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Dragon

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We were talking about this the other day, and so, we would like to hear your opinion about this; what sorts of things do you want to see in Video Games?

For example, we, the VG mods, have been discussing that perhaps we should take some lessons from the other boards around here, to try and make Video Games have more of a "relaxed atmosphere", while still keeping the activity, and still hold the general quality of the posts as well.

For example, what do you guys think of getting rid of the Video Games DCC, and allow more diverse and general topics be made here on the main Video Games page? Or, could there be another route we can take to try and accomplish this? Or are things fine the way there are?

Please feel free to share any thoughts, ideas, or any suggestions you have for this, because we will all certainly put this discussion to heart!


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Alright so I'm not a super active participant of the VG section as a whole; I really only post in certain threads so take this with a grain of salt. I personally think that the section is fine as it is. VG is different from something like General Chat because the threads in here have a mix of "DCC-like" topics (like the series and game Megathreads) and some "post-and-go" ones. I think the DCC should stay here because the topics seem to shift so frequently that if you got rid of it and made all the topics into little DCCs you'd end up with a lot of little threads. I really like the series Megathreads because they seem to act like DCCs focused around a single topic, but a lot of them seem to have fallen in activity except the Hyrule Warriors one.

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As a former moderator of VG, there's a few things I've felt are keeping VG from reaching its full potential, while also recognizing that several additions to the section have made it better in the longterm.

Positives:

+ I really think the Year of Gaming series by elhero is a great way to bring about entertaining and fun competition for the forum. Most of the threads seem to be active and the games chosen are (mostly) interesting and fun.
+ Dragon contributes a lot of great threads to the section and I like seeing a lot of unique threads posted. There is a negative to this though (see below).
+ The Gaming DCC is a thread I enjoy and the idea of it being discontinued is silly. It's one of the more active threads and generates a lot of discussion that would not warrant a thread.

Negatives:

- These terrible [Megathread], [Challenge], [Online] things need to go. None of the threads posted seriously need these prefixes and it makes the entire section seem utterly cluttered. By nature of the thread title, it should already explain what the thread is about. Hyrule Warriors as the thread title indicates exactly what the thread is about and the needless clutter around it is...just plain ugly. Year of Gaming #7 explains EXACTLY what the thread is about without needing to be plastered with the prefix. I know others that agree with me on this feeling.
- Where the heck are the real gaming events? When I was the mod, we had gaming events almost every weekend and had a very active group of people playing games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. It created a huge sense of community and camaraderie. There isn't much of that anymore and it's sort of disappointing as a former VG mod that the work Captain Fabio and I (not to mention other staff members like Hiroshi Sotomura and Morkula) put in to maintain the events has all but died. I'm not sure if it's because you guys don't have any consoles or games.
- The negative side of Dragon (and elhero) posting so much is that there are a lot of threads by mods and very few member-generated discussions. Half the threads or more on the front page of VG are posted by a mod. This isn't an issue so long as members continue being active, but perhaps consider how many threads you, the mods, are posting versus how many threads are being posted by members. (I also recognize that members sometimes don't post as many threads as could be desired)
- Personally I think there are way too many stickied threads. I don't feel some of these warrant being stickied because they are hardly active enough and it makes the top of the forum seem very full. I'd rather see two-three stickied threads and an occasional fourth when warranted. Not seven.

Just some feelings I've had on the area lately and since returning. Overall I like elhero's Year of Gaming and think it's a great way to maintain some member interaction and competition and I like Dragon's overall activity and feel he's doing a good job of finding topics to post. Thanks for reading!

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I do agree with Klippy that we need more actual events to get people more active in the community, not to take away from anything that el or dragon put, but we need some more interactive things where a couple people or a group of people are actually sitting doing the same thing at once and can converse verbally about it if they can. Which we do have te new gaming member directory and it has a slot for a game night, but nothings been done with it and if we could at least get a weekly game night together, that would really help us a lot in my opinion. And then after that we could work on getting together maybe a couple of people who own a system and they can host daily game get together things.

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I'm going to agree with Klippy on some things.

