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Author: drella
Posted: February 01, 2009 (07:02 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
A RotW, that while not a day late, is a dollar short, because the 25th was accidentally included last week in RotW. I suppose I should be thankful Masters made my job easier. With those three reviews from dagoss, cornwell and fastkilr ruled out, there were still eight articles vying for three spots.
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: February 01, 2009 (09:38 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hm... Well, I can understand your need to see something different, and I'll be the first to admit that my review was pretty "standard" as far as these things go, but I have to disagree with the HMD verdict. His review merely discussed the issue of racism without any context, in a game about a very racist war to begin with. This was the only focus in the review; he provided no other information about the game in question. I can't imagine many people seriously deciding whether or not to buy this game would have their opinion swayed solely based on the argument of racism alone. His review would have been much stronger if he had argued his points much more effectively, but his tone, style, and abrupt ending didn't do him much favor in my opinion.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: February 01, 2009 (10:13 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It's true, as far as a review goes, there's little to really praise in the Call of Duty review. As far as an article goes, it's pretty good, though.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: February 01, 2009 (10:29 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Couldn't disagree more with your choice, for reasons I have already gone over.
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Author: Felix_Arabia
Posted: February 01, 2009 (10:32 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Congrats to the winner, and more so to the losers.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: February 01, 2009 (11:01 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Personally I thought it was Janus win this week, for a new look at Mass Effect that isn't oozing with gushing love.
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Author: JANUS2
Posted: February 01, 2009 (11:35 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thank you.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: February 01, 2009 (12:06 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
A noble endeavor.
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Author: i_am_a_towel
Posted: February 01, 2009 (12:09 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
i am a towel
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Author: turducken
Posted: February 01, 2009 (04:35 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I'm genuinely shocked I placed at all. Glad ya liked it.
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Author: WilltheGreat
Posted: February 01, 2009 (10:11 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That is not a review, it's a blog entry. Last time I checked, we did not do a "Blog entry of the week" thing.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: February 01, 2009 (10:56 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Somebody give me a heads-up the next week Drella is due for a RotW. If a discussion-starter is his idea of a cure for all those boring old "reviews," I'm gonna have fun with this.
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Author: drella
Posted: February 02, 2009 (05:30 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Obviously I'm out of touch.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: February 02, 2009 (06:15 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I was hoping you'd pick up on the fact that I was joking, since, as you'd wager from my current situation, I'm not the kind of guy who would say something like that and actually mean it.
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Author: WilltheGreat
Posted: February 02, 2009 (09:33 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It may have been darketernal with pictures, but at least it was a review and not a rant.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: February 02, 2009 (09:42 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I think this topic would have gone down a lot better if Drella hadn't have spent so much time talking about what other people are doing wrong, instead of just what these ones are doing right. It just seemed a little... off, and particularly odd within what is usually such a strong, supportive community spirit.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: February 02, 2009 (10:08 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah, but I can see the need to input "what went wrong" with the reviews in general. This was a contest week being judged and, in my opinion, that can lead to reviews being what he was saying about them, even though not all the reviews mentioned by Drella were for the CHALLANGE.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: February 02, 2009 (11:54 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The main point is, as Suskie says, that this was Drella's turn to pick the ROTW, and if he choose it based on what he thought were strong grounds, then that's all there is to it.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: February 02, 2009 (12:24 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah. If there's one thing that I think many people (including me, at times) struggle to comprehend is that different people have different opinions on what makes a good review and no one opinion is a be-all marker which everyone else should use as their judging standard. For me and my style of writing, I've noticed over the years that some judges are near locks to give me a high score. I also know with other ones that I'll have my work cut out for me even get into the low 80s. That's just the way things go. I've written things I've looked at and thought were up there with my best and then got very blah opinions for judges (ie: many of my new reviews for the '07 Summer Team Tourney). I've written things where I found myself wishing I'd have played another game for the contest it was for.....and wound up getting a very high score. My recent Rogue Galaxy review for Janus' Dec. competition works there. Getting a 92 or so for a review I felt was utterly mediocre by what I expect from my reviews surprised the crap out of me.
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Author: WilltheGreat
Posted: February 02, 2009 (11:15 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Don't misunderstand me; there's no injustice here. As has been correctly pointed out it's drell's turn to do the RotW by whatever criteria he sees fit. I just happen to think his picks are ridiculous.
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Author: True
Posted: February 03, 2009 (01:26 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Drella is one of those few people that I've never talked to, or never taken the time to get to know. He's judged some of the contests I've entered, and oddly I always thought he kind of had it out for me. Nothing personal, he just doesn't like my style. So I'm probably the last person that should be backing him, but... he has a point.
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Author: draculasrevenge
Posted: March 06, 2009 (11:10 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
So social commentary is eligible for ROTW now? Tell me, what will someone who is looking for information about this game think when he reads it as a FEATURED review on HG? He'll likely never come to HG ever again.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: March 06, 2009 (11:44 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Congratulations, Drella. I do believe you have the distinction of creating the only ROTW to draw socio-political criticism.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: March 06, 2009 (11:47 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Good job, everyone else. Drella's not visited the site since his honest opinion was lampooned to such meteoric proportions in this very topic.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: March 06, 2009 (11:55 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
FYI guys: I don't think Drella visits the site anymore.
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