If possible, I think a poll in every game review could be useful to have. I have seen this site doing this for some games but it would be nice to have it a constant feature. For remaster/ports, you could allow this function inmediately (since old players have played the original version) and for new releases it could wait a week or two.
This is mostly to get a user review since in many times people (including myself) get heated in the comments of a game review because of the score.
@Wisps By poll do you just mean link to the normal NintendoLife user-rating system for all games which is available as soon as a game comes out? I know some articles such as 'best Mario game' links to the rating system just to remind/encourage users to actually rate games. I really like the user-rating system but I do wish more people would use it; I try to when I finish a game personally. The one issue with reminding people to rate in reviews is they are often very early so most readers won't have played the games yet; maybe just a more common reminder to input user review scores would be useful? Iv'e often wondered what a good way to get more data on the user-ratings would be without them becoming less accurate by people putting in numbers for games they didn't play. At the moment I much more trust user review scores on this site than, say, Steam. But a lot of games don't have the minimum 3 reviews to even by visible.
@FishyS I guess that would work too. But I think a more direct approach. An open question like what score would you put to this game? Followed up by scores. They did this with Sonic Frontiers for example but in a separate article and this was because that game had a vastly different user versus reviewer opinion. I just think that doing this for every game would help the review in general by having both reviewer and user score in the same place. (Thus avoiding heated discussion in the comments).
@Wisps For Sonic Frontiers, I believe the poll was just a different interface for the normal user-rating system. It was fun to see the whole distribution of scores rather than just the average score though; it was a relatively standard distribution centered near 7, but with 5% trolls rating it 1/10 😛 It would be interesting if we could always see that data.
I think it worked well for Sonic because the poll was some days after the review in a separate article, so people had had time to actually play the game. I'm not sure if it could have stopped arguments in the review comments itself.
Most reviewed games tend to have much less controversial discussion under the reviews. And of course most games don't even get a review. Hard to think what would make sense for all situations, but I agree having the poll probably wouldn't be a bad thing.
@FishyS@Wisps yeah... so we recently introduced that poll feature, but it is just a different interface to the game rating system — you can rate any game at any time (out of 10), assuming it has been released. These ratings then form the basis of our ranked game lists too; it's all the same system. Hope that makes sense!
@Grumblevolcano We've got something planned on that front, and we'll be highlighting a whole bunch of our favourites throughout March, too — give them a proper send-off and hopefully get more eyeballs on some gems!
I'd like to report an issue I've been experiencing. Whenever I try to load something on here (an article, a forum, even the main home page), I keep getting the same generic Error message. A few refreshes of the page usually fixes it but I'm wondering why it's even happening when it's been fine for the last year
Ditto regarding NL failing to load over the past couple days. It's only lasted a couple minutes on at least two occasions. I assumed it was a maintenance thing.
I have that error occasionally. I just assumed the site was temporarily down. Are we all getting it at the same time? I feel like it was happening to me around 6pm EST earlier this week.
At least one of the recent times I got that error I couldn't load discord either so I thought perhaps it was a cloudflare issue.
edit: Just had the issue at 9:05 am EST and no other websites seemed to be affected. Refreshing for 30 seconds fixed it temporarily but the issue is happening again now.
@Fizza@Yannis@WoomyNNYes@FishyS yeah we've had an on-going database issue over the past few days... that said I /think/ we have just fixed it, therefore should be OK/better from now on.
yeah we've had an on-going database issue over the past few days... that said I /think/ we have just fixed it, therefore should be OK/better from now on.
You've always got your finger on the pulse, Ant. 🌈😎
@antdickens So I posted something in the chit chat thread and it notified people but they cant see it logged in. They can only see it when they are logged out. This is the second time it has happened to me.
Can vouch for this being the case.
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@antdickens So I posted something in the chit chat thread and it notified people but they cant see it logged in. They can only see it when they are logged out. This is the second time it has happened to me.
So this should be fixed now... it was actually a bug with our spoiler-filter system that your post was triggering. It's all fixed now though — I've removed the posts to avoid duplication.
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