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Title: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on June 25, 2012, 10:09:05 pm Please take the time to get familiar with the following rules and thoughts before posting.
Information to include: In the topic title you should include the game's title, and all systems that it's available for. The first thing in your review should be this System I played it on: [put the system you played it on] I am reviewing the: [Single Player/Multiplayer/The entire game, these are the only acceptable answers] I last played this game: [put roughly the date you last played it. This is because of possible firmware updates that could make your complaint no longer pertinent, and you don't want your readers just dismissing the rest of your review because they thought for a few sentences that you did not know what you were talking about] Topicality: On this forum being on topic will be handled much more strictly than any of the other WU's forums. All posts should be discussing the review or game in question, no exceptions and deletions will be made without a second thought. Please make sure you post your topic in the right section. Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Vita, PC titles released in the past 4 years, and 3DS reviews belong in the forum you are currently on. Please post any other games on the classic games subforum. DLC: You may choose to include DLC in your review of a game, or you may choose to review a game's DLC as its own game and give it its own topic. Collections: With game collections, such as Metal Slug Anthology or the various HD ports that pop up nowadays, you may make a topic for each separate game as long as the content in each topic is unique, and not copy and pasted from each other. You may also make one collective topic. It is your discretion entirely. Quality Control: Quality Control is a subforum for reviews that simply aren't up to par. This is when you neglect to review a section, such as graphics, storyline, etc., or your grammar is horrible (Catch a moderator in a good mood and they might just edit your posts to fix the mistakes, wouldn't count on it though), or if you are straight up incorrect about something (like you say Brawl only has 10 characters, or blah blah blah) or a game only lasts about 5 hours when it lasts 15. You guys get the picture, it will be moved to Quality Control. Every topic MUST be made as a poll, that asks the question "Did you find this review helpful?" and the ONLY ANSWERS must be "Yes" "Somewhat" and "No". If after at least 10 votes No has an 80% majority, or a moderator's discretion, your topic will be moved to the Quality Control subforum. Of course, this isn't a final decision, simply address the mistakes you made, elaborate on what you need to elaborate on, and we will gladly move the topic back and reset the poll. Sections to elaborate on: In order for your topic to not be moved to Quality Control, spend at least a paragraph on the graphics, plot, gameplay, and sound. If it's a game where it's not about that category, then simply explain that in a paragraph. Example: Super Marios Bros. Plot: This game isn't a story driven game, in fact I'd be surprised if anybody played this game for the plot. It's pretty basic, the King of this species known as the Koopas has kidnapped the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, and it's up to you, an Italian plumber by the name of Mario, to save her. Ideas for optional sections: Just some food for thought, you can make your review even more detailed by posting things such as an introduction to your game "Super Mario Bros is a 1989 sidescroller that launched the NES, blah blah blah" or maybe a fun facts section, such as amount of games sold, etc. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: The Krazy One on June 26, 2012, 02:43:14 pm Question about the Collection reviews, would I be able to review the contents of the collection (ie. extras, quality of the games included, etc.) and not the individual games themselves. Because the games included could be good games but in terms of how they did the collection, it could make them out to be worse if you catch my drift.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on June 26, 2012, 02:46:28 pm So you're asking if, let's take Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for example, you reviewed the things like the artwork and game history they included, without actually reviewing or talking about the games in the collection themselves? Are we on the same page?
