Askgaming is just whatever you’re wondering about, like “which controller should I buy for my PC?” or “Which version of each Ninja Gaiden should I play?” or whatever.

Looking at that community homepage right now

• What is your most wished for sequel?
• What game does everyone seem to love, but you just don’t get the hype at all?
• How do you feel about turn-based combat? Should more modern games adopt it, or is it best left as a thing of the past?
• Which video game ideas do you wish existed but don't? What's your most out-there concept that doesn't fit any current genre?

Seems pretty good ground for in-depth discussion.

/r/TrueGaming emerged when /r/Gaming was too busy, and had enough of an audience to create that community. Lemmy's userbase is much smaller, so the audience isn't there yet. If people want in depth discussion, they can post in on !askgaming@piefed.social, it's not like that community is that active in the first place.

Hell, we don’t even have a match threader bot anymore.

We... do?

• https://feddit.nu/post/12879801
• https://feddit.nu/post/13517160

Does this even work well?

!television@piefed.social has 4.99k monthly active users, probably because it's the only community in that space.

!movies@piefed.social has 2.54k MAU, probably because the activity is split with !movies@lemmy.world and its 2K MAU