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Post by dsparil on Sept 8, 2017 14:27:55 GMT -5
I don't miss Daily Radar per se, but they had a really unambiguous 4 "star" rating system: Direct Hit, Hit, Miss, Dud. It was a pretty short lived site, something like '99 - '00, but I can't remember anything else using 4 stars. I think that's much less ambiguous than 5 stars—is 3/5 good or bad?—and maps better to percentages.
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Post by Serah on Sept 8, 2017 15:49:22 GMT -5
I never used the site they were attached to a whole lot (I mostly bought magazines at the time) but I used to love the Rapid Gaming forums in the early 2000s. I was a god damn nuisance on there but I still have fond memories.
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Post by Snake on Sept 8, 2017 16:07:42 GMT -5
Video Senki. It was a news site by a gaming journalist who went by the pen name Fennec Fox. I remember one of the more random stories was being invited to cover a car game, and he was offered to take a photo with import model Flo Jalin. He named the site after Lodoss-tou Senki (Record of Lodoss War).
Also enjoyed the Enix forums, before they shut it down and eventually merged with Squaresoft. The forum moderator, Nob/Nobu, was a really cool guy who worked on translating a lot of the older games for Enix. He actually gave me a statue of Dio Brando, that was posed after a frame from the 3rd arc, Stardust Crusaders. He mailed it to me from Canada.
Seanbaby.com wasn't purely a video game website, but his writing is spastic comedy. It's not completely defunct, but the updates aren't as prolific nowadays.
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Post by spanky on Sept 8, 2017 19:11:14 GMT -5
Man I remember discovering Seanbaby in 1999 or so...I was in 8th grade and I thought that was the funniest shit I'd ever read. Like, uncontrollably laughing, tears streaming down my face funny.
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Post by ResidentTsundere on Sept 8, 2017 22:29:58 GMT -5
I discovered Seanbaby through his EGM articles. Good times...
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Sept 9, 2017 3:35:47 GMT -5
Oh man I used to read a lot of Seanbaby. I see HotU mentioned several times. That was a go-to site for me for quite a while.
There was one site that I loved, had bookmarked forever, but I can't remember the name. All I remember is that it was hosted on some university's server and it had like everything you would ever want to know about the original World of Darkness roleplaying games. (OK, so not a videogame site, but it's gaming related)
I remember finding a great writeup on how to represent the Hellraiser movies in WoD.
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Post by surnshurn on Sept 9, 2017 19:06:23 GMT -5
I really liked a smaller website RPGClassics.com which it would seem is no longer around. it was a group of enthusiasts who put together FAQ pages for oldschool 8 and 16-bit western RPG games. it had all your staples like final fantasy, phantasy star, langrisser, wizardry, ultima... that's where I really learned about fan translations back in the day.
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Post by jorpho on Sept 9, 2017 19:34:02 GMT -5
I really liked a smaller website RPGClassics.com which it would seem is no longer around. it was a group of enthusiasts who put together FAQ pages for oldschool 8 and 16-bit western RPG games. it had all your staples like final fantasy, phantasy star, langrisser, wizardry, ultima... that's where I really learned about fan translations back in the day. Oh no! A temporary outage, surely? There's an archive.org snapshot dated August 24. web.archive.org/web/20170824002531/http://rpgclassics.com/
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Post by magic89 on Sept 9, 2017 23:34:47 GMT -5
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Post by GamerL on Sept 10, 2017 4:44:37 GMT -5
I discovered Seanbaby through his EGM articles. Good times... Me too, he cracked my ass up when his "rest of the crap" article started in 2003.
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Post by jorpho on Sept 10, 2017 16:18:44 GMT -5
I think my first Seanbaby articles were the reviews he did of Turkish cinema for The Wave. Good times.
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Post by norm on Sept 12, 2017 16:53:45 GMT -5
Did anyone else read Megacosm.com?
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Post by Woody Alien on Sept 14, 2017 12:07:13 GMT -5
I didn't actually follow or read it but I discovered last year the Segagaga Domain site about every Saturn game ever (and more) for my Game Tengoku article, with several info on obscure stuff, and I was disappointed to discover the other day that it doesn't exist anymore after 14 years or so.
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Post by ryall on Sept 18, 2017 9:13:44 GMT -5
Not news sites, per se, but when I first started posting on gaming forums it was mostly on a couple of predominantly UK boards that splintered off from the old Edge magazine forum when it shut down - chiefly NTSC-UK & RLLMUK. NTSC-UK also doubled as a reviews site, but was for a time a fairly lively forum.
Some of those sites are still around, but they're not particularly active. They largely died as the import gaming scene became irrelevant during the seventh gen.
Anyway, they had a very different atmosphere and culture to most other gaming sites that I've been on since. They were focused on import gaming - this was during the DC/PS2/GC era - but not overly elitist. Fairly welcoming even to a then-teenage me. It's where I formed most of my tastes and discovered a lot of niche games that I would have otherwise missed.
And I miss some of the communities that developed in the fan translation sphere. It's funny to look back on how jovial and silly the atmosphere was on, for instance, the old DeJap forums, given how nutty some people get about the purity of Japanese to English translation these days. I would have been around 14/15 at the time, and I remember the excitement in advance of the release of much-anticipated translations like those for Star Ocean and Bahamut Lagoon, the same way I remember the excitement around big new releases on the PS2 or Gamecube.
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Post by dsparil on Sept 18, 2017 13:39:33 GMT -5
Those were some pretty fun times. I got into emulation really early, around '97/'98, and it was always such a big event when a new translation would come out or an emulator update supported new games. I'll always have a soft spot for the RPGe translation of FFV. I am truly shocked that Zophar's Domain is still around for emulator news. It's too bad that SNES translating is pretty much over. What was even the last major release? All I can think of is Dark Half and that was two years ago now.
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