The problem is gaming news is posted in the thoughts thread, not only thoughts. All of this news is lost, immediately.

Read more as to why I want to make the decision, it's not going to hurt the forum it will help it.

http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45791

Reply there for GG forum discussion, let's keep this one GD only.

Crimson Ryan wrote:
This one? I don't have a problem with it staying. If anything this thread would be more active because of recent closures.

Same here, as long as it's quick blurbs and such.

In depth conversation should be in series threads and if they don't exist, one should be made.

Post up your most recent gaming purchases. Pics or it didn't happen.

Legacy thread: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=39347

NO NO NO! Yama... stop. Just stop dude. Too much change at once. Quit tweeking on SD today, my god.
Sorry for improving the site.

Check out the other threads, 90% votes in both. I'm doing what the community wants, not just one or two of you. It's about time the majority ruled.

And relax guy, that's why I make threads with a vote and don't go ahead and do things without question (old admins much?). I actually care what everyone thinks, hence why these two forums won't be merged.

Who Really Cares? wrote: Even Yama knows not to mess with Brothaman

This is true.

And this is what I'm talking about, nobody would have saw this otherwise. Good stuff Giogio.

I propose a logical alternative
Logical? So while a thread is open for a series, we are able to post the news in a different topic instead just because? This boils down to the majority of people missing out on the news or having to post the news twice in the same exact forum. That defies all logic.

Also, conform? How is anyone conforming if they are the ones who voted for it ? :lol:

I have nothing against you man, I seriously don't. But that post is just pure passion and zero sense. Just let it go, it'll be fine.

All right, done. We can always re-open a specific thread if we find it necessary, though if we honestly give this a shot I think it'll work just fine.

I felt out of them all the purchase thread should have been left open, but it was beyond dead as is. I'm sure a big purchase is thread worthy while something small or funny could be posted in the random thoughts thread.

I'd be all kinds of in there day one.

A lot of news worthy posts have been slipped under the rug due to poor categorizing and being lost in cluttered threads. We're doing away with this idea and moving on to a more active nature that allows users to participate easily.

What I am looking into closing is the Gaming Thoughts thread and would like your feedback. A ton and I mean a ton of news is posted there, unseen by 90% of our members. These news bits deserve threads, plain and simple. If there is anything else left to say in the thread, it can be fit under a series thread, new thread (this pushes for better quality) or the now playing thread.

If this is to be closed, I will leave all of the remaining threads in GG open such as Music, Now Playing, Purchases, etc. They are specific and not detrimental to thread creation or activity. Under Now Playing however, it is for blurbs and such. We feel in depth conversation should be shifted to a series thread and if there isn't one, create it.

[DO NOT BE AFRAID TO CREATE NEW THREADS]

The same procedure is going down in GD here , though admittedly there was more to change in that forum.

Is the server being killed going to affect single player for WKC 2? I've had so much work to do I haven't had a chance to buy it, if I can't play it i might not bother.
Nah, you're good. But the online portions will be down in June. If you want, maybe later this month or next we could get on there together. Aston and I were going to play.

judge from the title whether it's worth my while opening the thread and poring over its contents.

Sounds a little pretentious. I get what you're trying to say but acting all high and mighty taking 3 seconds out of the day to click something "worth my while" just sounds pompous.
Read it that way if you want, but I don't see anything wrong with what I said. There's nothing "high and mighty" about not wanting to waste time skimming through posts on subjects I don't care about.
I see exactly what you mean and agree, nothing pretentious about it.

Good timing for this thread, I always enjoy playing some games over the summer. Despite not being home as much when the weather warms up, there is something said for throwing away a day or chillin' in at night with the windows open.

Goal wise I wanted to compete in Soul Calibur V again like I did for the second game, though the tourney scene for the game is pure butt. Beyond where I ever imagined being, so I guess I could say I've at least accomplished the big part of the picture. If something comes up and it's feasible I'd definitely attend, otherwise I'll always play the game however I can. Same for Halo 4 which I was able to win a tournament last month in, was a lot of fun.

Pure individual play, I'd like to play some White Knight Chronicles 2 before the server goes down. Definitely planning on playing some OG RPG's to boot, maybe some Phantasia or Chrono Cross. Want to do a Shenmue run for sure. Maybe do some live streams, etc. Most hyped for The Last of Us, looks like it'll be an amazing summer release and is in the same vein as TWD comic. Double win.

Some of the writing is bad like a speech given a few weeks back about when all this is written in the history books :roll:

I don't really understand. Are you mocking me and the fact that I think the writing is bad? I guess I just don't understand your comment. If it is a reference to the show, I haven't watched it since the second season began airing. Sorry...
He's not mocking you, he's saying the speech given in the episode was just corn ball.

