What Fansite Would You Want To See?
#1
Posted 21 November 2005 - 08:43 AM
Okay, in this topic I don't want any off-topic bull****, we're here to discuss one subject alone and that is what game we will like to base our fansite project that I suggested in the Spice topic. The question is very simple, if we decided to create a fansite, which RPG series would you like the site based on? Please remember that if your site is chosen, it's not just us, but YOU who needs to help us with the content. Also remember that there's no point in choosing games like Final Fantasy that have been done to death. We want to make a network of fansites for games that are exceptionally good, but not not popular that there are already 60 other major fansites for it.
Please choose carefully and I'd apreciate it if you google search your choice to see if there are any fansites for it already. Don't get off-topic in here otherwise I'll request that my topic be locked and this whole idea can be scrapped, biatches.
This is NOT a topic where you can shout "I'm good at HTML!" etc. that will be dealt with LATER, right now let's get the basics out of the way. If we feel that we can pull this off after the planning, then Max is willing to make it happen, but first we need to show him that we will try to make it work.
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I place my vote on Baten Kaitos. My reasons for voting for this game is very simple; it's visually impressive, very enjoyable, received alot of good reviews and there's a sequal on the way. Best of all, there are no dedicated Baten Kaitos fansites out there that are even close to being decent. For these reasons I think Baten Kaitos is a great choice, it's a Gamecube RPG. http://batenkaitos.namco.com/ that is the official website and you can search online for screenshots. It's the only RPG I've played that actually has a card-based battle system that is so simple to use yet pulls of many complex tactics and attacks. For this reason it's by far my best choice to make a fansite on.
#2
Posted 21 November 2005 - 11:09 AM
- Hidden-Street.net.
#3
Posted 21 November 2005 - 11:14 AM
#4
Posted 21 November 2005 - 11:32 AM
I'm going for Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS. Sure it's not a traditional RPG... but it hasn't even been released yet. There are a few (and pretty impressive) fansites for the original GameCube version that I saw on Google, but I've looked at them and they don't look to be covering Wild World anytime soon. The only one that I saw was this site... and it's a part of GameSpy so I'm not sure if it counts:
http://animalcrossin.../ds-index.shtml
Oh, and I've heard alot of good things about Baten Kaitos, but unfortunately I don't have a GameCube. :blink: So I can't say much on it.
This post has been edited by Wind Dude: 21 November 2005 - 11:33 AM
#5
Posted 21 November 2005 - 12:24 PM
#6
Posted 21 November 2005 - 02:17 PM
For those of you that haven't read the other topic, the point of this topic is to brainstorm ideas for a new game website, which would be part of a potential RPG game site "network." I have agreed to consider doing such a venture as long as we have the support of a substantial group of people from these forums.
As has been said, I don't really think doing a site about a MMORPG is a good idea, mostly for the reasons already stated. I think that both Baten Kaitos and AC:WW are good idea, though I don't have a DS as of yet. Keep the ideas coming and we might just be getting somewhere.
#7
Posted 21 November 2005 - 02:48 PM
Keep the suggestions coming, Baten Kaitos and Animal Crossing can be considered, but there are still alot of other games out there we could do, which series should we work on first? Just because we choose a certain game to be used for our first site it doesn't mean we won't use the other games that were submitted in one of the later fansites we will make for this 'network'.
#8
Posted 21 November 2005 - 07:55 PM
Would Fire Emblem go under the category of games done to death?
#9
Posted 21 November 2005 - 09:51 PM
#10
Posted 22 November 2005 - 01:42 AM
- No other fansites for the game out there, even though it's a great game with high review scores.
- The series isn't that old or long, Baten Kaitos and a sequal is on the way and that's it at the moment. Unlike Fire Emblem games where there is just too many titles to cover on the fansite for our first project.
- There's alot to write about and a decent amount of extra quests and replay value in the game, and god knows what the sequal will offer.
- It's on the Gamecube so for our first fansite we're not alienating half of the forum community by choosing a PS2 or Xbox title.
- Alot of people have played it or have been interested in playing it due to it's surprisingly succesful card battle system.
- It rocks.
#11
Posted 22 November 2005 - 02:19 PM
#12
Posted 22 November 2005 - 04:05 PM
Zxor, on Nov 21 2005, 10:51 PM, said:
Kind of reminds me of a certain brother of Gsninja begging me to teach him how to hack.
I guess Animal Crossing would be an alright game to cover, though I hate BK.
#13
Posted 22 November 2005 - 04:47 PM
I think that we should cover all diffrent types of Rpgs, instead of just one, that way the site
would be diverse, and it wouldn't just appeal to people that play a certain game.
Well thats my suggestion...
#14
Posted 22 November 2005 - 05:21 PM
Golden Djinn13, on Nov 22 2005, 04:47 PM, said:
I think that we should cover all diffrent types of Rpgs, instead of just one, that way the site
would be diverse, and it wouldn't just appeal to people that play a certain game.
Well thats my suggestion...
