Antidisestablishmentarianism


I'd like to thank my fifth grade writing teacher Mr. Oleski for teaching me that one. :D

Oh, you subversive guys, you! :)

Says the guy with the half naked girl on his avatar. :P

BTW, do you happen to have her phone number?

@r8V9b.... Yeah, that one! So horrible! Let's kill it with fire!

Edit: noooooo, all my replies, deleted. SO again, shorter:

@clarry I did not mean an actual ban of the poster ofc. Asterisks covering the awful abominations of cliched words would do just fine.

@snowkatt Yeah, too many old people out there, shame on them for being young once =)

@ Breja Are you sure you meant the reviews here? I am not sure what you are reviewing, but it sure looks like something combining the ideas of feminism, ecology and history of religious politics.

@tinyE Never! That is my amiga ;)

Hey, Defenestration Simulator is a great game, especially with the Asbestos Pack.

From all the reviews I have written, I got the lowest user rating for my "STALKER - Clear Sky" review. It currently stands at 5/11 helpful, which means an approval rate of less than 50%. You usually have to be either borderline illiterate, an obvious Day 1 shill or typing in some exotic foreign tongue to get a rating like that. So my advice: Get rid of the words "absolute garbage" in your reviews, especially if the game in question has an overzealous fanbase.

Oh yeah, "problematic". That's one word I don't ever want to read in a game review.

If the game in question actually uses that word, it might make sense for a review of the game to mention that, as it could influence one's decision to purchase (or not) the game.

*curiously looks for the review*
Alternatively, maybe you review isn't you know... good?
But sure, the overzealous fanbase, that's what is wrong obviously.

Anyway, don't have any problems with any word, if anything I think that reviews should have more words. A in depth critique. A proper academic assessment. Instead of the marketing driven of the current media or the diluted "anyone has a voice" on the consumer side.

"a love letter to"
"retro style"

Possible quote from a review: (Game being reviewed: Phantasy Star 3)

See, the word "early" has other uses in reviews other than the one you are thinking of, so banning it wouldn't be a good idea.

867-5309...ask for Jenny.

*insert one of those "you dense!" memes* ;P

IMPOSSIBLE! Clearly those plebes can't appreciate the obvious superiority of my taste in video games! :P

Seriously, though, in this particular case, I'm completely bewildered that there aren't more people who absolutely hate this game. I found nothing redeeming whatsoever about it (and I'm a huge fan of the series, mind you) and reading some of the other reviews, I feel like they played an entirely different game. I'm not saying they're wrong - because different strokes, and all that - but personally, I could write a whole book titled "Stalker - Clear Sky is a fucking piece of shit". The first draft of my review included a section where I described 5 minutes worth of gameplay and everything that was wrong with them, and that ended up being three pages long. I'm all for giving the defendant a fair trial, but in the case of Clear Sky there simply is not a single good thing that comes to my mind. Gameplay is all over the place, as is the interface. AI is largely nonexistant. Corpses disappear once you turn your back to them, taking all their loot with them. 60% of the maps consist of recycled content from the previous game, only more streamlined, the new maps aren't particularly good. Whatever the word for the opposite of fun is, that's pretty much what I got from this game. Best of all, bugs prevented me from finishing the game about 85% in, the second to last map simply refused to load. And when I got the gog version, that one crashed on me less than an hour in, so that wasn't going to persuade me to give this anything than one star.

That aside, blaming "overzealous fans" was tongue-in-cheek more than anything else. Hell, even bringing up the review was an attempt at self-deprecating humour.

But Clear Sky still sucks.

Trash, piece of shit, crap, sucks, blows.