess:
News - Drama - Cringe - Capcom Cracks Down on Racial Slurs Used in Street Fighter 6
As players jump into the game and engage with the community, they’ve encountered a pattern of racist and bigoted behavior. Given the history of offensive language in gaming, one would expect that Capcom had put measures in place to mitigate such behavior. The individual responsible...
Feel free to browse through them and check out what I mean. Also, there is no need to come back to this thread to try and 'defend' the two threads I've linked, because I'm not 'attacking' this website. I'm simply showing that it is what it is and I simply find it to be detrimental at times.
Shut up, boomer.
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tomato shrub
Member
Traditional console games are literally more successful than ever.
Forums, not so much, yes.
Forums, not so much, yes.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
As far as I know GAF still only lets ppl in at selective and controlled points once or twice a year?
I guess if Evilore was desperate for more members he could quite easily open the membership floodgates. But considering he's not I would assume GAF has a healthy active userbase.
Trends are trends and all generations have observed watching the things they love usually fade away into less relevancy as time goes on. So if the current and future generation of kids opt to support a different gaming market to the one I enjoy then so be it.
For now I'm just happy to still be enjoying a new console or new FF game etc nearly 30 years after I started gaming. That in itself is pretty awesome and something I appreciate.
I guess if Evilore was desperate for more members he could quite easily open the membership floodgates. But considering he's not I would assume GAF has a healthy active userbase.
Trends are trends and all generations have observed watching the things they love usually fade away into less relevancy as time goes on. So if the current and future generation of kids opt to support a different gaming market to the one I enjoy then so be it.
For now I'm just happy to still be enjoying a new console or new FF game etc nearly 30 years after I started gaming. That in itself is pretty awesome and something I appreciate.
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ShadyAcshuns
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Gen X here. Toughest of all the gens.
Bert Big Balls
Member
Frankly, I could not give a flying fuck about trying to get more people here. I'm happy enough with how it is now.
akaFullmetal
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Enjoy what we have, change happens, good or bad. As long as you're interested in discussion games and such here, keep at itm
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TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
You'll have to make a NeoGaf version of Tiktok.
Those fuckers know nothing outside that app.
You know how we know films that are classic even though they was made before we was born.
They don't even know anything from the last decade
How you ever spoken to one of them?
It's no wonder they're easily manipulated.
Book smart sure, but dumb as fuck and very gullible.
Remember when we was younger and our stuff offended the older generations?
Now our stuff offends the younger generations too.
It's very rare you come across one with some cultural knowledge and thats because they don't use TikTok and love the 2000's.
The question is not how do we get them interested, but how do we save them.
Those fuckers know nothing outside that app.
You know how we know films that are classic even though they was made before we was born.
They don't even know anything from the last decade
How you ever spoken to one of them?
It's no wonder they're easily manipulated.
Book smart sure, but dumb as fuck and very gullible.
Remember when we was younger and our stuff offended the older generations?
Now our stuff offends the younger generations too.
It's very rare you come across one with some cultural knowledge and thats because they don't use TikTok and love the 2000's.
The question is not how do we get them interested, but how do we save them.
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Here is a thread that was recently derailed:
Opinion - Hyper Light Breaker | IGN Exclusive First Hands-On Gameplay Preview
If I could, I would spend hours in the world of Hyper Light Breaker doing nothing in particular. I’d settle my character on the edge of a bright pastel cliff and gaze into the distance, where crumbling skyscrapers and strange rock formations silhouette against a neon sky. I’d let the soothing...
Most of the posts have been removed by now, but here are a couple of threads that still contain that edginess:
News - Drama - Cringe - Capcom Cracks Down on Racial Slurs Used in Street Fighter 6
As players jump into the game and engage with the community, they’ve encountered a pattern of racist and bigoted behavior. Given the history of offensive language in gaming, one would expect that Capcom had put measures in place to mitigate such behavior. The individual responsible...
Feel free to browse through them and check out what I mean. Also, there is no need to come back to this thread to try and 'defend' the two threads I've linked, because I'm not 'attacking' this website. I'm simply showing that it is what it is and I simply find it to be detrimental at times.
Thanks for the added info, it's kinda wild reading all of this.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Fifteen years ago we had Wii, PS3, and Xbox. Three very healthy console platforms, along with Sony and Nintendo handhelds.
