There just aren't enough dedicated shmup sites...

Post by **system11** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:10 am

BulletMagnet wrote:Quick question on the new Reviews section: is it kosher to create a "My Reviews" type topic and just toss your reviews for several different games in there as you write them, rather than creating separate threads for each game you review, or would you prefer one's reviews grouped/ungrouped in a different manner?

An interesting idea - probably for the moment, best to keep them in seperate topics - this makes it easier later for people to search for games by topic.

Post by **system11** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:12 am

Dave_K. wrote:Is this section only for shmups? what about border liners, or even other genres like puzzle, platform, ... that people here may find interesting?

Depends on your definition. I'm not sure we want a review of Rainbow Islands DS in there, but Mutant Storm, Asteroids, etc - seem reasonable.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:12 pm

bloodflowers wrote:
Dave_K. wrote:Is this section only for shmups? what about border liners, or even other genres like puzzle, platform, ... that people here may find interesting?
Depends on your definition. I'm not sure we want a review of Rainbow Islands DS in there, but Mutant Storm, Asteroids, etc - seem reasonable.

I am sorry but wouldn't allowing reviews for stuff like Metal Slug (which imo isn't even a border liner) be making for new confusion about what qualifies as a shmup? Not that I have anything to say about it but I'd love it to be a shmups review section as pure as possible. That's what this site is about!

Puzzle games (@ Twitchdoctor: excluding Ikaruga

), platformers and other stuff are a total no no to me!

Oh and almost forgot: great idea for a new section, it somewhat solves the problems with updates on the main site. Thanks.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:59 pm

Shmups only reviews are cool with me (being this is the shmups forum).

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:03 pm

bloodflowers wrote:An interesting idea - probably for the moment, best to keep them in seperate topics - this makes it easier later for people to search for games by topic.

Roger. In case you do allow that in the future, I might suggest requiring those who keep such a topic to edit the topic title whenever they put up a new review (i.e. "BM's Reviews [Newest: Gradius III (Arcade) 4-5-06]"), to alert the keeper of the "Reviews Index" topic to update the list o' reviews (might as well make some use of it). Or something like that.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:19 am

I... uh, sent my review to malc's email address last Saturday, which was before you guys implemented the reviews section to these forums. Don't use that one though, since it contains some errors I just noticed after looking I sent it.

I'll probably put my review in there later tonight. Was going to do it now, but I currently lack the correct tools to do it.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:03 am

err, there was a double post for some reason.

EddyMRA · Post by **EddyMRA** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:11 am

circuitface wrote: ... and the Raiden Fighters Emporium hasn't been updated since like 2004 and it's not even finished!

The Navy has been sucking like 99% of my free time away from me. I just don't have the time nor energy to maintain the website anymore. I know it is not even finished yet, and I regret that since it has become the source of inforamtion for the Raiden Fighters games. Over the last 3-4 months, I have been experiencing some HUGE personal and emotional problems regarding stress and bouts of depression. My life has literally become Hell since coming aboard my ship.

If anyone is interested in taking over the Emporium, please PM me.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:18 am

That GW2 review is no good.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:27 am

Alluro wrote: If anyone is interested in taking over the Emporium, please PM me.

Damn, that sucks Alluro. I really wish i could do it as i'm pretty good with web design and loooovvvee the Raiden games. Check back with me in a couple of months if you haven't found anybody by then...

I'm sorry to hear about your troubles...

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:38 pm

Rob wrote:That GW2 review is no good.

sorry limbrooke, but here here! you punish Gigawing for having unique play mechanics?

RoninBuddha · Post by **RoninBuddha** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:45 pm

im thinking POV matters here,..

i did a review for Radilgy on another General Videogame forum... and my mindset there was "Shmups is still a living genre, Radilgy happens to be one of the many few who in the bunch of unknown games in the genre", being that a somewhat mainstream gaming place, i tried to "re-introduce" the genre as well as rating the game (Radilgy) as a single entity of being a "Videogame", and not necessarily being a "shmup"

but then of course, since, all of the people here are familiar to shmups, and know what to expect of shmups, i noticed you reviews go beyond rating the game for it's playability, but goes further into "How well does it rank up as a Shmup"...

you guys getting me?

so that's why i didnt post my review, yet.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:19 pm

I just realized how "tate" my review was going to be after cutting and pasting half of it on here.

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