By the way Etoychest, I wouldn't mind paying for the MMOs myself so long as it doesn't get too crazy in terms of what I have to cover, although at the moment it'd be a little tough, I think I could pull off at least one. Either way I'm more interested in this for the experience than I am getting money out of it.
Well, I'd like to start off with Tabula Rasa, and send one person the copy I have and maybe give another person who picks up the game themselves the code for extra month or two as some measure of compensation, and maybe if another person already has experience that would create a nice 3 person vantage on the product. Then, once that article is compiled, we can collectivly decide on what game should be tackled next and I'll get on the horn and request 3 copies of X game from the get go so we could be covered.
That works for me, if you feel I'm sufficient for the task than I'm certainly willing to provide you with content for your new feature on a basis as regular as daily, if you'd like I can voice some ideas I have for what I think would make for interesting material. I think there's a lot of room to work with when it comes to MMOs with the variety of approaches people take to this particular genre. I also don't mind giving Tabula Rasa a little more time, one thing I did like is the sense of how insignificant your character seems at the start. You kind of get this sense that you're a part of this big thing going on, in this case humanity fighting in a guerilla fashion on some alien world. And point and click shooting was a lot more fun than the auto-shot mechanic Hunters get in World of Warcraft.
I personally do not want to touch Tabula Rasa again especially if i have to pay for it, however, I do have quite a bit of spare time and would be willing the test and help review any other MMO. I have a mid level machine so that might be something we can gear toward reviews, playability on lower end systems?
I understand that part of reviewing games is reviewing and playing bad ones, so if you really need me to play Tabula Rasa I will, but my budget won't allow me to pay for it.
I personally do not want to touch Tabula Rasa again especially if i have to pay for it, however, I do have quite a bit of spare time and would be willing the test and help review any other MMO. I have a mid level machine so that might be something we can gear toward reviews, playability on lower end systems?
I understand that part of reviewing games is reviewing and playing bad ones, so if you really need me to play Tabula Rasa I will, but my budget won't allow me to pay for it.
Heh, if you're on the team you can help me convince him to get us on Wings of the Goddess next month. I truly believe that'll turn out some incredible articles considering how drastic the affects of introducing casual content at long last to FFXI is going to be. It'd be like making World of Warcraft suddenly difficult overnight.
I personally do not want to touch Tabula Rasa again especially if i have to pay for it, however, I do have quite a bit of spare time and would be willing the test and help review any other MMO. I have a mid level machine so that might be something we can gear toward reviews, playability on lower end systems?
I understand that part of reviewing games is reviewing and playing bad ones, so if you really need me to play Tabula Rasa I will, but my budget won't allow me to pay for it.
Heh, if you're on the team you can help me convince him to get us on Wings of the Goddess next month. I truly believe that'll turn out some incredible articles considering how drastic the affects of introducing casual content at long last to FFXI is going to be. It'd be like making World of Warcraft suddenly difficult overnight.
I actually really loved FFXI, the world was very fun to explore, and i didn't mind the 'grind' because they kept it interesting.
I personally do not want to touch Tabula Rasa again especially if i have to pay for it, however, I do have quite a bit of spare time and would be willing the test and help review any other MMO. I have a mid level machine so that might be something we can gear toward reviews, playability on lower end systems?
I understand that part of reviewing games is reviewing and playing bad ones, so if you really need me to play Tabula Rasa I will, but my budget won't allow me to pay for it.
Heh, if you're on the team you can help me convince him to get us on Wings of the Goddess next month. I truly believe that'll turn out some incredible articles considering how drastic the affects of introducing casual content at long last to FFXI is going to be. It'd be like making World of Warcraft suddenly difficult overnight.
I actually really loved FFXI, the world was very fun to explore, and i didn't mind the 'grind' because they kept it interesting.
I'd be more then willing to play some FFXI
Oh you don't have to tell me about not minding a grind. Let's just say I brought a Dragoon to 72 after the Penta-Nerf well before exp rings, sanction, or the lowered exp requirements. Not only that, but now I have an entirely new 75 Dragoon on a whole different server...
Wow... I am the type of person who can't run the same class twice, and often times can't even play the same game twice because I'm only in it for the story
By the way Etoychest, I wouldn't mind paying for the MMOs myself so long as it doesn't get too crazy in terms of what I have to cover, although at the moment it'd be a little tough, I think I could pull off at least one. Either way I'm more interested in this for the experience than I am getting money out of it.
Well, I'd like to start off with Tabula Rasa, and send one person the copy I have and maybe give another person who picks up the game themselves the code for extra month or two as some measure of compensation, and maybe if another person already has experience that would create a nice 3 person vantage on the product. Then, once that article is compiled, we can collectivly decide on what game should be tackled next and I'll get on the horn and request 3 copies of X game from the get go so we could be covered.
