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Hi !
I have been working on my new video game site for a few months now and it is finally online. It replaces both of my PC Engine Lounge sites. It is called VIDEO GAME DEN and it mainly covers the PC Engine system and Super Famicom so far. But it will grow to other systems, no doubt about it. I hope you'll like it and find interesting information there :)
VIDEO GAME DEN
Thanks :)
Why cover a dead system?
The low resolution logo for VGDen has to go, it's ugly as fuck.
Why not? If there are sites out there theorizing about Dick Cheney being a cyborg, then I think we can let one about 2 dead systems slide.
I'll agree with you, only because of your avatar.
I find the site overall to be very ugly. Just the images at the top, the logo, the layout.
Design could use some work but I like seeing someone covering the classics.
The actualy layout isn't bad, really, just the art.
Seems pretty damn comprehensive. Nice.
I guess everyone really is a critic. I've only taken a cursory look, but I'm definitely going to read this HuCard article when I get home from work.
Always had a soft spot for the NEC consoles. :)
Dead systems are ancestors of todays systems. This is video game history. This is what I want Video Game Den to be. Show you the origins of the games you're playing today. Show you that the Star Soldier game you just bought for your PSP is a twenty years old license and far from being the best one of the series. I guess the answer is the same as for the question : why watching fifty years old black-and-white movies ? They are only dead for the people who see them dead.
Thanks for your comments, and I do not mind you being critic. Criticism help things getting better :) However, positive comments are also welcome.
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Originally Posted by Thief~Silver
Nice to see another TG site. There aren't enough of them out there.
Nice work, please make the site's frame's work properly with opera. :)
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Originally Posted by Melf
I love the classics. :cry:
I blame my initial response on I thought by PC engine you meant like, modern day PCs, I couldnt' figure out why you'd do modern day PC games and also do Super Famicon, because it wouldn't make any sense. I was ignorant to the fact that the PC engine was something else in it's own Entirety.
your first response said "why cover a dead system" and now you're going back on that? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief~Silver
what the fuck else would "pc engine" mean?
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Originally Posted by JMET
Seconded. I thought I was the only Opera user around here :)
Oh, and Opera is now free, so you can easily test with it.
I'll download Opera and test the site on it. Thanks for your feedbacks :)
Is someone using Safari ? Opera and Safari are the only two browsers I haven't been able to test the site on... I hope it won't be too much work, getting the site to behave 'roughly' the same on IE and Netscape was already a bit tricky...
Donuts, I really like the site. But the logo made me think it was going to be all about Dreamcast thanks to the swirl overlaying the G.
The site works fine with Safari.
I'm running Safari - haven't noticed anything that seems broken so far.
1) Don't have the first page be just a graphic I have to click to get to the actual website. Pointless, and a waste of time. Websites don't need "intros."
2) Scrolling text "tickers" need to go away, but that's just me.
3) Too much of the screen is taken up by non-active content. You don't need to have two separate logos for the website up at the exact same time. Since you already have the logo in the left sidebar, get rid of the one in the main column, opening up more room for viewing content.
4) Frames need to go away, but that's just me.
5) The open/close buttons in the left frame are utterly pointless. Since the frame isn't being used for anything else at that point anyhow, leave the buttons expanded the entire time.
6) Try to come up with a more consistent style for the site, to make it feel like a whole entity. Right now, it kind of looks like you took pieces from different websites, and just tossed them together.
Some thoughts for now.
Man, go sit in the corner for 5 minutes for that one, junior. :bang:Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief~Silver
(after about 50 seconds) ;_; Donuts, i love you. I wish i'd seen what you had before. I love videogame history, especially the stuff like PCEngine that i missed out on and never gets covered by anyone. Where do those awesome little robots come from? The scans and screens are soooo nice and easy to see without being too big or being a pain in the ass to get to.
Uh, yeah, i hate frames too. No one should use frames. NO ONE. I appreciate what you're trying to do, but it's seriously making me flip out and not want to look at it.
Scrolling tickers are epilepsy city, too. Hurt. Hurt bad.
DO NOT get rid of any of the art. It's what gives the site ... personality. Keep the old images at the top and keep that crazy logo. I agree that the swirl is too dreamcast, but otherwise it's fine. Maybe if it wasn't orange or quite so swirly. Reminds me of Gamefan without being... um... that word that means taking away from it. Just try to work it in without the god dang frames.
:D Extra <3 Mr. Spoiler.
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The buttons that get bigger are annoying as all hell. You cant scroll down because you have to get off of the button you are on, then you have missed the button you were going for.
Please fix this.
Hi,
I appreciate all your comments and they have been very useful. I'll fix some of the issues you are talking about. I'm not sure if I can lose the frames though, especially on the review pages as I want the list of games to be always visible and accessible at any time. But maybe I can remove the frames from the main page and only keep them for the review part. About the logo, you are right, this is why I kind of put the 'G' in the middle. I was really looking for a whirlpool symbolic, like digesting those games and showing what they are really made of, their entrails.
But I am glad most of the negative comments were about the form, and not the content, which was the part I was most worried about. Form is always easy to improve, content is kind of thougher, especially as english is not my native language.
Thanks for your support and help, a new update will be available soon with tons of new reviews, and probably another game spoiled :)