I Want Your Opinions? Gaming Site?

AeaAea Join Date: 2003-10-09 Member: 21552Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">What do you want in a gaming site?</div> Currious, after I did away from GameCache, it gave me some money to pursue a better vision of a gaming site. So I've come here to ask you guys what you want to see in a gaming site...

Firstly, here's what I will have...

Forums
Downloads
Game Servers (NS too)
Articles
Reviews
Previews
Cheats/WT/Stra (considering)

Now, I can't release the name of the website until I get it to a more complete state <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

So, tell me what features do you want to see in all this? What are some cool stuff you have seen? Don't tell me anything about ads, you know my attitude to them <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    Easy to use, simple design.

    Not cluttered up, but you know where everything is and how to get to it.

    And I want more screenshots / personal recounts of games, even ones that have already come out.
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  • AeaAea Join Date: 2003-10-09 Member: 21552Members
    Okay, so like a "Games" section in which users could find games, all related content to them, and then add comments, ratings etc?

    The design is very clean and easy to navigate, again I can't really show you <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Bosnian_CowboyBosnian_Cowboy Join Date: 2003-06-07 Member: 17088Members, Constellation
    You need something unique. There are too many bland gaming sites. Like a literature section. Probably not that but something that would make me come to your site over the loads of other gaming sites I'm going to already.
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  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    personally the thing that sets apart one gaming sight from any other to me (as they nearly all follow the same format) is weather or not the webmaster and people writing the articles are interesting. That is part of what makes PHL so cool, even when they are boring/nerdy, the articles are still a good read because they are ussually funny. Like bosnian said, what you really need is something unique.
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    edited February 2004
    I'd suggest you take a look at <a href='http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/index.php' target='_blank'>Gamers with Jobs</a>, they did a lot of things right. I'd suggest the following specific details:<ul><li>Don't bother with rating systems in your reviews, trying to squeeze ones idea of a game in a numerical value will always fail. Instead, let every reviewer of the special game write a short (three to five lines) summary of their notion towards the game.</li><li>The one thing diferentiating gaming sites nowadays is the strength of their background articles - guess why GSI keeps posting articles about the influence of the game designers spoon sizes on the resulting games qualities. Keep people up to date on industry happenings and artistical issues; this stuff tends to be by far more interesting than the actual games.</li><li>Pick a style and go with it. I hate how many mags - both print and online - try to be dead serious sources of information and freak domains at the same time. Choose what you think fits your idea of the site best and don't look back.</li></ul>Good luck with the new site.
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    i'd say no cheats...


    not even trainers for sp stuff...


    just keep away from the cheat part... be the higher class type of gamer <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • AeaAea Join Date: 2003-10-09 Member: 21552Members
    Might as well, extra code for my lazah a** <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    So, no ratings, but comments, might work <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Vulgar_MenaceVulgar_Menace Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22118Members
    Your site is perfect, just keep adding more files on there!
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  • DubbilexDubbilex Chump Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9799Members
    edited February 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-Aea+Feb 1 2004, 03:00 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Aea @ Feb 1 2004, 03:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ...after I <b>did away</b> from GameCache... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    ^^


    As in, he's working on his <i>own</i> site now.






    Now on-topic, I've got to tell you - I liked the way gamecache was set up. Basically the only things that I really must see on the site are nice mesage boards and downloads. Are you going to keep this one member-only, too?
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  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    No fudging ads!
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    better, things we dont want:<ul><li>cheats (guides are ok)</li><li>ads</li><li>pay to view</li><li>register to view</li><li>spam if you do register</li></ul>
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    edited February 2004
    my fav gamesite aspects are pretty good guides but a hard act to follow...

    www.the-magicbox.com - Console news so fresh it's still hot =D

    www.gamespot.com - I love them for their videos, nothing like seeing a game in motion to help you make up your mind about it =3
    It's also good how they keep all news about individual games in their own section so you can look for all the latest vids, news and info on one game without having to jump around the site ^^


