It would be nice if there was a review area for members of byond. I have my two cents on a few games I have tried out lately. Persay DBZ RPG which is a nice game but the playerbase is horrible. I find that it is filled with a bunch of 1st grade rejects with bad grammar in with using the word 'F*ck'(blanked a part just incase people might find it offensive) then there is assumption everywhere. Now I had to break down the word assume for the children and as you can see ass/u/me it can be made into something...
My overall rating for this game is set with astrix.
Fun:***| 3/6 Its fun but relentless command entering which a simple macro can do easily made it a real bore.
Challenge: *| 1/6 *Explained beforehand* ^
Newbie Friendly: | 0/6 As far as seen from my experience a simple topic will anger all the players in the game pretty much. Its all hostile and cursing each other if it was up to me half the playerbase would be banned.
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 Dec 9 2001, 11:45 am
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The only problem with a review system is that it's open to voter fraud or false majorities. By false majorities, I mean that although DBZers have practically nothing to do with the community and its focus, they play and make a lot of DBZ games, and are likely to put in good reviews for them. DBZers aren't the majority of the community, but they're likely to heavily skew any review system anyway. In terms of their contributions, taste, or the actual ability to rate games intelligently, most of them should have their votes in such a system weighted to almost nothing.
One of my proposed alternatives to this would be a "my favorite games" listing that people could check, or perhaps even cross-reference against many users. If I rate Deadron's taste in games at a 9, for example, but SSJ-Lookalike counts as a 1 or perhaps -2 or so, then I go looking for good games based on what other people like, I should get a list that reflects the tastes of people who think of games in much the same way I do. Lummox JR | |
Deadron wrote:
Kusanagi wrote: Yes, I plan on doing this. The project got lost so I stopped working on it. However, I could easily remake it seeing as how the code was pretty simple. I'll start on it tomarrow(Ill probably have it working by the end of tomarrow). Right now Im working on DrugCraft, and then I have to start on a webpage for my punk band thingy(not really a punk band but I like saying punk cuz its a fun word). | |
Kusanagi wrote:
Who said anything about only dbz people reviewing. I for one would rather not be classified as a "dbzer" or whatever you call them. Even if about 70% of byond is made up of dbz fans who are under the age of 13 I doubt most of them would use it considering very few people under that age or around that age don't go to review a game, they dislike or like. Actually I think 70% is ridiculously high. The number is probably considerably smaller. Those people usually act obnoxious and think that screaming about something will make them feel good or others think a simple ok is just fine which it is. Now I return back to the word assumed which was used in assuming that I am a portion of the dbz majority on byond. Which I admit I was until people wore it out. For the breakdown assume means making an ass out of you and me |ass/u/me|. It makes an ass out of me for looking like another dbz fan which is not bad but I personally take it as an insult. No insult intended, and I wasn't at all referring to you in particular when I made my response. I just think that, given how sheerly vocal the DBZ minority is, they're likely to end up skewing the results of a purely democratic review process. It makes more sense either to set certain people as more "qualified" to do reviews, or to let people do their own reviews and let others find reviews from those whose tastes they mostly agree with. (The latter system would be more difficult to implement, but it would individualize a review system and wouldn't be subjecting anyone to hard feelings from being rated low by whoever ran the system.) Lummox JR | |
Perhaps EbonShadow could expand BYOND 100 to support in-depth reviews, if he doesn't already?