Review thread?

[He-Man]

Hello everybody!

I'm going to start this off with a quote from Krazy:

I know after spending weeks, months or even years working on a game it's always good to get feedback. But I know most feedback you get from posting your game in the forum or on the AGS site is either "Cool game but such and such could be better." or asking for hints, and sure that's fine people don't tend to write particularly long comments about your game in a forum or comennt system.Ã,  But I also know that the mose satisfying feedback you can ever get on a game is a detailed review higlighting the good and bad points of your game, telling what you did right, what aspects were the best etc and an overall rating (sometimes sub ratings of all the different aspects of the game e.g graphics, story etc).

Now, my idea is that we make a review threat where your moltivation for writing a review is that your game will be reviewed next. Due to this "reward" I think people would actually make a review (I know I would).
Example: I write a review of some game. The next person in line writes a review of one of my games. The next person will then have to write a review of one of the last person's games. And so on...
This way you might get get introduced to some long forgotten game and play (and enjoy) a game you wouldn't have given a chance in the first palce. Plus you get a review of your own game...

What do you think about this idea?
Any surgestions how to make improve the idea?
If you are willing to follow up up I won't mind starting...

Your pal
Niels

P.s. I hope I'm making myself clear...

[2ma2]

These kind of cue organisations are tricky to maintain. Not that is isn't a good idea, but at the same time, the quality of reviews is also an issue. Not to say that people make a piss poor job on reviewing, but there are other issues involved; such as personal preferences/references, experience in gaming/development etc etc that will drastically affect reviewing from time to time.

We need the AGDzine to review the newest releases! 

[Phemar]

I think it's a good idea, and I'd like to see it in action =)

[Scummbuddy]

AdventureDevelopers will hopefully eventually be able to do the constructive feedback reviews, which will be kind of what you're looking for. I eagerly await them.

[Pumaman]

If people are forced to write a review for a particular game in order to reply to the thread and get their own game reviewed, the chances are they won't do a very good job and will just write whatever they think will get by as a review.

I'd much prefer people to write the reviews purely voluntarily.