    <b>oop edit:</b> didn't finish writing lol.
    Anyways, those 3 things really pull me to a site. I doubt anyone could beat magicbox for newest news though... it's so far ahead sometimes it's scary. But outside of that taking the 'all sources together' plus healthy amounts of video footage (trailers, ingame, whatever) for each title would make me a happy kitty =3
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Yes, recent news are of course nice, but do you really think that another up-to-date quasi-news archive for the rest of the net is necessary? I mean, aside from Gamespot, there's Shacknews, Blue' News, GSI and Gamers.com pretty much all filling that niché. Would yet another format following the same standard really make sense?
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  • twoflowtwoflow Singing Drunk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1950Members, Constellation
    The only thing you could possibly offer that a hundred other gaming sites cannot is your individual viewpoint on videogames. Tell us the games you love, the games you hate, comment on the state of the industry, that sort of thing. Don't just try and emulate Gamespot or Magicbox or whatever by posting the latest news and videos etc, because you'll fail miserably. Not due to lack of effort or anything, but let's face it, nobody will go to your site when the others do it so well.

    Try <a href='http://www.uncleclive.co.uk/' target='_blank'>Uncle Clive's</a> if you want a good (great (brilliant)) idea of what I mean.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Okay. One thing. For the love of god, don't go to the fancy route. Maybe I'm wierd, but I hate it when I have to comb over a list of links for something VAGEULY relating to what I want to, and then having to find 2 or 3 more links. Keep the layout as simple as possible...it's better for everyone.
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    okies... you've got a point nemmy (when don't you? ^~ ) but flint's suggestion doesn't tickle my particular fancies and stuff. I mean, I'm sure there's people out there who like reading opinions but uh... I'm not one of them ^^;
    Most of the time I only read reviews to extract the facts and toss any opinions aside... luckily magicbox is good for that because it's pretty much an inventory of whats in the game rather than the site owner's opinion =D

    Doing something different is cool, but learning from what's there helps =3
    ~pokes testament~ that's why I suggested gamespot's 'game file' kinda idea where all files relating to whatever game you're looking at are listed including news and videos =P

    I'd say for true coolness you should do all news in the form of a cartoon like a flash animation or a comic but um... penny arcade kinda already does the comic thing... kinda and either way the workload would be so stupidly huge only someone nuts could probably do it XD

    ~scratches head~ I could offer some suggestions to the website's interface that would be 'omg revolutionary' buuuut I'm kinda keeping them for myself and they really don't help with the real problem you're having which is actual content ^^;

    ~wanders off to dream up something useful~
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  • twoflowtwoflow Singing Drunk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1950Members, Constellation
    edited February 2004
    I had another idea. You could just copy <a href='http://www.digiworld.tv/' target='_blank'>Digiworld</a> / Digitiser. That is to say, take real news that nobody cares about and spice it up with funny words. Moc-moc-a-moc (example)!

    --
    <b>SCRIPT-OH! </b>
    Man, Digi's Mr Biffo is a "special Desmond." Readers may already know about his involvement with televisionings like Crossroads, where he could be glimpsed careening across the set trumpeting like a boar and leeringly pouring fire on a chef's hat.

    But he's also thrown his speckled liver into the games arena, writing the script to forthcoming Zed Two RPG-me-do Pillage, about pillaging or something. We asked him about his new job and he said this: "Hat-a-tat!"

    <b>MOVIE-GO-WRONG </b>
    Res Evil same-o-thing Eternal Darkness is following Resi into cinemas, say Hypnotic, a company hired by Nintendo to try to make you care about that.

    "Bim wimble bim bahh," said Hypnotic of the deal to adapt the zomb game to the "filmed entertainment space." We were too busy stuffing our rucksacks with free cheese and crackers to listen.

