I'm not so broken up about losing the list of popular games, but losing the easily accessed related threads is a problem. Not all the related threads were linked in the OP because they didn't need to be linked, they were found in the sub-forum. Now, a game that has lots of related threads will have an OP filled with links and it will be difficult to get to just the game information. I think this is a step backwards.
Forward moving would be to allow all games to have a sub forum if they have related linked threads.
Forward moving would be to allow all games to have a sub forum if they have related linked threads.