I guess it's my turn to chip in. I won't keep it long.
Firstly, can people stop saying "oh yeah, we unanimously hate it"? I know a fair amount of people -- perhaps less vocal -- who don't particularly mind it and welcome the changes. Think about it, you're more likely to complain if you hate it than praise it if you like it, right?
Anyway, now that I've got that out of the way, I'm going to say what I personally think of this new system. The farewell to the components scores isn't too bad a change. I would have preferred it if they had stayed, but it's no big loss. GameSpot's reviews have always been formatted such that you can quickly find the relevant paragraph that details the graphics, sound, value, whatever. Seriously, it takesthirty seconds -- one minute tops -- to read one measly paragraph.
What I'm happier about is how the score isn't dictated by a dodgy formula. Wasn't it silly how a sizeable proportion of the score was always dedicated to graphics and sound to a game like Brain Age? Another question to the folks out there: How hard do you think it would be to accurately rate a game with .1 increments? And more importantly, what's the difference between an 8.2 and an 8.3? Or even an 8.2 and an 8.4? Even at a .3 difference, not everyone's going to think that the 8.5 is better than the 8.2. Without a formula, what's the point in keeping the .1 increments? You're seriously not going to tell me that you'd buy an 8.6 game over an 8.2 game of the same genre just because you looked at their scores and not their reviews?
I don't really have much to say about the emblems. For now, they're ok, I guess, but they're not essential. I'm more interested to see what happens when we can search which games have merits X, Y, and Z. That sounds like something that could be useful.
Hey, earlier I tried to upload a gameplay video, but when it finished uploading, there was the following error:
"Your video was not encoded because our video processor was unable to read the picture data. Try encoding in a different format and uploading again."
I tried searching the forums for an answer to my question, but to no avail. Simply put, I don't have much of an idea what this means. In the past, I've uploaded WMV files successfully, and have followed the same procedure to uploading this latest one. So, I'm pretty clueless as to where I'm going wrong. There were no problems uploading to YouTube (apart from some annoying syncing issues).
(Not sure if this will help or not, but the video is here. Unfortunately, I don't have server access, so you're going to have to make do with a file-sharing site. File is around 8-9 megabytes)
EDIT: Actually, scrap that. By converting my video files into a different format other than WMV (as suggested by -Tish-), I managed to upload my videos successfully.
Heeeey can we, measily GH2 for PS2 owners, get in on the action? If so, how? I want to take big Navarro man on.edubuccaneer
I too would like to know where I can brag. I've heard that note charts and star power phases have been slightly tweaked in a few songs, so I doubt we can merge both versions together.
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