Looks amazing. I'm in there, my Vita needs to be fed as well.

But it's not disliked for being different than the graphic novel, it's disliked for being levels upon levels upon levels lesser as far as quality.

Ryudo wrote: Is this the game on the Vita highlight video you lift the golfer using the touch pad?

Yeah, that's it.

You are really starting to piss me off Yama, but i am sure I will forgive you soon enough, im not the grudge type. I read your PM, then read the post I quoted above, which negated any sympathy I had or was feeling before, for the time being.
To be fair, I wrote that reply far before I received a call and had to head out which then lead to a draining afternoon and hence my PM asking you to cut me a break, as I didn't have the time or mindset to deal with such things. But here I am, despite it all, so I might as well give you one last response.

Its time for a history lesson, our lesson begins in 2011 when the gaming forums still existed. We had sub-forums, Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft, Sony, General. Everything had its own place for discussion, it worked well, games had their own topic, game exclusives were in their respective forums and the fan boys of SD had their own special corner to talk about their favorite company. Jump ahead a year to 2012 and the decision was made to do away with that format, so everything was in one place, I was against the idea because I thought it would clutter and scatter the gaming topics and make specific topics harder to find, which naturally it did. But we all got used to it and moved on. Jump ahead again to now, 2013. We have the problem of not enough topics and extended discussion because its all in one place like the original game plan for removing the gaming sub forums originally was set into motion for. See the dilema? We went with the plan from the changes from last year, and now low and behold, we want it to be the other way around. We want More topics, more game/series specific discussion, which the old format provided better than anything.

I really dont know what to say, or how to advise about this any better than I already have. last year we want one thing, now its like we want the old way back but no one even realizes what we want now is essentially what we had before. Its really starting to irritate the crap out of me. Surely everyone realizes this is whats happening? Think about it.

Whats done is done. It would be far too much work to try to bring back the gaming sub-forums, and I wouldnt wish that task to any staff member here. I just want a inch or 2 of recognition that I tried to warn everyone of this and no one would listen, and here we are a year later, and my fears have come true.

I guess at this point having tried both formats, I dont really care which one we use, I can deal with both. But make up your damn mind about it, its annoying as hell having to go through the drastic forum change on a yearly basis, talk of locking topics and merging forums and all that wears down. We dont need to changing the way we talk to each other on here every year, just come up with the best logical idea and stick with it.

This place will pick up more when and if we ever get more shenmue. We cant force a crowd around here, just let things naturally do what they do, we have a dedicated site to a as of now dead franchise/series its gonna be small and niche, our traffic expectations for these forums are a bit higher than whats actually realistic.

I have said my piece about this and I am not arguing about it anymore, if you want me to help come up with a better game plan for this place, cool, I will do my best. But I am not playing into the current ignorance any longer. I'm sorry but thats the truth, as is everything I have said here in this post. I wouldnt make a post this long and detailed if I didnt love this place, I just hope some of you can realize what I am trying to say here, it makes sense.

But what you aren't seeing is there is no problem, everyone voted for it (hence you should be telling the community to make up their mind, not me) and we're continuing in the direction we have been. We got rid of a bunch of forums to have discussion in a single forum , the problem is we were having it in a single thread . We get rid of the thread and now actually utilize the forum . Mission complete.

Listen to this next part carefully and I do mean carefully, please. I did not come up with the idea solely. I received multiple PM's about it over the past month or two. I then took some members suggestions and presented them to the community. The community decided and I acted, for the community. Do not address me anymore in regards to this decision, address all of your piers which is 95% of the site.

I'm going to also present another history lesson. In 2010 this place made 245,000 hits a month, now it makes over 2,000,000+ monthly. It was presented to me because it was dying and when the hosting expired you wouldn't have had a Shenmue Dojo. I took over and now you're still here on a site that prospers despite seemingly dead subject matter.

And yeah, some Shenmue news would be fantastic. We can all agree on that.

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Took one of my favorite panels from TWD and added in a background, did some over edits and yeah. Fresh sig and av.

Considering what it lead to, this was a good time...

To be fair, I'm one of those ass holes who starts the convo, gets lost for three hours and replies as if I haven't went anywhere.

Only Axm, I swear. King of the 99% completion run.

Axm wrote:We need to get to playing this again. Too much fun.

Definitely. Going to download the new pack, it includes three or so new characters and two new courses. Let's do this.

No need to explain yourself dude, frig it. Dreamcast anything ftw.

Here are some of my older signatures, some as old as ten years.

