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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 20, 2006 14:35:55 GMT -5
Kurt don't you think you should make some kind of rules or guidelines as to what the articles should be about and what kind of images and music they should have? I mean, I'm sure everyone if gonna do fine SO FAR, but what about in the future when more people start contributing stuff? Yeah I've been thinking about doing this. For the most part, I don't have any problems with the quality of writing contributed thus far, I'd mostly prefer that people supply screenshots, because it takes a lot of work to get some of them. Still, a lot of this are my own standards - for more recent games, I don't like using press images and prefer to use actual screenshots, but I don't expect people to have a video capture card. I've seen a couple or articles where I could tell the person didn't really play the game much, others didn't even play the game to the finish and others didn't play the game at all. Some games you just have to beat to end up liking them, how are you gonna find out about that if you never actually beat the game? This becomes in issue of time constraints though. There's a lot of games I've written about here that I haven't beaten (mostly RPGs - not beating any other type game is kinda lazy) - but then again, that's not entirely the point of the website. It's to give a general overview of the game in question, without going in to too much depth as to be off putting. As much as I would love to sit around and play video games all day, there's that whole real world thing that interferes, and I think if everyone had to play every game to completion, nothind would get done. I think this applies to other writers as well. There's a fine line you have to draw in cases like these. For instance, my writing style is to give the most important facts about the game, along with some impressions about the graphics/music/gameplay/etc. It's usually pretty brief but that's just the way I write. I think some writers may not know about minor differences between versions or regional differences because they're not aware of them. I know enough Japanese to plow through games, but again, I don't expect people to have that same kind of devotion. Or expect them to own multiple copies of the same game across different platforms. I can't think of too many times where this has come up (except that Space Channel 5 one.) I'm starting to see the box art region differences diminish with each article and the game descriptions are starting to be a little less than espectacular. No offense to the writers, but I won't mention names. Admittedtly, most of the box art stuff are things I search out myself - and it mostly depends on what I can find on Google Image Search, unless I can find something myself. I usually only tend to do it when necessary - like, there are several different boxes for the King of Fighters games, but given the format of the site, they would've taken space away from the screenshots, which I felt were more important.
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Post by Nightmare371 on Jul 20, 2006 16:10:32 GMT -5
Okay. It doesn't work there is a crack in the disc. However, if someone else is willing to do Bushido Blade one, I'm willing to help with bushido blade 2 Hey Mazinsaga, I own Bushido Blade 1 and 2. I haven't played either one; I tend to buy games just to own and not really play them, ever. But I am willing to go through it and write and article with you if you'd like to do BB2. Let me know so I can blow the dust off the case.
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Post by MRSKELETON on Jul 20, 2006 17:58:13 GMT -5
Go dust off that case and play Bushido blade one. As soon as i find my CD case again (I had kids over at my house :\ ) I'll play through it.
Okay Bushido blade along with like ten other PS1 games are MIA A sizeable portion of my CD cases are as well.
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Post by Brand on Jul 21, 2006 11:52:11 GMT -5
I want to do one Card Fighters Clash, it might not get done untill I get done school and Spetember but as you all my know I'm crazy for the game.
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Post by EXMaster on Jul 22, 2006 13:29:19 GMT -5
I'm about to start one up for the Blaster Master games, so put me down for that.
Though this brought up a question that really belongs in the article submission guidelines thread, but I'll ask here to keep everything together. For series articles, how do you handle games that were originally part of an entirely different series? To relate it to my situation, the game "Blaster Master Boy" was originally "Bomber King 2", a spin off to the Bomberman series. Does that mean I'm still obliged to cover it in the BM article?
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 22, 2006 13:49:48 GMT -5
I Though this brought up a question that really belongs in the article submission guidelines thread, but I'll ask here to keep everything together. For series articles, how do you handle games that were originally part of an entirely different series? To relate it to my situation, the game "Blaster Master Boy" was originally "Bomber King 2", a spin off to the Bomberman series. Does that mean I'm still obliged to cover it in the BM article? Yup. Just clarify that it's technically an entirely different game that became a Blaster Master entry during it's localization.
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Post by paracelsus on Jul 22, 2006 15:49:53 GMT -5
In the land of registering just to post one thing, I was writing an article on the Dizzy games. Would that be alright?
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Post by krzhang on Jul 22, 2006 23:39:17 GMT -5
Hey all.
I've been lurking for a short while and following HG101 for a long while (ever since the classical red background days. The black is much easier on my eyes - thanks!). With the quality of the recent articles, I've decided that this is a good place for hardcore diehard classic gamers to share their knowledge of games - so I decided to start writing something.
Already a few htmls in, I've realized that I probably should call this game series already, though not many people would be crazy enough to do it. Also, if for some reason the webmaster decides not to ever do this game, this would be a good time to find out before I write the other 500 pages for this game (more like 5, but...).
So - the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series by KOEI, and a few spinoffs. I really think it is unrealistic to do all of them (at least including the chinese ones!). Maybe it suffices to do the KOEI spinoffs - but it should be hard to find people who have played all of them, so...
Yeah. Well, hope this works.
-Y.Z.
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ma201
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Post by ma201 on Jul 23, 2006 13:24:06 GMT -5
Can I cover Skuljagger (and it's sequel)?
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Post by MRSKELETON on Jul 23, 2006 13:51:37 GMT -5
I may try skeleton crew for the sega genesis
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 23, 2006 21:14:16 GMT -5
Brand-
Card Fighter's Clash as cool, as long as you can cover the sequel as well, and be willing to update it for whenever the DS versions is released.
Krzhang-
Yeah, Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be quiet an effort, I know there's a shiteload of ports too. The only thing I'm concerned about is screenshots - would you be able to supply some for the PS2 games?
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Post by MRSKELETON on Jul 23, 2006 22:02:50 GMT -5
Yep. I'm pretty sure because of my inability to make it pass haganes difficulty i'm going to take a crack at Skeleton Crew, Hopefully i'm not blinded by nostalgia as it was my first sega genesis game
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Post by dooz on Jul 24, 2006 1:22:07 GMT -5
Krzhang- Yeah, Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be quiet an effort, I know there's a shiteload of ports too. The only thing I'm concerned about is screenshots - would you be able to supply some for the PS2 games? I could supply a little info if needed as well. I own the PSX port of 6, the PS2 ports of 7, 8, and 10, and the PC versions of 9, 10, and 11. Although I must confess that I don't know too much about 11, as the English patch does very little and may be discontinued. But I've pretty much mastered 10, despite the English patch translating little as well (But it's such a good game).
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Post by Malroth on Jul 24, 2006 3:33:19 GMT -5
Alright, its official. I'm going to start woking on the Sweet Home article this Wednesday. I've been talking about it for months, now its time I actually do something about it.
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Post by Brand on Jul 24, 2006 9:08:04 GMT -5
Brand- Card Fighter's Clash as cool, as long as you can cover the sequel as well, and be willing to update it for whenever the DS versions is released. Yes I can, though getting DS screen shots seems mighty tricky. Do you know how to do that?
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