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Does Anyone Remember GamingW? (Remembering Gamingw)
Oh, believe me, that crowd's reputation is definitely no secret. I recall them even causing a bit of trouble on RMN at one point a few years ago, but I barely paid any attention to that. I just recall a few bans happening and them getting all cranky before declaring that they were done here. It's in the past though, and they've buggered off, so oh well. I don't think anyone's arguing either, nor do I think there are any potential arguments bubbling in this topic. I think everyone has agreed that GW had some pretty shitty people on it for a while, and we all know who they were. There's plenty of them that I won't bother to name, but anyone who came from GW could probably still remember who they were. You are right though, they're not really worth naming - not after so many years have passed.
Erave posting the video of one of the chain games up above filled me with quite a few memories. I LOVED how disorganized they were, especially the one I took part in. It was so much fun grabbing the game when your part came up and struggling to make ANY sense of the most recent plot developments that the last person inserted into the game. I forget which one it was that I worked on, Chain Game 2 or 3 (I think 2?), but I'd love to get my hands on it again just for the sake of nostalgia.
But yeah, there's plenty of good that could be brought up about GW. Mostly members who vanished or never migrated to RMN. Some notable examples of people who I would honestly say that I miss even to this day just because they were really swell people are a short eternity, Bart, Belross, Drule, Esh, the Finn twins (DS and rami), Mateui (he "kind of" came here, but not really), RPGoddess, Rowain, Serenity, Sicksinz... the list goes on and on. GW had its fair share of people who loved to stir the pot and upset people, but there were at least several awesome people for every one shit disturber.
Someone also mentioned GW Radio. I LOVED GW Radio. There are a lot of other ways to play music for people in this day and age, but streaming music for people via WinAmp was really innovative and exciting back then. I remember that we had our our DJ schedule complete with when each person would be on air, what genres they'd play, etc. I tried to get something similar going with a Plug.dj room for RMN, but it failed to stay popular for more than two or three days. Those two or three days were LOTS of fun though. From Frogge and Kloe playing all sorts of weird stuff I never heard of to Liberty staying up and playing music for over 24 hours and a few hours where all of us started playing our favourite TV themes for each other, it was great.
... that got off-track. That wasn't even about GW at all, lol.
Erave posting the video of one of the chain games up above filled me with quite a few memories. I LOVED how disorganized they were, especially the one I took part in. It was so much fun grabbing the game when your part came up and struggling to make ANY sense of the most recent plot developments that the last person inserted into the game. I forget which one it was that I worked on, Chain Game 2 or 3 (I think 2?), but I'd love to get my hands on it again just for the sake of nostalgia.
But yeah, there's plenty of good that could be brought up about GW. Mostly members who vanished or never migrated to RMN. Some notable examples of people who I would honestly say that I miss even to this day just because they were really swell people are a short eternity, Bart, Belross, Drule, Esh, the Finn twins (DS and rami), Mateui (he "kind of" came here, but not really), RPGoddess, Rowain, Serenity, Sicksinz... the list goes on and on. GW had its fair share of people who loved to stir the pot and upset people, but there were at least several awesome people for every one shit disturber.
Someone also mentioned GW Radio. I LOVED GW Radio. There are a lot of other ways to play music for people in this day and age, but streaming music for people via WinAmp was really innovative and exciting back then. I remember that we had our our DJ schedule complete with when each person would be on air, what genres they'd play, etc. I tried to get something similar going with a Plug.dj room for RMN, but it failed to stay popular for more than two or three days. Those two or three days were LOTS of fun though. From Frogge and Kloe playing all sorts of weird stuff I never heard of to Liberty staying up and playing music for over 24 hours and a few hours where all of us started playing our favourite TV themes for each other, it was great.
... that got off-track. That wasn't even about GW at all, lol.
