I like to use the main forum board and click on all the individual forums. It gives the mind a moment to adjust.
Console forum: This will be full of discussions that have been the same for a year with different words being used as well as completely improbable solutions and musings from Kytim and Tendoboy. See Adrock take on Ian Sane and Broodwars over and over again!
General Gaming: A mix of discussions allowing a user to post everything they can about the latest game related thing they are doing and some discussion on the other consoles available along with one or two briefly new interesting threads.
Handheld Discussion: Where few topics are created and even fewer discussions are had (despite this being the pillar of Nintendo success and what the most successful hardware on the market has been for like 8 years). Mainly taken over by my AC thread. At least there are 5 stickied threads because one can never have enough stickied threads to generate more discussions and interest in a forum. Imagine if threads just jostled around every time someone had something to post in them.
Gameplay Strategy: After replying to Adrock's question with an answer that wasn't much help and the issue getting resolved without any real definitive answer as to why the problem existed, I got to see my name as the last poster in that forum from Oct. 20, 2013 - Jan. 4. 2014. I've decided to reclaim that name recognition and make a post relevant enough to hopefully last for another 5 or 6 months until someone else is too lazy to look up Gamefaqs and post in there.
Matchmaking Forum - I've got to click on this and see who was foolish enough to try and use it.
Hardware Support - Where am I? Whoops. Made a mistake. Take me back to the mainpage. Nothing of interest here.
Talkback - At least now the topics will be a bit more varied and a few more different posters will use it. Maybe the best spot on these forums for real game-related discussions.
Podcast - Don't listen to them but they seem popular enough that the forum is always blue so I have to click on it and then go back so that it won't be blue anymore indicating unread posts in it.
Reader Reviews - I always think about how great this section of the forum could be. If only more of us actually still played games and/or knew how to articulate our reactions playing them. Weep for the untapped potential.
NWR Feedback - It's like a forum threat level. When stuff goes down, suddenly there's a lot of posts and that forum is blue all the time indicating that fact. When things are quiet with little forum drama happening, it stays gray and unlit. Nothing new to report.
General Discussion - Land of the megathreads. All general discussion has been grouped into about 9 topics that seem able to handle pretty much all general discussion. If something else comes along that just isn't popular, it is soon crushed below the jostling megathreads to sink into the oblivion of all other General Discussion topics that weren't general enough to survive and turn into megathreads. Just in case those megathreads constantly jostling up and down the first page everytime someone has something to say in them is too alarming for you, there are 4 sticked threads there at the top to keep your sense of balance intact. At least the birthday thread finally got unsticked so it could disappear. Although I will miss reading Maxi's posts of constantly wishing everyone a happy birthday and then being offended at everyone because no one bothered to use that thread anymore and wish him a happy birthday.
Funhouse - Once in awhile, the embers of this forum light up but the spark is definitely fading. Too many of the jokers on this forum have slowly disappeared.
Mafia - This is my realm and everything in it is perfect and everyone should be using it which is another sign this forum is broken and if anyone questions anything about it or says anything negative about it, so help me, that person just punched their ticket to the pearly gates (although hell is more likely for disrespecting this forum) and the enforcer mod the admins have brought in (BlackNMild2k1) will make sure you beg for the sweet, sweet taste of death by the time he's done with you. In other words, it is one of the bright spots on this forum.
So, that's why it's best to use the main forum page for navigation.
Still on topic, what happened to Lucariofan99? We just can't keep new posters around these days.