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0/5 stars | 0 | 0% | |
1/5 stars | 2 | 2.41% | |
2/5 stars | 4 | 4.82% | |
3/5 stars | 11 | 13.25% | |
4/5 stars | 42 | 50.60% | |
5/5 stars | 24 | 28.92% | |
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14-05-2009, 07:54 AM | #1 | ||
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My two cents...
- I don't like the cover. It's a bunch of images arranged randomly on a generic gradient background. - I dislike the whole "Versus" idea. I'm afraid that editors will simply be afraid to rate a new game gigher than the old one, since that would be a "blasphemy", and thus the old game will be typically elected the victor simply for being old. - There's a phrase loosely hanging ("...Duke of Ander's Moon is anointed") at the top of page 9. - The quote on page 10 is rather pointless and badly chosen, as Simoneer pointed out. - I disliked the "2D or not 2D" article. It states a lot of obvious information ("2D is just not fashionable anymore. Young gamers prefer flashy 3D" - no, really?) and basically says nothing new. We all know that 2S graphics are all right, there's no need to take up a whole page for it. - Typo near the bottom of page 13 ("Please vivist...")
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14-05-2009, 10:13 AM | #4 | ||
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We don't have this advantage so we have to make do with what we have. I can't stretch a 200x100 image to cover a full page - it would look hideous and then people would have complained about that. The pixels would be the size of a pin! Unless we find some (unlikely to exist) site that collects these old press packages, we're pretty much stuck to using these smaller images, I'm afraid. At most we can contact the old publishers and ask for the old press packages but it's unlikely they still have them. But it's already a hard task finding images fit for the front cover - boxshots are the only bigger images we have and they're not even fit for stretching. Point2: well when I skim through an article, I try to find lines that are fit for quoting but they're often either too long or don't make sense as a quote. I may take some extra effort to find a better quote but I can hardly rewrite the review to get some. We still have amateur writers here who do this as a hobby so you can't expect the quality of a professional magazine. Point3: I'm not sure why you involve Abandonia Reloaded? Or do you mean Abandoned Times? The truth is, every oppinion or idea has already been written down somewhere. With hundreds of magazines all over the world and several columns in each magazine, it's unlikely for any new column to be completely new or original. Besides, it was mostly a nudge towards indie developers to not always go for 3D when they don't have to. If you feel you have a better, new and original oppinion to spread, just write it down and submit it! |
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14-05-2009, 10:21 AM | #5 | ||
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14-05-2009, 10:42 AM | #6 | ||
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Well we deal in old games so when you're talking about old games, it's not likely for there to be a lot of fresh stuff, is there? Interviews will try to break this a bit and we also have indie/retro reviews but most of the stuff still deals with 80's & 90's games and, as a result, the columns can hardly talk about new things such as DRM, patching on consoles, etc.
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