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What is the difference between /v/ and /vg/. I like /v/ more
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What is the difference between /v/ and /vg/.
I like /v/ more since they actually have some good game discussions. Can anyone give me some differences.
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>>318220767
/vg/ is for generals.
It was created because the autists on /v/ get pissed when they see a thread repeated too often.
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/vg/ is for generals you fucking newfag.

There are discussions there for games that constantly have discussion

/v/ is for trolling and flamewars, feminism, the latest GOTY (ie the last game released) and other faggotry.

If you want to talk about a game that people actually play and talk about, go to /vg/
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/vg/ is for tripfags, Korean bullshit, and western visual novels.
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>>318220767
/vg/ is a cesspit where thing go to die
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/vg/ is so people that still play Katawa Shoujo have a place to shitpost. Well thats actually a lie because they dont even play it.
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/v/
>filled to the brim with children and faggots
>no actual video game discussion
/vg/
>filled to the brim with tripfags and autists
>no actual video game discussion
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/vg/ stands for "circle jerk"
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/vg/ is what I'd like to call the "cementery".
The discussion for games stagnate there and you get nothing but a pitiful place full of shitposters, tripfags, attentionwhores, massive circlejerks and all kinds of cancer you can think of.
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/v/ has gotten so cancerous that 4chan has grown three more tumors.

/vg/
>because /v/ was overflooded with genuine video game discussion

/vp/
>because /v/ was overflooded with Pokemon discussion

/vr/
>because /v/ was overflooded with old video game discussion
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>>318221605
More like /v/ needs to get rid of all videogame threads because it gets in the way of their memes/shitposting.
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>>318220986
>If you want to talk about a game that people actually play and talk about, go to /vg/
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one is shit the other is awful
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/vg/ is for the good people
/v/ is for the bad people
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>>318221778
some games have a shit community. The ones i play dont. stop playing shit games faggot
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Seems like a shitty board
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>>318221778
Eventually every general becomes /v/ without a steady stream of new content.
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If you ignore all the weeb shit generals from /vg/, it ends up being a OK board.
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>>318220767
/v/ can be judged as a whole
/vg/ has to be judged by every individual thread because they vary so much in quality
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>>318221593
Depends entirely on the general.

>>318220767
It's practically a subcategory of /v/ with discussion more tightly kept on topic(excluding shitposting of course, which is background noise everywhere on this site)

Just use it as you would make or join in a thread here, but with a bit more direction.
I mostly post here, but say; a few months back I fired up Medieval 2: Total War again. So I popped into /twg/ for a little while. Talked about some mods that had been updated while I was away, helped some people with some broad questions and so on.

It's like a questions that don't deserve their own thread board.
You can post a thread on /v/ and get more, and more direct conversation regarding the opening topic, with a few usually relevant spillouts. Or you can go to the specific general on /vg/ and ask the question there, you'll probably get your answer but the conversation won't go on as long.
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>>318221593
It stagnates because there is no new content. The idea of a general is completely retarded.
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>tfw the creation of /vg/ annihilated /v/'s tripfag population

I kinda miss them.
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>>318220767
vg serves two purposes
>it sets up generals so people can use 4chan like a chat among guildies/like minded individuals
>it sets up a collection of notes and resources for games so people don't have to constantly be asking how to solve X or find Y.
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at /v/, you cannot discuss new games, as new games attract turbo shitposting.

at /vg/, you cannot discuss old games, because old games have slow generals and slow generals breed cancerous trip/namefags

both boards are best for the opposite (old games on /v/ and new games on /vg/)

>>318222747
I would take quint and lanced jack over the kek and /tv/eddit memes any day
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>>318222587
It does deviate, /domg/ runs a lot of multiplayer games which keeps things kinda fresh.
Your dodo and league threads can have esport developments to discuss.
Most of your broad weeb generals cover a lot of games, a lot being new; so there is discussion there.
In theory creative games which are updated semi-frequently manage to stay alright; with original designs and new updates. - /egg/ or whatever they call themselves now.

