How did YOU find HG? v3

I like to make this topic every few years due to forum uprooting. So, here we are again!

My story is pretty dull. When the GFAQs scene fell apart, I was just starting to write and was one of the guys trying to hold RotD together. I started cross-posting my work and, shortly after I got fed up with RotDing, completly left FAQs behind and became exclusive here. Shortly after this, Jason begged me to rock staff, and this I did like a fool. I've been rocking it ever since.

Nonsense. One of these topics was around only a few months ago.

Mine's even duller! Since it just involves an AIM convo:

EmP: Join HG! *linklinklink*

Me: OK

Two years of inactivity and here we are.

I also came from the GameFAQs Review Contributor Board when it died out in 2004.

When Jason Venter's agents managed to kill off the GameFAQs Reviewing Scene in 2004, he was well placed to offer us refuge and sanctuary. He'd been spamming HonestGamers for some time, but not all of us had made the move across. But then it seemed like our only real option in the end. And once Venter had us here, all his original agents (staff members) disappeared, so they couldn't be traced back to the devious work they'd done to undo the RC board. Venter made a bunch of people staff members, and I ported over a few reviews, wrote a few more, then became dormant for a few years pretty much just judging tournaments.

There aren't many ex-GameFAQs people left these days. Jerec, Zigfried, Bloomer, Masters, Drella, genj.... Emp, bluberry and Jason Venter from a little later on.

Come to think of it, that is quite a few after 5 years.

Jason Venter found my Metal Gear Solid 4 review (and presumably all the criticism of it for not being "fanboyish" enough: They do have a point about Dirge of Cerberus, perhaps.) and invited me to join HG. I believe he invited me from Devil's Lair, though I can't remember, now. Then I wrote a bunch of crap until my Mirror's Edge review, which landed me a freelance position.

Like most of the others, I found out about this site at the GameFAQs Review Contributor board, back when hilarious amounts of drama used to occur on almost a daily basis. It was right at the end of 2003, and I ended up lurking for the next few months. I finally joined somewhere at the beginning of 2004.

Suskie was from Gamefaqs, too.

I do miss the RC board a little bit. Especially whelkman.

There aren't many ex-GameFAQs people left these days. Jerec, Zigfried, Bloomer, Masters, Drella, genj.... Emp, bluberry and Jason Venter from a little later on.

Never forget Overdrive. Never. Hell, I'm prolific over there. I think I still am, at least. Some day I'll care enough again to check that out.....

I found a link to HG on Nick Evil's web site, and from there I registered this account. That was around 2004.

Genuinely didn't know about the GAFQs link until now.

Atfer an extended hiatus from games writing, spent chasing bands around the country for interviews and writing about albums I had precisely no interest in, I Googled for some decent games sites to offer my services to.

This was one of them. I was accepted into this crazy world.

This isn't very long ago compared to most of you lot.

Uh... crap, I forget. Did I click a popup?

Was recruited for TT, found subsequent success.

from jason venter spamming the link on yahoo game room chat. =P

As always, I blame EmP.

The actual story behind how I joined HG is hidden deep within my blog archives if anybody cares enough to look it up. If not, visit the entry for Genesis Rising.

From GameFAQs people telling me to come here if I wanted to improve my reviews.

EmP nagged me to join like he did to half of the reviewers on the roll.

Well, you've been here longer than me, Lewis! I think I'm still the newest freelancer.

my story is awesome but i feel like i've told it too many times. sorry.

I was happy to duplicate my reviews from gamefaqs here when Jason asked, but after that I don't think I did anything on HG for about three years. This was simply because I'd stopped reviewing during that time.

When I did start writing some more reviews, it was just natural to get a bit more involved and enjoy the HG site, especially since the reviewing community at gamefaqs had shrunk to almost non-existence during that time.

i found this site have a little community or much better is that there are no active users here in this Honest Gamers site. Because i can't find anyone who i can talk to about in some mmorpgs or some things that can catch my interest.

I managed to ignore it for a while but peer pressure got the best of me and so now I check in once every 5 months or so.