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Munkeh111 on 15 February 2009

I don't get why value is so incredibly important, CoD 4's SP was worth $60 because it was so good, but it was only about 6 hours....

I can't say I am sure what categories we should have, but where does story come?

I think we should have different categories for each genre, so for an FPS, there should be story, graphics, controls, multiplayer, something like that, but for an RPG, it would be story, replay value (side quests), graphics, gameplay. I think they would all have gameplay, story and graphics (not sports games), but the other categories might vary



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Dgc1808 on 15 February 2009
supermario128 said:
thekitchensink said:
No.

VGC grades a game on what matters--presentation, gameplay, and value. Graphics fall under presentation, and don't need their own category.

 

This.

 

 



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Munkeh111 on 15 February 2009
Machina-AX said:
Story is part of the presentation.

How is it presentation, presentation is the look of the game...



Kantor on 17 February 2009

So basically, Presentation is:

-Story
-Bugs
-Polish
-HUD
-Menu screens
-Graphics
-Sound

An awful lot to put into one number. I say it would be easier to make Graphics and Sound separate. Especially graphics because, sorry Torillian, nobody really cares about Sound...

Yes, I do want us to be exactly like IGN



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drboot on 17 February 2009
Machina-AX said:
Munkeh111 said:
Machina-AX said:
Story is part of the presentation.

How is it presentation, presentation is the look of the game...

 

Our presentation score covers a lot of different things (basically everything we talk about that doesn't fall into the gameplay or value categories), not just the visuals - it includes the graphics, art style, music and score, sound effects and voice acting, technical presentation, story and narrative etc.

 

I'm sorry, but that sounds ridiculously counter intuitive. Story and narrative are very important aspects of many video games and not highlighting achievements within storytelling is essentially hiding one of the important elements people look for in games. Not every game needs this category obviously, but especially on HD systems story is becoming a bigger and bigger focus of developers and consumers. I for example do not buy any games in certain genre's that do not hold up to a standard of storytelling and I know 2 friends who are the same way. Scoring the storyline and going more indepth on it during reviews would allow many people to make a better decicion whether to buy the game or pass it.



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Gilgamesh on 17 February 2009
Kantor said:
So basically, Presentation is:

-Story
-Bugs
-Polish
-HUD
-Menu screens
-Graphics
-Sound

An awful lot to put into one number. I say it would be easier to make Graphics and Sound separate. Especially graphics because, sorry Torillian, nobody really cares about Sound...

Yes, I do want us to be exactly like IGN

Exactly what I'm trying to say, I know graphics is part of presentation but that's a lot of stuff covered just in presentation, it'd be nice to seperate a couple of them.



Kantor on 20 February 2009

Perhaps we should have a poll on this?



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Hephaestos on 20 February 2009
thekitchensink said:
No.

VGC grades a game on what matters--presentation, gameplay, and value. Graphics fall under presentation, and don't need their own category.

 

+1



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