Quick, Aaron! Talk to Gamespy!

Nodachi · #1 February 8th, 2005, 09:10 PM

Well folks there is a thing called feedback.

Click on the authors name and it will take you to Gamespy's feedback page. If we want to get SEIV & SEV some attention this is the way to do it. Just remember, be polite and don't rant, we don't want to come off as a bunch of rabid fanboys!

Ed Kolis · #2 February 8th, 2005, 09:43 PM

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Nodachi said:
Well folks there is a thing called feedback.

Click on the authors name and it will take you to Gamespy's feedback page. If we want to get SEIV & SEV some attention this is the way to do it. Just remember, be polite and don't rant, we don't want to come off as a bunch of rabid fanboys!

All right then, I'll post something:

Nice interview on GalCiv2 - the idea of ships' appearance actually representing their sytems loadout is exciting... but the one thing that interview makes me want to do is suggest that you also interview Malfador Machinations, creators of the also upcoming indie 4X game Space Empires V! Why don't you send an email to se5@malfador.com and try to set up an interview - I as well as numerous other SE fans would greatly appreciate this, and it would bring to the forefront another sadly underpublicized series in a sadly underpublicized genre!
Thanks!

Gandalf Parker · #3 February 8th, 2005, 11:21 PM

GalCiv has always had AI as its #1 feature. But it made me get bored with the game quickly for lack of other features

Googling for Aaron interview and Space Empires V comes up pretty short. I know SEIV has been out awhile but there is a huge difference

Sivran · #4 February 8th, 2005, 11:39 PM

What do you expect? Gamespy sucks. The whole gaming-review industry sucks. Why? Because it's not the best games that get the good reviews, it's the ones that paid for them.

TheDeadlyShoe · #5 February 9th, 2005, 02:18 AM

thats not entirely true. i agree that review scores are to some extent bought, but i believe it has more to do with laziness on reviewers part- noone bothers to play a game for 40 hours before writing a review on it; it's easier to play for 5 or 10 hours. On top of this, the publisher PR department will undoubtedly send a list of highlights, etc. of the game, and the reviewer will be keeping these in mind while he or she writes the review.

A good example is Battle for Middle Earth. Which, while a decent game visually and with excellent voice work, is utterly lacking in balancing and long term play value.