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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: October 14, 2008 (01:36 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I have written a RotW. I would have written it sooner, but I was too busy writing three reviews in three days. Go and ask OD when the last time he wrote three reviews in a month is. Go on -- he won't be able to remember.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: October 14, 2008 (02:52 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
September was the last month I wrote three reviews. Pretty easy for me to remember just the last month.....well, actually, I had to go to my blog because I couldn't remember....so you were right on that....
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Author: psychopenguin
Posted: October 14, 2008 (03:09 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I guess my review sucked. Oh well
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: October 14, 2008 (03:10 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It didn't suck, I just thought there was better this week. I'll make you a feedback topic on it later. OD can comment in it too. He has nothing but free time.
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Author: psychopenguin
Posted: October 14, 2008 (03:14 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks. It's my first review in ages so I'm a bit rusty.
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: October 14, 2008 (05:20 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hey, EmP; I don't think it matters, but I think your week was supposed to go 6-12. Granted, no one subbed on the 5 and the only 12 entry was another woodhouse review that I personally don't think is as good as his Time Hollow one.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 14, 2008 (05:51 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I'm curious: what is Bloomer's kind of style?
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: October 14, 2008 (06:23 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Just that his reviews seem to be more analytical than most. Like the really descriptive sort that aren't necessarily always entertaining, but that doesn't really matter because the argument they present is so strong. I dunno; it's kind of hard to describe. That's how I see it, anyway.
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Author: psychopenguin
Posted: October 15, 2008 (04:32 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Bloomer's reviews tend to kick ass but I am not sure if that is a "style" ;)
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (06:27 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I wasn't trying to start an argument, btw, wolfqueen -- I was genuinely curious.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (08:33 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
To back up the above claims, these come fresh from an AIM chat:
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: October 15, 2008 (09:55 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah, you're right there, Masters - analysis is important. A review that only presents an outline isn't going to inform anyone of anything; it has to be detailed in order to present the right picture. Howevever, I think it's how you present that analysis that also matters. If it's stuffy and boring, you're not going to be able to pay attention all the way through and get the important details. But if it's too flowery in an attempt to be entertaining, those details might be clouded. I think a really awesome review is one that can strike a balance between the strictly analytical approach and a more entertaining one. But that's just not something easy to do... at all... (though bloomer's review does a really good job of striking that balance here, I think). Usually I find, with myself or in other people, that we can do one thing or the other in some proportion or another, but not both to equal degrees. And as far as preferences go when reading something that can't strike that balance well enough, or at least to the point where it's noticeably one thing or the other, I tend to prefer the more entertaining ones. Just as long as I still feel satisfied that I know everything I need to know at the end.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (10:26 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Are you calling Bloomer stuffy? :P Kidding.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (10:28 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Using the term "fancy dan writing" = +1
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: October 15, 2008 (10:35 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hahaha. I should've figured he'd do something like that. That's just like him, lovable oaf. Knew it was a bit too early for him to be on AIM when he posted that.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: October 15, 2008 (11:24 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Using the term "fancy dan writing" = +1
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality |
Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (11:32 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That's pretty good, Venter. You ARE a clever one. By the way Venter, the thing you sent me is being held for ransom at some dingy Canadian post office. Bastards.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (01:33 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Then I guess I must have overcame my laziness. Or watching youtube vids of my favorite Dragon Quest VIII cutscenes motivated me to write. Which sounds even more geeky now that I've typed it than it felt while I was doing it.....
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (02:33 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I forgot to point out that this RotW blows chunks. But at least he didn't call it RotD.
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: October 15, 2008 (02:34 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Ouch. I love you, too.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (02:47 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
This has been the most popular RotW in years. And Bloomer probably hasn't even seen it yet.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (02:54 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I'm not sure where WQ is directing her lovin'?
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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: October 15, 2008 (02:57 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That would have been sarcasm, since your statement suggested you liked none of the reviews here (except bloomer's, obviously). >_>
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: October 15, 2008 (03:00 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Haha, no no, I wasn't commenting on the reviews at all -- just Emp's sucktitude.
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Author: bloomer
Posted: October 18, 2008 (06:35 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
You were right Emp. I've been on holiday on an island off Queensland for a week. Not touching the internet at all during that time really helped my brain deflate.
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