Yeah not a fan of that design style for a busy site like that one. We use a similar thing on Unwinnable but we only publish one piece a day on the site, so it works.
Synth
1921
OK, can I ask what specifically you guys don’t like about the RPS redesign? We still need to improve the QT3 frontpage. And where as I don’t think I’d propose anything like what RPS has to Tom, it would still be good to understand where you think those sites (RPS or even Eurogamer) fail so we don’t repeat their mistakes.
I actually find QT3 frontpage pretty perfect as it is when it comes to visual design.
White, purple, and green is a bad choice for colors.
Scuzz
1924
So if you are at table with your racist grandma or aunt or cousin you are now a racist. Thanks for clarifying that.
If you let the view stand unopposed then yes, you might as well be a racist too at that point.
It’s not the same but the effect is the same.
Edit: removing the example since I didn’t realize this wasn’t P&R. It should be, but I’ll remove my political “jab”.
Scuzz
1926
I admit feeling like what I posted probably only belongs in P&R as well.
I am not saying I think the Qt3 front page needs changing. But you might consider that fundamnentally it has a well known look.
RPS used to as well. Now it looks super generic, like it’s about to become a member of the Jezebel et al family of super generic content sites. I mean I could be glancing at any number of websites I don’t actually care about. The color combination is bad, and it also isn’t meaningfully repeated in any way that makes me identify the content as “RPS” and not “some rando’s game website”.
Step 1 is pretending alt-right values are accepted as normal conservative values.
Step 2 is pretending to be a victim when Step 1 fails.
RickH
1929
My biggest gripe with Eurogamer is that they have 2 columns, one for all stories and one for most read stories that end up being basically the same most of the time. Don’t use an algorithm, curate dammit. I’d ask them to do without the puns but apparently that’s UK law.
I don’t dislike the white spaces on either Eurogamer or the rebooted RPS, but I am usually disappointed when a redesign ends up dramatically lowering the information density on the page. Engadget is now useless and un-fun to browse. They used to have basically the same format as Joystiq, which is still my favorite. Image, headline, a bit of text, an invitation to click through and read more.
So make the colors more modern and light, clean up the lines, and leave the info as it is, that’s not broken.
A guy wants to bitch about web design and everyone wants to talk about the week-old P&R shit.
There are important rants to be made here, folks.
Granath
1931
Here is a new one to debate:
So GoG tweets something that shows them to agree with the GG crowd and VG247 tells GoG to sick it up their bums.
I think positions on this will be determined by how people view GG. The initial intent of GG was to take politics out of game reviews but it was quickly co-opted by bigots and trolls who seized on this to vocally spew their bile. Then people on the other side like Anita Sarkeesian tried to use this to garner sympathy to further their own careers. The whole thing became a mess but in this case I think was a very poor decision by GoG to tweet that crap. Any association with GG is not a particularly good thing.
That’s certainly a novel interpretation.
Granath
1933
If that is what you are getting out of that post I believe you may have missed the larger point. If you would like, we can re-open the GG thread and debate this particular issue.
There are good people on both sides!
Hi guys, I heard a loud whistling sound. Did you hear it?
Anyway, what’s up?
kerzain
1936
I’ll forgive them for the tweet if they replace games journalism with VG247 on the headstone.
Teiman
1937
Guys, let fantasy be fantasy.
Maybe somebody really want a game in a sex dungeon.
Sex Dungeons And Dragons.