Your activity can kinda keep it fresh as well, in a perspective.
As in, rather than sitting in it all day every day and suffering how stale discussion is; only visit the general every now and then. When you yourself have something new to say. Even if what you say doesn't catch on, the stale discussion does end up changing slowly into something fresh if you're away for long enough.
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>>318221605
>/v/ was overflooded with old video game discussion
This literally never happened

/vr/ is pointless af
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>>318222876
No. Old games are for /vr/. Unless your definition of "old" are games that only came out like three or five years ago

Yeah, /v/ is better for those since generals are bound to lose steam at one point and become shitposting central (hello SC2).
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>>318223097
Still manages to be the best /v/ board for actually discussing video games

Not to just dismiss the other boards, but its just better for it.
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>>318222876
>allowing shitposting to distract you from good posts
>acknowledging the existence of tripfags at all

You can't escape either of those flaws when posting on 4chan, and it makes a lot more sense to just ignore it then complain about it. Which is shitposting in and of itself, not even taking into consideration how much it fires the tripfags and shitposters up.
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>>318223203
by "old" I meant "not new", not actually /vr/ old

like /v/ can have a good ME1 thread. The mass effect general on /vg/ is pure cancer and would make a sane person want to an hero after five minutes of browsing

>>318223332
but when an entire general is nothing but the occasional person new to the game asking a question and a "community" of 20~ regulars who endlessly waifu fag and roleplay and other autistic shit a general is complete cancer.
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>>318220767
/vg/ is for lonely fags and autists who need a sense of community and /v/ is for shitposting and current game shenanigans.
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>>318223203
Ah, /kpop/ general.
I'm glad they at least advertise the fact that they're one of the worst if not the worst general.

Not that I cared for SC after Brood War anyway.

/gsg/ is the worst board in my opinion. Unshakable edrama, deliberately unhelpful towards newer people; tremendously bad at the games themselves while still acting superior.
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>>318223558
Depends on the general. /civ4xg/ or whatever name they use at the moment is unbelievably slow but free of circlejerk.
Well, at least they were a few months ago, haven't been there in awhile.
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>>318220767
/vg/ is where you go if you actually want to discuss video games

/v/ is where you go to shitpost about console wars, ecelebs and twitter drama
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>>318220767
>>>/r/eddit
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>35 posts
>no one calling OP a faggot over his 9gag image
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>>318222036
Tell me the good generals on /vg/
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>>318223773
some games like civ or xcom that have lots of replayability have generals that last awhile

but everything else that isn't for a new game or a game with new dlc or something is shit

>>318223930
i thought it was ironic
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>>318223930
I didn't enlarge it to notice, just responded to the text of his post.
Maybe he's just pretending.
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>>318223930
We are not kidding when we say /v/ is now neo /v/.
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>>318220767
>9gag image
>all that spoonfeeding

all you niggers who keep helping OP are the reason why /v/ is so absolute shit
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>>318220767
/v/ is basically the mainstream /b/
/vg/ is filled with generals indicating games 4chan likes
/vr/ is where you want to be for actual game discussions

If you want to discuss 6th generation console games, then you're out of luck.
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I still don't understand the point of having constant generals for single player games. Like, how is Undertale general so fucking fast even? What is there so much to talk about?
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>>318223850
>/vg/ is where you go if you actually want to discuss video games
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>>318220767
/vg/ creates its own micro-sized communities than sharing a bigger one like /v/'s own, you would find out if you clicked on it you fucking lazy cunt

It can be a great source of information for any specific game, but it generally goes to the point where either

>The people posting don't stick around for the game, but rather for the others that post there, effectively becoming a circlejerk; at this stage even /v/ would be better for discussing the game
>The general doesn't attract enough interest and is practically doomed to be at a slow pace; it may stick around long enough to preserve information though
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>>318224089
>What is there so much to talk about?
nothing it's 100% for containment purpose
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>>318223956
Not that guy but

/xcom/, /twg/, and /mgg/ are all pretty friendly and comfy.
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>>318223971
/civ4xg/ is based on a lot of games, and fairly rarely updated. A general thread will last like four or five days before reaching the bump limit.
Still, while slow it manages to be positive.
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/v/ is for memes

