stabby
Learned
This is so fucking simple to solve. Just create a "computer RPG" forum and a "console RPG" forum. Multi-platform RPGs that weren't ported to consoles at a much later date can go into the "console RPG" forum, as developing an RPG with consoles in mind dumbs it down to console levels.
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There's literally no down side to this. It'll be the resident JRPG lovers who will end up wanting a JRPG specific forum to rid themselves of the Western Decline games, which will be in stark contrast to their opposition to any forum split right now. Win fucking win.
Do pardon the little snippy of the middle bit as I do kind of see a teeny flaw in your idea, a very Codex specific one at that. Though I could see this working for a little bit of time at first, I'm guessing that the moment someone decides to talk about a Japanese dungeon crawler (PC-exclusive of course) like, ooooh, I don't know, this one, y'all are gonna have a number of gentle-persons frothing at the mouth before their monocles hit the ground. Some bitching here, a few declarations of 'Decline!' there, and before long there'll be a thread in Site-Feedback saying the boards need to be reorganized because they just don't work as they are.
I say relax and wait to see how it pans out. Either the new boards'll be soon dead and brought back into the fold in 6-8 months so we can all do this again next year, or it'll be a case if 'Holy Shit, this actually works!' and we move on to find some new minutiae within the board lay-out and rally for change of it.