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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW: Feb 15-21, 2021 -- The
Author: honestgamer (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Any time you start to wonder if something can actually be reviewed, remember: people have written reviews for The Olive Garden, despite the fact that restaurant chain routinely serves unlimited (and delicious) bread sticks. Surely we can all agree that means NOTHING is above review! |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW: Feb 15-21, 2021 -- The
Author: dagoss Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Would have loved to see Venter's clock review at the top spot, just for the shear absurdity of it. It wouldn't have even occurred to me that was a thing that could be reviewed! |
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Author: TomatoMan Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Metal Slug XX |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW: Feb 15-21, 2021 -- The
Author: honestgamer (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comments, and no, I didn't expect to place during this week of very excellent reviews when I reviewed a clock application... though I do appreciate hearing that you felt I did a serviceable job. I really like seeing the site cover a wide variety of stuff, so reviewing the occasional clock game or whatever is my way of contributing to that effort. Congrats to everyone else who participated, whether you got a podium finish or not, and congratulations especially to EmP for the win! |
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Location: Contributor Zone > RotW: Feb 15-21, 2021 -- The "I can't beli...
Author: overdrive (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
We have another RotW with six people and seven reviews (and EmP put the odds of me forgetting his holdover at the sort where I could have cleaned up in Vegas simply by betting on me -- and I ALWAYS bet on me!). |
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Location: Site Announcements > Re: Games to be added to the database...
Author: Flobknocker Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hello. At long last I've completed my review for Control and I'd like to submit it for Xbox Series X. could you please add Control to the Series X game list? |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW // 8th - 14th FEB //
Author: pickhut Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Well, I've completely lost track of time, because I keep thinking you submitted this thread a day ago... That was three days ago. |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW // 8th - 14th FEB //
Author: overdrive (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comments and, yeah, I know what you mean about the whole "gotta start from the first game" vibe with series. I think the only ways I can avoid that trap are if the first game is really rare/obscure or if it's more a "series" than a series and the games aren't all that related (ie: Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Super Mario, Zelda kinds of series where the games are essentially stand-alone). But if there's some sort of consistent narrative, I pretty much feel compelled to start at the beginning and work from there. |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW // 8th - 14th FEB //
Author: honestgamer (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the topic, and I'm excited to add another win to my record to boot. Honestly, I didn't like my chances of winning with a review of a math game, so I'm glad I managed to pull the right rabbits out of my hat when it counted. Congrats to pickhut and overdrive, as well, for putting together solid reviews and keeping things competitive. I continue to love the wide variety of content we cover on the site, and may even have another clock game review in me to keep the good times flowing! |
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Location: Contributor Zone > RotW // 8th - 14th FEB //
Author: EmP (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
CARRYOVER - Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen [PC] EmP 3/1 odds on Rob forgetting. THIRD - ACA NeoGeo: Crossed Swords [PS4] PIckhut Pick continues to find relevant ways to talk about old games, and does an excellent job ordering his thoughts on this one. He starts by talking about the hook; an atypical design choice in a very common genre. I thought the Punch Out comparison seemed very apt. He then talks about how this approach is interesting and how it mostly succeeds, but is downtrodden by the lack of variety and easily abused specials. It’s a descriptive enough piece that I find myself informed enough about an interesting sounding game, and persuasive enough that I’ll never feel the need to seek it out for myself. A service has been done. SECOND - Darksiders [360] Overdrive The intro was this review’s strongest part, briefly running down the games that Darksiders draws inspiration from before saying that it doesn’t match up to the subject material, but isn’t an awful base copy job. It’s a clever way to start, because it means you can close things out with the worst example of mechanic borrowing with the awful sounding last dungeon. You lose a bit of momentum in the middle, including a pretty tepid combat paragraph and a few overlong, overloaded sentences. But it’s good stuff! I’ve been meaning to play this game for a while now, and got an hour or so in on the 360, but have since misplaced the disk. I could just jump straight to the second game, but it feels all kinds of wrong. There’s countless games I’ve never started because of this... FIRST - S.U.M. Slay Uncool Monsters [SWH] Jason I don’t think many will blame me if I admit I had written off what is essentially maths homework as a challenger for this week’s crown. I figured I’d make another glib comment like that time Jason reviewed a clock and be on my way, but this is an excellently produced review that absolutely understands its niche subject. SUM is a game about doing math. As such, Jason has to establish himself as being interested in math because if he can establish that he’s not the cause of the complaints he’s about to make, then it only leaves the game itself to blame. But even then, he’s self deprecating enough to ensure the topic isn’t all about him. Then the complaints come and the groundwork is already complete; this is bad game design, not the mental folly of the reviewer. This review wins this week because it’s taken an extremely difficult game to talk about engagingly and made it look very, very easy. |
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Author: pickhut Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Title: ACA NeoGeo: Crossed Swords |
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Location: Site Announcements > Re: Games to be added to the database...
Author: TomatoMan Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Gal*Gun Returns |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: Review of the Week Jan 25-31: Made wit...
Author: overdrive (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comments. Too bad for me that I didn't get into the top 3, but you'll have that sometimes with the kind of competition we get during some weeks. And there were some really good reviews this week, so I figured it wouldn't be an auto-place sort of week. |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: Review of the Week Jan 25-31: Made wit...
Author: EmP (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Congrats to Jason, who does not win enough of these, and to Mariner and Etherealgamer for getting points on the board early. Tough week with a lot of content to get through, so good job getting through it while feeling wonky. At least you're immune to things we've never heard of, now. |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: Review of the Week Jan 25-31: Made wit...
Author: honestgamer (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the topic, despite what you were going through, and thanks for the comments on my review and also the win. I haven't had one of those in a while. Congrats to all who participated this week! |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Review of the Week Jan 25-31: Made with re...
Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It's been a helluva week. I received my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at work, and it knocked me on my ass. Predictable, really, since most of my coworkers also fell ill after getting it. The first day was horrendous, but the side effects paled in comparison to what my wife, daughter and in-laws went through a few months ago. On the bright side I've received a couple of days off with pay (and free, too, as they don't count against any of my sick leave or vacation time). I probably would've had this topic hammered out a lot sooner if it hadn't been for those side effects... |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW: Jan. 18-24, 2021, with an added ...
Author: overdrive (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The Slayer is a video nasty? Huh...I guess there was a good kill or so, but I've seen FAR worse before. I'll have to see if I can figure out how it got on that list. |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW: Jan. 18-24, 2021, with an added ...
Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
My understanding was that Without Warning did inspire Predator, and that Predator was a quasi-remake in the same way Q was a fake remake of The Flying Serpent. |
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Location: Contributor Zone > Re: RotW: Jan. 18-24, 2021, with an added ...
Author: EmP (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the props - super solid showing this week. Congrats to Nightfire (MORE THAN ONE A YEAR!) and Pick. |
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Location: Modern Gaming > Re: Games that Emp should be playing
Author: EmP (Mod) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I'd have caught up by now had Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen not become a thing... |
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