/vg/ is for videogames, but not unlike /v/ some threads are shit
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>>318220767
/v/ has infinitely more shitposting
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/vg/ is literally circlejerks and reddit faggotry
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>>318222460
Shitposting is just background noise? Idk where the fuck you are but 4chan is not it
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>>318224089
It's just circlejerking autismos. TF2 still has a fucking general
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>>318224201
>/mgg/
>friendly and comfy

more like autistic
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>>318223850
>thinks people discuss video games on /vg/
>isnt aware that half of /vg/ threads are infested with waifu bullshit
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>>318220767
>/v/
>vidya discussion
Top kek /vg/ has way better discussion
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>>318224118
What general is that though? Each one of them is basically their own board, so you can't generalize.
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>>318223956
Here, from my blog:

Based on the general threads I have spent AT LEAST one thread in:

>Dominions general:
12/10: Bonus points turn around and subtract from the total so 8/10, literally TOO on topic given how much of the thread is used for specific multiplayer games between posters. Pretty alright though.

>Total War General, Mountain Blade General:
8/10: Generally good, if running out of things to talk about a bit, endeavors to try and keep things fresh

>4X General:
7/10: As above but DEAD

>KF General:
6/10: Pretty slow but generally okay, I'd imagine it's starved for content for long periods.

>Assfaggots Generals:
5/10: Shitposting aplenty but it isn't hard to zone out and people mostly care about their game, and discussion is quite active.

>The Elder Scrolls General:
3.5/10: Helpful in regards to sensible queries and more obscure shit to talk about than, but of similar necessity to exist as...

>Katawa Shoujo General:
0/10: I need not explain.

>Grand Strategy General:
0/1000: Unbelievable repetition, terrible shitposting; incredible level of condemnation towards new players despite a really low level of skill and understanding in general. Also plagued by eternal Steam group drama of which it can never truly rid itself of.
The one instance I'd wholeheartedly recommend reddit over something else; far more capable of playing the game and discussing it than /gsg/.

Note that I haven't been on /vg/ for like three months, and personal taste.
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>>318220767
/v/ is a place to talk about video games

/vg/ is mostly just a stagnant cesspool of cancerous circlejerks, but there's a handful of good generals where you can actually talk about certain games
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Same shit with more circle-jerking.
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>>318224264
Rather, it is easy to interpret it as background noise.
I've been here for a fair while and I've always managed to never let it bother me, or subtract from a thread where there is actual discussion going on.
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>>318224118
Every board has its share of shitposting moments and in some rare occasions we get to have fun with them
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>>318223956
Say what you will about /tesg/, it's obviously not that good of a general, but some of the mods created there are actually quite good, they're also a great resource for modding and some preserve files whose own authors took down in rage.

>mfw pirating paid mods
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>>318220767
/v/ is for vidya news, shitposting, console wars, twitter feeds, ecelebs, east vs. west, and sometimes video games

/vg/ is at least mostly video games
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>>318224462

>/v/ is a place to talk about video games
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>>318220767
>/v/
Marketers playground. Basically just easily deceived fanboys that will either circle jerk or fight other fanboys.
>/vg/
Actual conversations with people interested in said games
>/vp/
Same as /vg/ with furries and /tv/ and /sp/ tier memesters
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>>318224089
Same reason /vp/ has so much activity: they're not discussing the game at all
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>>318220767
/vg/ is for generals and actually liking the game the thread is about

/v/ is for small threads about random things and blindly following the popular opinion, then going to /vg/ and shitting all over everything they have wherever a new game comes out


/v/tards shit all over /fog/ for the first couple weeks of Fo4, screwed up the OP and everything, we're still scraping the obsidrones off the walls.
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>>318221218
This. Take the cancer of /v/ and multiply it tenfold, then add in reddit-tier posters. There you have /vg/. The only good general I've found is the Isaac general.
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>/v/
>shitposting about feminists and e-celebs and smash bros melee not being a fighting game

>/vg/
>shitposting about individual games and their relative waifus

both of them are pretty shit
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>>318223956
/kfg/ is usually good but pretty dead. prone to occasional ERP weebposting
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>>318224086
>If you want to discuss 6th generation console games, then you're out of luck.

