STORMCROW'S PROFILE

author=pianotm

Muffle
It's not like you named a category that basically said "I'll be paired up with someone who makes shitty games."

Kefka's signed up. It goes without saying.

yeah um this

Fair enough, glad that we have a mutual understanding.

Just tbc, it's not like I'm on a quest to be the best reviewer of all, just to produce a review that's informative to the creator (my first priority) and the public (my second) and is also in-depth, eloquent, and entertaining (my third).

anyway thats more than enough serioustalk for welp!

author=MsterLouie
I signed up but I only have MV. :)

Is your username a play on the song "Miserlou" by Dick Dale and the Deltones? (It's the song from "Pulp Fiction".) Question might be a stretch but had to ask.

author=Mirak
After all, for the purpose of the review (as in, the point of writing a review in the first place, which is to give your own personal take on what the game made you feel)

I think of the reviews I write here as being 60% for the creator of the game and 40% for anyone and everyone else who might consider playing the game. There are, I think, a significant number, maybe even a "silent majority", of RMN users that just come here to play free video games. Or I would imagine so.

author=Mirak
I don't personally care if someone enjoyed the game when I didn't, or if they had a different interpretation of the events in the game, or anything like that,

I would think both of these things could lead to interesting discussions--the latter much more than the former. I can see the former leading to shit flame wars as well. But I don't know why you don't care about people's alternate interpretations of games' events. That shit is fascinating to me

author=Mirak
Or maybe I'm getting it wrong and just can't see the appeal of discussing a review you made of someone else's game.

Well, one thing you're completely missing is that reviewing or critiquing is a craft in and of itself. There are plenty of reviews on this site that are flat out better than plenty of other reviews on this site. Regardless of the actual opinions being articulated, some reviews are more in-depth, more eloquent, and more entertaining than others. Length isn't a virtue in and of itself, but I would think reviewers would like kudos for putting out an in-depth 5,000 word dissection of a game, with screenshots, that's eloquent and entertaining as opposed to banging out three hundred words of poorly spelled and capitalized crap.

Personally, when I say I want comments on my reviews, I want to know if I was suitably in-depth, eloquent, and entertaining. I don't mind discussing differing opinions of the game's quality, but after a few comments back and forth on that I probably would tell someone to write their own review if they disagreed with me quite strongly. If the game has sufficient complexity and depth that there are multiple interpretations of its plot and meaning, that I could gladly talk about all day.

Man, I remember that DE was mad talented. Wonder what ever happened to that guy.