- I feel the Megathreads are a bit pointless. I get that they don't have a revival rule because they're a megathread, but at the same time, if a conversation dies, it dies. It would be better off to just have a new thread at a new time, I think.
- There is a lot of presence of Dragon and elhero and it's great to have mods that are present and interact with members. I really encourage that and try to do that myself. But like Klippy said, it is a tad jarring when most of the threads on the first page were created by a mod. I don't say that to discourage you guys from posting, not at all, but it is a tad overwhelming. One time I flooded Advance Generation with threads...it looked silly and looked like I held a monopoly on the forum and that doesn't come off to some members very well. It doesn't give them room to make certain topics.
- While Dragon and elhero have a great presence in here and really shine, I'm not seeing a lot of Libra. I know he's busy right now, but still.
- That is a lot of stickies. :(
- Events where we can all play together would be fun. I know back in the day, most events were L4D, TF2, etc. so if we could incorporate a little more of the big three companies, that would be great and feel a lot more inclusive. For example, I have a 360, but no Live and thus wasn't able to play in events back then. I do, however, have a 3DS and Animal Crossing, MK7 (I know 8 is out too), and Smash is out in October, so there's plenty of Nintendo stuff that could be done too. Forever waiting on an HD Jak X so that we can do online combat racing!! You guys!!! That would be KILLER!!
- Shoutout to the regulars in this forum. Many of you are hella fun to talk to and generate some great conversations in the threads.

Overall, the section is definitely rich in great discussion threads. I couldn't say that about it say...this time last year. That's the biggest positive about this section. It's really fun to post in and there's always something new to discuss every time I sign on. It's always a pleasure posting in here, but there's always room for improvement. I know you three can work towards it. I already know some of your potential plans anyway because I'm a sneaky thread stalker.
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Dragon

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Thanks for the suggestions so far!

- These terrible [Megathread], [Challenge], [Online] things need to go. None of the threads posted seriously need these prefixes and it makes the entire section seem utterly cluttered. By nature of the thread title, it should already explain what the thread is about. Hyrule Warriors as the thread title indicates exactly what the thread is about and the needless clutter around it is...just plain ugly. Year of Gaming #7 explains EXACTLY what the thread is about without needing to be plastered with the prefix. I know others that agree with me on this feeling.
Mmm, sure, we can get rid of those then!


- Where the heck are the real gaming events? When I was the mod, we had gaming events almost every weekend and had a very active group of people playing games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. It created a huge sense of community and camaraderie. There isn't much of that anymore and it's sort of disappointing as a former VG mod that the work Captain Fabio and I (not to mention other staff members like Hiroshi Sotomura and Morkula) put in to maintain the events has all but died. I'm not sure if it's because you guys don't have any consoles or games.
See, the thing about this is that I've tried making weekend gaming events loads of times before, but, no one is either interested in hosting, or joining them, even after advertising them. @[email protected] And you know, I'm not a person who plays a lot of steam games, so, you can imagine the.. difficulty. XD

But yes, we can easily bring more gamiing events, but, I also hope that you guys will be more interested and in them! That being said, my knowledge on PC games is sort of weak, so, I would like it if others can volunteer to host some of these gaming events too, because I can host gaming events as far as.. LoL and Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros. when that comes out? Otherwise, yeah, kinda stuck. ):

We're also planning on having a seperate sub-board for events, and challenges too, which will hopefully kick off soon!

- The negative side of Dragon (and elhero) posting so much is that there are a lot of threads by mods and very few member-generated discussions. Half the threads or more on the front page of VG are posted by a mod. This isn't an issue so long as members continue being active, but perhaps consider how many threads you, the mods, are posting versus how many threads are being posted by members. (I also recognize that members sometimes don't post as many threads as could be desired)
Fair enough, I was just concerned that members weren't so keen on making threads, so, I just make them from time to time to help activity along~

B]-[/B] Personally I think there are way too many stickied threads. I don't feel some of these warrant being stickied because they are hardly active enough and it makes the top of the forum seem very full. I'd rather see two-three stickied threads and an occasional fourth when warranted. Not seven.
We're gonna fix that soon too; no worries!


