Mr. Impossible

Blogs, "news" articles that people can drop short replies too, Op-eds, section to set up xbl/psn matches or clan wars.

Well Javier, Hal, or Clinton need to give us some sort of idea of where they want to go. Javier likes to call people lazy, but six months ago when he wanted a front page he never once participated in any conversation about content. Much like what's happening now.

We should have a comic section. Look at how many unfunny gaming related comics get linked over the 'net.

Those threads can generally get pretty big, especially if it was made pre-release and they're likely to contain mostly useless posts and heavily biased opinions leading to even more useless posts since it'll just start a chain of personal insults. I think the roundtable type discussion has the benefit of removing all the junk and focusing on the the discussion that is actually worth reading from those threads. I'm not sure of the value of hearing a bunch of no name amateurs having a round table about a game that's probably been on the market for a few weeks already. Especially when there bi

Everyone is stuck on this review idea. No one here cares about anyone else's opinion, and no one from outside of this site would dare consider a review from here and worthwhile. We don't need to review games. We just need to discuss them. We have to find an angle that would make someone read an article. We keep coming around to a round table, which really isn't any different than just going into the forum and reading the thread about a game.

That works in audio/video. Reading that is a mess. The old saying "A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link" describes our situation here. We have to work with the fact that everyone will be doing this for free, during their free time. It's fine to have noble aspirations, but we need to be realistic with what content we can supply.

I do think we should have a comment box beneath the reviews. Then fanboys could chime in with the reviews. With the Cow, lemming, or sheep badge identifying their faction of choice. We also should have a page explaining the factions, and our history. It could sort of be a "Draft" letter. So people see where we are coming from, and from there, they select their faction of choice.

Well I'm not sure about having two counter points for every review. I think it will work for multiplat games, but will eventually get sloppy.

We should have badges for each faction.

Hmmm. I don't care either way.

Also how flexible can we be with content tabs and such? I mean the site looks great, but a couple more colors wouldn't hurt wih so much black. Could you send me some of the assets as well?

I've always felt the official font looked low res with a bad blend job. I have a couple ideas for a logo. I'm not saying anything needs to be changed, but I have a couple ideas I wouldn't mind toying with. I'm not saying they're better, they could be worse. But since I'm working on layouts for a couple side projects, I can play around. My email addy is setnomcreative@gmail.com.

So what is going on this front? I'll still take a stab at if need be. Not sure if they're being addressed or anything.

Clintgod owns

Well there could be a happy middle. I'm not sure of the direction Javier is headed, mostly since he hasn't communicated what he wants. A site is only as strong as it's content. So a consideration will have to be paid to what content we can realistically keep coming on a frequent basis.

If you send me the assets and I can work on them.

Normal reviews are pointless.

Yes.

Clinton sounds like Hannibal in the A-Team and stuff

I HATE that font.

Vela can do car part reviews

Well they'd have to take reviews from who ever played the game, and submitted a review. Then choose the best.

well how would you approach it? As a fanboy reviewing a high profile game on a console you don't like. For some reason I just see it all boiling down the same crap found on random youtube vids by dudes with a webcam. Anything we do will go that way. GI has a functional two person review method. We have the bigger, "real" review. Then a smaller side note "hater" review. I don't mean just a person yelling this sucks! But a sort of sarcastic, fun poking review.

How about a review from two points of view? Like a fanboy/hater co-review.

Well the thing is, gaming updates really don't get that much burn in the forum. If people aren't paying attention to three sentences in a thread, who is going to read an article? Especially one from rabid fanboys, or people with chronic shitty taste like Tuflop. I think we really need to have a unique angle if we plan to have content. Look at zeropunctuation. How else would they get people to read reviews of games months after they've been released.