GameSpot is currently in the process of "unmerging" from the shared (game) boards with GameFAQs, and links to shared boards have been removed from many gamespaces. If you clicked the "Forum" header in a gamespace, you have been redirected to this board, Platform Games Discussion Forum. If you meant to access a game's shared board, back out to the gamespace, and check for a link below the header directing you to a board for a specific platform. For games of previous generations, such links may not exist. To access these boards, read below.

In order to access any shared board, use the following link ... http://www.gamespot.com/***/forum/platform/***/ ... replacing the first *** with the name of the game exactly as listed on GameSpot, interchanging spaces with a - (dash), & with and, not including any non-alphabetic characters (if you are having difficulties, use GameSpot's search engine to find the game, and from the gamespace use the name the URL), and replacing the second *** with the platform according to the code listed in the spoiler below. [spoiler] 3DS - 3ds
DS - ds
iPhone/iPod - iphone
Mobile - mobile
PC - pc
PlayStation 2 - ps2
PlayStation 3 - ps3
PlayStation Vita - vita
Wii - wii
Wii U - wii-u
3DO - 3do
Acorn Archimedes - arch
Adventurevision - avision
Amiga - amiga
Amiga CD32 - cd32
Amstrad CPC - cpc
Android - android
APF-*1000/IM - apf1000
Apple II - appleii
Arcade Games - arcade
Arcadia 2001 - a2k1
Astrocade - astrocade
Atari 2600 - atari2600
Atari 5200 - atari5200
Atarti 7800 - atari7800
Atari 8-bit - atari8bit
Atari ST - ast
Bandai Pippin - pippin
BBC Micro - bbc
BBS Door - bbs
BlackBerry - blackberry
Casio Loopy - loopy
Cassette Vision - ecv
CD-I - cdi
Channel F - channelf
Colecovision - colecovision
Commodore 64 - c64
Commodore PET - pet
CPS Changer - cps
CreatiVision - cvision
Dreamcast - dreamcast
DVD Player - dvd
e-Reader - ereader
EACA Colour Genie 2000 - cg2000
Famicom Disk System - famicomds
Flash - flash
FM Towns - fmtowns
FM-7 - fm7
Game Boy - gameboy
Game Boy Advance - gba
Game Boy Color - gbc
Game.com - gamecom
GameCube - gamecube
GameGear - gamegear
Genesis - genesis
Gizmondo - gizmondo
GP32 - gp32
Intellivision -intellivision
Interton VC4000 - vc4000
Jaguar - jaguar
Jaguar CD - jaguarcd
LaserActive - laser
Lynx - lynx
Macintosh - mac
Mattel Aquarius - aquarius
Microvision - microvision
MSX - msx
N-Gage - ngage
NEC PC88 - pc88
NEC PC98 - pc98
Neo-Geo CD - neogeocd
NeoGeo - neo
Nintendo 64 - n64
Nintendo 64DD - n64dd
Nuon - nuon
Odyssey - obyssey
Odyssey^2 - obyssey2
Online/Browser - webonly
Oric 1/Atmos - oric1
OS/2 - os2
Palm OS CIassic - palmos
Palm - webOS - palm-webos
PC-FX - pcfx
Pinball - pinball
Playdia - playdia
PlayStation - ps
PSP - psp
RCA Studio II - studio2
Redemption - redemption
Saturn - saturn
Sega 32X - sega32x
Sega CD - segacd
Sega Master System - sms
SG-1000 - sg1000
Sharp X1 - x1
Sharp X68000 - x68000
Sinclair ZX81/Spectrum - sinclair
SNES - snes
Sord M5 - sordm5
Super Cassette Vision - scv
SuperVision - svision
Tandy Color Computer - coco
TI-99/4A - ti99
Turbo CD - turbocd
TurboGrafx-16 - tg16
Unix/Linux - unixlinux
Vectrex - vectrex
VIC-20 - vic20
Virtual Boy - virtualboy
Windows Mobile - windows-mobile
WonderSwan - wonderswan
WonderSwan Color - wsc
Xbox - xbox
Zeebo - zeebo
Zodiac - zod [/spoiler]

Certain games may require the year of release immediately following their name as listed by GameSpot, in the form -####. For some older games which share exact names with recently released games, the platform selected may be ignored and you'll be redirected to the newer game's forum. If you experience this issue, there is another way to modify URLs to reach the shared forums (thanks to EJ902).

[QUOTE="EJ902"]another (perhaps simpler) way if you don't mind going via gamefaqs.com: go to gamefaqs and find the game board on there. Copy the board ID from the url (it's the only set of numbers in the URL). Paste it into the position of both Xs in the following URL: http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_topics.php?board_id=m-1-X&pid=X takes you to a generic slightly broken forum page but clicking anything should take you to the normal board. eg for [Mass Effect], the gamefaqs forum is: hhttp://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/944902-mass-effect -> Board ID = 944902 -> Gamespot URL = http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_topics.php?board_id=m-1-944902&pid=944902[/QUOTE]

Alternatively, it's always possible log in to GameFAQs using the same account on GameSpot and access the shared boards there. Please keep this topic bumped (a sticky would be much appreciated). If you are having difficulties accessing a board, feel free to fire me a PM and I'll see what I can do.