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The game database needs ratings
- Thread starter bhlaab
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BethesdaLove
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Oh, I have an idea 
MetaCodex - since Metacritics is a worthless piece of shit.
"RPG Codex Game Comments" gets a poll for every game. Somebody posts a news item 1 or 2 months after release so everybody can go and vote. Something like that:
Poll
Good game - worth buying for 50$
Ok game - worth renting for 10$
Dont remove it from inventory - free as in beer
Bad - not worth your time
So we will have a hivemind opinion on certain games. And after that anybody can do something like this:
Galactic Civilizations 2
time spent playing
dont know, more than 20 hours
genre
strategy
comment
one of the best 4x games
(Then you list features, certain features that you found were interesting, for example "sound effects" didnt make the cut because it was not bad but also not noteworthy. The whole thing ofcourse not sorted by importance or what not)
good
+ different ways to win a map
+ great ai, trades well, surrenders, takes goals of whole game into account, does not cheat, counters player anti-ai-tricks like parking a fleet
+ nice ship editor, gives a personal touch, actually useful, parts for custom ships, all inclusive shit: engines, support, sensors, def, offense, hulls, bling bling
+ 3 offence und 3 defence techs in weapons, laser def wont help against missles as effective as missiles def
+ nice map mit 3d view and strategic view, symbols only
+ some nice weaponseffects in a "battle-theater"
+ nice science progression, new tech give weapons new look
+ community creates ships, some pop-cultures stuff but not only that
+ there is a campagn with story and a few good maps with time limit
bad
- ai trades sometimes bad. wont sell master hull design for example even for your whole empire and never sells planets, at all.
- music starts to get on your nerves after like 20 hours
- campaign is sometimes to hard and to slow. on "beginner" the dreadlords are already hard to beat, at least for me. Plus exploration is gone.
MetaCodex - since Metacritics is a worthless piece of shit.
"RPG Codex Game Comments" gets a poll for every game. Somebody posts a news item 1 or 2 months after release so everybody can go and vote. Something like that:
Poll
Good game - worth buying for 50$
Ok game - worth renting for 10$
Dont remove it from inventory - free as in beer
Bad - not worth your time
So we will have a hivemind opinion on certain games. And after that anybody can do something like this:
Galactic Civilizations 2
time spent playing
dont know, more than 20 hours
genre
strategy
comment
one of the best 4x games
(Then you list features, certain features that you found were interesting, for example "sound effects" didnt make the cut because it was not bad but also not noteworthy. The whole thing ofcourse not sorted by importance or what not)
good
+ different ways to win a map
+ great ai, trades well, surrenders, takes goals of whole game into account, does not cheat, counters player anti-ai-tricks like parking a fleet
+ nice ship editor, gives a personal touch, actually useful, parts for custom ships, all inclusive shit: engines, support, sensors, def, offense, hulls, bling bling
+ 3 offence und 3 defence techs in weapons, laser def wont help against missles as effective as missiles def
+ nice map mit 3d view and strategic view, symbols only
+ some nice weaponseffects in a "battle-theater"
+ nice science progression, new tech give weapons new look
+ community creates ships, some pop-cultures stuff but not only that
+ there is a campagn with story and a few good maps with time limit
bad
- ai trades sometimes bad. wont sell master hull design for example even for your whole empire and never sells planets, at all.
- music starts to get on your nerves after like 20 hours
- campaign is sometimes to hard and to slow. on "beginner" the dreadlords are already hard to beat, at least for me. Plus exploration is gone.
zerotolerance
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I vote PST 10 , CF 0
zerotolerance
Novice
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Yes i think he is. What would it be i wonder?
Jaime Lannister
Arbiter
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- Jun 15, 2007
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- 7,183
This is a good idea, also CF appears to be unbanned?
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