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Nice thread!
So ya my Marlins aint looking amazing with a 1-5 record but yesturdays performace by cuban pitcher Fernandez was on fire. Juan Pierre looks good so far and if Stanton can be consistent then we could actually have a decent entertaining year. Heres hoping to growth and actually keeping any good players we develop.

Going to the Dodgers v Padres game tomorrow with some buddys. Should be fun. I swear im on the verge of giving into being a Dodger fan. Not like I cant have the option of changing sides givin the Padres are just so hard to be fans of. I like all the players on the Dodgers especially Adrian Gonzalez who was our best Padre a few years back.

But ill always be a Marlins fan. Grew up with them when I lived in Miami when they went to WS in '97 and '03. Its a shame they have fire sales so often but I hope they change that. Keeping the team hispanic is what I want the most.
Fernandez definitely looked good and I've always been a fan of Pierre. Team is definitely rebuilding, which the organization is ridiculously good at. Let's just hope they keep their build this time. They finally spent the money and had all good intentions last year and got burned.

As for the Dodgers, I think I know what you mean. Root against the home team. Just cause you live there doesn't mean you have to be a fan of the Padres. I've never liked their organization to be honest, about the only thing I do like is Petco. I don't think you were being serious about actually becoming a fan of a different organization, but I know what you mean. I was in a similar state back a few years. I loved the Red Sox in 02-04, but there is a difference between rooting for a team and being an actual born and raised fan. I'll always cherish that team and what they did to the MFY's, but I still know where my loyalties are.

I was born and raised a Mets fan and Brooklyn Dodgers historian. Nothing I cherish more than baseball with my gramps. From the memorabilia, videos, newspaper clipping and most of all stories, I really cherish that team of yesteryear. With that we're still big Dodgers fans, but love the Mets more than anything as they were there when the Dodgers left Brooklyn fans in the cold. The thing is, I haven't seen either of the teams win it all, ever. It hurts, but I know it'll feel so good when it finally happens. If and when the Mets finally do it, forget it. I'll cry tears of joy, no exaggeration. 2000 and 2006 still haunt me and I'm serious when I say a single championship to cherish would last me a life time. Granted the Marlins were an expansion team at the time and didn't have the history, but being a legitimate fan and witnessing two championships is extraordinarily lucky. I envy you in that regard. But trust me, just one will make up for all of that and a ton more.

Added some more oldies above, fun looking through the retro folder.

Here are some recent sigs for both Fatal Frame IV and Chaos Head:

I saw the most interesting stat last night.

Most strikeouts through 12 starts:

Pedro Martinez - 104
Dwight Gooden - 93
Matt Harvey - 89
Nolan Ryan - 88

Talk about great company. He's going to be a stud.

Issue one of the four issue comic series has been released. This is a direct tie in to the game.

Did a small impressions / synopsis video for those interested:

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Yes.

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Overrated. I'd rather go to

As long as he's not on the Mets, he's the best closer of all time.

That's how it works, right? Right?

I love how out of everyone, the entire staff was late by about a week to reply. Not even being snide, just find it funny.

It wasn't done on a whim and the voting speaks for itself (especially prior to your votes), the thread was detrimental as it wasn't being used as described. GG's activity has been up close to 300%, you really can't argue with that.

I see where you're coming though and I too enjoyed it for those reasons, but it was barely used to do such things. I would be fine with it coming back as long as it was made 110% clear what it is to be used for. If so, I'm fine with it and I'm sure everyone else would be to.

Edit: Here, we'll give it a go under a new and very defined rule set. http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45885

That's awesome! One of my favorite games on the Genesis. Day frickin' one.

It took so much willpower not to import Xillia. Incredibly excited to jump in.

Segata Sanshiro Jr. wrote: Did I mention I alredy paid in full for this... I'm a tool.

Then together we are a tool bag.

Really enjoyed the game myself, only have one complaint. The lack of new game plus. I did 100% on my first run and it took me quite some time (no videos or guides), though the inability to enjoy most of what you unlock near the end is quite silly. I'm sure the next game will change this, but it definitely hinders replay value. I'd like some more optional tombs as well, they were only an appetizer as to what I desired.

All over my face.



The only thing I'll replace my beloved XBR-3 with.

That is all.

south carmain wrote: so why was the "last thing you bought" thread locked?

Put the whip down and give me three seconds to make a new one, shit.

Ryudo wrote: won't be buying tho.

Seriously though, at least you're getting Dragons Crown.

Try? I completed it before you even bought it. Got it last April, I only have a NTSC-J 3DS so it at least comes in handy for gems as such.