If Miniclip looked like Coldplay Newgrounds would look like Keane
If Miniclip sounded like Green Day Newgrounds would pretty much sound like Blink 182
If Miniclip were to be EDM Newgrounds would surely be in the ranges of Trip-Hop
If Miniclip was a bag of Doritos Newgrounds would be a packet of Pockies
The list goes on and on but my point being that Miniclip is a lifeless cyborg and Newgrounds is a lively Corgi when we it comes down to the level of activity in their communities and fan pages. But RedSoul92, why even bring up Miniclip? We're in newgrounds u num nuts. Cause I can't help but place them side by side the same way I can't help putting Harry Potter and LOTR movies together, they just appeared at the same time and offered a myriad of entertainment, right?
Miniclip was launched on 2001 and was one of the first sites to feature a generation of low poly MMORPGS like Runescape , cutting edge browser graphics with On The Run and groundbreaking strategic gameplay with Motherload (no pun intended). But Newgrounds, having launched 6 years before that was a more independent looking site that never stayed out of the picture when it came down to getting my fix of flash games, it offered unique content of its own with violent and adult themed gameplay that bordered the politically incorrect; Pico's School featuring school shootouts, Pimp's Quest, a point & click that taught you more about street hustling than anybody else would dare to and games like SIM Girls or Frank's Adventure that would open a whole new world of graphic nature that AAA browser game sites wouldn't never get their hands dirty with. And those were exactly the things that kept me coming back for more, while Miniclip started to fade away relocating their games to consoles and adding DLCs Newgrounds would still be that freaky site and the cool thing here is that Newgrounds is still up and running and I'm as amazed as anybody else that it hasn't fallen in the archive of browser oblivion.
I think the open community is what kept it going and I can't really think of any place like it. What do you think, is Newgrounds the last standing bastion of independent flash-based videogames? Miniclip sure looks dead to me, so do sites like Armor Games and Kongregate, have they all hopped aboard the Steam boat into the promised land of mainstream gaming demand?
OatmealPecheneg
I have abondoned miniclip years ago. It was nice expirience but I'll not come back.