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: DoubleGunz on June 26, 2012, 03:15:40 pm Can I do video reviews? and by video reviews, I mainly mean just talking, not showing gameplay.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on June 26, 2012, 03:26:43 pm I don't see why not, as long as the information in this topic is included, whether in text or on the video. Anybody else got input on that, speak now or forever hold your peace lol.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: The Krazy One on June 26, 2012, 03:48:49 pm So you're asking if, let's take Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for example, you reviewed the things like the artwork and game history they included, without actually reviewing or talking about the games in the collection themselves? Are we on the same page? In that sense pretty much but also talk about the games included without actually reviewing the games themselves. Mainly talk about the quality of the port into the collection compared to how the original looks or plays and if there are any slight differences and stuff like that if you see what I'm saying. To shorten it, talk about the collection's features, extras and quality control about the games included in the collection without reviewing the games themselves. AKA review how good or bad the collection is. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: JabbaScrub on June 26, 2012, 06:17:19 pm Can I do video reviews? and by video reviews, I mainly mean just talking, not showing gameplay. Why not both? I'd like to see some reviews like Xplay does, just with more opinionated comments at the end. Just play some gameplay as video background as you're talking and occasionally stop talking for a funny or cool scene in the game.I also vote pictures should be included if not video. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: DoubleGunz on June 26, 2012, 06:20:47 pm The reason for why not = I'm not going to have almost any of the games I'm gonna review. I sell / return games when I'm done with them, to maximize the amount I can play.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: JabbaScrub on June 26, 2012, 06:24:10 pm So just use something from another video or the trailer. That's what Xplay does. It gets repetitive seeing the same thing over and over, but it's a lot better than staring at some dude the whole time.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: DoubleGunz on June 26, 2012, 08:04:52 pm When I watch videos where the video doesn't matter much, I just listen while doing other things. I don't understand why others don't do that. lol
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: The Krazy One on June 26, 2012, 09:20:07 pm I'd say at least use video if you're talking about something bad in the game like glitches and stuff like that.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: JabbaScrub on June 26, 2012, 11:18:58 pm The video shows a lot of what the game is about, which is the point of having a review.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Tiger on June 27, 2012, 04:06:29 pm It gets repetitive seeing the same thing over and over, but it's a lot better than staring at some dude the whole time. But we're talking about staring at DG here. ^-^Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: DoubleGunz on June 27, 2012, 04:42:38 pm ja
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: The Krazy One on June 27, 2012, 04:56:44 pm We already stare at him all the time with his avatar.
But seriously I'd say if you're going to do a video review, have footage from the game ready for certain things you'd want to explain or for things that you can't completely explain but can show via footage. I'm fine with seeing you however. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: DoubleGunz on June 27, 2012, 05:49:34 pm I'll figure something out, they're not gonna be totally serious anyways, I like to joke around. Also, the first few won't be so great, but afterwords I'll take criticism and make em better.
Oh, also don't be surprised if most of my reviews are either making fun of / trashing a game because people like it and I don't, or they'll be about me loving the game. That's about it. XD Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on June 27, 2012, 10:48:15 pm Forgot to answer TKO's question: Yeah, whatever you wanna do is straight but if your review doesn't contain what someone is looking for they're going to answer "no" on the poll.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: DoubleGunz on June 28, 2012, 11:43:07 am New idea for myself: I don't want them to get long and boring so I may call them Quick Reviews and kind of rush through everything and keep them under 3 minutes or something. That seems better. I may record like 10 of em today, lmao. Still not uploading till July though.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on June 28, 2012, 11:44:02 am Word, if you run out of time to put everything you have to cover you can always use text to finish it off O0
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: DoubleGunz on June 28, 2012, 11:45:38 am oh, and seeing how I get most new games that come out, I may try to do this for everything I buy, which would mean I have like 30 games to review from the past 6 months. oboy
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on June 28, 2012, 12:02:20 pm sounds hot.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: guest25 on July 03, 2012, 03:14:23 am if i truly wanted to read a review, it wouldn't be from anyone here....no offense..
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on July 03, 2012, 03:20:48 am k
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: guest25 on July 03, 2012, 03:25:01 am lol
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Zero254 on July 16, 2012, 06:52:56 pm Whats with all the RULES?
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Turboweasle on July 16, 2012, 07:22:23 pm They're in place to make sure this board isn't filled with stuff like "CoD:MW3 is fun and you can shoot people and the graphics are great."
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Zero254 on July 16, 2012, 07:50:51 pm Well couldn't you have just summarized your opening post by saying reviews should contain information about the game and which version of it you are playing. The visual design of the game and how well the hug and graphics were?
What it's available on should not matter. For example, the snes version of Justice league Task Force is COMPLETELY different the the Sega Genesis version as they have a different set of moves and sprites for each respective system. The sounds are different, the moves are also different. They may contain the same characters, but all of the sprites are different. I'm not gonna list both of them in the review As for the other things, it should not matter if you aren't just doing exactly what you said, creating a go get this topic with no information related to why you actually like such and such of game. Quite frankly I think the review section needs to be more loose. " In the topic title you should include the game's title, and all systems that it's available for. You shouldn't have to tell someone EVERY single platform it was available on. If I did that for myst for example, it would not even fit. If I did it for marvel vs capcom 2, I would have to list, dreamcast, NAOMI, ps2, xbox, ios, ps3, and xbox 360. That is 7 platforms. And quite frankly as the for rest, those are okay points. However, I am not listing all platforms a game is for. If I do a review, I'm ONLY going to say what I have it on and what I played it on. I don't agree with some of the points MINOR points but you should redo that ruleset I THINK IN MY OPINION. OR put a summary of it. You can go ahead and list which platforms myst is on in your title if you want(including the 3ds port about to happen). JUST MY OPINIONS BEFORE YOU FLIP OUT AND GO **** YOU AND CENSOR ME Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: The Krazy One on July 16, 2012, 11:07:55 pm For the platforms that the game is on if it's on more than I'd say 5 of them, I would just list the important platforms it was on in the topic title with the platform you're reviewing the game for first. Then list the remaining or all platforms it's available for before the actual review in the post you make.
