Favorite gaming forums?

[Promaginy]

I was a fan of Gone Gold, particularly the forums. I found the people there really good and the topics very entertaining. Gone Gold has been gone for a while, so where else to do people go to talk about PC gaming?

[Abscissa]

The only forums I ever use besides this one are the ones at gbadev.org, xgamestation.com, and the D language newsgroups. None of those are really "game player" forums though.

Come to thnk of it, I really don't talk about PC gaming much, at least not mainstream PC gaming. I get all my news on indie PC games from here and GameTunnel's monthly round-ups.

[Gmicek]

Quarter To Three.com (http://www.quartertothree.com) is without a doubt the best in my opinion. It's chock full industry types, and a lot of press people, so the insights you get are hard to match outside of the specialized private forums like The Chaos Engine or Gimmps. It's gone slightly south due to a minor influx of GoneGolders making their way there, but it's still excellent. QT3 and Indiegamer are the only two forums I read on a regular basis, with QT3 being the tops.

[impossible]

www.insertcredit.com is interesting. Very few of the people there are game developers, but they talk about games in a intellectual manner that rivals most game design discussions you'll see on (amateur) game developer forums. It can be kind of weird and very elitist at times, and there are lots of nerdy in jokes, but lots of good discussions.

[Gmicek]

Huh, I didn't know they had forums actually, I'll have to check that out. Simon is a god, hehe.

(edit) Ugh, big annoying avatars and sigs... hate that! Maybe I can turn that off or something.

[impossible]

Quarter To Three.com (http://www.quartertothree.com) is without a doubt the best in my opinion.
Just got done visiting Quarter to Three and, man, it's great. Even though right now 50% of the posts are "what I did in WOW today" right now, there is a lot of good discussion on info on there. Seeing all the industry folks (Brian Reynolds, John Blow, Sean Hargreaves, plenty of other people whose names I may or may not have heard) posting there is pretty sweet also.

[Gmicek]

Just got done visiting Quarter to Three and, man, it's great. Even though right now 50% of the posts are "what I did in WOW today" right now, there is a lot of good discussion on info on there. Seeing all the industry folks (Brian Reynolds, John Blow, Sean Hargreaves, plenty of other people whose names I may or may not have heard) posting there is pretty sweet also.

Yeah, they go through phases there where a certain game will come out and just completely override everything else, I don't mind too much though. It's actually one of the primary ways I learn about games that I really have no interest in playing, hehe.

[Ricardo C]

Quarter to Three is pretty good, and I do enjoy the occasional "celeb sightings" there. But without trying to be a suckup, I prefer our little community here, perhaps because it's all indie, all the time. I find the conversations that spring up much more interesting.

[Dan MacDonald]

I used to read Qt3 a lot, I think I actually introduced greg to it? In the end though I realized I just wasn't that enamored with the retail industry.

[Gmicek]

I used to read Qt3 a lot, I think I actually introduced greg to it? In the end though I realized I just wasn't that enamored with the retail industry.

Hehe, sorry, I've been reading it since 2000. I found it because I was a huge fanboy of Mark Asher and his GameSpin articles, always great stuff.

Concerning a preference of one over the other, I think my preference of QT3 stems from it being a place for duscussion, whereas IG is a place for information. Both are fine and good, but I'm not a technical person by any stretch of the imagination, so most everything goes over my head :)

[Dan MacDonald]

Alright, it was someone else then. My bad :)

[gamemaker]

I visit http://www.gamingforums.com. It's a good site but it does have lots of sigs and avatars, so you are warned!.

[Fry Crayola]

http://www.rllmukforum.com

This was formed after the old Edge Online forums announced they were closing, and it's pretty much always filled with intelligent discussion. Plus it's a nice resource for cooking, telly, and getting general advice about anything and everything.

[Nauris]

www.gamerswithjobs.com (http://www.gamerswithjobs.com) is the only one i visit every single day. Articles are funny, interesting and smart, but their forums are the best - constantly moderated for l33tspeak, dumb bashing and encouraging proper use of English, yay! :) and, of course, geeky to no end.