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See, the thing about this is that I've tried making weekend gaming events loads of times before, but, no one is either interested in hosting, or joining them, even after advertising them. @[email protected] And you know, I'm not a person who plays a lot of steam games, so, you can imagine the.. difficulty. XD

But yes, we can easily bring more gamiing events, but, I also hope that you guys will be more interested and in them! That being said, my knowledge on PC games is sort of weak, so, I would like it if others can volunteer to host some of these gaming events too, because I can host gaming events as far as.. LoL and Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros. when that comes out? Otherwise, yeah, kinda stuck. ):
That was probably because the events were too broad. It was basically, "Here are all of these games happening at this time, and you can pick any one of these games and join along," and because of all of those options, it gave the user too much freedom and just lead to disorganization and chaos. Events for a smaller amount of games would work out.

Though I am a little sad that the Osu! event never worked out :/

Dragon

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That was probably because the events were too broad. It was basically, "Here are all of these games happening at this time, and you can pick any one of these games and join along," and because of all of those options, it gave the user too much freedom and just lead to disorganization and chaos. Events for a smaller amount of games would work out.

Though I am a little sad that the Osu! event never worked out :/
Perhaps only one real gaming event at a time can work out then? o:


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Klippy

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See, the thing about this is that I've tried making weekend gaming events loads of times before, but, no one is either interested in hosting, or joining them, even after advertising them. @[email protected] And you know, I'm not a person who plays a lot of steam games, so, you can imagine the.. difficulty. XD

But yes, we can easily bring more gamiing events, but, I also hope that you guys will be more interested and in them! That being said, my knowledge on PC games is sort of weak, so, I would like it if others can volunteer to host some of these gaming events too, because I can host gaming events as far as.. LoL and Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros. when that comes out? Otherwise, yeah, kinda stuck. ):

We're also planning on having a seperate sub-board for events, and challenges too, which will hopefully kick off soon!
There will need to be a member of staff to really get the event hosted, organized, and running. It took some effort back in the day, but I understand when you don't play a lot of games that you would have a hard time running such events. Just a reminder: Team Fortress 2 is free now and was always a big turnout for events. It will really be an effort for all three of you to put in the work necessary to get the events going. I was lucky enough to have an Xbox 360 and PC and, along with Morkula, Hiroshi and some other staff, maintained a fairly active event schedule. Captain Fabio had a PS3 and hosted what he could from that console.

Wasn't the Online Games section that was recently closed just what you described? Or?

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Perhaps only one real gaming event at a time can work out then? o:
That's what I'm thinking. I'd assume that if the selection were more focused, participation would increase. From what I've seen, at least.

Dragon

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There will need to be a member of staff to really get the event hosted, organized, and running. It took some effort back in the day, but I understand when you don't play a lot of games that you would have a hard time running such events. Just a reminder: Team Fortress 2 is free now and was always a big turnout for events. It will really be an effort for all three of you to put in the work necessary to get the events going. I was lucky enough to have an Xbox 360 and PC and, along with Morkula, Hiroshi and some other staff, maintained a fairly active event schedule. Captain Fabio had a PS3 and hosted what he could from that console.
Well, sure, but, I think that perhaps we can alternatively get a small committee going here to help host them too, which is what I've bee seen from the Minecraft organization.. at least. Of course, I can definitely help with those sorts of things regardless~ o:

Wasn't the Online Games section that was recently closed just what you described? Or?
Essentially, but, we want to think of ways to make a section like that more 'dynamic', you know? That and.. we haven't properly gotten online gaming things rolling, so, it was kinda dead for a really long while. It's going to take some planning to pull this off without it being.. a dead sub-board once again, but, it can be done~


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Negatives:

- These terrible [Megathread], [Challenge], [Online] things need to go. None of the threads posted seriously need these prefixes and it makes the entire section seem utterly cluttered. By nature of the thread title, it should already explain what the thread is about. Hyrule Warriors as the thread title indicates exactly what the thread is about and the needless clutter around it is...just plain ugly. Year of Gaming #7 explains EXACTLY what the thread is about without needing to be plastered with the prefix. I know others that agree with me on this feeling.
- Where the heck are the real gaming events? When I was the mod, we had gaming events almost every weekend and had a very active group of people playing games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. It created a huge sense of community and camaraderie. There isn't much of that anymore and it's sort of disappointing as a former VG mod that the work Captain Fabio and I (not to mention other staff members like Hiroshi Sotomura and Morkula) put in to maintain the events has all but died. I'm not sure if it's because you guys don't have any consoles or games.
- The negative side of Dragon (and elhero) posting so much is that there are a lot of threads by mods and very few member-generated discussions. Half the threads or more on the front page of VG are posted by a mod. This isn't an issue so long as members continue being active, but perhaps consider how many threads you, the mods, are posting versus how many threads are being posted by members. (I also recognize that members sometimes don't post as many threads as could be desired)
- Personally I think there are way too many stickied threads. I don't feel some of these warrant being stickied because they are hardly active enough and it makes the top of the forum seem very full. I'd rather see two-three stickied threads and an occasional fourth when warranted. Not seven.