That works for me, if you feel I'm sufficient for the task than I'm certainly willing to provide you with content for your new feature on a basis as regular as daily, if you'd like I can voice some ideas I have for what I think would make for interesting material. I think there's a lot of room to work with when it comes to MMOs with the variety of approaches people take to this particular genre. I also don't mind giving Tabula Rasa a little more time, one thing I did like is the sense of how insignificant your character seems at the start. You kind of get this sense that you're a part of this big thing going on, in this case humanity fighting in a guerilla fashion on some alien world. And point and click shooting was a lot more fun than the auto-shot mechanic Hunters get in World of Warcraft.
Sounds great. Good to have you on this little experiment. Let's se if we can uncover a couple others here.
We certainly should tackle Wings of the Goddess together, Bendery, not everyone is catching on, tell the man what introducing casual play (including solo) ready at any time, available to low levels as well, will do to Vana'Diel.
We certainly should tackle Wings of the Goddess together, Bendery, not everyone is catching on, tell the man what introducing casual play (including solo) ready at any time, available to low levels as well, will do to Vana'Diel.
By the way Etoychest, I wouldn't mind paying for the MMOs myself so long as it doesn't get too crazy in terms of what I have to cover, although at the moment it'd be a little tough, I think I could pull off at least one. Either way I'm more interested in this for the experience than I am getting money out of it.
Well, I'd like to start off with Tabula Rasa, and send one person the copy I have and maybe give another person who picks up the game themselves the code for extra month or two as some measure of compensation, and maybe if another person already has experience that would create a nice 3 person vantage on the product. Then, once that article is compiled, we can collectivly decide on what game should be tackled next and I'll get on the horn and request 3 copies of X game from the get go so we could be covered.
That works for me, if you feel I'm sufficient for the task than I'm certainly willing to provide you with content for your new feature on a basis as regular as daily, if you'd like I can voice some ideas I have for what I think would make for interesting material. I think there's a lot of room to work with when it comes to MMOs with the variety of approaches people take to this particular genre. I also don't mind giving Tabula Rasa a little more time, one thing I did like is the sense of how insignificant your character seems at the start. You kind of get this sense that you're a part of this big thing going on, in this case humanity fighting in a guerilla fashion on some alien world. And point and click shooting was a lot more fun than the auto-shot mechanic Hunters get in World of Warcraft.
Sounds great. Good to have you on this little experiment. Let's se if we can uncover a couple others here.
Shall I PM or email my existing writing samples to you sir?
Although confirm/deny: this does feature some form of monetary compensation. Not an absolute requirement, but if our work is competent enough some reinbursement for our time would be excellent.
PMs are good. Yea, I think if we had like 3 or so folks on this it might turn out really neat. As for reimbursement, as said, I'll be working with pubs to get the games in your hands, but beyond that I cannot pay you. I'm not making anythign from this experiment either.
That said, if the blog ever reaches the sort of reach and traffic I had when I ran etoy, then I have advertisers on deck who will be more than happy to hop on board and we'll revisit this to get the wealth shared among all contributors.
Also, and this just depends on if writing is something you want to look to in the future, I have had a few people who wrote for me on etoy that were picked up by paying outfits for their experience, including one who writes for Kotaku now and another who writes for Joystiq's new Massively site. This is sort of a side project for me since I already write for Joystiq and contribute to Gamasutra, but it could become something really interesting down the road.
just put a little polonium-210 into everybody's goulash or whatever they eat
Until Putin snaps your spine as he Judo Slams you into the radioactive dirt beneath his pulsating green throne sitting atop the remnants of the Chernobyl Plant for attempting to sabotage his glorious new Rodina.
Though I'm not hugely into MMOs (haven't played much of one since my latest EVE kick), I find the idea of an MMO group review very interesting. Given the difficulty in reviewing a game designed entirely around the multiplayer experience, a group of reviewers playing together can give a much better perspective on both a game and community than a lone reviewer grouping at random. The dynamic nature of MMOs, as others here have noted, makes them difficult to review at the outset, but it also makes discussing them a rewarding experience. With online gaming so popular, I'd like to see more reviewers taking into account not only game design choices in regards to gameplay, but also their effects on the community and player interactions. While it's not really meaningful to attach a numerical rating to a community experience, devoting a significant amount of thought and writing to that aspect can make a review more helpful to both players and developers.
Guild Wars and WoW, for example, are pretty much the same game they were when they came out, just with more content than before.
Well, for Guild Wars its more like Guild Wars at launch + better UI - fun - most of the good players - true game balance + stagnant dull gameplay + shitty automated tournaments with poor results due to lack of good players.
I think the main problem with most website reviews of MMOs is the fact that they are absolutely terrible at the game, thereby ruining any credibility they might have had.
