Castle Paradox

Meatballsub · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:55 am Post subject:

I just want to say how much I enjoyed this issue. Everything looked great, and I enjoyed reading my review. Happy

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Blue Pixel · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject:

wow, the review for my game was alot more forgiving then i expected it to be. thanks for pointing out some spelling and general errors, there were just sooooo many of them in the frist release i couldnt get all of them out. ill continue to fix what i have now and release the full version hopefully in less than 2 years. thanks for your time phc.
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TMC · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

I don't know the_dude, it seemed pretty negative to me :P PHC doesn't shout or get emotional much in his reviews anymore, but can leave a terrible impression of a game nonetheless.

I wonder if there should be a link on one of the sides to the news page? Every other piece of content is linked.
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Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

You should've made the top30 list in reverse order, with the winner found at the very bottom. It could've added more suspense.
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Blue Pixel · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

I thought the issue was pretty decent. In general, I wish there were more reviews on good games (and complete games) than on bad ones. I know that there's a lot more bad (and incomplete) games on the game list, but that doesn't mean that these should be focused on.

Game design feature articles could be something cool. I think that there are lots of great discussions on the game design discussion forum that could be used as the basis for a feature article about some aspects of game design, and it could also be cool to start a thread there with the stated intention of using quotes from it to illustrate some different opinions on the design aspect in question. Just a thought.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject:

The general priority is to review the newly released games. I think we covered them all this month. Surlaw does an obligatory terrible game review on a random old game, but beyond that we don't go out of our way to review bad games.

You can submit your own articles, of course.
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msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

Hmm, to tell the truth I've been kind of thinking about it. Maybe just a preview of Tales of the New World II, to begin with. I wish there were more classic style, completed RPGs to review. Reading the Top 30 has made me think about doing a review on one of those. I had very little time to spend on the OHR this past month, but I may have more time during the fall. Does one need an account at Surlaw's forums to submit something? I'm usually one of those idiots who avoids actually joining forums on the internet; I don't think I signed on to Castle Paradox until I was well on the way to a first demo of Tales I (which was over a year from beginning it, if I remember correctly). But I guess any contributors should really be making use of the Hamsterspeak forum.

Okay, I'm just rambling to myself. If I can get enough of Tales II done to warrant a preview this month, I will make one. If not, I probably won't bother with Surlaw's forums until next month (and maybe by that time I will also have a review in hand, or an idea for a game design article).
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Moogle1 · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

No need to join, you can e-mail them to him or PM him on CP.
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Meatballsub · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject:

As far as I know, the people who go reviewed were people that asked for reviews.

My apologys about my edited comment. It was TOO late for me to be reading stuff last night Neutral

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Camdog · Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 606

Come on dude, he wasn't referencing you in particular. Besides, have you looked at the game list recently?

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

I missed your post, Meatballsub, but I'd like to apologize as well if you took offense to anything I posted. What I was really trying to say was that I wish there were some more positive reviews; we seem to get plenty telling us what the reviewer thinks is wrong about a game, but very few explaining what a reviewer thinks is right. Especially concerning RPGs, which are the reason I downloaded this thing in the first place.

PS: Speaking of which, I'd still very much love to see a new review of Tales of the New World I. If there is anyone who would like to do a sort of 'review exchange' for a future mag, I'd be quite interested.
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Meatballsub · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:11 am Post subject:

No worries man. It was a bad idea for me to wake up and go straight to reading something. I'm not much of a morning person, so I apologize Raspberry!

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