iTz Canada Ehh said:ORIGENxGarboMan said:N0T PENNYS B0AT said:ll Nazule ll said:Please continue to do this every month.
This is just another reason why I (and others) gladly sub a pro account. Quality updates and reviews from the staff help create a fantastic community.
Thank you.
They’re definitely monthly from now on, and the plan is to get them out on the first of every month. Thanks for reading!
I'm going to voice my opinion too. I find no use in these types of articles and they're really just encouraging people to pay for a gamerscore addiction.
I'd much rather see "Here are the top 10 games from February with less than 1000 starts, but a rating over 4.0" or something like that. It would highlight games that people are genuinely enjoying, but not many people are trying. It would also support the devs who actually make quality products by encouraging more sales of good games.
That's not to say that short games can't be great. I love some of them. However, this article is really just encouraging people to throw money at the screen to increase a meaningless score.
You are of course welcome to do what you want, although I feel it's useful to know that some people enjoy these articles and some think they're some of the worst articles on the site.
If you aren't interested in the article there's this cool thing browsers have nowadays called a scroll bar, that actually allow you to scroll down to see more of the page and let you bypass information you're not interested in. Figured I'd assist you in skipping useless articles in the future so you don't have to shitpost in the forums.
Wow you're so cool and helpful! Thanks! I'm getting a doctorate in engineering, but I have no fucking clue how an internet browser works!
Seriously, I'm not telling Mark that he's a terrible person and shouldn't be a newshound. I'm not saying these articles are useless to all. I'm just saying that yes, some people find these articles enjoyable. I do not and I would prefer to see different articles posted. That's not a shitpost. It's voicing my opinion. There are plenty of low quality posts in the TA forums. This is just voicing an opinion.
We never could or would cater every article to every reader.
Of course. Not asking you to. Just voicing my opinion that I would prefer to see other articles. If 90% of the site likes this then that's fine.
We have a series that highlights great underplayed games already too, it's called In Case You Missed It and we most recently posted one last weekend. We do those monthly as well.
Yes, I'm 100% familiar with ICYMI or the older easter eggs. I used to pick up lots of games from Easter Eggs. Still, if you only listed 1 quick completion per month people would say "Hey you could do more." Highlighting niche games is a little harder because you have to sell people on it as opposed to just listing "this is fast gamerscore," which you can do here. So it's a little bit harder to highlight more than one a month and I understand that. I still feel there are many high quality niche games that deserve to be highlighted, but they aren't being highlighted. Again, this is partly because you have to write a whole news article on it, you simply don't have time to play every game on the marketplace between work and volunteering here, and a niche game is probably going to slip through the cracks when you're playing the bigger titles. I mean, of the games I list before you probably haven't played many. Most of the ICYMI articles are about games that I would say are reasonably well known. You do one about Enslaved, which I believe ended up in me picking it up, which is fairly popular in relation to many of the indies that just slip through the cracks. Yes, Enslaved didn't sell as well as Fallout and it's sitting under that threshold that influences you to write an article, but it's not The Way with 138 starts.
Sure, some of these games already get reviews, but lets look at some games.
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Achievements This has sold decently, but still at only 2500 people and a 4.6/5 from the community, do you think maybe some more people might like to hear about this? There was a first impressions, but no review.
TowerFall Ascension Achievements So this has a site review and has a 4.4/5 from the community, but this has only been started by a few hundred people. I hear from PC friends this game is fun as shit in local coop. This is a great example. I don't see you writing an ICYMI on this simply because so few people have played it, and I would guess that you are not one of them since I have looked at your card before and you're not one of the small group of people on this site diving everything they can.
Hyper Light Drifter Achievements Again, no site review, but only 2600 starts and the people who start it seem to love it.
Furi Achievements 1200 starts. The people who start it seem to love it. Probably not going to show up in ICYMI when you're super excited for Sea of Thieves and A Way Out.
The Way Achievements 4.4/5 and 138 starts
Full Mojo Rampage Achievements 4.4/5 and 315 starts
Aaero Achievements 4.3/5 and 1742 starts
Headlander Achievements 4.2/5 and 485 starts
Armello Achievements 4.2/5 and 712 starts
Mages of Mystralia Achievements 4.2/5 and 226 starts
Darkest Dungeon AchievementsNight In The Woods: Weird Autumn Edition AchievementsCrypt of the NecroDancer AchievementsAnyways, I'm not going to list every game ever. I think you get my point. It's totally valid to say "Well these games are niche for a reason and if you told everyone to try it a lot of people wouldn't like it." However, I feel like when a game is pretty generally loved, but only started by a few people there are very likely more people out there that would say "OMG THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT!" You can't write a full article about all of these because you don't have the time, but maybe the community would like to know more about some of the cool games they're missing?
Yes, this is a site about achievements, but many of the people here play the game for fun primarily and don't whore for score and they would rather play a game for fun and get 50% completion rather than get 1000 score for $8 and have no fun at all.
Just saying I feel like some of these games deserve to be highlighted, at least as much as the easy games deserve to be highlighted. It would be easy to write a news article about some of the indie games that didn't sell super well, but people are generally enjoying.
OMG SO MUCH SHITPOST I VOICED AN OPINION AND GAVE REAL FEEDBACK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT I THINK COULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT!
Again, you do what you want. You're the newshound with limited time. Not me. But I think some people could find some cool games they hadn't tried. I generally try everything and it makes me sad sometimes when really good games aren't started by anyone just because they didn't get a ton of marketing or got released alongside a big RPG and everyone ignored the indies that week or any one of many reasons. The article could be similar to this one where you say "Hey we haven't played all of these, so in the case of Magical Drop we can't guarantee it's easy, but here's something that may be easy." It could say "Hey here are some games that are loved by the people who have started them. We haven't played them all and can't guarantee you will like them, but they are appealing to some people and if you enjoy the genre then you might like the game!"