This is one of the nicer forums I peruse on a regular basis, one of the longer lasting ones too. Most of the others are well past their heyday and are almost dead, while this one keeps chugging along nicely. Not sure I could call it cool or uncool. Meh it is.
The only fan-site for a game that I actually use often as a registered member since unlike most fan-sites for games, it doesn't suck. Sub-Zero. The community is also a huge factor in my voting as well.
As much as I love GTPlanet (and I do, we're a community that functions like a giant dysfunctional family, including weird uncles that we don't talk about. I've even started to like some of you people), it's still a forum based around a video game.
Every time I meet people from here, I tell my other friends that we met in a specialist Chlamydia clinic because it's marginally less embarrassing.
