[kbell]

For written reviews you will need a standard template. Gamepro had a nice one, gametrailers and IGN used to be nice, where they had 4 different they graded the game on. Gametrailers now just has one rating which is confusing.

Controls - how well it plays. A bad game will have hit detection problems, and non tight controls.

Gameplay- Is it fun or are you watching a movie? Does it do new things that you never thought you could do in a game? Or is it a rehash. IS being a rehash a bad thing?

Misandry- How much bull shit, and can you tolerate it? If the game is really good this could be pretty minor. How much gayness is there or tranny loving is there?

Sound- Do weapons have a nice sound to them? Is their great enviromental sounds with great feeling of space?

Music- Is the music well designed, or selected? This probably could be lumped in with sound.

Story- not super important but some games make it a feature.

Whatever categories you end up with, you will need a scale to rate on. Either 10/10 or 100/100. 5 scale is a little hard to work with. The overall score would be the average, but you could have some leeway if one element is more important.

Every reviewer should have the same setup. Video review would have a similar setup, however I don't know how you would maintain anonymity. Being anti-SJW will bring out doxxers.

[Blobert]

(11-11-2014 06:20 PM)Ziltoid Wrote:  

(11-11-2014 06:07 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:  

(11-11-2014 05:51 PM)Krusyos Wrote:  

I'd like to write a nice, devastating rant about the anti-male bullshit that is the new Dragon Age game.

I'm prepping one for 'The Last Of Us', and how it reveals the anti-male prejudices of the mainstream gaming press and their lack of empathy for others.

That being said: is this something gamers would want to read, or do they want a place free of that kind of intellectual discussion?

I think mentioning and discussing it within the context of a review of the game as a whole is good. But singling out ideological points we disagree with and shitting on a game solely because of that would make us no better than feminists and social justice people.
A game can still be tons of fun to play, in spit of a shitty SJW-heavy storyline.

Think of the film 'The Birth of a Nation'.
Horribly racist.
But also downright brilliant cinematography.

Yes, a story can be brilliantly or shittily told regardless of the agendas it drives. And stories altogether are hardly a very important part of most videogames.

Overall I find the writing in videogames to be awful... The cream of the crop still wouldn't make for a good book or movie. The games where the storytelling is moste enjoyable, tends to be games where the story is told through gameplay almost exclusively - show, don't tell.

[Robert Guiscard]

Regarding how the site should be run: focus on video games, ignore politics. Publish unbiased video game reviews, industry news, etc... Provide an uncensored forum for readers to discuss games. If the gamergaters are to be believed, what they want from video game journalism is for it to be free from a political agenda and to not have their input censored. [1]

I think it will be a mistake if you publish, e.g., polemics against SJWs, or articles that discuss redpill games or misandry in gaming. I'm guessing this would attract more traffic in the short-term, but the audience will be smaller. The really valuable long-term play here is to stick to gaming and become known as the source for news and reviews (and/or whatever it is exactly that gaming sites cover) lacking a political agenda.

[1] If I've got this correct, what sparked the entire controversy was when Zoe Quinn was outed as having slept with video game journalists who either gave her game favorable reviews or featured it prominently on the sites they wrote for. And then many popular gaming sites censored any discussion of the topic by their users.

[berserk]

(11-11-2014 01:44 PM)Nemencine Wrote:  

However, starting a business from scratch with a hands-off approach? or without strong familiarity with the subject matter, just thinking you will surround yourself with experts to just do the job?.... the odds are not good...

Good post and very valid questions.

I'd like to ask you though: Is Roosh in the video game business or is in the publishing business?

There is a difference no?

What is the difference between ROK and any other manosphere blog? There's a system, a method, a business model. I don't think I insult Roosh, since he has written about it himself, but ROK is basically built on the exact same model as the Gawker sites, running on catchy clickbait articles and of course good to great content.

There's a whole lot more to running a newspaper or magazine than being a journalist. We often see editors jump from sports to politics to consumer info etc. The trade is publishing, not video games.

Food for thought?

[SamuelBRoberts]

You know what would really help out me and the other writers would be this:

What kind of stuff would you like to read? Do you wanted Cracked.com-style "10 most fucked up easter eggs in Call of Duty" stuff? Do you want long pieces about how philosophy and video games intertwine? Retrospectives on older games? Previews of stuff that's coming out? Investigative reporting? (I.E. If Gamespot's reviewers were getting free shit from Activision in exchange for reviewing Call of Duty, would you want to know about that?)