They need to be included to /vr/ at some point. The PS2 is over 15 years old already.
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>>318224684
I've been to at least four generals and they've all been an okay experience. /v/'s my homeboard but it doesn't take 10 seconds to find a screencap thread, console wars, PS4 shit, or some argument over SJW bullshit.
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Literally at least 70% of people on 4chan are between 17-24. /vr/ is shit because of this
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>only click on threads made solely for shitposting on /v/
>complain that /v/ is only shitposting
very interesting
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>>318220767
/vg/ is for extreme autists who love the idea of circlejerking on 1 video game for years on end. Not even /vr/ is this autistic, since they have an array of video games to discuss, people usually home in on one game and one general and have a community where everyone knows each other because they tripfag.

/v/ is for general discussion and entirely filled with children. Shitposting is nominal or you apart of the cool club. People only come here to be contradictory and not discuss video games. If video games are discussed, its usually meant to upset others or act like they're opinions matter.
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>People who say that /vg/ is where people actually talk about videogames

Either they haven't actually been there or are in complete denial
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>>318224891
their*
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>>318220767
Holy sht this is an image from a magazine if they made vidya vagazines today like they used to make em
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>>318224847

Even ignoring those, it's hard to find a thread about video games that isn't just shitposting.
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>>318224676
>he likes FO4
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They talk about all the same shit. People like to cherry-pick and say /v/ has less vidya discussion than /vg/, but those of us who have actually been in /vg/ threads know that they have all the same crap people get pissed at /v/ for.
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>>318220767
/v/ is a containment board for fanboys, shitposters, marketers, and the underaged. /vg/ is where you go to talk about video games.
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>>318220767
>What is the difference between /v/ and /vg/.

/vg/ can contain discussion of a game into one single thread while /v/ is incapable of doing such a thing..
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>>318220767
/vg/ is where you want to get some info on a game to get gud

The people suck shit so get your info from the few decent users and leave.
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>>318224950
It really depends on what generals you go to.
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>>318224558
I was
>>318224412
Who said /tesg/ was awful.
I think it's really awful to post in or to generally lurk. But yeah, people FROM there have done quite positive things regarding their associated games.
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>>318224847
Kek that really didn't take long.
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>>318225020
Fuck off obsidrone, I dare you to point out where I mentioned liking Fo4 in that post
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>>318223956
/sc2g/ is the best one
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>>318220767

Is this real

I want this
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>>318223956
/feg/, /mk8g/.
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>>318225601
>/vr/: All business, all the time. Can vibrate through boards.

You mean literally dead and littered with old farts. Thread is completely fucking dead in the morning cause all the old shits have to get up and go to work, and they tolerate no shitposting and always serious business.
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/vg/ - Go here to make friends and talk about videogames. Even though a lot of gens have their own problems, this is the objective best videogame board.
/vr/ - Go here if you like niche things and want to talk in depth to people who REALLY like niche things.
/v/ - Don't go here unless you're new and need to learn board culture. This applies to /b/ /pol/ and /r9k/ as well.
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There are some generals where the threads are indistinguishable from the ones we occasionally have on /v/. The Senran Kagura general is a prime example of this. I don't know why people even bother going to /vg/ to discuss it when the threads are way faster and of the same quality on /v/.
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>>318220767
/vg/: discussion of video games
/v/: power rankings, e celeb, screen caps of Twitter posts, occasionally decent threads, off topic posts
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>>318225879
>I don't know why people even bother going

To erp with the shitty tripfags no one likes.
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>>318220767
>/v/
>basically the /b/ of video games

>/vg/
>generals for constant discussion of whatever game you're following
>must have a subject in order to be a thread

Not that complicated.
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>>318223097
/vr/ is the best vidya board. Fuck those faggots trying to kill that board on /qa/.
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What's the fucking point of katawa shoujo general?
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>>318226080
>>318226309
>How to spot newfags who don't visit /vg/ frequently.
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>>318226318
It can have the best discussion most consistently, it's usually disconnect from the experience of the other boards because of how unbelievably slow it is.
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>>318226309
>Never actually have to post about that subject to continue the threads
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>>318226417
>I feel loyalty to a specific Chinese pottery barn forum: the post
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>>318226417
Nothing I said was wrong. At most, the most off-topic /vg/ would get is with waifufags spamming asian women, otherwise that's about it. And yes, e-celeb shit related to the e-sports scene of the game is still on topic.
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>>318226107
Only saw one tripfag posting in that general so far.

