With the advent of medal points, a lot of reviews are cropping up that are just merely "walkthroughs" or "strategy guides" for submissions. This is rather common for games with medals in which you merely have to type words to get points.

My question is are these reviews considered abusive? My rational is that they are often (1) cut-and-pasted and (2) are not actually reviewing the submission.

Thanks.

Thanks for the update, somehow I missed seeing it.

178 +22 ** zimzap 10,578 9,821 18,690 2,753 156 41,998 +1795

Very solid month for me but the next (read: current) one will be much slower. I should be able to get to 10,000 blams before the next update in a week so I will be triplisted!

I have received a mystery comment on my news page from one of those Chinese officials and now it is stuck. Bizarre.

Wee that was fun, I especially like the Tankman.

Guys, you can still hover over the links to find yourself. I am #84 and I will analyze later.

At 3/31/09 08:39 PM, simon wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 9339
Brand new game, brand new medals.
God bless being a portal watch.

Easiest save point that I have gotten in a while :)

You really need to lay off the pokemon.

Congrats! The family name will live on!

It is only natural that they will run out of creative ideas for new pokemon as they constantly expand the pool. I cannot say if it has happened yet because I have not played the new games but do you really think that they will be able to add another 300 unique, clever, and inspired creatures to the series?

Level 32!!!

Although this icon does not look good with a green background... Can I really switch my aura after all these years? Nah.

At 3/24/09 01:12 AM, 36Holla wrote:

At 3/24/09 01:09 AM, zimzap wrote: Wow looks like everyone else has all this free time for games. I have not played any video games in over two weeks, although I did spend 15 minutes working on the NYTimes crossword puzzle today.

Spring Break. It does wonders for my free time.

"Spring Break" was over the same time frame for me as well; however, still no time for video games. I guess I am really an adult now.

Wow looks like everyone else has all this free time for games. I have not played any video games in over two weeks, although I did spend 15 minutes working on the NYTimes crossword puzzle today.

At 3/23/09 09:32 AM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote:

At 3/23/09 09:11 AM, Mr-Anderson wrote: Care to share your opinion on the Max Payne series, though? I actually prefer Max Payne 1 a bit more than the second.

I only played a bit of both on the original Xbox. And it was pretty bad ass. I never did finish them. I'm not sure about purchasing the 3rd though because it isn't done by Remedy. So we will see. I'll wait for some gameplay.

As far as I can remember, both are backwards compatible on the 360 and are definitely worth playing. You can buy both of them used for under $5.

I am really excited about this. I love Max Payne and I was afraid that I would never get to see a sequel!

Unoriginal but I anticipate Xbox 720. Not like Microsoft got very creative in naming Windows 7.

I believe it will be announced in late 2010 and released in November 2011.

At 3/21/09 03:46 PM, KartoTolmex wrote: Restore to factory settings, and never sign into Xbox Live.

New?? Really?

Most new games will come with NXE installed so you cannot even avoid by not logging into XBL.

At 3/20/09 04:59 PM, Achilles2 wrote:

At 3/20/09 12:26 PM, Ragnarokia wrote: Fucking americans are ruining currency.

Yes, because Americans set the standard for every currency around the world.

That was sarcasm, btw.

Actually the US basically does set the standard for other currencies. I know that this is well past your comprehension buy go check out the FOMC's decision two days ago.

Unemployed...

At 3/20/09 12:23 PM, Ehwaz003 wrote: It would be very helpful to post some more information: what browser you use, which version, etc.
The first thing that comes to my mind: clear your browser cache.

And most importantly, what game.

Very brief comments from me because I am swamped with work.

At 3/15/09 04:47 PM, Bahamut wrote: UPDATE 15th March 2009

Thanks.

The LIST
150) 28667 0000 000.0 TITROTU
151) 28653 0000 000.0 MadCow
152) 28653 0299 042.7 Mrputter 1
153) 28585 0004 000.6 HaroFreak -1
154) 28470 0279 039.9 zimzap 3

I am barely B/Ping this week so I would be lucky to get into the top 150 but I should be able to by the end of the month with any luck.