Does Anyone Remember GamingW? (Remembering Gamingw)
I can relate a bit to what Kaempfer is saying. There were two distinct crowds that loved to shit on people (one being a non-RM crowd and the other being a sort of clique within the RMN crowd which included the names Kaempfer dropped). I mean, it really was a terrific site, but the powers that be just let people run amok too much and it resulted in a lot of people being shit on by other members all the time. Sure a lot of us were immature teenagers at the time, but a lot of members were also in their twenties and partaking in it. Bad behaviour just wasn't frowned upon enough, and nobody rarely ever punished the very influential members for being dicks to people.
I remember when I was modding Game & Demo and the Poll Forum, I tried to curb that sort of behaviour, but it was honestly just too difficult - especially being a target of those groups myself that Kaempfer mentioned. I got shit on plenty, sometimes even away from GW by these people, just because I've always liked to dabble with fan games. A terrible reason, but it happened. I was a prominent member on GW, but never one of the "hip" ones that had actual sway on the forums. Even though I was a moderator for a time, the more popular members who were simple members had insane sway with how things were run, way more than me even. The influential few who turned GW away from RPG Maker were the ones who decided how Game & Demo would be run rather than Esh and I, and we were moderating the freaking thing. We were just janitors, basically. I had A LOT more influence in the Poll Forum, but I wish that it had been the other way around and I could have helped dictate, and save, the Game & Demo forum from ultimately being considered a cess pool. I know I tried to save it in the staff forum and probably on IRC, but it never amounted to much.
But what Kaempfer mentioned, and why he harbours some ill feelings towards GW, are exceptionally valid points. People were just rampantly picked on, and the only ones who could actually stop it were the administrators. This is why RMN has always been a far superior site. That sort of juvenile nonsense is a major no-no here. It helps that we're all older now and actually treat other people with some degree of decency, but you still get the one idiot or two who never grew up and still likes to pick on people and act all snooty (see: names Kaempfer mentioned, the shmup crew or whatever they were called, but thankfully they're inactive/mostly gone from RMN in recent years).
It sucks that the "bad" side of GW is so easy to bring up, because a lot of the great games and AMAZING people who are on RMN (and, in some cases, running it now) came from GW. There was plenty of good there, it's just kind of unfortunate that the bad side was so much more vocal and "in your face" most of the time.
Apologies for any typos and/or incoherent sentences. It's Friday and I'm ringing in the weekend with booze.
I remember when I was modding Game & Demo and the Poll Forum, I tried to curb that sort of behaviour, but it was honestly just too difficult - especially being a target of those groups myself that Kaempfer mentioned. I got shit on plenty, sometimes even away from GW by these people, just because I've always liked to dabble with fan games. A terrible reason, but it happened. I was a prominent member on GW, but never one of the "hip" ones that had actual sway on the forums. Even though I was a moderator for a time, the more popular members who were simple members had insane sway with how things were run, way more than me even. The influential few who turned GW away from RPG Maker were the ones who decided how Game & Demo would be run rather than Esh and I, and we were moderating the freaking thing. We were just janitors, basically. I had A LOT more influence in the Poll Forum, but I wish that it had been the other way around and I could have helped dictate, and save, the Game & Demo forum from ultimately being considered a cess pool. I know I tried to save it in the staff forum and probably on IRC, but it never amounted to much.
But what Kaempfer mentioned, and why he harbours some ill feelings towards GW, are exceptionally valid points. People were just rampantly picked on, and the only ones who could actually stop it were the administrators. This is why RMN has always been a far superior site. That sort of juvenile nonsense is a major no-no here. It helps that we're all older now and actually treat other people with some degree of decency, but you still get the one idiot or two who never grew up and still likes to pick on people and act all snooty (see: names Kaempfer mentioned, the shmup crew or whatever they were called, but thankfully they're inactive/mostly gone from RMN in recent years).
It sucks that the "bad" side of GW is so easy to bring up, because a lot of the great games and AMAZING people who are on RMN (and, in some cases, running it now) came from GW. There was plenty of good there, it's just kind of unfortunate that the bad side was so much more vocal and "in your face" most of the time.
