Having posted at many online gaming forums and running this one I can easily tell you that participating in a forum is a great experience along with it's occasional problems. For some reason it seems that game forums are especially tedious because of the passsionate nature of gamers.
We ALL have our preferences. as much as we try to be impartial every member of a message board has his or her personal favorites. The important thing to remember is that no matter what another person thinks it is their opinion. What one person says or even a game reviewer writes does note mak your purchase any less valid. It seems as though if we do not get this validation we become angry and frustrated.
We will never ever convince one another that our console is better no matter how hard we try. So why bother?
The problem is that there are many less educated consumers and many outspoken gamers are all jockeying for position to set the record straight.
The most important things to remember when we post is that we do not attack the person posting. There really is no reason to. An argument has never been won or lost by name calling (YES, Even that time when LLoyd Bensten told Dan Quale he was no Jack Kennedy
).
A good debate actually occurs when facts or data is presented and another person challenges that data with more facts to back up their argument.
I would like to believe that we can acheive a forum atmosphere where there is very little agenda on the part of the poster and we become a community where it is not just about the games but how we feel about Game Systems with a Home Theater communites point of view.
We are here because we all love games, we want to talk about them, and get information that we don't already have.
So with that in mind, let's continue to maked this the best darned message board for Video Games on the web!