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Well you got me to switch from "no voting at all" to that awesome quartile craziness. My only suggestion would be to iron out the definition of "tech" as it was discussed recently that the definition of "close to perfection" is kind of ambiguous.
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Yeah it doesn't look horrible ... on the other hand I need to start listening to games before I work on them :S Man that's terrible. I think I'll make a script to fast forward through some parts
ShinyDoofy: Thanks! And yes, it would be awesome if you'd do some more from that page (or Gruefood Delight?)
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I'm having the same problem here too. Not sure if this means anything, but frame advance works fine up until the cursor shows up, at that point can't frame advance or pause the emulator.
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I give jimsfriend's first post 8/10 for entertainment and 4/10 for technical so I guess that's 6.7. If I'm ever in the mood to skim over the forums I will remember to return to it as it does cover most points here.
Baxter's idea I give 6/10 for entertainment and 9/10 for technical or 7.0 combined. Having them combined does make sense since most people use arbitrary scales anyway. Also I like the idea of decimals being used to make your own list more refined. For input you could have two drop-down lists or radio buttons or whatever, one for the unit and one for the decimal (if writing it in proves difficult).
Personally I still like the idea of boolean rating, as it is harder to skew averages and people are notoriously bad at expressing their feelings on a scale with more than 2 options (let alone 100) -- basically any movie you don't rate counts as haven't seen/don't like and the only option is to mark the movie as "I like it". That takes away making ordered preference lists but that could be implemented in a different way, maybe a way to order the movies you marked as liking but which does not affect the overall "rank" within the site (again, if I'm a bastard I'll rate movies I like 10 and movies I don't like 0 as this is the best way to skew the overall rating)
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I suspect that if people were forced to justify their decisions when voting in political elections it would force people to actually think through their decisions more... (ignoring the whole disenfranchisement of the illiterate and functionally illiterate, which makes this untenable)
But I like the compromise of hidden voting too :)
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Whoah, I had no idea there was a PSX version ... that should be amusing should you ever get it to work. Can't you basically skip the whole game?
Sorry to not post an actually helpful reply :S
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upthorn wrote:
Additionally, even with no votes currently cast, it can make it somewhat less friendly to vote no, because then the author might take it personally and have it influence their opinion of you in future, et cetera.
No. I hope it doesn't influence your opinion of me in future.
... Seriously though, if you're not willing to stand by an opinion, why should you state it? And if you're an author who can't take an honest opinion without establishing a vendetta, please do grow up. There's enough pettiness in the world :) Frankly, a no vote can't even be trusted to BE a valid opinion -- for all we know it's just someone who's messing around or hates the author or...
The first no vote on the new OoT came along with a well thought out and constructed post. Not an anonymous random vote.
Baxter wrote:
so even though the votes might not be that important for judging the movie, I still think it's nice to know what the votes are, and they might indeed (like I thought their purpose was) be of some small assistence of the judges decision.
stickyman05 wrote:
just to make the judge's job easier when trying to figure out how many yeses and nos have aquired for run X
I would be curious to hear from a judge... has the poll ever tipped the scales for a movie? It seems that watching the movie, reading the submission text and discussion should be more than enough.
And while I do see the point that it can be a "fun" statistic, I feel that it mostly feeds the ego of the author and colors the opinion of viewers before watching the movie (well, discussion could do that as well but discussion is easier to avoid).
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I think this was pretty awesome as well. My favorites were climbing up the huge wall quickly and throwing your clone through a wall. And almost destroying the planet :)
Looked well played to me. max12187566 you are a true eco-warrior!
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Wow, I really liked this movie... lots of action and it appears well thought out. This is a great game to TAS. Very unique and lots of varied movement and attacks, plus too short to get anywhere near boring for me... if anything I wish it were a bit longer. I will say congratulations to you as well TaoTao, and look forward to more of your work.
Oh, and I want to learn "Bo-jutsu" now :D
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dragonxyk wrote:
The bug is the most valuable in this game!
That's an understatement!
This took a bit more effort for me than usual to play, but it was worth it. If you like glitching and weird Nintendo games then you will probably enjoy this movie a lot. I won't spoil it too much :)
Good job max12187566
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AKA wrote:
My motivation isn't exactly to "take another run down". It's more motivating to do a game or category that hasn't been done yet, than it is to obselete something. Still, thats no excuse to rush pruduction and get it finished ASAP, we've already seen the dire consequences of that already.
I guess I meant "finish it well as soon as possible" which is different than just rushing. My point still stands that deleting the old movie doesn't really solve anything and is effectively lowering the net entertainment opportunities for the majority of people. OK I'll stop going on about this :)
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That should just be motivation for a new any% to be finished. And a note to be added. Despite the perception of a "huge" OoT audience, I would still argue that the majority of the audience of this site is not, and would appreciate seeing the old one.
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And what percentage of the audience can be considered "OoT experts"? Probably higher than that of the general population, but still low I believe. And yes, I remember the there-and-gone-again note, just wanted to throw it out there again :)
It should be obsoleted ASAP but by a legitimate replacement.
Edit: replying to moozooh
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Yes, that and a "read-only frame advance" button for when you rewind too far :) Doing that is the only disadvantage I've found so far to using rewind rather than traditional savestates. I've also found casual playing with rewind cheating rather than savestate cheating to be much more fun and easy :)
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Maybe just note in Guano's that it's technically deprecated at this point. The skips in that run, outdated though they are, do provide a significantly different viewing experience.
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I vote yes for removing the poll
And meh to adding the buttons -- couldn't hurt to try it I guess, but it would interesting to see how many people don't both to add content and spam the discussion with terse "Voted Yes" replies -- well that happens now anyways :)
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This movie shouldn't obsolete the old one, because it has different goals. If we want to get rid of the old one so bad, we should make a "high quality" any% movie... which is being done (at some rate).
If you argue that Guano's doesn't show current tricks, well, this one doesn't show all of them either :)
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Warp wrote:
Can't that question be finally changed to "should this movie be published"? It would better avoid this problem.
Or maybe it could just be eliminated entirely. Aside from perhaps a "quick" way to tell how a submission is going, I don't really see the benefit, especially considering the drawbacks of tempting viewers to reduce their feedback to just one syllable, political/ego voting, and ongoing confusion about the poll's intent. But that's just me... hey, maybe we could start a poll to see how people feel about the poll! Vote only after voting on a submission! ;)
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SXL wrote:
why not let the user set the value to "every x frames" to save, then fast-forward to the real frame the user wants to go to ? or using variable distances (in frames) between savestates automatically saved, like -2, -4, -8, etc., since usually you need precision close to the current frame you're actually recording, and less in the past...
I did something like that in snes... you can change the speedmode to max and it stops updating the screen, so you could do that and still keep somewhat fluid looking (backwards) animation. Doesn't work in fceux yet, so that would make it look a bit funny -- my main goal was to make it look like it was going backwards, but that would be good for simply wanting to rewind.
And no, no backwards avi's yet ;)
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It's an opinion poll, not a legislative procedure :)
Frankly I'd be suspicious if no one voted no -- that people are too scared to state their opinions.
