stryker2299
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arne said:
Best answer yet!!! :lol
It was quite funny if I do say...
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What was the biggest GAF meltdown in history?
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Best answer yet!!! :lol
It was quite funny if I do say...
Demigod Mac
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Dreamcast death, Sega 3rd party.
Nothing comes remotely close, not even DQIX.
***-*** had a personal meltdown nearly as intense as the entire board's.
Nothing comes remotely close, not even DQIX.
***-*** had a personal meltdown nearly as intense as the entire board's.
super funk
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My personal favorites from the short time Ive been around have been DQ IX on DS, $599, and the Zelda 8.8 meltdown.
JoshuaJSlone
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48076muckhole said:
Dragona Akehi
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teiresias said:
I see your Superkyro, and raise you a "Reactions to E3 Sicken Me", along with the reaction of already bruised and battered Sega fans once MS announced that Shenmue II was being cancelled for NA release on DC.
Demigod Mac
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jjasper said:
Oh jeez... I completely forgot about that. :lol
50% of the front page on GAF consisted of his posts on that day, until the mods started deleting them.
Nothing has ever quite matched the death of DC/Sega going multi.
It really was like the end times here. Giant threads, people flipping right the **** out over and over, every single thread degenerating into a screaming mass of stroked out Sega fans until the mods locked down about half the current threads and banned dozens of long time forumers (some permabanned). It had the epic meltdowns of any more recent GAF kerfuffle but also sparked a wave of constant bitching and yelling that lasted weeks. Mods rode into the scrums like calvary, bringing the banstick down over and over until - spent - they had to flee the carnage. ***-*** alone freaked out as much as any recent 'meltdown' thread.
Basically, it was this for over a week. Nothing else really comes close.
For funnier meltdowns, I'm going to go with Superkyro and my personal favourite, Kitsune's epic "If you do one more thing to me...know this: no one will be able to hear you scream. And I won't make it quick." psychotic event.
It really was like the end times here. Giant threads, people flipping right the **** out over and over, every single thread degenerating into a screaming mass of stroked out Sega fans until the mods locked down about half the current threads and banned dozens of long time forumers (some permabanned). It had the epic meltdowns of any more recent GAF kerfuffle but also sparked a wave of constant bitching and yelling that lasted weeks. Mods rode into the scrums like calvary, bringing the banstick down over and over until - spent - they had to flee the carnage. ***-*** alone freaked out as much as any recent 'meltdown' thread.
Basically, it was this for over a week. Nothing else really comes close.
For funnier meltdowns, I'm going to go with Superkyro and my personal favourite, Kitsune's epic "If you do one more thing to me...know this: no one will be able to hear you scream. And I won't make it quick." psychotic event.
Sega going third party was pretty epic. I think that's the one where O.P.A. lost it.
The board went pretty crazy when Square announced that they would begin making Nintendo games again. Yeah, that was pretty crazy.
All of the early Revolution/NDS threads got pretty insane, including the one where they first showed pics of the Wiimote.
The board went pretty crazy when Square announced that they would begin making Nintendo games again. Yeah, that was pretty crazy.
All of the early Revolution/NDS threads got pretty insane, including the one where they first showed pics of the Wiimote.
I remember how surprised I was at sega killing of the Dreamcast. I mean, it was doing so much better than the Saturn, I thought. + There were so many great games for it. I should've thought about the fact that everyone I knew with a console, only had the free chu chu rocket as an original game. I don't think I knew anyone else besides me that bought all my DC games.
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I didn't hang out on message boards too much back then, and I didn't know about gaf or AMN.
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I didn't hang out on message boards too much back then, and I didn't know about gaf or AMN.
Demigod Mac
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What a day it was to be a Sony fanboy back then. You had to face such mockery and derision for years. You couldn't post without Sega fanboys poisoning your threads. Then suddenly, without warning, arrogant Sega fans were served up a steaming dumptruck of crow directly down their gullets. Hence the meltdown of the century.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Most users ever online was 5,354, 09-26-2006 at 07:49 PM, So lets go back in history and see what was announced on that Specific day...
Dragona Akehi said:
By the time the Shenmue II thing happened I'd already tried to play the first game, realized how horribly overrated and bad the game was, so announcements concerning its sequels subsequently flew completely out of my radar.
I don't remember, which E3 was the "Sickens Me" thing? That later became a bannable phrase as well.
shagg_187 said:
That's only for the current incarnation of the boards though, the board has had like five or six revisions and moved from different forum hosting sites and everything, i can't remember the whole history of this place anymore.
