are CGR forums enough?

I guess running the old forums with very few members, and not much traffic was not something good, at least financially.

I totally agree with spidershinobi. There's nothing that the old site had except the Vault Pages, and this site has better forum functions.

While I really liked the spacevault, the main reason why I visited the old site was also the forums, so I agree with spidershinobi 's sentiment.

I just wish Mark gave some shout-outs to these forums on his videos; it's always good to have more CGR fans.

I'm sorry but I'm in the same boat as Teddy (and presumably Imperial Khador - while he keeps silent about it, he put in more time and dedication into the site than any of us).

The community was built around the database, and the interactivity that came with it. It wasn't just a database, it was a constant inflow of user input in the form of collector's showcases, videos, quick opinons and written reviews - all under the guidance and branding of the CGR name. The forums was just the pub where we got together and talked.

All this place is is a forum - the lifeboat we fled to in desperation to preserve the community that was... not really having anything to do with Karnage anymore save the permitted continued use of the name.

Yeah, feature wise it's slightly better, but it's not likely to draw any new users that weren't part of the old community - and not even all of those that were cared to make the leap... Karnage only ever bothers to respond to fan input from Patreon & Twitter/Facebook now, and while he may acknowledge this place exists, it's not really part of his community circle anymore.

leaon79s it was the other way around. The collection part came after the forum and that's where people went when they didn't talk on the pub. When the site was going down, most seemed to care about the forum as a priority, not the rest.

I joined the original CGR forum quite late really, about a month or so before Mark shut it down and I enjoyed it, I checked it most days and asked a lot of nooby stuff, but it was a great community hence my joining this forum and it's good to see that some of the community did migrate. It's a shame we can't get Mark to push the forum for us.

I have distinct memories of going to a vault page with recent Mark reviews such as a World Cup soccer game and seeing the review get upwards of 40 toasts and people leaving quick community reviews. Heck, there were vault pages that got upwards of a hundred community reviews and it didn't necessarily have as much to do with the game. Community reviewers from leaon to smash bros. maestro and even the frequently antagonized sherberttcat (and so many more) established themselves as notable identities because of their writing styles and repertoires and became a constant source of great information to look forward to and 1up (seriously, game reviews need more toast buttons). Then of course there was the archival aspects of the site which allowed us to formulate our own opinions based on community identities who we could associate with because we knew them to certain extents.

Granted, it had its falling off moments after its periods of thriving but when the website was actively being pushed and even beyond then, it constantly served as a well rounded package for us to integrate in several means; it also served as an inspiration for me to begin my own "Youtube career" at a time when I felt lost and has given me a lot to work toward and look forward to so I can never thank Mark and several of the site users enough for that.

Bottom line -- I still miss the site and raise a glass to it for meaning so many things to me.