I'm personally partial the Cracked.com style lists: they're fast reads, and they're funny and engaging.
But I'd like to hear what you think.

[Blobert]

Anything but banal lists, really.

[el mechanico]

How far back will the site cover?


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[AnonymousBosch]

(11-11-2014 08:59 PM)el mechanico Wrote:  

How far back will the site cover?

Woah. Now there's a Flashback.

[Avon Barksdale]

Maybe AnonymousBosch could start writing articles for the new website

[kbell]

The site is up. http://www.reaxxion.com/

Already there are trolls. Moderating is going to be hard. You will also have to deal with the women in comment section attention whoring.

[TheWastelander]

(11-11-2014 09:42 PM)Avon Barksdale Wrote:  

Maybe AnonymousBosch could start writing articles for the new website

I wonder if we'll see a Quintus Curtius article discussing the historical inaccuracies in the Rome: Total War series?

[el mechanico]

I can cover anything pre Atari or coleco vision if needed

[Krusyos]

I'll hopefully submit some reviews on games as I play them. I could use the discipline in my life.

[Nemencine]

@FISTO@BERSERK@ANONYMOUSBOSCH@GLIDER

Well, the website is up: http://www.reaxxion.com/

There is nothing much to add. At this point, any more back and forth discussion on the matter will be nonproductive for all of us. Besides, Gringuito already captured my view perfectly.

Anyways, all we can do now is wish Roosh the best of luck....

Again, here is Roosh's videogaming website: http://www.reaxxion.com/

regards,

Nemencine

[Roosh]

The site got leaked early.

SJW's are melting down about it: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=...m&src=typd



It was a good chance to test the server. It got 375 concurrent visitors and did fine.

This will die down in a day or two. They're getting mad at only the fact that site is not for THEM.

[TheWastelander]

If you need help banning SJWs, let me know. I promise I'll be as judicious and efficient as Judge Dredd.

[Travesty]

I am wondering if we will see a Would You Hit It [Video Game Characters]? in the next 6 months from all the new gamer members. Plus a lot more video game GIFs.

[AnonymousBosch]

(11-11-2014 09:42 PM)Avon Barksdale Wrote:  

Maybe AnonymousBosch could start writing articles for the new website

Thanks, but I'm not a Gamer. I'm from El Mech's era where games had to get by on killer gameplay instead of time sink busy work and constant, intrusive cut scenes. I just don't have much downtime and a game has to really grab me mechanics-wise to make me play it, and I'm regularly-interrupted by other things.

I bought 'The Last Of Us' for $15 second-hand, 10 months after it came out. It took me three weeks of chipping away at it 40 minutes at a time to play through it the first time. I generally buy games second-hand when they're about $10-$15 instead of $90. I'm just not up with the latest games.

Case in point: I have 50 Xbox games. I haven't fully-played 29 of them. Usually, I sit through 20 minutes of menus and opening cut-scenes, spend 10 minutes playing and realise the controls and game mechanics are unsatisfying and annoying as hell, realise not dealing with their crap would be more fun than the fun they're offering, so go and do something else.



The only two games I devoted more than maybe 15 minutes to out of all of those was 'Grand Theft Auto V' - got bored hours into it, never returned, and have now just realised that was back around the New Year (!) - and 'Dragon Age II'. I played it until the fourth dungeon and thought it was pissweak and lazy of them to reuse the one 'modular' dungeon over and over so doubted it was worth my time.

About 12 of those I've never even tried. 'Borderlands', 'Metro' and 'Ride To Hell' are still in their original plastic. Some of those I bought when friends were alive who have been dead for 3 and 4 years now. Come to think of it, my mate's kids have borrowed another six or so I haven't played either.

So, thanks, but I'd be slower than Kotaku.



It's even worse on Steam.

[AnonymousBosch]

^ Actually, that could be a regular feature. Have users submit a 'Stack Of Shame' and have readers vote on which games are most worth their time.

