I remember back when IGN started making people pay to use its forums, so people flocked far and wide to find a nice free environment. I've always used PGC as one of my main news sites but never for the message boards until the IGN payment plan. Back then I was known as Hypetails15(god I remember using that number because I had just turned 15, now im 20 yeash...) and when I first joined up, the community seemed so small, it took forever for someone to reply to a topic if I remember correctly.
Now then, for the question at hand. Why do I like PGC? The people who post in these forums are all around good level headed people. Well you all may not be "good," some of you may be evil, but you all sure can hold a nice sensible discussion. When revo-europe use to show its news articles with comments from its users, there would be about 4 or 5 really level headed people. But mostly there were people like Trish(or something like that) who would just troll around, and others who would just call each other names, and just say all this moronic immature stuff. I see alot of garbage like that on the official Nintendo forums to. People posting absolutely pointless statements, or constant arguing because everyone is so... well you get the idea.
Lets take Ian for a quick example of why I like it here. As much as we like to(or did like to) disagree with his seemingly never ending negativity. I can't ever recall a time when he resorted to calling someones mother a dirty name, or started cursing everyone out like some stupid apple hole. It's great that most of our discussions don't lead to verbal abuse on each other. People here have intelligent things to say, don't get so personaly offended when their favorite game gets bad mouthed, and I sware are some of the most open minded people in the world. Speaking of which, ever since WW, and first person metroid, I think everyone has become alot more open minded. I sware the past 5 years or so of being on these boards has changed me as a person, well im more open minded towards everything now.
Even though I hate Sonic Team now, sometimes I still want to talk Sonic games, and for the most part people here aren't very interested in the crap thats been pushed out in the last 2 generations. Discussion wise, Sonichq just doesn't cut it like this place does, too many pointless posts, and people defending Sonic like it was their creation every time there is legit bad press about him. And for some reason when people on those boards thank each other(like oh you are a very creative person) its sickening to me. Reminds me of itchy and scratchy when they were forced to be friends. I don't know why I brought that up, but im glad that luvy duvy stuff aint here!
I don't post nearly as much as some of you, but I am here on these boards just about every single day just waiting to see what you all are discussing. Maybe from this point on i'll join in topics more frequently.
Topic: Why do you like PGC? (Read 17340 times)
