What do you come to The Escapist for?

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Title says it all, i just wanted to know what you all come to this site for. Is it the video's like Zero Punctuation, Doomsday Arcade etc or is it the community, the forums and user groups.

Also what is it about what brings you to the site that makes you come back, why do you like it?

I never made a poll because i want proper answers about what brings you here and why you like it, not just "I come here for Zero Punctuation" if that be the case explain what it is you like about Zero Punctuation as well.

As for me i admit what brought me here was Zero Punctuation but i stayed for a completly differant reason. My mate linked me Yahtzee's Red Faction: Guerrilla review and i was in tears of laughter watching it so every wednesday i came back and watched his new review, eventually i noticed a thread that seemed interesting and quickly made an account to take part in the discussion. It wasn't long before i noticed the community here was very nice and mature, so i started posting in more and more threads and got hooked on the site now i'm on everyday.

In short what i come here for and what keeps me coming back here is the you guys, the amazing community of the site and user groups.

So my fellow Escapists what brought you here and made you keep coming back?

 

[Marter]

Zero Punctuation brought me here.

Now I visit for the Forums first and the videos, (ZP, ENN, MovieBob, Unskippable), second.

 

[Resurrectionist]

I'm here because I enjoy the abuse.

 

[Jnat]

I come to post in stupid topics.

 

[HK_01]

For the content and the community. So, basically, for the site as a whole.

 

[Pielikey]

Watched Zero Punctuation initially, then I started reading some of the articles and the forums and decided to join after about a year of lurking.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

I found this site because of Zero Punctuation, but didn't really like him and started watching Unskippable instead, which is the reason I'm still here. Now I come here for both the videos and the forum.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

I dunno really, I guess to talk to people, it could be my supreme boredom.

Yeah, I'm gonna go with my supreme boredom.

 

[AvsJoe]

I come for the videos, I stay for (read: get trapped in) the forums.

 

[Blueruler182]

Friend introduced me to Zero Punctuation, I wandered and found Unskippable, Escape to the Movies, and I Hit it with my Axe (less proud of that one), then I saw someone actually apologize in a thread and thought I slipped dimensions to a happier place.

So pretty much everything.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

I come here for the User Groups and Forums, the News helps though.
It makes me come back because I love the people in the Groups (Like Priate), and I'm a bit of a Forum lover, so finding one with a Community this not horrible is really quite a treat for my mountains of spare time.

And yes, I came here originally for Zero Punctuation, and only made an Account because this is one of the few sites I knew my old Computer could run.

 

[The Rockerfly]

My daily fix of sanity and insanity

 

[LostTimeLady]

I first came here, as many people have because one day I was shown a ZP video (It was the Far Cry (One) review) and I was practically crying with laughter when I saw it.
After that I mainly stuck around for the videos but before long I ended up lurking on the forums until I bit the bullet and made an account.
Now I'm here for the videos but at the moment I get a real kick out of being part of a user group. There's some great guys on it and I really enjoy the chats we have. It's nice to have the feeling that when you're sitting at home on your laptop there's someone across the ether who'll be there to chat to you! That sounds dead wet but it's one of the reasons I keep coming back to the Escapist.
Oh, yeah, that and some excellent threads. I've read all sorts on here, stuff about science, phycology, the arts, temoral physics (!), it's a sea of pop culture and that's fun too.

Edit: Ok, so I got the first ZP video I watched a little wrong, it was Crysis not Far Cry. Duh. It was a while ago though.

 

[benoitowns]

I think you meant to say, "For what did you come to The Escapist?"
I came because I had been watching Zero Punctuation for a long time and couldn't keep myself away from these amazing forums.

 

[JaneDoe]

I come here for the videos and articles. However, when I do have some spare time like now -Im between jobs.., I do enjoys the forums. Its a great community where people do bring up some interesting discussions. The most of the time people are engaging without being hostile, petty or too closed minded (there are always some exceptions, as is life.)
I also enjoy discussing or reading discussions on video game news reports.

 

[tomzu]

zero punctuation and forums

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

I was introduced to ZP, Doomsday Arcade and Unskippable by a friend. Now that I've got an account I'm mainly here for the excellent forums