Gamepad Dojo Reviews

[Kim]

The thing is is that I don't think that every aspect is as relevant to the end score as every other, and though the main factor in one game might be the gameplay, in another it might be the story. For example, in my Left 4 Dead review I was able to say, "I'm not going to score based on the story, because that was in no way the point of the game."

That said, it still seems to be a pretty good review, the system just isn't for me. You don't mind if I put it on the site, do you?

[Mirai Gen]

Hey Nonnie, you want us to start compiling pictures to take to the review with us? Because I can totally do that, and I've got some select ones I'd like to include.

I actually did that a bit in my essay on Suffixes on DMR and I think it makes it more fun to read, never thought about doing this on Mirror's Edge.

Also as a tip for the site, can we get the reviews shrunk down so they don't have giant spaces in between paragraphs? I think Blues mentioned that but I thought it was my review itself, not necessarily appearances.

[bluestarultor]

Non: No, I don't mind at all! I just wanted to be clear that I'm not going to be able to reliably produce work due to time constraints, in case that was what you were looking for. XD

Really, the beauty of the system is that a missing portion, based on the criteria I used, does less to hurt the score than a poor attempt, since it's based on a quality scale to judge what's there. Also, the points are a wide enough spread that no one score really hurts the total.



Mirai: It depends on how it's organized. Are you doing this in HTML? I can help with that. It wasn't really a problem in NonCon's review, so I thought it was a stylistic choice on your part.

[Kim]

I don't use HTML for the bulk of it, but I can go into the HTML for the pages if I need to.

[Mirai Gen]

Are you doing this in HTML?

I'm doing this in Open Office and sending the file to him. So I don't know what's going on but it has to be on his side of the fence, not mine. I'm about as practiced and fluent with any form of coding as banging my ass on the keyboard to build a webpage. Plus I saw all my reviews do this so I figured it was something on his end of the site but didn't think much of it.

So, Non, all up to you.

[Bells]

at some point you should just combine the reviews with Mirai's podcast XD

[bluestarultor]

Well, if you guys are going to use my review, I cleaned it up a little bit where I found spelling and grammatical errors, so after posting this, I'm going to re-upload it in an edit to my original attachment post.

[Kim]

Sounds good. I plan on posting at least one review from myself, as well as one from Bells, later tonight, so I'll put it up then.

[bluestarultor]

Just as a note, I changed the strikethrough on the 9 on the voice section from [s] BBCode tages to <del> HTML tags. Actually, if you want, I can do the entire thing in HTML, if that would be easier to handle. Or give you a short text file with useful tags for your own use.

[Kim]

Nah, that's fine. I really don't use any HTML on the site, though I could choose to if I knew some. I just need the review how you want it to look, and I can carry that over to the on-site review pretty easily.