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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: April 01, 2012 (08:52 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Whew. Finally got them all put together. Before I post the results below, I just want to thank everyone who showed up in this. I want to stress that regardless of who won or lost, everyone did an excellent job with their writing. A tournament of this scale isn't always easy to follow through on, so for those of you who did, you should feel proud of yourselves.
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Author: dementedhut
Posted: April 01, 2012 (09:07 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Wow, didn't think the 7/10 rating would cause such a reaction and confusion. Honestly, I think a 7/10 is a very solid score for a good game, especially for such a basic action title. 8/10 gets abused too much, in my opinion. And as for the question of what really blows me away? It's rare that a game gives me a nerdgasm, which is why the reviews of games I give 10/10s to are very, very, very low. Out of the 244 reviews I've written for the site over the span of 8 years, I've only given out 6 10/10 ratings: Contra Hard Corps, Sonic & Knuckles, God Hand, OutRun2, Earth Defense Force 2017, and Hitman Blood Money.
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Author: bbbmoney
Posted: April 01, 2012 (09:21 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Gah! A bit on the low end, but extremely pleased with getting quality feedback from the site's best, especially against unanimously great entries. Honestly this whole contest has been a very encouraging and valuable learning experience. I'm still fairly new here and I'm super impressed by the community's ability to pull something like this off.
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Author: aschultz
Posted: April 01, 2012 (09:27 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Wow! Thanks, judges, for judging, thanks to the organizer for organizing (and for poking me to submit my review as a REVIEW) and for quite frankly a better than expected result in a strong field.
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Author: True
Posted: April 01, 2012 (09:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Well done, Furry Face. And to all of you. I call next contest.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: April 01, 2012 (10:39 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It actually really means a lot to me that all three judges mentioned my point about the Falmer. That was the strongest single example I could think of for illustrating just how consuming Skyrim's world is, and I'm happy to see that the judges were just as struck by it as I was.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: April 01, 2012 (10:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comments, people! I had a lot on my plate, and still do, so I was happy just to be able to turn anything in at all (especially considering that I got the dreaded 'W' again, one of the worst letters a person can draw and a perpetual curse of mine). I'm pleased that overall I did better this year than I did the last time I got a 'W.' Thanks for your insights, judges, and for taking the time to read through so many reviews. Congratulations to the winners!
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Author: jerec
Posted: April 02, 2012 (12:02 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I've done a lot of judging, but I can't think of any other time in this site's history that I've rated so many reviews so highly. Congrats to Wolfqueen for the victory, it was well-deserved and an amazing achievement in such a fiercely competitive contest.
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Author: darketernal
Posted: April 02, 2012 (02:37 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comment, and congrats to WQ. I swear, that and than will be the end of me and I'll never get it right. Comes with english being a second language I guess, but that one was always an achilles heel.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: April 02, 2012 (08:28 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
A lot of good reviews. To score as well as I did and finish seventh says a lot about the competition. Or fifth, if you take out Espiga's cat. Which I am due to feeling like it was prejudiced against me because it could sense competition from my cats in my review. And because his cat's the difference between seventh and fifth for me and fifth sounds better!
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: April 02, 2012 (09:34 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Gah! A typo in my review?! Considering how many times I redrafted that review before posting (and once after) I don't know how that slipped in there.
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Author: threetimes
Posted: April 02, 2012 (01:20 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for comments. And I see the point about changing the intro. I assumed I needed to explain why on earth I'd write a review for a genre I don't play or have any experience of, but I'll bear that in mind if I ever enter a contest again.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: April 02, 2012 (01:32 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Threetimes, game choice is an interesting aspect of a review. Finding a game that either you are interested in or others are interested in is the commonly good idea, but it gets skewed in tournaments because some letters are just stinking tough. X is always a really tough letter. I always struggled to make it work in alphabet marathons.
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Author: turducken
Posted: April 02, 2012 (07:08 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Christ, last place? By a pretty fair margin, too. That's awesome. I guess if Emp manages to nag me into doing another one of these it better be a by-numbers review. Don't really enjoy writing those lately, though.
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: April 02, 2012 (09:10 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I hope you don't honestly feel bad about your position, Turducken. First of all, you got a score that is as high as some of the winners of some tournaments got. You got last place in one of the site's best tournaments, it still looks favorably on you. And also, I always figured you as having the mindset that the point of trying new things was to try new things: not necessarily to win. Also, if you do try new things, you have to do them multiple times before you have the new style down. This was the first review I've ever read of yours that did this... give yourself time to work with the new style.
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: April 03, 2012 (09:47 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Congrats to Leslie for the victory! Thank you, judges, for your feedback.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: April 03, 2012 (02:47 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Well played to WQ and Suskie. Lesser congrats to everyone else. Haha to OD.
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Author: turducken
Posted: April 03, 2012 (02:55 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
You're right that I don't care much about winning, Zipp. I guess I just cared about...not coming in last. Which I didn't even care about until it happened. But that's life. Thanks for the kind words, but given how poorly that style of review was received it's still probably in my best interest to not use it again. While I don't care about winning, I do like people to enjoy reading my stuff (and enjoy writing it). While I could get there in time, I don't really write reviews often enough to refine it anytime soon.
"My father, the Emperor, had many powers of the Dark Side. But without three eyes he could never achieve perfection." - Trioculus |
Author: jerec
Posted: April 03, 2012 (02:59 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
There's been a lot of different styles used in reviews before. Sometimes they work for me, sometimes they don't. But when writing something like that you need to remember the purpose of a review - giving us enough information and opinion on a game to help us decide whether we want to play it or not. Your review basically described characters and setting and everything else seemed left behind. So that particular style didn't work for me as a review, but you shouldn't be discouraged about trying. You did get points for trying to do something really different.
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Author: turducken
Posted: April 03, 2012 (05:21 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That stuff is in the review. How the combat system makes fighting easy, minigames you can do, the graphics and sound, etc. As far as I know, I hit all the usual bases; you just have to read between the lines a little to see 'em.
"My father, the Emperor, had many powers of the Dark Side. But without three eyes he could never achieve perfection." - Trioculus |
Author: zippdementia
Posted: April 03, 2012 (11:18 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
For what it's worth, I wouldn't give up on the style so quickly. I did enjoy the review. I just think the style needs tightening. For instance, I think the review is a little too long for this style. It outlasts its gimmick, which I read as a homeboy's blurb on his town. I also agree with Jerec that the direction the prose was trying to lead me in wasn't always clear. Like your opening is fun and I'm ready to explore the town along with this rustic character you've created. Then the next paragraph he starts talking about how it doesn't really look like a town and I lose the thread. Like, are you trying to say that the game's design needed work? That's what I thought, but I couldn't be sure.
Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic." |
Author: JANUS2
Posted: April 05, 2012 (03:09 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I would like to thank all the judges, with the exception of Espiga's cat.
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Author: turducken
Posted: April 05, 2012 (01:39 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I appreciate the kind words, Zipp, and I'll take it into consideration. I suppose it really depends on the next game I review. If that style works for the next game, I might use it. But if I don't, doesn't mean I won't ever come back to it. Anyways, I kinda feel like I've derailed this topic, so I apologize for that.
"My father, the Emperor, had many powers of the Dark Side. But without three eyes he could never achieve perfection." - Trioculus |
Author: zippdementia
Posted: April 06, 2012 (09:14 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
But Espiga's cat loved your review, Janus! Though, yeah, I guess she dropped your score, somehow.
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Author: Halon
Posted: April 07, 2012 (07:08 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Congrats to WQ and thanks to the judges and everyone else for a good show. I can't believe this event is still going its tenth time around.
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