Is Gamespot as relevant as it once was?

Yes it makes it true, because i also played it, and i understood also it was a satire, only overzealous dumb feminists would whine about it and then ignore the 99% else that is offensive. If you find the portrayal of women offensive but ignore everything else you are just a hypocrite in my books, the kind that takes something out of context to prove a point.

No. I wouldn't be surprised if they shut the forums down before the year is over.

@AFBrat77: Exactly. Greg Kasavin was a legend. When he left (and Jeff was fired) everything went straight to hell. The personalities and quality of writing from the 90's to mid 2000's was great. None of the guys who supplanted them were as good. Chris, Tom, Sean, Maxwell, Carolyn, etc., never had the same synergy. Remember Rich Gallup? Best host ever. I used to watch 'On the Spot' every week just for the banter and entertainment --even if they were just showing some crap game. It was fun to watch. I liked how review headlines for games used to be on the main page, along with the score and reviewers name. I liked how easy it was to contact fellow members and friends. I liked the "Ask Gamespot" thread in the forums, and being able to communicate directly with the staff. Greg Kasavin actually pm'ed me in response to a few questions I had in the past. You don't have any of that now. Kevin Van Ord is the only good reviewer left. This site is certainly dying. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if CBS decides to shutter it and move the few good people (Kevin, Danny) over to Giant Bomb. Everyone responsible for the site redesign should definitely be fired.

I thought GameSpot was bigger than Kotaku?

IGN is the biggest and then comes Gamespot, i believe polygon is third

The old GS maybe, but this newer version is all but a ghost town on most of the forums.

Nope, not even close. Too many other venues now. When I first started coming here it was gamespot or ign and that was it. Now I only come here occasionally.

At least Gamespot still sticks to its namesake, and reports mostly about games. IGN is mixes in far too much comic culture, comic movie culture, movie culture, HBO content, Hollywood gossip and so on. If Gamespot started doing that, then I would say that's it's less relevant, but until then I will say that it's relevance is steady.

This. They broke something that didn't need to be fixed (or however that saying goes). Redesign was/is awful and so many great features and user created content just disappeared. The forums and community here used to be pretty interesting but now seemingly have devolved into some clown posting about how much he hates Dark Souls in every single forum topic anyone creates. I still come here every now and then but I don't interact really at all with the community here anymore. I still enjoy Kevin's reviews but this site isn't the one-stop shop it used to be for me, gaming content wise. It's a shame.

Well what a great idea for a thread :-|

Ya who ever managed the redesign of the site needs to be fired. Any coders still working on the text section of the forum and it's options like link, img, video also need to be fired as they keep going updating them to non functioning versions or change them outright to something that just doesn't work.

Essentially. Who ever the **** they hired to manage and create/do their website is horrible at what they do and needs to be fired.

Reminds me so much of gametrailers.com. Had an awesome site with a huge forum, then they hired someone to redo their site. Took everything everyone loved about it away, and changed it to something that barely functioned and a shadow of it's former self in capability and user demand. Losing almost all it's community in the process Exact shit is happening here. I'd laugh my ass off if it was the same company hired to do the gametrailers redesign as the gamespot.

No, Kotaku is much bigger than Gamespot.

Also no Ride polygon is not 3rd in anything, Polygon is nr. 2032 where IGN is ranked among the top 280 sites globally Kotaku and Gamespot is top 1000.

Polygon is also mostly known in the us where there is a bigger market for that kind of liberal minded propaganda. And to the few europeans who for some strange reasons think Gamersgate is interesting.

@Jacanuk: Can you provide evidence that Kotaku is bigger than GS?

Note: I'm not denying what you say. I'm just curious. Thanks.

Sure

Kotaku. - Global Rank : 675 - Rank in United States : 289

Gamespot.com - Global Rank 869 - Rank in United States465

From Alexa Website rankings. and its based on webtraffic from unique visitors.

Oh, and just for laughs

Polygon - Global Rank 2,032 Rank in United States852

And IGN Global Rank 274 Rank in United States115