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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: May 26, 2010 (12:19 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Things are different now, what with staff reviews being cool and the gang. That's good for this week, as it adds competition (only three user reviews submitted). Hopefully, I've included all of them, as Zig's Cotton was the last one on the little bar on the right of the screen as of today. If not, my apologies and you can all throw stones at Jason for not coding in a function to automatically make everything I need appear in front of my eyes. Zig's was from May 16 and since it was for the contest, I'd guess that it was submitted right around the early minutes of that day, so we're just going to say he had the first. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: May 26, 2010 (01:37 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the topic, as always, and thanks for the win. It has literally been years since I won a RotW or even a RotD topic, what with my ineligibility, so it felt good to scrape out a win with a review that gave me a lot of trouble as I wrote it. I must have written ten versions of the introduction before scrapping them all, and I pretty much always review in a linear fashion so that means that what you're seeing is essentially my tenth effort at the review. It helped that I spent so much time with it and that I knew what was important to the game. I'm pleased with the review, pleased with the victory and excited to have won during a week with such solid competition from other great writers. It's nice to know that I've still got it!
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: May 26, 2010 (02:24 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
EmP was right... this is better now that there are more reviews to choose from.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: May 27, 2010 (09:44 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
EmP is always right. I thought this was fact by now.
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Author: dementedhut
Posted: May 27, 2010 (09:54 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Congratulations, Jason! I didn't read your review yet.
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Author: asherdeus
Posted: May 27, 2010 (10:47 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Nice to see you're still kicking, OD.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: May 27, 2010 (12:25 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the mention and congrats to Jason on some props. Even if, in my ego-driven mindset, I thought the entire introduction was a indisguised jab at me.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: May 27, 2010 (11:08 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Jason: As I said (in some fashion) before (and has been verified by at least Ashy), the greatest strength of that review is how you wasted no time in telling us how the game is frustrating and tedious...but do a great job of erasing that negativity by convincingly selling the positives to a degree that your statement about how the game's hardcore truly legit.
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