[TheWastelander]

(11-11-2014 11:01 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:  

(11-11-2014 09:42 PM)Avon Barksdale Wrote:  

Maybe AnonymousBosch could start writing articles for the new website

Thanks, but I'm not a Gamer. I'm from El Mech's era where games had to get by on killer gameplay instead of time sink busy work and constant, intrusive cut scenes. I just don't have much downtime and a game has to really grab me mechanics-wise to make me play it, and I'm regularly-interrupted by other things.

I bought 'The Last Of Us' for $15 second-hand, 10 months after it came out. It took me three weeks of chipping away at it 40 minutes at a time to play through it the first time. I generally buy games second-hand when they're about $10-$15 instead of $90. I'm just not up with the latest games.

Case in point: I have 50 Xbox games. I haven't fully-played 29 of them. Usually, I sit through 20 minutes of menus and opening cut-scenes, spend 10 minutes playing and realise the controls and game mechanics are unsatisfying and annoying as hell, realise not dealing with their crap would be more fun than the fun they're offering, so go and do something else.



The only two games I devoted more than maybe 15 minutes to out of all of those was 'Grand Theft Auto V' - got bored hours into it, never returned, and have now just realised that was back around the New Year (!) - and 'Dragon Age II'. I played it until the fourth dungeon and thought it was pissweak and lazy of them to reuse the one 'modular' dungeon over and over so doubted it was worth my time.

About 12 of those I've never even tried. 'Borderlands', 'Metro' and 'Ride To Hell' are still in their original plastic. Some of those I bought when friends were alive who have been dead for 3 and 4 years now. Come to think of it, my mate's kids have borrowed another six or so I haven't played either.

So, thanks, but I'd be slower than Kotaku.



It's even worse on Steam.

I'll save you some time:

Mercenaries 2 is crap, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is crap, Rage is crap, Darkness II is alright at first but gets repetitive, Army of Two 40th Day has old school co-op fun, Grand Theft Auto V is good on 360 but is going to kick ass on PC.

[Yatagan]

I give props to Bosch for having Bayonetta. That's one of my all time faves.

[kbell]

All of that rage towards the website, will drive up the traffic. I curious on what sort of tone the reviews will actually have.

Splatterhouse was fun, but buggy. Not much love review wise and sale wise. The original series was fun too.

[TheWastelander]

I highly recommend Army of Two: 40th Day, though. It's one of the few games of that generation you can play splitscreen co-op on. Plus the story is pretty good, the characters are cool, and blasting the crap out of the various enemies is fun.

If you've got any buddies that like to play video games invite them over and play that with them.

I miss the social aspect of just having a bunch of friends around to hang out with in person, shoot the shit with, and play games with. When I was fifteen a bunch of friends and I used to play the hell out of Halo for hours. The evolution of X-Box Live and Microsoft's greediness in wanting every person to have their own copy of the game and a system killed that.

But seriously, Mercenaries 2 is broken. If you can find an original copy of Mercenaries you should play that.

RE: ORC is made by the same company that made the worst game of the SOCOM: US Navy SEALS series and their idea of "difficulty" is to allow monsters made of flesh and bone to soak up hundreds of rounds of assault rifle fire, when that would've devastated them in the other RE games.

Rage can't decide what it wants to be, Borderlands, Fallout, or some hybrid and it fails.

Darkness II is based on the comic book series The Darkness. I think more people know the game than the comic series, though. Just like Goldeneye the game was way better than Goldeneye the movie. The first game was pretty popular and fun, the second is kinda neat but I got tired of shooting the same old enemies again and again.

GTA:V is awesome, of course, but it's really pushing the limits of what the 360 can do. It's really good but I'm going to play it again on PC.

[AnonymousBosch]

(11-11-2014 10:47 PM)Nemencine Wrote:  

Again, here is Roosh's videogaming website: http://www.reaxxion.com/

As far as I'm concerned, it's worth it for the comments and twitter "wow. just wow." response already.

The only thing I'd suggest is Roosh add a note for developers saying they can get a fair hearing on the site if they're being threatened with censure by the Leigh Alexanders of the world if their games are 'problematic'.

[civpro]

Good on you Roosh, good luck with your venture, and fuck the SJWs. I hope you recognize the irony of it though, you are a pickup writer, yet video games and porn, these are the 2 opiates of the incel masses lol.