The future of Quarter to Three's message board

Editer · 2012-01-23T14:59:50.000Z

Slainte Mhath:

Let’s just adopt the World of Warcraft item color system for QT3 game ratings. The rating is in the color of the title of the game as printed on the review page.

Standard Black = Poor, vendor trash, don’t waste your time.
White = Common, there is nothing to make this game stand out.
Green = Uncommon, has at least one unique or entertaining aspect to recommend it.
Blue = Rare, has multiple good qualities and should be purchased by everyone.
Purple = Epic, A can’t miss game, you owe it to yourself to play this.
Orange = Legendary, Reserved for games elected to the QT3 Hall of Fame.

Bonus - Imagine publishers trying to adopt this system into retail package marketing. “Rated BLUE by Quarter To Three!”

<Kelly Wand>Racist!</Kelly Wand>

Razgon · 2012-01-24T00:49:29.000Z

In Denmark we used to use a wonderfull system that was numbers from 0-13. WEll, not every number of course.

00 = failed
03 = not so good
5 = bad
6 = Passed
7= just above passed
8 = average
9 = Above average
10 = Quite good, actually
11 = Superb
13 = Above and beyond whats being taught.

Thats my suggestion - its such a quirky little system its a wonder anyone ever thought it out, much less used it for 30 years in public school.

Thongsy · 2012-01-24T01:15:22.000Z

After looking up some movie reviews on Rotten Tomato, I think I like their system the best. Just have reviewers give it a positive or negative score. Was it worth the time spent playing or not. The star, points, purple moon, yellow marshmallow system leaves too much of a debate/backlash. Even if somebody reviews a positively, since it only got a 9.2 while a different game got 9.8 the reviewer is now an idiot asshole jerk that deserves to die in a fire for not giving the other game a higher score.

RichVR · 2012-01-24T04:07:10.000Z

Hey guys, I think we’re sinking…

SlainteMhath · 2012-01-24T05:24:00.000Z

Editer:

<Kelly Wand>Racist!</Kelly Wand>

Brilliant, that made me laugh out loud! =)

IainC · 2012-01-24T05:43:05.000Z

RichVR:

Hey guys, I think we’re sinking…

Vat are you sinking about?

CLWheeljack · 2012-01-24T06:52:37.000Z

Gremlinclr:

Why don’t reviewers just use letter grades? It doesn’t matter of an A starts at 94 or 90, it doesn’t matter if an F starts at 75 or 60. F is a bad game, C is an average game, A is a great game. The end.

Everybody already knows that system because they went to school. That way no more arguments on why some reviewers only use part of the scale or how does a star translate on a hundred point scale. It’s quick and easy and instantly understandable.

Also, grade inflation means that these grades aren’t as well defined as you might think, and it brings us back to the 7-9 scale. C, which should be average, is often seen as a poor grade, and Fs are unthinkable to many people.

RichVR · 2012-01-24T07:15:58.000Z

IainC:

Vat are you sinking about?

I feel unmoored. Adrift. Something is different.

Lynch · 2012-01-24T10:51:21.000Z

Razgon:

00 = failed
03 = not so good
5 = bad
6 = Passed
7= just above passed
8 = average
9 = Above average
10 = Quite good, actually
11 = Superb
13 = Above and beyond whats being taught.

Hahahahaha…I love the fact that ‘bad’ is better than ‘not so good’.

I’m still waiting for some logical explanation regarding the 1-5 scale by the way.

Teiman · 2012-01-24T10:52:53.000Z

double post *

Teiman · 2012-01-24T10:52:32.000Z

Perhaps we have to link to the best review ever made by the internet.

Newgrounds.com

Dot Dot Dot - Animated

An animation of a voice track of a review of a game.

Score: 1/10

i reley dont wan to say this, but i have to now.
this game is so esey. i mean, all you do is hit the spacebar. thats it! how is this an RPG anyway? you cant contrail anything but what it says on the screen! what if i didnt want to buy the potion? what apout quests? all you can upgrade is stranth? there is no way you can lose to the boss at the end! this game is crap! its not even an RPG at all! i mean look at it! in what way is this supposed to be an RPG if you can do quests and stuff? all you do is press one butten the entier time! explain to me. the athore coments al totol lies! is it supposed to be stick dudes? i dont even know how this damn game got the daily 3rd prize, or a rating of 4.26!
pepole think this review is worthles.
go ahead! say it! i dont care! im just trying to make a point here!
blam this piece of crap!!!

P.S the only reson im giving this a 1 is beacuase the voices where pretty good. but thats it!

jason · 2012-01-24T11:35:07.000Z

That link exploded my browser in virus warnings. Nice.

Teiman · 2012-01-24T11:41:57.000Z

jason:

That link exploded my browser in virus warnings. Nice.

newgrounds.com?

Is the biggest flash games community on the internet. The most serious, successful and established one. But, oh well… banners are sometimes negotiated with third parties, and the owner never know what people will see ( thanks to shit like geolocation, to serve different banners to different regions ).

Also the line between antivirus software and snake oil is thin.

TurinTur · 2012-01-24T11:44:19.000Z

jason:

That link exploded my browser in virus warnings. Nice.

As Teiman says, it’s a big, popular and established site. No virus warning on my pc.

jason · 2012-01-24T11:58:42.000Z

Chances are it was an ad on their site that triggered it.

John_Many_Jars · 2012-01-24T13:41:40.000Z

limp
flaccid
limber
extended
half-chub
full chub
bonerized
blue steel
cat couldn’t scratch it

Mike_O_Malley · 2012-01-24T13:43:32.000Z

Culminating in (pardon the pun)…Tim ElHajj.

wumpus · 2012-02-05T18:42:45.000Z

I read every page of this thread.

I’ve been bad and deserve the punishment.

Editer · 2012-02-05T21:09:57.000Z

wumpus:

I read every page of this thread.

I’ve been bad and deserve the punishment.

Could it possibly have been some kind of inspiration for deciding to write this excellent piece on when you should listen to your community and when you should ignore them?

wumpus · 2012-02-05T22:28:19.000Z

Not exactly, but there is a definite relationship.

Denying the need for a meta, the “place where we discuss the place”, is incredibly dangerous to the long term health of a community in my experience. It was certainly the biggest mistake we made on Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange by far, and by “we” I mean… er… me.

I’d argue there should be a whole Q23 subarea for discussing Q23 itself.

(and also definitely group moderation, which would immediately defuse all the “Tom is fallible!” criticisms, but maybe not an infraction system per se…)