Idea for a new forum

[Vault Dweller]

There are a lot of new games coming out in the next 6 months. Some of the titles like Lionheart and ToEE everybody is going to get anyway, some of them like VtM, KotOR, Restricted Area, Riftrunner, PotC, Escape Velocity, Starfury, and many, many others are less known or less accepted by general public.

It would be good to have a "Reviews" forum where people would post their impressions after they played a game. I know a lot of people here and I know where they stand, so their opinions would be much more informative then any other reviews I may find elsewhere. We can of course post in the general RPG section, but having a separate forum would make it more organized and moderators can keep it clean from OT posts. So what do you guys think?

 

[Spazmo]

Sounds interesting. I'm all for it.

And while we're talking about reviews; now that I'm on the staff, do I get free review copies?

Please?

 

[Araanor]

Capital suggestion!

 

[Volourn]

I like the idea... which probably means according to most here must mean it's a bad idea. :shock:

 

[Jed]

I like the idea... which probably means according to most here must mean it's a bad idea. :shock:

Oh, lay off--you're not that disagreeable!

About the idea though--I'm all for it.

 

[Psilon]

Sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe we could move some of the better reviews to the front page? It's been a while since anything got posted to the reviews section.

 

[DrattedTin]

Yeah, that does sound like a good idea. Either that, or get more freelance writers to beef up the review section.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

OR... You guys could write a review of a game, and we could have READER REVIEWS as a section on the main site itself.

 

[chrisbeddoes]

OR... You guys could write a review of a game, and we could have READER REVIEWS as a section on the main site itself.

Ehh .

I think that people should post their reviews and other people should give feedback about those reviews first
( like if they liked them or not and or even suggest impovements
like correct your spellaz chris or like tell us Saint why excactly you hate the gameplay in FO:BOS ) and only after the reader reviews had been seen and critisized by other people the review should be kept pernamantly as a section on the main site itself.

 

[Vault Dweller]

OR... You guys could write a review of a game, and we could have READER REVIEWS as a section on the main site itself.

It's not about writing a full review, it's about a place where we can gather people's opinions about any specific game, all kinda opinions: long, short, well written and not, the ones that would cover the whole game and the ones addressing a specific issue like combat or story or even icons from ToEE :wink: If we ask people to write a review for the front section it would take forever and generate only a small fraction of the opinions we can get from posting.

So, Saint, what do you say? The aye's have it? I am waiting for somebody to post an opinion on PotC.

 

[DrattedTin]

PotC?

 

[Jed]

So, Saint, what do you say? The aye's have it? I am waiting for somebody to post an opinion on PotC.

Are you being punny?

 

[Elwro]

Let this be a classic "me too" post. I also like the idea of a new forum.

 

[Vault Dweller]

So can we have an official word on that? Or should we sign a petition or something :wink:

Are you being punny?

Aye, matey, I was.

 

[Dan]

I like that idea.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Hmm, the people have spoken (btw, thanks to everybody who liked and supported this idea), but there is no new forum and there is no official "fuck you and fuck your stupid forum" response. So, purely out of curiousity, Saint, why do you think that having such a forum is a bad idea?

 

[Spazmo]

He didn't say it was a bad idea. It's simple. If you have a review, send it to Saint at proverbius@rpgcodex.com. If it's good, it'll get posted. If not, nuts to you.

 

[Vault Dweller]

In that case he misunderstood it. It wasn't about a few thoughtful possibly well-written reviews hanging on the front page providing that Saint will like them, it was about a place to keep dozens of impressions posted by members for other members. It's really simple.

Hey, weren't you the guy who said "Sounds interesting. I'm all for it." What happened to you, man, you used to be cool

Edit: Don't you think that it would be in the best interests of this society if Volourn's blind love for NWN would be limited to a NWN review thread? :D

 

[GreenNight]

I am not against or for the proposed forum. But I wanted to note that if the forum is not created you still have the General RPG forum to write mini-reviews.

Life is nice, because it's full of opportunities.