GAMESPOT THREAD

If Aetherion manages to not win the 2011 Summer RMN Games, that would be a decent game to showcase for the "Event Game" slot. Not sure about the other events here, and I'm certainly not aware of games that are here that were made for events elsewhere.

"Wavemakers", huh? Since I'm only aware of what's here (I suck like that), the only games I know of that would be considered "Wavemakers" are the contents of the "Buzzing Games" section. More front page space for Heartache 101 - Sour Into Sweet!

Well, Starless Umbra definitely deserves it, could also be in the classics, but it's not taking too many risks there... My idea was that it was more for "original games" (they have a section for that at Oniromancie, I think it's an interesting idea), or "forgotten classics" or again " custom games" or again "undiscovered pearls (or gem)", all of them having to be excellent of course but tougher to find...?

Certainly, Underworld4, not taking any risks but practically unknown and why not "Razor", it's original enough, a demo but so's Starless Umbra or Money & Power also an original game (and a demo)?? (I think Razor remains more undiscovered than Money & Power). At least, people will discover something, SU an AAG, everybody knows.

Oh yeah, Starless Umbra did make a blog about being in PC Gamer! Derp!

Starting in October, do an alternating Monday series of Scary games, like "Scary: One Night Full Circle" and "Spooky: MANOS Hand of Fate" etc...

I'm thinking Eyes Without a Face as the feature, Beautiful Escape - Dungeoneer as a possible "Classic" slot, and Manos - Hand of Fate as a possible "Event Game" slot. Though, One Night - Full Circle sounds interesting too!

Sad side-note: I've not played any of these games.

Any previously featured game is automatically a classic, I suppose. Putting a game that was featured 2+ years ago up there as a classic for a couple weeks seems totally reasonable to me. I wouldn't do one that was featured in the last six months, since they've had enough recent limelight. But the older ones have been in the shadow long enough that they deserve some new attention, and are all obviously good enough. You could even just cycle through different old featured games any time no one suggests anything better. (Not that no one's made good suggestions in here this month - just an idea for the future.)

As far as other stuff to put in the gamespot, I think another good category would be something like Innovation for a finished game that did something either really unusual for an RM game or really unusual for a game period. As well as something like Refined Taste for a finished game that is extremely polished. Neither of these has to be a new game (and in fact a new game that falls into one of these two categories would likely just be the monthly featured game) but maybe they could be something that's relevant to recent spotlight discussions, buzzing topics, or articles? That would be a good way to make it not just feel like a random classic. Right now for example there's a buzzing topic about game trailers, so maybe you could put a game in the gamespot that has a really nice trailer.

Yes, I am actually playing this and it is a lot of fun, and the graphics are really interesting, I would not propose a game which I had no idea of. Of course, I am very favorably influenced by the first of the series I played, and I have no doubt as it being an "overlooked" great game.
"chana was rallying for it like a fiend", this really made me laugh, yes, I 'm rather obstinate about giving just attention to what deserves it (it is not that common).

I can get down with the idea of "Innovation" or "Something Different" - Something along those lines.

Also something like "Eye Candy" or something more broad to encompass games with ridiculously high production values... Not sure what I'd term that though.

So how well did Under World 4 do being on the front page for two weeks? Asking this damns me by showing that I thoroughly ignored it, but I am curious.

How about Backstage, Mystery Man Zero is a great game but I don't know if it's dark enough?