At 3/19/09 08:21 PM, archangelmalice wrote: what games have them i want them all

Please consult this thread.

At 3/19/09 03:50 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

At 3/18/09 07:22 PM, VJoe10 wrote: (blah blah blah copypasta blah blah)

Nice to see you read the post, and can think of arguments yourself other than just copy + pasting stuff from other sources.

Do people honestly think that other users read the generic copy paste garbage in a huge block of text? Do they think that people will not accuse them of spamming because their posts are long?

Studying on St. Patty's Day is no fun :(

If a game is short, I will not buy it for over $20. That is my rule. The longest game that I have played recently is Blue Dragon - I was about 60% done and over 40 hours of gameplay.

At 3/16/09 12:44 PM, Zerok wrote:

At 3/16/09 12:22 PM, zimzap wrote: I think that you thought I was talking about Portal Defenders and TTA3 in referring to "other flawed games",

I was confused as to how you came to the conclusion that the author had other flawed games when you had admitted that you had never played them.

I came to the conclusion because simon said that his other games were buggy/incomplete but also received high ratings. His argument was that despite being buggy/incomplete, all of his games deserve high ratings. My refutation was that I am not going to play the other games to find out what rating they deserve, nor do I care what rating the other games receive because I will never play them nor do I care about them.

In general, I could not careless about the difficulty of games (Portal Defenders is fairly difficult), but buggy/incomplete games should not receive medals. Only the best and most polished ones should receive this honor.

At 3/16/09 10:20 AM, Zerok wrote:

At 3/16/09 10:04 AM, zimzap wrote: I have never played them.
other flawed games.

Wait, what?

Simon was implying that FU2 should not be ridiculed just because it has medals whereas the author's other games are of the same quality but have much higher scores. My rebuttal is that I have never played any of the author's other games.

I think that you thought I was talking about Portal Defenders and TTA3 in referring to "other flawed games", which I was not. I LOVE both of those games.

At 3/16/09 01:12 AM, simon wrote:

At 3/15/09 11:30 PM, zimzap wrote: Kaz just posted how I would have responded. The game is not good and deserves to be voted down because it is buggy and incomplete.

So are his other games yet they received daily/weekly awards for his efforts. Now just because he's put medals in he's received none than he would have.

I couldn't care less what the quality of his other games are because I have never played them. Given the low quality of this version, I have no plans to subject myself to his other flawed games.

I doubt that you will see any after Banjo flopped but there is always the Prince of Persia franchise if you count that.

At 3/15/09 09:33 PM, simon wrote:

At 3/15/09 09:29 PM, Ninjuku wrote: I really don't like that game...
...
At all...

Let's see you guys make something better then. C'mon we're waiting.

Down voting a game because you can't beat it. Fucking pathetic, that game deserved it's score.

Kaz just posted how I would have responded. The game is not good and deserves to be voted down because it is buggy and incomplete.

At 3/15/09 10:15 PM, Kamikazetomato wrote: Honestly, I think that it should be done like one of these ways:

Games must be submitted, then after gaining popularity (a certain amount of hits and a certain score) the programmer is allowed medals.

I proposed something similar to this before and I think this is the best idea.

At 3/15/09 08:11 PM, Kamikazetomato wrote: Fear is so glitchy I friggin hate it (it's called FU for a reason, people.) They should seriously just take the medals away from that game.

Or make it so you're only allowed to program in medals if your submission gets to a certain score. So games with 3.3odd scores don't get put on the same level as Portal Defenders or Thing Thing.

Fear is currently hovering at around 3.3 and is falling. When I first saw it, it was ranked well over 4.0. I wonder how low it will go.

At 3/15/09 07:22 AM, Lopas1 wrote:

At 3/15/09 01:22 AM, zimzap wrote: I would say it is either GTA IV, Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Bioshock, or Fallout 3.

ehm lol?

GTA IV was so overrated.
not in top 20 in my list.

Please name twenty games that are better than GTAIV. I did not say that it was the best but it is certainly one of the ten best games for the 360, especially with the DLC.