Gonna agree with all of this.

There's so many threads in general (mods or members) that it's really overwhelming, and honestly? It's discouraging to post in them.

I also have a problem with list threads. Basically "What's your favorite/least favorite -thing-" or "how many games do you have" or all that, which are an abundance here. People just list their answer, might give few explanations, but that's it. It doesn't encourage discussion, and I personally don't give a crap about what's someone's favorite game is if they don't get into detail about why. It's not exactly something that you can do about, though.

I kinda tried to balance it out with that one thread I made earlier this year, but it never took off. I'm to blame for not trying to keep it alive, but I figured people here aren't exactly willing to read essays about a game or even write about one.

Discussion threads about a specific game or series are good I think, since it's much easier to discuss in. The problem here is that the game/series has to be popular or talked about to get any activity in, and those are normally more recent games which will end up dying quickly anyway. That FE Awakening thread was a good one, and so is the current Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors threads. My problem is that I don't exactly find a lot of criticisms towards the game/series that the thread is about. They're normally a lovefest.

Let's not get rid of DCCs.

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I will just say something to the gaming events.
It will depend on the platform... and on how many people are active enough to participate.
Achievement thread shows that PC is the most preferred platform which I understand but it would also eliminate those who don't use Steam.
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I'm supposed to be away but got some time to make this post:

- Where the heck are the real gaming events? When I was the mod, we had gaming events almost every weekend and had a very active group of people playing games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. It created a huge sense of community and camaraderie. There isn't much of that anymore and it's sort of disappointing as a former VG mod that the work Captain Fabio and I (not to mention other staff members like Hiroshi Sotomura and Morkula) put in to maintain the events has all but died. I'm not sure if it's because you guys don't have any consoles or games.
This is kinda the hardest part with the current memberbase in VG. I tried hosting some events for the "real games", only one was succesful (with only 6 members though) and the others died of 0 posts and 0 interest. It is hard nowadays since the interest of fellow gamers lie different in many aspects. Yes F2P games may help, but not everyone will download those if they have 0 interest in it. I am a PC gamer from nature, but I do own a PS3 and am willing to host stuff for it if there are people willing to join in, yet in the past, there hasn't been a single person joining.

- While Dragon and elhero have a great presence in here and really shine, I'm not seeing a lot of Libra. I know he's busy right now, but still.
True and that is something I might need to work on by posting a bit more, but I can't be everywhere y'know? I do not own a Nintendo, neither am I interested in having one so those discussions are instantly a nono for me. Plus lately I have been focused more on playing video games than to talk about them, which could be a good thing considering I may have more to talk about in the future?

Just my opinion :)

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Was away all day yesterday on a camping trip so I didn't have a chance to really reply, but I do agree with a lot of suggestions so far. Just wanted to elaborate on one part though..

I do agree with Klippy that we need more actual events to get people more active in the community, not to take away from anything that el or dragon put, but we need some more interactive things where a couple people or a group of people are actually sitting doing the same thing at once and can converse verbally about it if they can. Which we do have te new gaming member directory and it has a slot for a game night, but nothings been done with it and if we could at least get a weekly game night together, that would really help us a lot in my opinion. And then after that we could work on getting together maybe a couple of people who own a system and they can host daily game get together things.
I'll take the blame for that one. I've been shuffling a lot of projects lately so I sort of put that on the back burner. However, I'm going to get started on that now, so see a Game Night coming in about a week so stay tuned on that.
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Gonna agree with all of this.

There's so many threads in general (mods or members) that it's really overwhelming, and honestly? It's discouraging to post in them.

I also have a problem with list threads. Basically "What's your favorite/least favorite -thing-" or "how many games do you have" or all that, which are an abundance here. People just list their answer, might give few explanations, but that's it. It doesn't encourage discussion, and I personally don't give a crap about what's someone's favorite game is if they don't get into detail about why. It's not exactly something that you can do about, though.

