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I don't think so. I've seen forums do it, albeit not in this exact fashion. It never really became a "general" topic

oh man, this is such a whole great point of everything oh wow.

Fuck, other forums also think that banners need as many Nintendo characters as possible, ice chewing is a mega-fetish and being 10 while playing Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt and Saints Row makes you the greatest.

Is that really what you think?

Not really, no. Where did you draw this from? if you must know, I saw this system being used on NeoGAF, and I thought it was a very organized way of handling game discussion. No strings or secret motives behind it.

Look on TSR, there's a pokemon section, a "What are you playing" thread, "games you hate/love," Video game music general, etc.
It cuts down on small topics and things that could derail other topics, but also adds that extra value of personal discussion.
Which is what TSR does a lot.

I do wonder why Pokemon gets its own sub-forum. If Pokemon deserves a sub-forum, then so does every other popular game series, yet only Pokemon got one. Even so, that was a decision of the staff and I am in no position to argue against their decision.

You wouldn't have to delete your own topics if you didn't make 20 a day over every little game that comes out.
I swear that you just make threads for the sake of having threads.
All of your data is easily squeezable into 1 general release thread.

I didn't feel I HAD to delete the topics, it was a choice I made of my own volition. I do not make threads just for the sake of it, hence why I took the liberty of deleting old topics; Something I don't see other members doing.

The way I have organized my OTs is to act as both a topic for the newest series entry in addition to discussing the series as a whole. You could say it's a topic with double motives.

Normally, a game in a big series or just one that's been something big for awhile has a much larger discussion potential.
And if one game happens to come up a lot, then make it it's own thread.

Any game, no, any THING has discussion potential. Whether it's large or small, I think as long as it's not zero interest, it's worth making a topic. Regardless, I still think trying to consolidate the info into as few topics as possible is beneficial to the forum, but at the same time you can't have one topic that tries to be a jack of all trades, as it would get way too cluttered.

What you're proposing is a topic to discuss all new releases, and considering how often new games release, the topic would have too many subjects to talk about at once. New people would enter the topic and not know what the current subject is, as the title "General Releases" is way too vague.

And don't go there with Rhythm Heaven.
Each thread was less than one page long, and each new topic was the same shit each time.

Well maybe that's why I made an OT? Besides, the new game is coming out in 2-3 weeks. Even if there is no discussion for Fever, the DS game and even the GBA original can still be discussed.

On NeoGAF, a topic is usually made a week or two in advance. The only reason I made the OTs for games releasing much later is to not have to do it later, and in the case of Kingdom Hearts 3D & Xenoblade Chronicles it was an existing topic that I edited into an OT.(I'm not even interested in Xenoblade personally, I just wanted to deliver the news of its localization at the time of its announcement.)

Both the Mario Party 9 OT and Kingdom Hearts 3D OT can be read as "Mario Party series discussion" and "Kingdom Hearts series discussion", respectively. Same goes for Rhythm Heaven Fever OT.

And let's look at the latest threads.
Minecraft, of course, is popular, been around for a long time and is ripe with topics to discuss, with even Terraria piggy-backing off of it.

Navigator, is a topic of Tyvon's, about his own game, but is mostly his own updates.

Skyrim, Mario Kart, Sonic, Super Smash, all big series games.

Most of the threads that have failed are ones of small games or games no one is following, usually being MMOs, small series (Rage, Prototype, Witcher, TOR, Borderlands 2, Rhythm Heaven etc.)

Finally, just because something is popular or unpopular, it shouldn't sabotage its discussion. Plenty of people dislike those games and would rather talk about something "small" such as Rhythm Heaven or Prototype.