this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
357 points (99.2% liked)

Games

16677 readers
883 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
357
Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
83 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

different perspectives about how the core mechanics work

As you said, how they work. The description already tells me what the game is and I don't need a review reciting it a la "Shadow warrior is an action adventure fps game where you play as a ninja fighting against demons"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Descriptions are useless horseshit.

A review that doesn't mention what the actual gameplay loop is is a bad review.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To further flesh out your comment:

I recently played a small game called “Ever Forward” on the Nintendo switch. Nowhere it says that the game runs like a PowerPoint presentation. Other than that, it would be helpful if I would have read a review that said “the beautiful world you see in the trailer and screenshots is the ‘hub’ where you enter boring looking levels. The puzzles consist of 2-3 cameras that react to sound and a cube you can throw and that you need to carry to the end of each short puzzle.”