im a big fan of ag but recently i've been going to kongregate, it has more games, you can earn cool badges and you can get advice from game designers. do you think kongregate is better?
I was about to make a kongregate account last night. But I went over there and there's too much spam. I dislike that. I rather just stay here were stuff like that get cleaned out.
AG ver.2 has a searchbar, the tool isn't fantastic but if you know what you're looking for you can find stuff with it. Newgrounds' search tool, last I checked, was similarly clunky. Also comparing NG with the other casual-gaming oriented sites is a bit like comparing apples and oranges seeing as NG is a flash portal with its own niche of resident animators etc, not a casual gaming site. It's that niche that creates community projects in there that can't be matched anywhere else.
A lot of the stuff the other sites have that this one doesn't, like achievements and badges and all the stuff that makes players even more addicted to gaming :P is being updated and added to AG3, for better or for worse.
Ultimately the biggest difference between all the sites is the forum. In the 2 3/4 years I've been around here I've never seen another community that can grow from 50000 users to 750000 users and not develop a severe keyboard-warrior epidemic.
Kong is a pretty lame excuse for a gaming website, because the spam is just insane. Similarly, Newgrounds is just way to, I don't know, what is the word.... Ah, yes the word for Newgrounds is "INSANE" it is just to wacky, I don't know how else to describe it. Ninga Kiwi has good games, but they are hooked up with Mochi, and that degrades the site in my eyes.
The only website that can even come close to AG in my eyes is Bored.com . It is pretty good, but AG is still #1 for me.
I prefer AG over any other gaming site. It's moderated greatly, you can talk to game developers, spam is an issue that is actually being taken care of instead of being ignored, and what we don't have now, we will have in AG3.
Yea some times I go at kong. But most of Kong's new games come out here like a week later. Anyways the community he is hardcore. Probably the reason I'm staying.
kong's game setup is pretty good because you can earn badges but AG has better everything else where-as i do play more than i form i do like AG better because its more "friendly" not sure thats the right word maybe helpful no comfortable i dont know AG has a better presense about it
Ah, yes the word for Newgrounds is "INSANE" it is just to wacky,
If you don't somehow find your way into an "in-crowd" there (i.e. a well-known flash developer, animator, or artist/musician affiliated with said developers), you'll probably drown in a sea of penis jokes and insinuations about your sexual orientation. That's fairly typical of internet culture at large, which is to say, the AG forums are a civilised anomaly.
Portions of them at least. I agree with Orion the only reason I actually use Kong is I like the challenge that comes from attempting to earn the badges. Of course once v3 makes its' debut my Kong account will most likely fade into anonymity.
It's exactly what keeps me off Newgrounds message board. The site has much to offer though.
@Kyouzou
That isn't Orion Kyouzou.
I can see why AG doesn't currently have much to give in the way of hungry gamers. People who are addicted to virtual achievements probably love Kong. Though the place has abysmal forums. The chatrooms aren't full of lunacy, but the forums are. Compared to AG, it's just a pile of heaping crap.
It's exactly what keeps me off Newgrounds message board. The site has much to offer though.
Many years ago I ventured onto that board. I was doing perfectly fine while flaming others over controversial topics like teh ghey in flash animations and people who favourite the mature content. Because nobody listens to anything when everybody is shouting.
Then as soon as I actually tried to socialise properly I was utterly destroyed lol. It left a lasting impression.