    If it ever comes out, the film'll be directed by Paul "Rubbish" Anderson. Bet you.

    <b>CLUNK-POINT-AND-CLICK </b>
    Watford's T Fingle is the world's first guy to pass a new online driving test.

    The test keeps stupid learners off the roads, using a modified copy of Midtown Madness for practice. The sweating pupil then undergoes a rigorous two-hour live exam in a chat-room linked to a trained examiner, swapping write-os like, "Indicating left," and, "Child in the road: quick, type 'brake'!"

    "It's great," Fingle told the Daily Mail from his new car. "Next: flying."

    <b>ABSENT MR HANKY-HEAD </b>
    We cried like monkeys when we heard Geoff King's Game King television game-o-show had been cancelled in 1986 - but that was because it wasn't us, it was some crying monkeys!

    Squirting from the post-King mould of gaudy spectacle and shrieking puff-jacks is Gamezville, where everyone's 11 forever, again. Zanes!

    We've already submitted our idea for TV Digiworld, where we award prizes of gin and set fires. It'll be this: great.

    <b>COMMENTS BY GARETH UNFUNNY </b>
    - PC Theme Park-y zoo-o-thing Wildlife Park features a tiny Rolf Harris you can chase around and shoot with a tranquilliser gun, we like to imagine.

    <i>"Wildlife? Like lions? They're big cats, aren't they? So, what WERE the writers of Top Cat ON, eh? Eh?"</i>

    - Fun ("Rugs" - Ed)-packed shoot-'em-all Narc is returning for the Gamecube et al. Desperate-controversy-me-do!

    <i>"Thatcher out!"</i>
    --

    By the way, if any of you find the preceeding stupid or devoid of funs, then you're wrong and bad. Also, it's only old news because Digiworld died of.. ahem.
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  • JavertJavert Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15954Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DuBERS+Feb 1 2004, 08:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DuBERS @ Feb 1 2004, 08:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> No fudging ads! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well, banners and img's are fine (and understandable). But none of GS's pop-up flash ads. And none of IGN's, "Click here to continue" ad-is-the-first-site-you-see thing.
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  • AeaAea Join Date: 2003-10-09 Member: 21552Members
    If you actually stayed with the program you would know my attitude about ads <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    First of all, unbiased reviews. I know that's like asking for a billion dollars, but it would be nice to have a game review that just gives you the hard facts like average gameplay time and describes down to the finest detail the gameplay mechanics. I don't need to know what they thought, I need to know if <i>I'll</i> like the game. PC Gamer is usually pretty good for this, but they're monthly and in my opinion sometimes they can be misleading when it comes to RPGs...

    Second of all, I want less ads and pop-ups. I know they have to make money, but most of these sites are all but unreadable due to the insane volume of ads on each page...
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  • JavertJavert Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15954Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Aea+Feb 1 2004, 04:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Aea @ Feb 1 2004, 04:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you actually stayed with the program you would know my attitude about ads <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Forgive my short attention s... <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> Anyshoo you should get the Far Cry demo up for download? Either I'm blind or I haven't seen it.
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  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    If I actually went to gaming sites, and i liked yours, i think id prefer having unobtrustive ads than having you scrimp and scrape to have enough money to keep running it, or have it shut down because you cant afford it or its too much of a bottomless hole.

    Ads are fine. I understand you dont want them, but I think you should... consider it more.
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    Holy threadomancy Batman!

    You DO realise this site has already been made now, right?
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  • twoflowtwoflow Singing Drunk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1950Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Nil_IQ+Feb 2 2004, 01:38 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nil_IQ @ Feb 2 2004, 01:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Holy threadomancy Batman!

    You DO realise this site has already been made now, right? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    In one day, love?
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    I think the most important thing you need is something to make your site different from the hundreds of other sites out there.

    What is it that makes people want to go to YOUR site, rather than IGN, Gamespy, or (my favorite) Gamespot.

    Find that, and stick with it.
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