Sure, I'll veto the Super Nintendo. 

I won't be free tomorrow or Wednesday, school both of those days and errands to run afterward, but I'm free on Thursday and Saturday / Sunday. Pretty much any day leading up to the 27th. I'm in the PST so right now it's 4:57 PM, if that helps you gauge a time. 

I'll post on here, though, if my schedule clears up on Tue / Wed, just for clarification's sake. 

What game are we gonna play?

tytytec04 hasn't been active since the 11th. What do we do? 

Just waiting on a response from tytytec04 before I do anything. 

Fine by me, here. 

splice12
tytytec04
megatankmaster

So what game do ya'll choose and what time? I'm free any time this week after 1:30 PM PST except for Tuesday. 

Davideo7 : Cool! Thanks a lot!

I'd love to join this, but I don't have a team and I'm looking for a partner. 

Really, though, I'm just a bit too shy about approaching anybody on here to ask. But I'm definitely free at any point during the day!

Good review, but all of the stuff you complained (or complimented) are atypical of roguelikes, of which this game is. The graphics are horrible because they're blown up on a much larger screen than the tiny Game Gear screen, same goes for the music. As for the story, there doesn't need to be a story because roguelikes are never story-heavy, and the ones that are, usually are referred to as rogue-lites. 

The point of the food is that, when you have a value of 0 in the food bar, your status is labeled as hungry, and thus your hit-points begin to deteriorate. It's a pretty common practice in games that involve a hunger meter, particularly dungeon crawlers and roguelikes.  All in all, for a roguelike on the Game Gear, which was severely lacking in Western RPG's, let alone RPG's in general, this is actually a very well-made and put together game for the time, and has plenty of depth, which you yourself brought up. 

I would say this is a good review -- and it is -- if not for the story section. Metroid has a rich and engaging backstory in each game, even if it's not explicit like it is in Fusion. Other than that, good job, though, try fleshing out the categories in future reviews. 

men are poison
and stardust lives in my veins with the ferocity
of you blowing out the candle
we used to make love
and
the hunger pangs in my stomach
are real
like the butterscotch gumdrops you
gave me on my eighteenth birthday party
or
the worn-out bottle of Jack Daniels
you snuck to me when my father yelled like Zeus
and struck me with the hand
of a war veteran who saw
too many lights go out in his friends eyes.

but after all of this, your plastic smile
became too much for my cross to bear
and
I likened it to the albatross around your neck
but you never saw it as anything more than
wishful thinking on sun-kissed lilies.

This isn't a game. It's a Pocketstation addon for the Harvest Moon game for the PSX, Harvest Moon: Back to Nature. You're not supposed to play it on it's own. Ingame, it's meant to play a minigame to increase stats. 

I apologize if my post appeared to be trolling, but that wasn't the case. Trolling implies I was picking apart meaningless stuff just to get a rise out of you. But I feel I had valid complaints and constructive criticisms for your review. 

As for the layout deal, I mentioned that you weren't at fault for it, so please don't get upset at my mentioning of it. 

" The review was recommended to be 2000 words, you can find any excuse to complain all you want but I'm not gonna add subcategories to my categories just to suit your preference,"

"-Review should be professional
- DO NOT: Swear, Spam, Flame,
Advertise, Post Porn or Insult"

A professional review has clear and concise categories so that it is easy to tell what you give each section. You do not have to explicitly state each category, but at least mention that you're going to talk about the story, then graphics, then gameplay, then sound and give each a score, tallying your score at the end of the review for a non-biased objective rating of the game. You had a nice idea with the Pros / Cons system but I feel it was implemented poorly since the cons outweighed the pros -- that's not to say that you should make up a bunch of pros to balance it out, but that you should have combined some of the cons such as mentioning all the graphics in one, neat bullet point:

" - Ugly graphics that do not do their job at portraying the player character or the enemies, with odd animations and odd pallets." 

Yes, you want to make the review thorough, and yes, I realize it might have been recommended to be 2000 words, but you should never sacrifice quality for quantity. That's just a thing that you shouldn't do.

" "You knock on a game released a good decade or so after this (which, by the way, objectively is a good game), which has no bearing on the review."?http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/star-wars-the-old-republic/user-reviews Last I checked this isn't such a great game, is it? Don't try to debate with "You are incorrect, the critics all gave it perfect scores." "

I wasn't talking about The Old Republic. That came after the statement. I was talking about Resident Evil: Outbreak. Metacritic is not a good site to back up your stance on a game, since it's based on an average of consumer reviews and is often found to be completely false anyhow. A good example is Nier, which has a 67 rating for critics, compared to user reviews which are 8.4. The game is excellent, it has great writing, amazing music, nice, crisp, defined graphics and a well-done story. Yet critics knocked the game for repetitive gameplay (which, admittedly it does have at points, but more often than not the repetitiveness comes from the sidequests and grinding for materials, which is optional). 