I think the main reason is that some people are too lazy to search for the threads here, while in /vg/ you can just ctrl + F the keyword and find it immediately.
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>>318226318
/vr/ was excellent during its inception. Unfortunately there's a fair bit of arguing about HOW we play the retro vidya instead of talking about it and some /v/-tier bullshit can leak through, hell several times I've seen people forget what fucking board they're on

Still the best /v/ derivative but yeah
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>>318226419
I love lurking there because of that. /v/ could use some slow ass discussion 2bh family.
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>>318220767
>9gag image
Also why don't you lurk more and find out, cunt?
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/vg/: circlejerking in a thread that has the same few people in it every day
/v/: circlejerking anonymously
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>>318226376
Originally to discuss the story and its characters to death.
Evolved into shitposting and lifeblogging.
Which I assumed has lasted until now, fueled entirely by circlejerking and maintenance of the grand meme of pointless longevity.

It serves as a good example of what a general can be in the early days(as long as the topic matter is your thing) and a great example of just how awful a general can become.
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>>318220767
>9gag

Leave, you stupid faggot.
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>>318226992
I was there for a bit when it was new.
I can't lurk when something is too slow.
I still just make threads on /v/ regarding games that should probably go on /vr/
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>>318224412
>/ksg/
>not best general

fuck I couldn't even type that with a straight face
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>>318227028
Are you trying to imply that one can't lurk 4chan and 9gag at the same time?
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>>318226987
That LCD fag? Yeah, is kinda odd watching rampant shitpost like that there.
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>>318224872
I dunno brah, I've had some great conversations about old vidya on /vr/, its just slower than /v/
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>>318227456
I just mean stuff like

>Filters
>Emulators
>Hardware used
>TV/Monitor type

The arguments go nowhere like PC vs Mac ones

Retron V fags can go die in a fire though
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>>318224412
>puts KF general above anything
>so slow it dies frequently
>was infested beyond believe with waifufags and namefags
>even had "teams" when it wasn't dead

It's a shit general when it's alive and then when it's dead, it's because there's nothing to discuss. 2/10.

I'd say bump assfaggots generals up to 7. Tons of Oc comes from them, barely any namefags (/d2g/ endlessly scolds any namefag who comes in to the point of them no longer using the name), and the discussion bout the game and its contents are pretty much constant. Only bad things are there being people who either have no lives or have bots that spam "xth for ___" or some waifufag shit every thread with the same images.
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VG is 10% stale discussion and 90% circlejerk. I use it, but i realize that to an outsider coming into a general to ask a basic question will 9 times out of 10 get you laughed at or just flat out ignored in favor of "STREAMER DRAMA!" and "[SHITPOSTING LOUDLY]"

It's rare you'll get quality discussion on either board, but i hate it when people act like /vg/ is somehow more legitimate for discussion when its mostly the same 10-20 people raging at eachother day in day out.
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>>318227841
mah nigga
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Friendly reminder that the concept of generals is one of the reasons why this place is shit.
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>>318227841
the retron is a legitimate choice for people who want to use the original carts without fussing with emulation, it isn't awful at all
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Honestly there isn't really much of a difference between the two. There is a lot more ignorance on /v/ than there is on /vg/ because people on /vg/ actually know what they're talking about regarding a certain thing. Which makes sense because the general is focused on that particular topic.

Because of that, the potential for better discussion is higher. /v/ just feels like /b/ with video games.

Sometimes though, certain /vg/ generals will indeed get stale and people will resort to anything just so the thread doesn't stay dead. Which is annoying.
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>>318228468
I'm more pissed off at that it ripped code off from Retroarch cores, and honestly I don't think it's that great of an option when the games are the most expensive component as original hardware isn't always that expensive
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/v/ is shitposting and occasional discussion
/vg/ is funposting and frequent discussion

make your choice
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>>318222876
can't unsee
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>>318228254
>coming into a general to ask a basic question
You sound like a fag that asked something that's answered in the OP.
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>>318227898
KF general was fine when I was in it, for like five threads, fairly shortly after demo firebug update. I did not stay any longer.

