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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:14 pm
by Killer French Bread
why not sign up jonthevgnnerd for reviews? I think his are really good.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:42 pm
by TCB
I spoke with chickaroo about why she left the team, and hey; her decision. Nonetheless, RWDebara should fill in that void quite nicely.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:55 pm
by DigiDragoon
Killer French Bread wrote:why not sign up jonthevgnnerd for reviews? I think his are really good.
I agree with this.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:30 pm
by RWDebara
Thanks for hiring me and can't wait to start writing for the site! If you guys want to read what my reviews will be like you can read my Adventure Time review
here.
My goal is going to try to do at least 1 review every 1-2 weeks, and i'm mostly going to focus on Nintendo handhelds. (3DS is my main gaming console this year so far) I'll do any other SEGA titles on other consoles if I see no one has reviewed it yet (unless I think it deserves a second opinion) and it just so happened to come into my possession. Since SEGA is a bit slow with releasing games nowadays, if I cant find anything new to review I will review older SEGA titles or non-sega games.
As my first game i'm going to review:
Shinobi (3DS)
Thanks guys :D
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:16 am
by Killer French Bread
looking forward to it.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:52 am
by chickaroo1
To all of those wondering why I left:
You have to understand, I am growing up in a school full of mean people and some mean friends, they love to criticize. I'd get picked on once in a while. But my favorite thing to do besides drawing and playing video games - is to write.
One of the reasons why I wrote that NiGHTS review back in November was because I was inspired by many other reviewers on YouTube that I thought I could do my own. So I did. I grabbed some notebook paper and a pencil and fired up NiGHT and took some notes. I typed it up later and put it up here. Then the reception came, and that's when I became a little negative....
When you ask me to give more details to something, I can't. That's as best as it can get. But it felt like that was all I was getting...
Then Friday night came along and I decided to write a review of R&C: FFA because I had just beaten it. So I wrote it up and then typed it out the next morning and put it up here. Then the same comments came back."You need more details"
I thought to myself, "If they can't handle my worst, they sure as hell they're not getting my best." I couldn't take it anymore. I kept telling people that I can't be perfect and they need to see that, but they wouldn't listen. So I thought I should quit.
I felt like I wasn't good enough....I felt like the only one getting the negativity in my reviews.
So what I'm saying is, if you ask me to give me more, I can't. It's the best I can do. I tried so hard, but only to have others laugh and nitpick at it and tear it apart piece by piece...I knew that some people thought my reviews were not good...I didn't want to deal with the negativity...I wish I could come back to the team, but I'm afraid I'll be back at square one again.
Why must we have to point out each others flaws? Can't we all just be nice? Especially since I'm in a place full of negativity, with friends that point out flaws?
-Chickaroo1
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:59 am
by TCB
Well I apologize. That's something I didn't know, and something I never took in consideration when you wrote your reviews. I didn't know, so personally you can't blame those who are just asking in terms of advice.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:58 am
by Killer French Bread
Criticism is what makes you better. If you can't handle some constructive comments you'll never be a good writer. Or good at anything for that matter. Nobody is good at anything without being (at best) mediocre at first and then striving to improve. To me it seems your problem is you care too much about what people think, but not enough to do anything about it. If you don't want to practise and improve then you have to quit, which fair enough, you'e done.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but the way people react to criticism is so telling of their personality I feel. Some people give up, others become more determined than ever.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:14 am
by TCB
Killer French Bread wrote:Criticism is what makes you better. If you can't handle some constructive comments you'll never be a good writer. Or good at anything for that matter. Nobody is good at anything without being (at best) mediocre at first and then striving to improve. To me it seems your problem is you care too much about what people think, but not enough to do anything about it. If you don't want to practise and improve then you have to quit, which fair enough, you'e done.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but the way people react to criticism is so telling of their personality I feel. Some people give up, others become more determined than ever.
Exactly where I'm getting at; I know you like to write chickaroo and I have read your stories before. Like KFB said, taking constructive criticism is a good thing if you want to improve your skills. People criticism damn near everything; it's in our nature.
So you quit the review team because of that. Alright fine. Let this be a lesson to motivate you to do better than just dropping it outright. Learn to take it what people have to say without caring so much about it to the point you think you can't be a good writer.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:56 am
by Gonic
chickaroo1 wrote:To all of those wondering why I left:
You have to understand, I am growing up in a school full of mean people and some mean friends, they love to criticize. I'd get picked on once in a while. But my favorite thing to do besides drawing and playing video games - is to write.
One of the reasons why I wrote that NiGHTS review back in November was because I was inspired by many other reviewers on YouTube that I thought I could do my own. So I did. I grabbed some notebook paper and a pencil and fired up NiGHT and took some notes. I typed it up later and put it up here. Then the reception came, and that's when I became a little negative....
When you ask me to give more details to something, I can't. That's as best as it can get. But it felt like that was all I was getting...
Then Friday night came along and I decided to write a review of R&C: FFA because I had just beaten it. So I wrote it up and then typed it out the next morning and put it up here. Then the same comments came back."You need more details"
I thought to myself, "If they can't handle my worst, they sure as hell they're not getting my best." I couldn't take it anymore. I kept telling people that I can't be perfect and they need to see that, but they wouldn't listen. So I thought I should quit.
I felt like I wasn't good enough....I felt like the only one getting the negativity in my reviews.
So what I'm saying is, if you ask me to give me more, I can't. It's the best I can do. I tried so hard, but only to have others laugh and nitpick at it and tear it apart piece by piece...I knew that some people thought my reviews were not good...I didn't want to deal with the negativity...I wish I could come back to the team, but I'm afraid I'll be back at square one again.
Why must we have to point out each others flaws? Can't we all just be nice? Especially since I'm in a place full of negativity, with friends that point out flaws?
-Chickaroo1
It's a shame you feel like that, but as people already said, constructive criticism makes you better. It doesn't mean people dislike the revie