A Look Into Elder Scrolls Online Beta

Hey everyone! It's Lin with a review on Elder Scrolls Online beta that happened just this weekend. This isn't my first time playing the beta, actually...this is my second time, the first time I was invited to participate during November of last year. What I saw was not pleasing, something I will elaborate on further. Then why is it that I decided to come back? I was told that there were significant changes to the game and, hearing this, I took the bait. And I was happy to find that they were right...it's an excellent game and feels very different. So what changes made it so this game turn into a bad game into a great one...?

Game Reviews: State of Decay

Hello everyone, Lin here with a review on the single player zombie survival, State of Decay! While there's been a lot of zombie survival type of media (especially games) out there nowadays, State of Decay (SoD) is interesting because it's probably one of the firsts to start implementing RPG elements to the genre.

Rating Anime and Video Games, an Explanation, Part 2

Hey guys, Lin here with Part 2 of my rating system. To start off, I'll let you know that anime and video game criteria merge. Every subject that is analyzed in anime is also done in video games, however, video games has criteria which is not analyzed in anime...

I'll start with giving very brief descriptions of shared criteria before going into other ratings that specific to anime or VGs.

1. Characters. I judge characters based on how real main characters feel and whether or not they can be related to. I think that good fictional characters have major strengths, but they also have flaws and weaknesses. Examples of bad characters are marysues or one dimensional characters.
2. Dialogue: Cringe worthy one-liners don't get many points, you'd imagine. Dialogue is just how smoothly lines go with each other and how appropriate their script is. Cursing three times in a sentence doesn't make your lines any more meaningful.

Rating Anime and Video Games, An Explanation, Part 1

Hey guys, Lin here with an explanation on how I rate anime and video games on SR. First off, keep in mind I'm going to be calling both of them 'games', as a means to make everything sound a little smoother. So don't think I just mean video games when I make this post...I mean both!

Okay, so if you've read any of my review posts, you'll already know that I use a scale of 1-10, where 1 is the lowest and 10 is the highest. When people see that I give something a 5, they think it's a low score, but that's not true. A 2 is a low score. A 3 is a disappointment. When I give something a 5, I mean the number between 1 and 10. It is average.

"But Lin, what does average mean?"

It means that the game fulfilled the criteria to at least keep up with the game out around it's year of development or current games in it's genre, depending on when it was made. There is not particularly anything bad about it, yet not anything spectacular. It is not inspiring in its genre of games. Scores that fall in this range usually are aspects that are not really talked about because they don't make a big difference. They are easily forgotten or overshadowed by very good things or very bad things. It is simply average.