Castle Paradox

Seth · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:19 am Post subject:

There. Happy now Fenrir?

I'm doing lots of little reviews.

IT'S NOT CHEATING!!!

I use these reviews, Fenrir, When I get bored or frustrated with FFH.

DAMN FFH! Pissed off!

*Throws monitor out 4th storey window*
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Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

And to think I'm planning a FFH:Hardtype soon. Thanks for all the reviews. Now I have something to read. Happy

Seth · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:28 am Post subject:

Fenrir, the battles are extremely easy. It's the damn caves.

DAMN CAVES!

*Throws monitor out window again*
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Aethereal · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject:

A Hardtype version would be nice. My Dwarf Monk takes out everything in one hit - he does like 200 damage O_o.
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Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

Now that I've given CN the working FAQ for it, all will be well with the world. Oh wait. (Goes to send Seth the Faq as well) There, NOW all is right with the world. I believe this will assit the completion of a final review.

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

(Bumps the Thread)

Surely you guys aren't STILL playing it to write a review?

Aethereal · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:42 pm Post subject:

When time permits, I'll review it.
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Pepsi Ranger · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:28 am Post subject:

Hey, I know that this is a bit off-topic, but is it necessary to convert old O:OHR reviews to the Castle Paradox format? I can't speak for everyone's reviews, but the CP format doesn't allow room for most of mine. I looked over one of the converted reviews recently (Virtual School I think) and the text was garbled and cut off in the middle, which really doesn't help anybody.

I don't mind reformatting my old reviews to fit the new style if this is something you guys insist on doing, but the method you got going right now looks terrible, and in the case of my stuff, unfinished.

Do what you want, but I'd prefer to keep the old reviews on the old site.
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Inferior Minion · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:44 am Post subject:

The old O:OHR reviews don't follow the CP format. They maintained their old paragraph style and old scoring. The only change was the overall score conversion to a letter grade and the addition of 2 pictures.

Squall did a great job uploading the O:OHR reviews for us.
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Pepsi Ranger · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject:

Okay well my point was that the copy and paste features still work on most PCs, and any given paragraph could be dropped in any given section to better fit the CP format. It wouldn't be a direct conversion, but it would be a full and accurate review.

And just for the record, after writing yesterday's response, I went to check up on another review to see if the format was still chopped, and I found not only the content broken in the middle again, but the screenshots were wrong too. The game was "And&," but the screenshots were from "Xerian."

As I said before, if you want to try direct conversions of old reviews, that's great, but consider the lost content that comes from not converting by hand.

And the average grade can be estimated from the old overall number system:

1.0 = F
1.5 = F+
2.0 = D-
2.5 = D
3.0 = D
3.5 = D+
4.0 = C-
4.5 = C
5.0 = C
5.5 = C
6.0 = C+
6.5 = B-
7.0 = B
7.5 = B
8.0 = B+
8.5 = A-
9.0 = A
9.5 = A
10.0 = A+

Really, it can be done without sacrificing content.
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Squall · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject:

Alright, the screenshot bit was probably my fault. Sorry for that, but when I copied all the old review into the box in CP, the entire thing was there. Is there a character limit on it or something?
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 12:42 am Post subject:

I would like to thank Fenrir for taking my review and placing it on CP.

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

Not sure whether that's sarcasm, but with a little work, I'm sure it'd be approved.

Coincidentally, I'm playing Walthros now, in hopes of eventually reviewing it.

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

The first Same-creator/reviewer review has been made. And it does indeed prove that the alterations to the code discounting author points is enabled. Kudos to the admins and their elite team of Nija programmers!

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

I am ressurecting this thread (it is MY thread anyway) for the purpose of bring to light a horrible glitch...

http://www.castleparadox.com/cgi-bin/review-display.php?review=59

Hachi's review was apparently infected by my deleted review of Zelda64 Mysteries, and the two merged into an unholy union of sorts. See it for yourself, and then decide how best to get those sneaky ninjas.