For games that are multiplatform but have differences between them (graphical, sound, levels, etc.), list the consoles it's on in the topic title like usual with the platform you're reviewing for listed first. Then in the actual review, say what version you're reviewing and maybe list the differences. They really aren't big problems. These could have been solved just by thinking of an easier way to present it but still going by the guidelines. No one will censor you unless you give us something to censor. Hopefully you can give us a good review because we need more. But if you end up not doing one then this was just a waste of time. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Zero254 on July 16, 2012, 11:11:40 pm I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE WRITING THEM SO I WILL JUST POST HOW I WANT TO.
If you end up not liking it OH WELL. I am not trying to win a GRAMMY for best review. PUT IT IN QUALITY DICTATORSHIP IF IT IS DEEMED TO BE BAD. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: guest25 on July 16, 2012, 11:12:44 pm you guys are way too complicated.
just say the game name and what console you played it on /end Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: guest25 on July 16, 2012, 11:13:57 pm to the krazy one: don't expect someone to list the differences of *so and so game* from the xbox and the ps3????
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Zero254 on July 16, 2012, 11:15:28 pm dopehead gets it.
Too much info is confusing as hell and annoying for a review. I am almost sure 90% of the users here said **** that **** after reading it. I asked quite a few people and they didn't even know this section existed. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: The Krazy One on July 16, 2012, 11:24:39 pm My reply was basically how I would do a review.
You know what Zero, go for it. Just use the platform you played the game on and at least try to follow some of the guidelines. If the review isn't up to par we'll see what we can do with what you give us. dope, I made my reply complicated. It was me, not Pillow or Turbo. Pillow could probably explain this better than I can since he started this board. to the krazy one: don't expect someone to list the differences of *so and so game* from the xbox and the ps3???? I guess I should have explained this more and made it even more complicated for you two. I'll give a short example of what I mean. ex. Earthworm Jim 2 (SNES/Genesis), it's on other platforms but it's an example. They have slight differences graphically, sounds and music sound different and I believe the Genesis version has an extra level that wasn't in the SNES version (unless I'm thinking of the 1st one) tl;dr- I mean content wise. Big differences between both versions. I'm not trying to make this complicated, I want to make this simple. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Zero254 on July 16, 2012, 11:28:14 pm THAT IS MORE LIKE IT, I WILL DO A REVIEW ON FINAL FIGHT DOUBLE IMPACT BUT ON BOTH GAMES THAT CAME WITH IT.
I'm still playing through magic sword so it will be a little bit. Theres like 100 floors. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: guest25 on July 16, 2012, 11:29:09 pm yea, but what i'm saying is....i don't want to be responsible for how the same game plays on a different console. i bought call of duty for the xbox...i don't have it for the other consoles....maybe i don't even have those consoles! and i'm not going to research it either, bc if someone cares that much about the game, they will figure it out themselves.
*not going to write a review, just posting*** Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: The Krazy One on July 16, 2012, 11:38:55 pm I mentioned the "differences" thing because of what Zero said about it.
What it's available on should not matter. For example, the snes version of Justice league Task Force is COMPLETELY different the the Sega Genesis version as they have a different set of moves and sprites for each respective system. The sounds are different, the moves are also different. They may contain the same characters, but all of the sprites are different. You don't have to post the differences between the versions of the games in this concept. You can if you want to but it wouldn't be required if you were just reviewing the one version you have. Basically, if you have the 360 version just worry about that version. Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: Turboweasle on July 17, 2012, 01:51:59 pm Putting which version you played is a good idea so you don't get people buying a game like Skyrim on the PS3 and think they can mod it like they can on the PC.
Title: Re: Writing your review (REQUIRED READING): Post by: MrPillow on July 17, 2012, 01:58:00 pm Please take the time to get familiar with the following rules and thoughts before posting. Information to include: In the topic title you should include the game's title, and all systems that it's available for. The first thing in your review should be this System I played it on: [put the system you played it on] I am reviewing the: [Single Player/Multiplayer/The entire game, these are the only acceptable answers] I last played this game: [put roughly the date you last played it. This is because of possible firmware updates that could make your complaint no longer pertinent, and you don't want your readers just dismissing the rest of your review because they thought for a few sentences that you did not know what you were talking about] :P |