Kirk's_Tights Reviews
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I was trying to condense everything into one general thread because I assumed that it might take off a bit better than making 600 threads. Good idea, maybe, maybe not. :/ I was just trying to help.
I apologise to anyone who got offended. My mood has been terrible the last few weeks due to personal problems so it sometimes creeps up on me in the forum and I really don't mean it. Life just hasn't been friendly so I get depressed/bitchy.
If people want to discuss MK or whatever, feel free. I was just already in a garbage mood so the negative comments set me off.
I apologise to anyone who got offended. My mood has been terrible the last few weeks due to personal problems so it sometimes creeps up on me in the forum and I really don't mean it. Life just hasn't been friendly so I get depressed/bitchy.
If people want to discuss MK or whatever, feel free. I was just already in a garbage mood so the negative comments set me off.
No-one's doubting your intentions, but expecting everyone to stay on topic in a thread that contains multiple reviews about different games is a pretty big ask.
I see where you're coming from, KT - creating a thread as a platform to air your views about the games you've played, and it is an admirable platform too.
However, as stated above, this is a discussion board and not a blog, and so comments that interrupt your line of thinking are bound to appear, both seemingly sycophantic and seemingly critical, and this is the nature of the TrekBBS and indeed any other BBS - you just have to live with it as it's not going to change.
I feel that this gaming forum aims to achieve the opposite of what you're trying to create: instead of a single thread where one person posts their views on several games and topics, a forum where each thread is about those topics and can be discussed freely and individually would work better.
From my perspective, your approach has a number of practical disadvantages:
However, as stated above, this is a discussion board and not a blog, and so comments that interrupt your line of thinking are bound to appear, both seemingly sycophantic and seemingly critical, and this is the nature of the TrekBBS and indeed any other BBS - you just have to live with it as it's not going to change.
I feel that this gaming forum aims to achieve the opposite of what you're trying to create: instead of a single thread where one person posts their views on several games and topics, a forum where each thread is about those topics and can be discussed freely and individually would work better.
From my perspective, your approach has a number of practical disadvantages:
- If all of one person's reviews were condensd into one thread, it makes things very difficult to find a specific review easily without all that tedious mucking about with the search facility (where that game's name could be mentioned several times by yourself in different posts in the thread).
- On similar lines, if someone looks through this thread and doesn't find the review of a game they want to see (because you haven't reviewed that game), it's a waste of their time altogether. They would find it easier to find (or even start) a thread in this forum about that game.
- It also makes the thread difficult to follow, with several strands of discussion going on at once - difficult for the casual lurker and the discerning moderator alike.
- As demonstrated by this incident, it makes detailed discussion of one specific game (which, being a discussion board, is inevitable) very hard to do without going off the intended topic, and as you rightly said, such deviations from your intended plan would warrant a whole thread in their own right. Perhaps even if the thread was only about MK vs DC it would warrant a whole new thread about the influence of MK - however, I would argue that such deviations are probably more acceptable if the thread was only about MK vs DC originally.
- Finally, and in a more relevant light today than maybe in the past, going with the problem of complicated multi-stranded interrupted discussion, one combined thread alone doesn't allow for easy discussion of spoilers to certain games, whereas if there were several threads to discuss each game you review, this could allow for that.
I agree with ZR. I would prefer to see a separate thread for each game you want to review, and to allow people to post their own (sometimes conflicting) opinions in reply. Maybe you could ask the games forum moderator to split this thread up into appropriate parts, one for each game you have reviewed so far?
(ps. I've always wanted to do a thread split; never had the chance.
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(ps. I've always wanted to do a thread split; never had the chance.
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The Soul Calibur and VF games are some of the best fighting games ever made. The 3D Mortal Kombat games suck because they have sloppy control and the entire concept is played out.
It's just harder to make a fighting game work well in 3D, there are more variables. Though God only knows I've played enough shit 2D fighting games in my time as well.
Unless you're Nintendo and you're too chicken shit to leave the blood in the game and you remove half the fatalities. Little things like that helped keep the Genesis in the 16-Bit race.
Yup! That's kind of what I'm talking about. That game made the Genesis.
I think that's where the conflict is, though. Some are looking at the games purely for their content, while others (like me) are looking at how they affected the industry as a whole.
Doom, for instance, was groundbreaking both in terms of technology and its business model. They proved you could make a fortune with a shareware game. I have little doubt the reason we still have shareware and playable demos is because of the trail Doom blazed in that area. Until it came along, shareware was around but largely unproven as a business model.
Tights, I have started Grand Theft Auto 4 - finding it really hard to steer those cars, but so far finding it hilarious, and in awe of the size of the city. Great fun so far.
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