VGcollect is an oasis when it comes to online game forums. I have belonged to half a dozen over the past 15-years or so and all of them except this one are filled with the worst kind of trash the internet has to offer, one of those being fanboys. Probably the worst forum in terms of fanboys was the Gamespot forums in the mid to late 2000s when the 7th generation was getting started. There was constant Wii bashing, labeling all 360 fans as frat boy rapists, and PS3 was going to die off because it was too expensive. And also the worst type of defending your console of choice no matter how dishonest you have to be while discounting everything good about the other consoles out there. And the mods didn't help either, often punishing people for stupid shit while allowing fanboy after fanboy thread to go on and on until people were becoming homicidal. I have no idea why I stuck with it for so long, but luckily them changing their forums to the point where they became cumbersome to use and getting rid of a few of my favorite rooms was enough for me to make the leap.
One forum I currently belong to other that VGcollect is the shmup.system11 forums which are okay, but there are some huge Shmup snobs on there that make friendly discussion difficult to say the least.