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"Oh come on Foman, you don't like elbow games?"
Posted by: x Foman123 x
I despise them, personally. To me, forums are for discussions. There are countless ways to play games, and for us gamers, we can find outlets to practice our favorite hobby through consoles, PCs, mobile devices, or even tabletop or board games. There is no need to and no benefit in usurping a completely unrelated, unintended, and ill-suited medium such as a discussion forum to engage in further gaming.
Forum games do little to engage other users (I mean, you're not really connecting/conversing with your fellow forumgoers by trying to type your username with your elbow) and exist mostly as massive buckets of spam that push down legitimate discussions where people are actively talking, helping each other, humorously jesting with each other, and, you know, being a real community.
Regardless, a ton of users here (and even a couple of Forum Ninjas) love forum games, and I respect that even if I disagree with it. As a result, I'll only lock the forum games that do not engage or converse with other users at all, such as counting games, "last post wins" games, or the "type your username with your elbow"-style games that I mentioned before.
But it will be a cold day in Hell when you see me actually participating in a forum game.
Seriously though, forum games can be cool when they're actually good; unfortunately, not many people meet my standards. :P