BobJustBob
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shagg_187 said:
That was the day we got linked on Digg for some DS mod or something. Pretty lame.
plagiarize
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as someone else already said, ban wise, the VF5 multiplatform was probably the most fun in recent memory... but then i've only been posting here about a year.
the bans in that thread, it was like more than 1 a page of a 50 page thread or something. it was crazy, and hilarious. people on both sides being cut down left and right.
the bans in that thread, it was like more than 1 a page of a 50 page thread or something. it was crazy, and hilarious. people on both sides being cut down left and right.
I'm disappointed.Dragona Akehi said:
It took over 150 posts before Marty Chinn's "REACTIONS TO E3 MAKE ME SICK!!!!!" meltdown gets mentioned.
That was a fun thread. It supports the idea of a negative correlation between how well and problem-free the company you support has been doing and how sensitive to the slightest amount of less-than-fantastic news you are.
Demigod Mac
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http://www.goodcowfilms.com/farm/basement/ga-archive.htm
Here is a thread of nostalgia. Some good stuff in there.
Here is a thread of nostalgia. Some good stuff in there.
jjasper said:
E3 happened.
SEGA had a good showing.
Sony had a less-than-stellar showing.
There was lots of positive buzz for SEGA (alas, it was too little, too late - they would soon hit the financial point of no return).
People were disappointed with Sony's less-amazing-than-expected showing.
Marty no like that.
Segata Sanshiro
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donny2112 said:
Man, I haven't read that thread since the day it happened. There's some tasty crow in there already.
Oh that Nintendo and their novelty toy eh sonycowboy?
Barrage
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Thursdayton, Wallguy, DQIX...all great. One moment I remember(and I think my memory has enhanced it, which is why it hasn't been mentioned) is the April Fool's Armageddon in '04, with the Austrailian guy banning Nintendo haters and Drinky becoming a Admin(or Mod, can't remember). The insanity of that event when I first joined was what really got me into GAF(although it certainly didn't have the reprecussions of other events.)
DeaconKnowledge
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Mason said:Wow, going back and reading my reactions, I was right on the money in the midst of mostly doubters.
Just reaffirms my decision to go into marketing.
I really have to put my hat in for the Wiimote unveiling. Not just on GAF, but the entire internet.
Nobody really expected what we got. And all over the place there was a universal "WTF?" reaction, for better or for worse.
Souldriver
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And once again an illustration how Sonycowboy almost always is wrong when it comes to Nintendo products.donny2112 said:
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plagiarize
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so much crow. that sonycowboy quote is awesome.Segata Sanshiro said:
sonycowboy said:
PhoenixDark
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I'll never forget the Wiimote's debut lol. A couple insiders were posting pics of nunchucks and people were so damn confused. Then it was shown and people started popping Moltrin
beelzebozo
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that revolution controller thread is such a compelling read. it's as if i stumbled across a transcript of a conversation pre-world war 2 about hitler, and people keep saying, "seriously, i think he's cool, dude. you got him all wrong."
Chittagong
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The original MEGATON was pretty f'ing epic. I think it was what brought me originally into GAF. My memory is a bit sketchy, but I think it was Federman who pulled this story up from his arse about Nintendo + Capcom + Sega merging for the ultimate Japanese gaming giant. Like Thursdayton after it, the timing was genius since Capcom and Sega were performing really poorly financially and were subjects of takeover rumors. Also, Jump magazine had been hinting about an "industry redefining announcement that would have the impact of a megaton bomb", which is where the name came from. The announcement turned out to be Naruto for GC of course, not a merger.
The icing on the cake was a pixelated image that was "reverse-engineered" to be Sonic, Mega Man and Mario.
The thread got easily 100K views which back then was truly epic. It also made most gaming sites, then it spread to mainstream and financial press and, if I'm not mistaken, created speculation that affected even strock price. I might be mistaken, but I remember of reading about the buzz even in a Finnish newspaper.
Now *that* was epic. Also, it started the -TON naming tradition.
There was also an even more creative side story during the Megaton epic:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2247214
The icing on the cake was a pixelated image that was "reverse-engineered" to be Sonic, Mega Man and Mario.
The thread got easily 100K views which back then was truly epic. It also made most gaming sites, then it spread to mainstream and financial press and, if I'm not mistaken, created speculation that affected even strock price. I might be mistaken, but I remember of reading about the buzz even in a Finnish newspaper.
Now *that* was epic. Also, it started the -TON naming tradition.
There was also an even more creative side story during the Megaton epic:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/2247214
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