Resident Evil: Outbreak was not a very good Resident Evil game, but it was a great game on it's own. The controls were nice and tight, the voice acting was miles better than the first three RE games, the graphics were beautiful and you can tell what things are supposed to be, and it was difficult without being difficult because of poor camera angles or bad controls. 

"If you don't like the review why did you spend so much time complaining about it?"

This doesn't make any sense, considering you spent so much time complaining about Alien³ when you clearly didn't like the game. I write for a living, and I happen to enjoy giving people constructive criticism on their writing. I apologize if my post came off as douchey and arrogant, that wasn't my intention, but I'm allowed to criticize your review and offer ways to improve them as much as the next person on this site, and as much as you are allowed to write a review on a game you don't like. 

My main complaint with your review is that you did not remain objective. This comes through in your constant berating of the game because you had a hard time with it. I have plenty games I do not like, but I acknowledge that they are good games, with many redeeming qualities about them. You mention one or two good things about the game, which is fine, I just wish you had done more. 

That's all. Again, I apologize for making it seem like I was unfairly picking apart your review, but I wasn't trolling. Simply offering some criticisms. With more work in the future, I'm sure you'll make an excellent reviewer. 




 

I honestly could not tell if this was a troll review or not. Outside of the horrible layout (which you mentioned, so I can't fault you for this), it's one giant wall of text, so even if you had a layout that fit with the review itself, it would still be hard to read. A lot of your lines don't apply to this game at all -- I.E mentioning an HD filter in a game on the Super Nintendo? Did you play it on the Retron 5 or something? You use abbreviations when you don't need to, such as "srsly" or "wanna" and Akklaim being A<
First of all, no, that's not how anime was invented. I hope this is a facetious statement, as it isn't even relevant to the review and completely incorrect.  

"Star Wars The Olde Republic has the most voice acting any game has ever had, you should try it it's nice, be warned it's an EA game so it has lag/bugs/"DLC" (that content that was removed from the game to be sold back to you little by little as time passes which always adds up to a $60 value, at least it doesn't add up to $100 like mobile games always do)."

Again with referencing games released long after this. It does not have the most voice acting of any game ever, there is no way to tell that unless you count each and every line of dialogue across hundreds upon hundreds of games that have voice acting. 
DLC is not always content removed from the game. In some cases, yes, but not 100% of the time, and EA is not the only company that employs the usage of DLC. And of course the game will have lag, and bugs, it's an MMO, what MMO game doesn't? It's natural, especially in a world as large as TOR's. But I digress. 

You keep mentioning and comparing the game to Super Metroid. . . why? This was released in May of 1993. Super Metroid was released in March of 1994. . . see the huge difference? Not to mention the fact that Metroid was heavily inspired by the Alien films anyhow. 

This is just not a very good review, at all. You cannot form an objective opinion on playing a game for 20 minutes (your own words), especially one that takes much, much longer to complete. 

Reviews should be well put together, with clear distinctions between each category, and not riddled with personal opinions / feelings on the game, and nonsensical comparisons to games released much later.

This is about 2 years too late but, I should point out that the cut off visuals are a problem the emulator has running the game, and has nothing to do with the actual game itself. I still have a copy of this game and it runs perfectly, so I think this was pretty unfair to knock the game because of problems with the emulator. 
But anyways, two years late, ah well.

-- ARLD 'Richard'. 

Really well put together review! Clear and concise! 

I actually really enjoy this game, it's a fun time waster, though nothing incredibly special. The arcade version is much better. 

I'd like to apply for the Review Maker position, monsieur! I'm on this site technically all day (since I'm on other sites most of the day, I often just float on over to Vizzed to see what's going on), but I can be on for a lot more, especially if I'm tasked with writing reviews. I feel like I have a great mastery of the technique of reviewing, ignoring personal bias to pave way for a fair and balanced review, as well as having a good handle on the English language as a whole. I've been writing for years, about 11, and have written everything from poetry (I still do, and you can find it here! http://poetrycritical.net/~ARedLetter/) to short blurbs (you can find here! therothenbachspeech.tumblr.com) and even a review or two (you can find the Vizzed review here: https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=56117 [Super Metroid]). 

If I get the position, that would be lovely! I won't let you down!  

Thank you for your time and consideration, 

-- ARLD 'Richard'. 

I've tried in the past to stream, and the only success I've ever had was with XSplit, and even that was a failure in the long run. I have always wondered, what's the optimal program to stream? I've searched the internet far and wide and I've gotten plenty of different answers, if any at all, but nothing seems to be definitive. Apologies if this question has been asked before!

-- ARLD 'Richard'. 

After a few months of saving up Viz, I finally purchase the PSX accessory. . . and end up accidentally selling it due to my hands spazzing out. I don't suppose there's a way of getting it back outside of spending another 50k on it?

For reference, I sold it after having it for about 5 minutes if that matters any.

-- ARLD 'Richard'.