Active videogame forums?

[KrazyKoen]

A little under a year ago I found The RetroGameTalk Forums. It's a very active forum and only a few years old to my knowledge. I've had quite a good time there, though haven't been as active as I wish, and I would like to find others like it. I also just thought it would be valuable to start a thread for active gaming forums since forums can be hard to discover in my experience.

Anyone else know of good videogame forums, whether they be more general or specific to a genre/game?

[rnottelovesowls]

i can think of 2 popular gaming forums that cater to a specific genre of games

first up is shmups, a forum for fans of shoot-em-up arcade games like touhou, space invaders, galaga, etc. it's been around for a long time, and for such a niche topic, has quite the active community. they also have boards for general non-shmup gaming discussion, gaming hardware, reviews, meet-ups, and developer resources

i also found deltarune boards recently, which is exactly what it says on the tin: discussions about undertale, deltarune, and being silly little guys. it's only been around since the end of january of this year, and already has so many members. it is proof that niche fan forums are BACK, baby. move over, reddit and discord!

[ABlueRose]

I know of a few! 

For Legend of Zelda: Zelda Dungeon
For Pokemon: Pokemon Forum
For Mario: The Mario Boards
For Stardew Valley: Official Stardew Valley Forum
For Animal Crossing: The Bell Tree Forums

There's also this thread on 32-bit Cafe that's a list of active forums! Make sure to check the comments for more

[KrazyKoen]

Somehow I forgot to set this post to notify!!

i can think of 2 popular gaming forums that cater to a specific genre of games

first up is shmups, a forum for fans of shoot-em-up arcade games like touhou, space invaders, galaga, etc. it's been around for a long time, and for such a niche topic, has quite the active community. they also have boards for general non-shmup gaming discussion, gaming hardware, reviews, meet-ups, and developer resources

i also found deltarune boards recently, which is exactly what it says on the tin: discussions about undertale, deltarune, and being silly little guys. it's only been around since the end of january of this year, and already has so many members. it is proof that niche fan forums are BACK, baby. move over, reddit and discord!

I found the Deltarune forums just after making this post (and finding the forum revival guild on here)!! I've always wanted to get deeper into Shmups so maybe I'll check that one out as well. Touhou in particular has always been a strange gap of knowledge for me, it seems incredibly popular but I know nothing about it.

I know of a few! 

For Legend of Zelda: Zelda Dungeon
For Pokemon: Pokemon Forum
For Mario: The Mario Boards
For Stardew Valley: Official Stardew Valley Forum
For Animal Crossing: The Bell Tree Forums

There's also this thread on 32-bit Cafe that's a list of active forums! Make sure to check the comments for more

I didn't know that Stardew had an official forum, that's very neat! I'll be sure to check out the Mario forums as well as the thread you linked to.