Kikizo on the up and GO!

Recently I' ve noticed that not just the forums are on the move with plenty of new users, but also the headlines on the homepage are coming in at a steady up to date pace. Even keeping up with many of the other big sites out there. YaY! I may just have to mark this as the priority site for gaming news soon.*

Great work Adam and all the Kikizo Staff!




*I dont mean that in a mean way

after another monthly game prize arn' t you.
Just kidding.

I agree kikizo rocks

speaking of being after another free game.

naaaah I dont even think you can win twice. Im just noting that the site it on the upside of things latly.

We try our best. But believe me when I say that Kikizo is merely embryonic compared to what it is to become. There' s a lot of interesting shit happening. But in the meantime we are glad that the forums are picking up slightly, and all the while the main site itself is doing very well at the moment. :)

We' ll be working out the winners for the last four months VERY shortly. It is actually pretty time consuming working out who deserves the to be the winner for the month. Which is why after this set of winners I want to give the duty of deciding who wins to someone else - probably a respected forum user (perhaps a previous winner). We could have a system where the winner for one month chooses the winner for the next, or something.

Would the chooser be allowed to choose themselves? If I were the chooser I' d be say:

" And the winner of the month is..... ME! All the rest of you were slacking off! Did you honestly think that any of your posts could ever compete with the astounding writing quality and superbly crafted humor found in each and every one of my posts? I think not! In fact, I think I' ll take 2 games this month. That is all."

Would the chooser be allowed to choose themselves?

No.

probably a respected forum user (perhaps a previous winner)

That could work out pretty good. As long as this doesnt happen. Say ohhhhhhh some random guy, let' s call him Moe Redifer, no, Joe Bedifer wins one month, create alternate account, post 90 posts, give to self, rinse wash repeat.

or you know, like this:
april winner - mxpx182
may winner - mxpx183
june winner - mxpx184
july winner - mxpx185
july winner - mxpx186
etc, etc, etc

Anyway back on topic (kikizo' s awesomeness) in my short stay i' ve found this place so much better than the bigger games sites like IGN.
It' s 56k friendly too which it a bonus for me.
also doesn' t begg for donations or ask for a subscription.
The forum isn' t full of fanboys/tards and the mods arn' t power crazy (I just got a 3 day temp ban on another forum :().

It' s all these things added together that makes kikizo a damn near perfect games site.
thank you

Until Kikizo, I visited the usual...IGN, GameFAQs, XBOX365.

None of those have a forums area that is comfortable like Kikizo' s.

And, the news area has gone through some big changes in both style and presentation.

Kudos to you, Adam (and staff)!!! Kikizo is my site of choice!!!

Like the idea about previous month' s winner picking next month' s winner...

Adam, you might want to have the previous winner submit their top three (in priority order) to you. That way, if there' s an issue with the top choice, Adam can have the final decision. Or, something like that...

Videogaming is the contemporary interactive pasttime.

Adam, you might want to have the previous winner submit their top three (in priority order) to you. That way, if there' s an issue with the top choice, Adam can have the final decision. Or, something like that...

DaRoosh gets the shiny platinum hard hat for idea of the month. Seriously, that' s actually a pretty good idea. Gives it a very large comunity feel.

I' ve tried a number of other forums, but most were just too busy, too vulgar, too unfriendly or just too damn complicated -- Kikizo is " most excellent" !

I agree. I love this place. This is the longest i have actively participated in a forum like this. Thanks Adam, and all of you. What a great group

GROUP HUG!!!!!!1!!!

Ima start cryin man its its its soooo beautiful!!!

I WUVS YOU GUYZZ...

WITHOUT ME THIS SITE WOULD BE NOTHING!!!!


**runs away**

Of course, lotusson...you make Kikizo the best darn forums site in the whole wide world.

Well, if nothing else, you sure help to make this one of the most interesting forum websites.

Viva La Kikizo!!!

Videogaming is the contemporary interactive pasttime.

Maybe there could be some kind of voting system for winner of the game. Like we e-mail Adam with reasons why you think somebody should win. But you can only vote if you' ve been posting for a month and staff members votes can count with more impact that us regular lot. ' Tis a thought.

These are the days to treish[sp?] guys, as Adam said " Kikizo is merely embryonic compared to what it is to become" These are the Golden Days of these Forums, When everybody knows each other and everybody has a great time on the forums. But as the Site gets bigger we will be awash with new members and basicly spamers. Nothing wrong with the new members but we will lose our Function as a Good Forum, Sure the old members will know each other but the spirit of these forums may be lost. As Sharon said " but most were just too busy, too vulgar, too unfriendly or just too damn complicated -- Kikizo is " most excellent" ! " [ i must agree with the last statement though] When Kikizo gets 3000+ members, this place is going to look different.

But anyway it dosent matter! we are here to stay and enjoy it! Kikizo does indeed rock.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Owain
It' s all these things added together that makes kikizo a damn near perfect games site. thank you

No, thank you...

Terry Bogard
GROUP HUG!!!!!!1!!!

Where on earth is fathoms at times like this?

Silentbomber
as the Site gets bigger we will be awash with new members and basicly spamers. Nothing wrong with the new members but we will lose our Function as a Good Forum

We will aim for this not to be the case. There are always new members coming here and I think everyone sets a good example to them. When there are significantly more members there will be moderators, and I will make sure that they are mods who don' t let the place go downhill.

mxpx182:
That could work out pretty good. As long as this doesnt happen. Say ohhhhhhh some random guy, let' s call him Moe Redifer, no, Joe Bedifer wins one month, create alternate account, post 90 posts, give to self, rinse wash repeat.