Apologies for any typos and/or incoherent sentences. It's Friday and I'm ringing in the weekend with booze.
[Poll] Is Final Fantasy 13 trilogy that bad?
Only played the first one, and... I don't know. I never loved playing it. I think, at best, I just liked it. A little bit. Usually I just found it kind of boring and sometimes frustrating.
The story had potential, but its delivery was pretty poor (having to read the in-game glossary to figure out what something is that the characters just talked about and had never been mentioned before was a little annoying). I also hated the chapters of the game that just felt like corridor simulators. So often, you'd be stuck running through really linear areas that offered little to no sense of exploration. Very rarely did I feel like I could diverge from whatever path I was supposed to take, and that was usually down on Gran Pulse.
Some parts of the game were just painful and, if the game didn't have a somewhat interesting story to carry it through these parts, I don't think I would have gotten far in it at all.
The story had potential, but its delivery was pretty poor (having to read the in-game glossary to figure out what something is that the characters just talked about and had never been mentioned before was a little annoying). I also hated the chapters of the game that just felt like corridor simulators. So often, you'd be stuck running through really linear areas that offered little to no sense of exploration. Very rarely did I feel like I could diverge from whatever path I was supposed to take, and that was usually down on Gran Pulse.
Some parts of the game were just painful and, if the game didn't have a somewhat interesting story to carry it through these parts, I don't think I would have gotten far in it at all.
"Fan games can still ruin your life. Please stop believing otherwise."
This has always been in the back of my mind since the dawn of time (aka when I started using RPG Maker 95 in 1999). Given the fact that it's 2017 and I've been mucking about with fan games for the better part of 16 years (holy shit), I don't really feel terribly worried. I mean, I don't really recall Square-Enix ever squishing any Final Fantasy fan games that were very notable. I think they might have killed a 2D FF7 remake a few years ago, but that's the only example I can think of. It's always looked like they seem largely unconcerned about Final Fantasy fan games unless they legitimately pose a threat to the company's business practices and/or image. Chrono Trigger is definitely treated differently by them for whatever reason (a reason I can't comprehend since it's basically a dead IP).
Oh well, it won't be in my mind after June/July when I finish my game since I desperately want to move onto an original game anyway. I just want to push mine out into the open and then let it go and have a life of its own while I toil away on something else.
Oh well, it won't be in my mind after June/July when I finish my game since I desperately want to move onto an original game anyway. I just want to push mine out into the open and then let it go and have a life of its own while I toil away on something else.
NHL 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs / Pool Prediction Thread
Does Anyone Remember GamingW? (Remembering Gamingw)
Oh, there we go! I was just looking for a "Soldat" page. Going to enjoy reading that one since the whole GW Soldat subcommunity was, by and far, one of my favourite and most memorable times spent at GW.
What Videogames Are You Playing Right Now?
Yeah, I feel the exact same way. I tried my best to get into Skylines, but it just wouldn't click with me. I guess, in a way, I just like the "feel" of SimCity 4 more. Skylines feels like it has less personality and soul as a whole, and I could just never get immersed in the towns I was building in it.
What Videogames Are You Playing Right Now?
SimCity 4.
No matter how many years pass, this game always sucks me back in somehow. One day, I will fully populate an entire region!
No matter how many years pass, this game always sucks me back in somehow. One day, I will fully populate an entire region!
Does Anyone Remember GamingW? (Remembering Gamingw)
I also found my (obviously self-written as well) wiki article! This part made me laugh:
I'm actually having a lot of fun looking at a bunch of old GW Wiki pages now. I am, however, OUTRAGED AT THE LACK OF A SOLDAT PAGE.
Becoming a regular at Don's new ezBoard forums, UPRC flourished. Unfortunately, when he released his first full RPG titled Lost Chapters in August 2000, it was immediately voted worst RPG Maker game of all time.
I'm actually having a lot of fun looking at a bunch of old GW Wiki pages now. I am, however, OUTRAGED AT THE LACK OF A SOLDAT PAGE.
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