Now we’ve got PS5 and Switch, with Xbox practically in the grave.
Sure it’s more socially acceptable. But the console market hasn’t grown for generations now. Mobile has taken over as the top platform.
The most played games on consoles are games like Fortnite and Roblox. The industry is changing, and newer players aren’t going for the same games the older crowd preferred.
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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BlackTron
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I'm a member of a few forums and have seen these conversations take place a few times.
I think it's quite unlikely that younger people will be tempted away from the newer platforms that have taken over from forums as the place to discuss games. But, I also wonder if in practice if Neogaf's users actually would want younger people on the forum.
I think it's quite unlikely that younger people will be tempted away from the newer platforms that have taken over from forums as the place to discuss games. But, I also wonder if in practice if Neogaf's users actually would want younger people on the forum.
RickSanchez
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This is almost the complete answer. The remaining part of the answer being that as the current crop of GAFfers ages and retires/passes away, the Forum as we know it will end, anyway. Either it will get shut down or taken over by a generation that has different values, politics and views on gaming. That is inevitable. But for the next 40 years or so, we should try to keep it as it is right now.
chromhound
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Always the answer
nush
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Bert Big Balls
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fr fr no cap
RickSanchez
Member
Disagree. I am very happy with the look and format of the forum. I hope it never changes. At some point i got fucking tired of every site and app trying the same kind of Californian hipster UI/UX. GAF does indeed have an early 2000s feel to it and i love it. Back then, websites were no-nonsense, filled with info. Not the SEO-driven garbage they are today.
That i would like.
Agreed on this too.
Can you name a couple ? i am curious.
Theres gotta be a usenet server still running somewhere, right?
Bert Big Balls
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I'd honestly love to be involved with a Usenet server if even a handful of people were active on it.
Gamerguy84
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Sorry but discord sucks for discussion. Get too many in a chat and it scrolls right by.
Congrats to the developer of discord for re-inventing AOL.
I like here and even reddit.
Congrats to the developer of discord for re-inventing AOL.
I like here and even reddit.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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It makes you think
Pejo
Member
The answer to saving GAF and forums as a whole has been sitting there staring at us the whole time.
Bring back animated gif avatars!
Seriously though, EL probably doesn't want to hear this, but I'd rather the forum go out staying true to what a forum is instead of chasing zoomers by adding a lot of stupid shit like pogface emotes and live spam chat. I don't think even going 100% discord format would push zoomers to come to this site, and I think it would definitely make a lot of current users quit the site.
If there comes a day that GAF isn't worth keeping the servers online for, I'd hope either some rich GAFfer would offer to take it and host it, or it dies a proper death surrounded by the good people I've enjoyed posting with for over a decade. Nothing lasts forever and I assume that will also be true of pretty much every website that exists right now.
Bring back animated gif avatars!
Seriously though, EL probably doesn't want to hear this, but I'd rather the forum go out staying true to what a forum is instead of chasing zoomers by adding a lot of stupid shit like pogface emotes and live spam chat. I don't think even going 100% discord format would push zoomers to come to this site, and I think it would definitely make a lot of current users quit the site.
If there comes a day that GAF isn't worth keeping the servers online for, I'd hope either some rich GAFfer would offer to take it and host it, or it dies a proper death surrounded by the good people I've enjoyed posting with for over a decade. Nothing lasts forever and I assume that will also be true of pretty much every website that exists right now.
Hudo
Member
I would be surprised if there isn't.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Frfr gramps, y'all need to talk about cod mobile, that shit is dead ass bussin', instead y'all talk about ps3, like bruh that shit is retro, go touch grass, on god no cap
What are we really talking about here? It's whether young people still play complex games of the kind we like, right? And therefore whether the market will continue to deliver those experiences?
The evidence I see is that for AT LEAST one generation younger than mine, the answer is that overwhelmingly yes, people do still play lots of those games and they do so on consoles or PC. In fact, it looks to me like among that generation it's actually grown in popularity.
Therefore logically there will continue to be lots of the kinds of games we love produced every year.
I don't know why people get caught up fretting about whether the hobby is growing fast or not. It can remain exactly the same size and still be just as profitable - which frankly is something so obvious it shouldn't need stating.
Chiggs
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