You're right about assfaggots generals though, my words are fairly kind towards them despite the lower score. I think I just put it as 5 because I expected a high score on them would meet my commentary with >ASSFAGGOTS as opposed to discussion.
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I'm not exactly sure why, but long-term communities seem to atrophy. Look at virtually every community in /vg/. Neogaf is a particularly insidious example of this.


My current guess is that it relates to the dispositions of the people involved. In short, a community is founded by pathfinders, and the initial 'culture' is set by them. (Culture is a loose term here, however, as the only real precedent set by the pathfinders is that discussion be meaningful )

Seeing such enthusiastic discussion naturally attracts others, and puts the community on the radar.

As time goes by the novelty of the topic wears off and the pathfinders become less involved. Under normal circumstances the community's activity would slow down, and perhaps even cease to exist till the next revival.

This doesn't happen though. Inevitably some people who value vapid things like drama and pointless discussion were attracted during the community's surge of popularity. These individuals, unlike the pathfinders, have do not leave the community, as it is the community itself that they are interested in, not the game.

From here on out the community is all but an increasingly rotting corpse. The original founders are slowly outnumbered by the vapids, and this process results in a true, dumbass culture forming. Further this culture serves to repel people like the pathfinders, sealing the community's fate.


TL;DR: People who more interested in the 'community' than the actual topic naturally begin to outnumber decent posters as time goes on. So by nature any long-term community like /vg/ is doomed to go to shit.
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>>318228881
Not that poster, but a lot of the OPs/pastebins are out of date.
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>>318228881

> Endless repetition of threads dedicated to a single game.
> Can't handle someone starting out or asking a basic question.

"WE ANSWERED THAT 9 MONTHS AGO YOU FUCKING PLEEBE LEAVE US TO OUR SHITPOSTING REEEE" - You, 2015
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>>318223097
I love /vr/ you fucker

comfy as fuck. I've almost never got flamed there for saying i like or dislike anything for example. As long as you're not activily shitposting, everyone is generally cool as fuck
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>>318228609
yea, I was just trying to stir shit, and see if there was anyone who knew why the retron is shit other than just spouting shit. I agree 100%, I just wish there were more folks working on replacement parts for systems instead of just emulating 'em. I've got an NES in dire need of a PPU and a Saturn with a dead lazer and I don't wanna cannibalize an existing console to patch them up
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/vg/ is one of the current blights of /v/. Every thread for a current game /v/ likes? You have retards spamming >>>/vg/ until the mods start deleting it. Then the threads are moved to /vg/, where its just not the same, and discussion is eventually killed off for everyone except the /vg/ regulars.

Then you have idiots going "remember flavor of the month, /v/ stopped talking about it because it was shit" NO /v/ STOPPED BECAUSE IT WAS SENT TO /vg/ TO DIE.

/vg/ was a fine addition when the catalog still didnt exist, and generals would clutter the front page. But now? Its an archaic solution and only serves to kill any game /v/ likes.

TLDR: if /v/ likes a game a lot, /v/ has threads for it consistently, which causes it to get kicked off to /vg/, which causes people to think "wow /v/ likes no games"
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>>318229286
the >>>/vg/ shitposting is annoying for certain, but I feel /vg/ may have value as a containment board.
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>>318229286
>/vg/ was a fine addition when the catalog still didnt exist, and generals would clutter the front page.
That's a very valid point.
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>>318229224
Isn't there a recent system that's a hardware recreation of the NES? Though apparently it's expensive as fuck, I do respect what it's trying to do and I hope systems that are difficult to emulate like the N64 get an equivalent in the future
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>>318229286
Spectacularly wrong.
Bravo.
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>>318228978

>this

I'm fucking looking at you, /ss13g/.

Fuck I know it's a multiplayer game with a heavy emphasis on socialization, but 50% of the thread is waifufaggotry, 25% is meme shitposting, and the rest is actual game discussion. And even with the game discussion, a lot of it is how to bloat the game even more with useless features, like adding every fucking engine to engineering for no particular reason other than to have them.

What the fuck happened to that place. It did not used to be like that.
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>>318228881
>Want to learn how to use Gunlance
>/mhg/'s gunlance pastebin was written for Tri
Yeah no
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>>318229608
This is the reason why I play on goon now. There's too much staticnamer circlejerking and gay waifu shit going on.