I kinda tried to balance it out with that one thread I made earlier this year, but it never took off. I'm to blame for not trying to keep it alive, but I figured people here aren't exactly willing to read essays about a game or even write about one.

Discussion threads about a specific game or series are good I think, since it's much easier to discuss in. The problem here is that the game/series has to be popular or talked about to get any activity in, and those are normally more recent games which will end up dying quickly anyway. That FE Awakening thread was a good one, and so is the current Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors threads. My problem is that I don't exactly find a lot of criticisms towards the game/series that the thread is about. They're normally a lovefest.

Let's not get rid of DCCs.
I believe this was one of the things GC wanted to fix - promote more discussion threads instead of post and go ones. I have no problem with these types of threads personally, since if people wanted to respond to each other and create a discussion in that thread there isn't anyone stopping them. However, a lot of popular series themed DCC type threads have died, like Legend of Zelda has a hige fanbase but its series Megathread has died.

I think a reason a lot of the events (other than YoG) haven't taken off is because a lot of people don't own the games? I haven't really participated in any so I can't really speak to this sorry.

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Hi there - just a little update, from your suggests! We got rid of all of the tags in VG, and we also reduced the number of stickies, as you can see.

Right now, we're working on building a weekly real online gaming night for you guys, which hopefully we can start next week if everything's prepared, so, stay turned for that!


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Going off of Dragon, we would still like your input when it comes to games be played for Game Nights? Ever wanted a game that you wanted to play with buds but just could never find anyone? Well now's your chance! Just either let myself, Dragon, and Libra - when he get's back from his tournament! - know and we'll make it happen!
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Hi there - just a little update, from your suggests! We got rid of all of the tags in VG, and we also reduced the number of stickies, as you can see.
I'm not sure the Claims thread should have been unstickied, since that basically makes us the only section with a Claims thread that just has one floating around.
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I don't like the idea of this place adopting a General Chat atmosphere. I already find it overwhelming how active this place is, being one section without any subsections. It moves too fast, with no sense of organisation or structure, making for some of the reason I barely bother to visit and post. I PMed you similar feedback in the past, if you remember.


Hi there - just a little update, from your suggests! We got rid of all of the tags in VG, and we also reduced the number of stickies, as you can see.
Please don't remove stickies that ought to be stickies. As to the tags, the concept of megathreads was confusing and seemed pointless (I honestly didn't understand the official post about them at all) but I'd find it helpful for event type threads to be clearly marked.

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I don't like the idea of this place adopting a General Chat atmosphere. I already find it overwhelming how active this place is, being one section without any subsections. It moves too fast, with no sense of organisation or structure, making for some of the reason I don't bother to visit and post. I PMed you similar feedback in the past, if you remember.
Yes, and I still don't understand what you mean - are you saying that the board's problem is being too active? @[email protected] Because we're already working on trying to reduce the number of threads made here, but we can't exactly solve the activity problem. x:

In any case, other than the claim thread which I'll resticky in a sec, what would you constitute as a sticky?


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Yes, and I still don't understand what you mean - are you saying that the board's problem is being too active? @[email protected] Because we're already working on trying to reduce the number of threads made here, but we can't exactly solve the activity problem. x:

In any case, other than the claim thread which I'll resticky in a sec, what would you constitute as a sticky?
Making them stickies could be a way of keeping event (not sure what I should call them — things like this) threads organised and visible.

So, activity... yes, it's too active for me. It's mainly in this particular section for whatever reason — looking at the thread list feels like staring into a phone book. I think dividing the content somehow would help, but unfortunately I have no spectacular suggestion as to how since apparently neither prefixes or subsections worked before. Still, I'd go for two prefixes: one for any threads about particular games/fanchises, a la "Zelda General", and another for meta discussions like "are graphics important". Maybe I'm showing a lack of familiarity with the place, but it seems every thread here fits into one of the two categories (unless it's an event type thing).

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The problem is thread organization, maybe. Right now there are three Fire Emblem threads. One is a challenge, but the other two could be merged as one could fit into the Fire Emblem series discussion thread.

A good way to start clearing the clutter might be monitoring the thread topics to see if they fit into previously posted ones, then merging them. Splitting the VG forum into different subsections is not a solution for the "claustrophobic" feeling.