Reddit > NeoGaf > ResetERA
Agreed. Reddit’s advantage is not being a single forum site but just a place for people to create specialized communities. That makes it easier to find active communities that are focused solely on discussing whatever hobby—or even something a specific as a single game—without all the politics and SJWs and their counterparts on the right injecting politics into every fucking thing. I don’t really like any of the broad gaming subreddits, but some of the game specific ones are nice.
In terms of Era and here, while I’m a pretty far left person that place is a cesspool as the crazy extreme left types dominate, even standard Democratic Party type views get dog piled and centrist views catch bans. Worse, far too many gaming side threads devolve into political pissing matches.
Here it seems to be more right leaning, but probably just because there seems to be a lot of very active and vocal conservative posters in political/social issues threads while a lot of leftists like me probably came here to get away from political arguments on gaming forums and just stay out of those topics. The gaming side is way better here with far fewer political threads.
The main downside there has been the console warring, fanboy nonsense on the gaming side is worse. But mods have been cracking down on that nonsense, and seeing that in the ban list was the final thing that got me to stop lurking and sign up after leaving Era. I’ll be glad when I hit member status and can use the ignore thread feature to hide all the next gen hardware threads And the few political/social issue threads on the gaming side.
Only other drawback is game OTs can be slow or nonexistent for things outside of popular AAA games. But that’s most of what I play and Reddit is better for niche things anyway. The popular game OTs here are better as the ones on Era are too busy to have real discussion, questions asked get missed as they get buried quickly and so on.