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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a official review panel for this site? It would be similar to regular online reviews, except we also have a section telling how good it is for its price. We could also have an automatic update of the cheapest price for the game. Do you think it is a good idea?

We have the Cag-o-matic that shows the daily price fluctuations of all games at most major stores. The review idea is interesting though I'm not sure how the voting would go for the official reviewers.

OP's got a point, though. The Game Reviews forum isn't exactly jam-packed with reviews, mostly jack-back-asswards commentary on a few titles, and some off-the-wall threads on random, off topic stuff. I'd vote for a review forum with a poll for newly released games. Each CAG who has played it could vote from 1-10 on the game and give us a short review in the thread (or just make their ass-hat comments there). The poll would give us an average score. There used to be Cheapy's game club discussions, but that was nixed a while ago when the political forum was set up.

I know they display results in percentages, but is there some way to script an average score based on poll responses ?

I would be willing to spend time writing reviews. I like your idea bmulligan, but I am afraid that there will be people that purposely give games multiple good or bad ratings. Thank you basketkase543, I never knew about the Cag-o-matic.

Anyone else wat to do this?

I like the sound of that.

Actually we do have CAG reviews...DenisDFat 1 word reviews! "Sucks" and "Good"

I actually like the idea of reviews, especially since a few of our posters made some good reviews at videogamedeals.com

Originally Posted by Wshakspear Actually we do have CAG reviews...DenisDFat 1 word reviews! "Sucks" and "Good" I actually like the idea of reviews, especially since a few of our posters made some good reviews at videogamedeals.com

Yeah, and if we had a system where everybody voted, you'd be sure to see a lot of his lowering some good games...

I talked to cheapy and here is his plan, if you are willing to write a good in depth review, write it and email it to cheapy. He will then sticky it in the review forum and post something on the front page. If this proves successful, ie:a decent amout of responses , not too much flaming and reviews keep coming, we will it take a step further
this plan has been approved by CheapyD,

Perhaps if enough work goes into this it could become one of the sources for gamrankings.com and spread the CAG banner far and wide.

Originally Posted by epobirs Perhaps if enough work goes into this it could become one of the sources for gamrankings.com and spread the CAG banner far and wide.

If we are all willing to do some (shudder) work, then it is quite possible

Originally Posted by epobirs Perhaps if enough work goes into this it could become one of the sources for gamrankings.com and spread the CAG banner far and wide.

Come on, we only need 300!

Cool CheapyD. I have a few old game reviews that I can post. Tell me how to format it and I will write a few more. I will just post them in these forums.

I posted 5 reviews of different styles and I will see the comments I get and revise my future reviews based on that.

EDIT: They are all GameCube reviews because I made these for the Official GameCube forums at first. I have a PS2 and Xbox as well so I will be able to make reviews for them.

A modest proposal that doesn't require any exotic culinary habits:

A CAG game ranking systems. Once a decent review of a game is contributed, registered CAGs may then vote their own rating, with the scale to be left to our proprietor's choice. To encourage greater site participation one vote is earned for each little Monopoly tycoon you have to your username. This also pretty much eliminates the possibliity of ballot stuffing for all but the most insane. Even then, they'd have to make a real contribution to the boards or their intense post whoring would soon cause them to be ejected.

The review for each site would of course prominently feature the kickback links for retailers offering the product. Otherwise, why should Cheapy bother?

It would be cool though if CAG went on gamerankings.com.

It's a good idea, I just hope no one is immature and votes 1 or 10 on every game reviewed. The only "1" game i've ever played was "Rise 2: Ressurection" for the Playstation. Perhaps the worst game ever made.

I think this is a great idea. The fact of the matter is, of the various gaming websites, boards, etc. that I use, this is the one I feel the most identification/sense of community with. I know I'd certainly be willing to do some reviewing (and being as that I have a decent vocabulary and command of the English language, I think I could do well with it).

Here's my thought: I think CheapyD should establish some kind of reviewing/ratings standard, like all the other gaming websites have. It could be something as simple as an overall 1-10 score, or something as complex as a 1-5 scale for everything from textures to voice acting. Either way, once CheapyD establishes some sort of CAG reviewing standard, the rest of us that are interested can submit reviews that conform to that standard. This is kind of a modification of epobirs' idea, and could totally be implemented in conjunction with it (kinda like how IGN has their score and their reviews, and then their readers' score). Thoughts?

Good Idea, and I would definatley be interested in writing some of the reviews.

Not a bad idea, but I spend too much time on CAG as it is.