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CaliMonk - 02 May 2022 06:57 AM

Just for clarity sake, these reviews were already ready to go before I took on this role. Irrespective of that, I’m not Jack nor will I ever become him, I have my own perspective on things. Different styles, each unique and with its own set of pro/cons. These reviews coincidentally weren’t a result of my different thinking.

Ivo

 

I wasn’t trying to belittle you CaliMonk, I guess you know that! I know the site is still holding on much bc of you, I just care about it, maybe I need to relax; you are handling it perfectly. cant say sorry (again) twice in one row

that’s neat, i only think the word ‘Determine’ is too much on the nail’s head, I wouldn’t tell what can replace by any means, but that is what I think

I’d agree with Advie there Calimonk. May I be so bold as to suggest:

Flashback reviews are evaluations to see if games of the past have held up well enough for players to enjoy playing today given the limitations of the available technology on initial release. They are not intended to represent the verdict on when the game was released.

I think what Jabod wrote would be a very good way to give a proper perspective to the people who read those retro reviews.

Sounds great to me too! (CaliMonk + Jarod)

I think this is a very good way to handle a review of such an old game as these are. While they might have been groundbreaking back in the day, time certainly hasn’t been very kind to them and it would be hard to genuinely recommend them for any other reason than a historical curiosity.

my words betray me, so to make them clear, I will ask you Calimonk in addition (to what you said) look at the old highly rated adventure games here, like Police Quest 2: The Vengeance, and wonder if you put your ‘back-then hat’ on, is there any way or chance you could give them the same rating, today. but anyways, I rest my case.

I agree with both Cali and Tomimt in that the reviews should appear unrated until a meaningful rating system can be developed that both is relevant to the time the game was created AND to today’s gamers who may not have been born when these antiquities were being programmed. Hard to imagine that a gamer born when Dark Chrystal was released is now just short of 40-years old.