Proof Positive! - Page 2

DeadZone · #11 February 22nd, 2005, 09:17 AM

errr... most sites like this are mainly driven by money
oh and the fact that they often get alot of the games for free for review

Atrocities · #12 February 22nd, 2005, 09:47 AM

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errr... most sites like this are mainly driven by money
oh and the fact that they often get alot of the games for free for review

The capitolistic bastards. I'm envious.

geoschmo · #13 February 22nd, 2005, 10:04 AM

Tim has said in the past that some of those magazines wouldn't even do a review of SEIV (Or many other Shrapnel games for that matter) because they didn't have a box and weren't sold in a store.

Atrocities · #14 February 22nd, 2005, 10:23 AM

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Tim has said in the past that some of those magazines wouldn't even do a review of SEIV (Or many other Shrapnel games for that matter) because they didn't have a box and weren't sold in a store.

Oh that has to be one of the crappiest excuses I have ever heard. I will bet that if Tim had offered them a grand or two they would have reviewed the game.

Tim if you read this, please post the name of those magazines so the rest of us will not make the mistake of buying them.

Makinus · #15 February 22nd, 2005, 05:22 PM

Maybe no one sent them a free copy of SEIV? If they are run by money (that�s obvious) they would not buy games (spending money) but maybe do at least a small review if they received a free copy of the game...

The way the review in gamespot is made looks like they reviewed the Demo (free) and not the full game...

or maybe they can�t stop playing the latest FPS to play a good turn-based strategy game...

DeadZone · #16 February 22nd, 2005, 07:35 PM

I'm really starting to think that someone needs to do a proper preview/review (type of that we are talking about that is) site dedicated to RTS and TBS games as they are the most under advertised genres (especially TBS) in the industry

Hell, I need a new project with all my current ones now finished, perhaps that could be it

AgentZero · #17 February 24th, 2005, 09:20 PM

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Tim has said in the past that some of those magazines wouldn't even do a review of SEIV (Or many other Shrapnel games for that matter) because they didn't have a box and weren't sold in a store.

Oh that has to be one of the crappiest excuses I have ever heard. I will bet that if Tim had offered them a grand or two they would have reviewed the game.

Tim if you read this, please post the name of those magazines so the rest of us will not make the mistake of buying them.

Me Tim? Or different Tim? I don't remember saying that... That being said, I know PC Gamer (US) reviewed both SE4 (80%) and SE4:Gold (89%) and even Starfury (82%). Which is why I love those guys.

Fyron · #18 February 24th, 2005, 10:35 PM

Tim Brooks, president of Shrapnel Games.

Atrocities · #19 February 25th, 2005, 05:53 AM

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geoschmo said:
Tim has said in the past that some of those magazines wouldn't even do a review of SEIV (Or many other Shrapnel games for that matter) because they didn't have a box and weren't sold in a store.

Oh that has to be one of the crappiest excuses I have ever heard. I will bet that if Tim had offered them a grand or two they would have reviewed the game.

Tim if you read this, please post the name of those magazines so the rest of us will not make the mistake of buying them.

Me Tim? Or different Tim? I don't remember saying that... That being said, I know PC Gamer (US) reviewed both SE4 (80%) and SE4:Gold (89%) and even Starfury (82%). Which is why I love those guys.

Tim as in Shrapnel's Tim.

AgentZero · #20 February 25th, 2005, 07:40 PM

Oh, that Tim. Clarity would be helpful. There aren't many Tims so whenever we hear our name we automatically assume we are the Tim in question. Still:
[SE4 Gold Review]
http://www.pcgamer.com/reviews/archi...02-12-31t.html
[Starfury Review]
http://www.pcgamer.com/reviews/archi...04-02-16o.html

I think it's pretty cool that one man (with a weeny bit of help) can create games that earn high marks in a magazine that normally reivews games with multi-million dollar budgets, designed by dozens of programmers and artists and distributed by massive publishers backed by marketing departments with bigger budgets per annum than Malfador has had in it's existence. Sweet, no?