It's pretty pathetic and sad, considering pomf and I are cool
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>>318229483
Maybe because that's exactly why it was created.
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Lurk more, please. We even have a fucking faq.
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>>318229114
Well if you're this much of an obnoxious retard it's no wonder no one wants to answer your questions.
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>>318229762
>>318229608
So does /vg/ have its own?

I haven't played for ages and never visited the general. I was always on tgstation.
I have a m8 who posted in ss13g, and I know he still plays on tgstation. Does /vg/ go to tgstation as well?
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>>318229540
old as fuck NES clones actually used cloned PPUs and CPUs, the CPUs were pin perfect but the PPUs always had one of the sound channels flipped and pallet issues. Also are you talking about that one NES clone that looks like it was machined out of a block of aluminium? I thought that was emulation or built from existing stores of scavenged shit if I remember right. As for repro'ing newer shit, FPGAs are getting better, problem is weird architectures and companies not liking to release how their shit works for obvious reasons
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>>318229580
Well whats your point? I find it frustrating when /v/ threads get deleted because "it belongs on /vg/." I don't want a slowburning /vg/ thread filled with regulars, I want a fast /v/ thread filled with other novices.
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>>318229974
/vg/ has its own server, pomf123 being the owner.

Don't even bother, it's bloated as fuck, inconsistent artstyle and has extremely boring, predictable contrived combat.
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>>318229974

Well, I mean, it's not like playing on /vg/station is a requirement to post on the /vg/ thread. I used to play /tg/ as well and then played a lot of public RP servers and I very rarely went to /vg/station and I still posted on the thread.

Just go on the catalog and search for "spess" or "ss13", that should bring it up and the link and pastebins and all of that will be in the OP. /vg/ is on a separate code branch from /tg/.
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>>318220767
Fuck 9gag and all, but I would buy that controller
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>>318230126
I don't have the time in general, I was just curious. Cheers.
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>>318230038
>problem is weird architectures and companies not liking to release how their shit works for obvious reasons

Come to think of it, what if a company like Nintendo gave retro collectors the middle finger and remanufactured their old hardware?
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>>318230171
Yeah I followed, I was just unaware if /vg/ had its own station or not.
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>>318230102
>I want a fast /v/ thread filled with other novices.
Why?
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>>318228254
>read all of the links for question you have
>not there
>not in OP
>ask in the thread
>"Read the links in the OP"
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>>318229540
>>318229224
>>318228609
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>>318230286

See this shit /v/? This is why /vr/ is the superior board.
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>>318220767
/v/ is for saying games suck
/vg/ is for anime roleplay, circle jerking, and getting mad when someone says a game sucks
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>>318230286
the reason NES clones exist is because the copyright expired on the original hardware, if there's a way to renew that Nintendo could shut down the sale of every NES clone in one fell swoop, even the shitty drugstore knockoff "30 in 1" games that secretly use an NOAC
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>>318221773
/v/ - Social Media Gossip
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splitting the boards was a fucking mistake and it's all because of that shitty vn game that had a giant fanbase of pathetic virgins. moot was huge fagot who could never do shit about anything or enforce his own rules and the site suffered for it.
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>>318220767
>9gag
>clearly new
Get off this website dude, you don't belong here and it's a nasty place full of shit people. Leave now, go back to Facebook, people are nice there. Go back now or you'll regret every second you spent here desu
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>>318231153
Nah ƒam, the way generals were multiplying it would've clogged the board sauna or later.
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Uncle upon a time /v/ was plagued with Pokemon, my little pony, A 24/7 LoL general, and a 24/7 fighting games general.

It was taking away from a large chunk of other vidya discussion. So moot, in his wisdom, created separate boards for all these things.

Now most popular games get a an extra long, more persistent thread full of info and players. And there's not as much Pokemon on /v/
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>>318232028
>24/7 fighting games general
Them was good times.
Good times man
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>>318232028
>Pokemon, my little pony,
They were not the reason vg was made. /vp/ was made for pokemon long before /vg/ exist and /mlp/ was a response when you got shithead spam ponies in all boards.
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>>318232028
Hiroshima should merge /vp/ with /trash/ 2bh.
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