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I haven't read page 2 or 3 yet, but I thought I would post an initial thought. What about writing an on-going piece for each title of this type of game? Say, once a month you get the reviewer for each title to continue his or her narrative on that particular game in the style of a blog or sequential articles.
Each installment could perhaps focus on a specific locale or adventure area in the game, talking about its background in the context of the setting, the geography and other points of interest, notable denizens, and its quality of construction and/or layout.
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...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
I like this idea. We're now writing an initial entry in this experiment, so we'll how this evolves. Also working on a somewhat radical (at least for online sites) approach to general game reviewing as well that I'll be approaching people on as well. As a jaded games journalist with a few years and publications under his belt (I don't really wear belts), I'm alwasy thinking on new ways to approach the job...some crap, but hopefully a diamond slips in here and there.
PMs are good. Yea, I think if we had like 3 or so folks on this it might turn out really neat. As for reimbursement, as said, I'll be working with pubs to get the games in your hands, but beyond that I cannot pay you. I'm not making anythign from this experiment either.
That said, if the blog ever reaches the sort of reach and traffic I had when I ran etoy, then I have advertisers on deck who will be more than happy to hop on board and we'll revisit this to get the wealth shared among all contributors.
Also, and this just depends on if writing is something you want to look to in the future, I have had a few people who wrote for me on etoy that were picked up by paying outfits for their experience, including one who writes for Kotaku now and another who writes for Joystiq's new Massively site. This is sort of a side project for me since I already write for Joystiq and contribute to Gamasutra, but it could become something really interesting down the road.
I can personally attest that with etoy's three step program, I was able to get FREE MONEY FROM THE INTERNET!
But seriously, if this format takes off, you'll be compensated with sweet sweet pageviews. And as he said, paying outfits are always looking to headhunt and you could be looking at some real cash moneys if your writing is good and your angles unique enough.
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That works for me, if you feel I'm sufficient for the task than I'm certainly willing to provide you with content for your new feature on a basis as regular as daily, if you'd like I can voice some ideas I have for what I think would make for interesting material. I think there's a lot of room to work with when it comes to MMOs with the variety of approaches people take to this particular genre. I also don't mind giving Tabula Rasa a little more time, one thing I did like is the sense of how insignificant your character seems at the start. You kind of get this sense that you're a part of this big thing going on, in this case humanity fighting in a guerilla fashion on some alien world. And point and click shooting was a lot more fun than the auto-shot mechanic Hunters get in World of Warcraft.
I understand that part of reviewing games is reviewing and playing bad ones, so if you really need me to play Tabula Rasa I will, but my budget won't allow me to pay for it.
Heh, if you're on the team you can help me convince him to get us on Wings of the Goddess next month. I truly believe that'll turn out some incredible articles considering how drastic the affects of introducing casual content at long last to FFXI is going to be. It'd be like making World of Warcraft suddenly difficult overnight.
I actually really loved FFXI, the world was very fun to explore, and i didn't mind the 'grind' because they kept it interesting.
I'd be more then willing to play some FFXI
Asheron's call was a haven for me.
Sounds great. Good to have you on this little experiment.
If you want to review any other MMO let me know, like I said I'd be more then willing/excited to get behind a group review.
make it completely awesome
Shall I PM or email my existing writing samples to you sir?
Although confirm/deny: this does feature some form of monetary compensation. Not an absolute requirement, but if our work is competent enough some reinbursement for our time would be excellent.
That said, if the blog ever reaches the sort of reach and traffic I had when I ran etoy, then I have advertisers on deck who will be more than happy to hop on board and we'll revisit this to get the wealth shared among all contributors.
Also, and this just depends on if writing is something you want to look to in the future, I have had a few people who wrote for me on etoy that were picked up by paying outfits for their experience, including one who writes for Kotaku now and another who writes for Joystiq's new Massively site. This is sort of a side project for me since I already write for Joystiq and contribute to Gamasutra, but it could become something really interesting down the road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQwpQqPCg-w
Well, for Guild Wars its more like Guild Wars at launch + better UI - fun - most of the good players - true game balance + stagnant dull gameplay + shitty automated tournaments with poor results due to lack of good players.
I think the main problem with most website reviews of MMOs is the fact that they are absolutely terrible at the game, thereby ruining any credibility they might have had.
Each installment could perhaps focus on a specific locale or adventure area in the game, talking about its background in the context of the setting, the geography and other points of interest, notable denizens, and its quality of construction and/or layout.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
I can personally attest that with etoy's three step program, I was able to get FREE MONEY FROM THE INTERNET!
But seriously, if this format takes off, you'll be compensated with sweet sweet pageviews. And as he said, paying outfits are always looking to headhunt and you could be looking at some real cash moneys if your writing is good and your angles unique enough.