Any review requests?

[Outlander999]

Me too will do reviews (for the italian site Virtualinn.it) but I'm not kickstarter backer, so I must wait for April...

However, I'm curious to see how good are Whitewater, Square's FF3, Strange Happenings, Chrono Blade, Beast Boxing, Rage Runner, Super Dungeon Bros, Stikbold, Sky Arena, Depths of Marlayo, Neon Shadow, Wordtrap Dungeon, Gaps Between Art... and sorry if I forgot someone XD

[Akulya]

When the you get the OUYA download Towermaster and try the editor and game!

For sure! :)

[Akulya]

However, I'm curious to see how good are Whitewater, Square's FF3, Strange Happenings, Chrono Blade, Beast Boxing, Rage Runner, Super Dungeon Bros, Stikbold, Sky Arena, Depths of Marlayo, Neon Shadow, Wordtrap Dungeon, Gaps Between Art... and sorry if I forgot someone XD

Jeeeeez! Are you gonna be reviewing all of that?! Just playing those would keep me busy for a year.

[Supes]

Jeeeeez! Are you gonna be reviewing all of that?! Just playing those would keep me busy for a year.

Reviewing video games is tricky. I know a few people in the industry, and professional reviewers often spend only a relatively short time with a game (less than 10 hours is commonplace). This is horribly inadequate for many types of games that require more time to properly appreciate (think Skyrim). Not only that, at times reviewers will only spend 3 or 4 hours with a game before writing a review. Remember these people are on a tight publishing timeline, even when they get the games in advance, and have a number of reviews to write. Reviewing video games is way harder than reviewing movies or something, since there's no way for a reviewer to experience the entire game (like a person can watch an entire movie).

But anyway Akulya, I take it you've never reviewed video games properly before? The list Outlander999 posted was only 13 games. Obviously this won't be your fulltime job, but based on the current standards for reviewing games that list should be doable in about a month working part-time, maybe a game every two days.

Ideally, a team of ~20 volunteers could review every Ouya game (or at least, every game that a developer wants reviewed). In a perfect world, I imagine any developer that wants their game reviewed and published could just submit to you a free game code, and the game would be assigned to a volunteer for reviewing purposes, with an extensive and detailed review published here.

Of course, that runs the risk for developers of having a bad review (risks anyone who has developed a game knows all too well about), but you could also offer to update reviews on request if a developer releases a new version of a game.

[Akulya]

Akulya[/B], I take it you've never reviewed video games properly before? The list Outlander999 posted was only 13 games. Obviously this won't be your fulltime job, but based on the current standards for reviewing games that list should be doable in about a month working part-time, maybe a game every two days.

Yes, this will be my first time doing reviews and I would gladly do it full-time if I were getting paid (and didn't have an infant running around me 24/7)

However, I am hoping to complete the games before I write the reviews, because, to me, not finishing the game before reviewing it would be like reviewing a book that I had only half-read or only read half of. It sounds silly to me (I guess I'm not cut out to be a professional reviewer then :x)

[Valky]

Just my humble opinion, feel free to do as you wish, but for me a review should be kept short and simple, not too short ofc, this is because a game should be reviewed from as many reviewers as possible, I would then browse between each one and get an overall idea without getting weird or biased opinions.
If the reviewer wishes to give a more detailed review, he/she can do so with a link leading to a full version, but generally I never go read all that work, I somewhat get confused and I think we all know that everything comes down to the score you will give.

With my idea of review, I think you can follow up with as many games as you like without stressing too much, but I understand every one has its own way for these things.

[RiotingSpectre]

Yes, this will be my first time doing reviews and I would gladly do it full-time if I were getting paid (and didn't have an infant running around me 24/7)

http://www.hark.com/clips/clqkxvhckq...t-my-baby-back

Thank me later.

[Akulya]

Just my humble opinion, feel free to do as you wish, but for me a review should be kept short and simple, not too short ofc, this is because a game should be reviewed from as many reviewers as possible, I would then browse between each one and get an overall idea without getting weird or biased opinions.
If the reviewer wishes to give a more detailed review, he/she can do so with a link leading to a full version, but generally I never go read all that work, I somewhat get confused and I think we all know that everything comes down to the score you will give.

With my idea of review, I think you can follow up with as many games as you like without stressing too much, but I understand every one has its own way for these things.

I'm actually planning on doing something very similar to your idea. I plan on doing the full review, then at the end doing a "TL;DR" version (as I'm calling it) at the bottom for people like me, who don't want to read a huge long review! :) with bullet points and the like

[Akulya]

http://www.hark.com/clips/clqkxvhckq...t-my-baby-back

Thank me later.

ANY time I hear that song, my brain auto-converts it to the Scrubs version that Ted's acapella group sings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UhF_4YUdjM

[RiotingSpectre]

ANY time I hear that song, my brain auto-converts it to the Scrubs version that Ted's acapella group sings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UhF_4YUdjM

THANK YOU. I always think of them too. My favorite character was the Janitor.

I'd like to request Beast Boxing Turbo.