Hmmm... good point... but as admins, we can see a) people' s IP address and also b) the mailing address where games are sent. It would be a fair amount of hard work to manage the double personality... and also DaRoosh' s idea could fix it altogether...

DaRoosh65
Adam, you might want to have the previous winner submit their top three (in priority order) to you. That way, if there' s an issue with the top choice, Adam can have the final decision. Or, something like that...

Yes, superb idea -- or perhaps better, to solve what mxpx says, they could email three choices, and then Kikizo staff picks one at random (or not). This would work much better.

I am looking forward to getting this process started... but must get the most recent 4/5 winners announced first. Having said that, that' s what I have been saying for the last duck knows how long... so why don' t we just start now?

whatabout_paul was the winner for November. We now need December' s winner. So paul please go ahead and look back through the December forum activity (try to take note of use in all three forum areas) and make a note of who you think has contributed best to the board in terms of a) informative posts b) good quality discussion c) good balance of replies and topic starts d) good attitude, consistent use, no obvious " post count raiser" waste topics and replies, ... etc etc etc. Then, just email or PM me three hopefuls, and we' ll work through the winners for Jan, Feb and March afterwards. Hopefully we will then be able to always keep this free game system up to date. Let it begin!

Hurrah!...

Better start sucking up to whatabout_paul now!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Better start sucking up to whatabout_paul now!

Wait your turn I' m first in line!

What happens if we suggest staff members like Terry Bogard or fathoms to win a free game?

Staff can' t win the contest!

Bah! What if they step down for a month?

How about members win the services of a staff member for a week? lol..


" WASH MY DISHES!"

" CLEAN MY SHOES!"

Yeah, I can see you now:

" I command you to play this RPG for me because I don' t like playing RPGs! And be sure to have fun because I want my money' s worth on this game! PLAY NOW!!!!!!"

By the way, what is this " washing dishes" activity you speak of?

Includes all ex staff. No way around it. Sorry staff.

I think it' s something like when gangsters have to wash the money they steal. Like say you' re a fine china importer, and you pilfer a whole pile of it off of your comptetitor, you have to send out a thug to " wash the dishes" .

whatabout_paul was the winner for November. We now need December' s winner. So paul please go ahead and look back through the December forum activity (try to take note of use in all three forum areas) and make a note of who you think has contributed best to the board in terms of a) informative posts b) good quality discussion c) good balance of replies and topic starts d) good attitude, consistent use, no obvious " post count raiser" waste topics and replies, ... etc etc etc. Then, just email or PM me three hopefuls, and we' ll work through the winners for Jan, Feb and March afterwards. Hopefully we will then be able to always keep this free game system up to date. Let it begin!

Is there a way to only look at posts from certain months, or does whatabout_paulhave to go through every post and see who poste in December??? That seems like it' d take a long time, and be pretty easy to screw up, only because we' re now 5 months removed from then. Since you guys were already working on it, wouldn' t it make sense for you to list the last 4 month winners, and then start this process? Hey though, I guess if whatabout_paul is up to it then giver er' beans!!!

ORIGINAL: mxpx182
Is there a way to only look at posts from certain months, or does whatabout_paulhave to go through every post and see who poste in December??? That seems like it' d take a long time, and be pretty easy to screw up, only because we' re now 5 months removed from then. Since you guys were already working on it, wouldn' t it make sense for you to list the last 4 month winners, and then start this process? Hey though, I guess if whatabout_paul is up to it then giver er' beans!!!

But we hadn' t made a start yet...! It should not be too hard. In the games forum, if you go to page 8 of the topic listings, that takes you to where December activity sort of begins, so just browse topics moving forwards until you have a good idea of who did what for the month. It does take a while but it will be fun to do on a one-off occasion rather than, well, me having to do it (or not as the case may be) each month.

Once we have a December winner announced, that winner will choose January' s winner, and so on, until we are up to date and ready to choose April' s winner in a few weeks.

so your not just dumping the work on other people then? ,

Anyway.. does Paul even know he is doing this yet?

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Anyway.. does Paul even know he is doing this yet?

... now I do.

By the way, what is this " washing dishes" activity you speak of?

It' s what happens when you' re out on a date, a date you' ve been looking forward to for so long, you' re at a ritzy restaurant and realize that you Nor your date has the money to pay for the wonderful meal you just had. So to help pay for said meal, both you and your date are escorted to the kitchen area, to a large sink stock piled with dirty dishes. You' re both then given aprons and are then instructed to clean ALL of the dishes in the sink, and more on the way until they feel you' ve worked off the cost of the dinner.

And while you' re doing this, your date is glaring at you as if you have 3 heads.

A very detailed description there, Bogard... voice of experience?

I think it would be very difficult to work off the cost of a good meal by washing dishes at minimum wage, for anything resembling a nice meal you' d probably be there all week. Alternatively - run.

ORIGINAL: Adam Doree

Includes all ex staff. No way around it. Sorry staff.

I suddenly feel royally screwed...

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

Are you ex staff?

What about future staff?

A very detailed description there, Bogard... voice of experience?

LoL, I wish but Not a chance... I don' t do restaurants. I' d have way too many anxiety attacks in such a crowded setting, lol..

E3 must be pure hell. Just imagine yourself naked and you' ll be OK.