I think we should have agreed already that that should be the deal. We can't just do Baten Kaitos. We should also broaden our look towards all of Namco's RPG's (the good ones)
#15
Posted 22 November 2005 - 08:16 PM
It's got a rather interesting battle system--with the judgment ring--even though I don't play it. My friend introduced it to me, and I thought it looked good.
#16
Posted 23 November 2005 - 06:07 AM
As for the previous comments, READ MY FRICKIN INTRO POST. Like I have said, we're not just making 1 fansite, we're making a network based on the games we feel would make good fansites. But we need to take this 1 fansite at a time, otherwise shlt will be all over the place, are you getting it? That's why the first game we choose doesn't have to be loved or worshipped by every member on this forum, because after a few weeks of making the content we move onto ANOTHER project when it's done. Am I clear on this after explaining it for the third frickin time? Good.
Also, I know I said Maple Story would make a bad idea for a fansite since everyone has already made one, but I was taking dump last night and this idea just slapped me in the face. www.gamertag.com look at that site. You know what that is? It's a database for Xbox Live users, it's a place where everyone makes a free profile with their character info, name, hobbies, etc. and basically people looking for friends just search the database based on the age, gender etc. they are looking for on MAPLE STORY. Nobody else has done this yet and it's an awesome idea in my opinion. We're doing something that not only alot of players would want, a place to find friends who look like they can agree with, but also a place that no other Maple Site is like! I'm just full of ideas lately, eh?
What'ya guys think, I personally think this idea is a great oppurtunity to get our first wave of members flooding in, as Maple has alot of players at the moment and we can see how well our network project can fare based on this. Also alot of people at GSSF play it so it's a good choice. Just call it MapleDatabase as an example for now, I think it would be great. I want to make friends, but I don't want to register at a Maple forum and post there for weeks to find a couple of people that seem 'cool'. So what do I do? I check out that new database website I heard about on Maple, I first make my own account, after that I start searching for a friend who is around my age, 17 and has a hobby for "Anime" and "Sports" plus I'm looking for a friend from the England to stay in my timezone when I'm playing, so I click England for country and after filling out a few other things I start my search and *poof* there are my results. I write down their In-Game Names or send them an email through their profile and hope to see them soon, awesome or what? I personally love the idea.
#18
Posted 23 November 2005 - 01:32 PM
•Golden Sun
•Fire Emblem
•Advance Wars
•MegaMan Battle Network
Keep in mind that these are not suggestions. I felt like throwing that in since I sensed a sort of game cycle that made the GBA what it is today.
Oh yeah, but what about something called Yggdra Union? It's being made by the same people who delivered Riviera to us (which aptly calls themselves Team Riviera), and was presented at LacrimaCastle.net's forums. It takes a spin on combining mechanics between Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, and, of course, Riviera.
I believe IGN has it pretty much covered for that.
#19
Posted 23 November 2005 - 05:21 PM
#20
Posted 23 November 2005 - 07:31 PM
We could do a general community forum, just talk about whatever, hold contests, etc?
We could get another game series and focus on it like we have on GS?
#21
Posted 23 November 2005 - 08:24 PM
#22
Posted 23 November 2005 - 09:00 PM
nick1presta, on Nov 24 2005, 01:31 AM, said:
We could do a general community forum, just talk about whatever, hold contests, etc?
We could get another game series and focus on it like we have on GS?
That's lame, you have lost your right to submit suggestions. Punk. :agitated:
#23
Posted 24 November 2005 - 06:13 AM
Wind Dude, on Nov 23 2005, 09:24 PM, said:
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/
'Nuff said.
#24
Posted 24 November 2005 - 06:54 AM
Just a general comment about content creation: Making sites for the GBA or older consoles (N64, PS1, and back) is easy because there are emulators for the PC which allow you to take screenshots, share save files, capture sprites or maps, etc. If we are to do a game on the Gamecube or any other recent or future console, we need somebody with a TV Tuner card in their computer. I have one, but I can't dedicate enough time or money to buy and play through the game a few times to capture everything. Just something to keep in mind.
#25
Posted 24 November 2005 - 08:11 AM
#26
Posted 24 November 2005 - 04:46 PM
Zaffa Dot Xom, on Nov 24 2005, 06:13 AM, said:
A general community forum looks more like this: http://www.discussanything.com/forums
But who's counting.
#27
Posted 25 November 2005 - 04:18 AM
Max, on Nov 24 2005, 12:54 PM, said:
Just a general comment about content creation: Making sites for the GBA or older consoles (N64, PS1, and back) is easy because there are emulators for the PC which allow you to take screenshots, share save files, capture sprites or maps, etc. If we are to do a game on the Gamecube or any other recent or future console, we need somebody with a TV Tuner card in their computer. I have one, but I can't dedicate enough time or money to buy and play through the game a few times to capture everything. Just something to keep in mind.
Well I don't have a TV Tuner card, and plus even if someone else other than Max did I personally wouldn't want to depend on that person to do the screen capturing related stuff for the site because I don't know how reliable they are. Max has made that whole fansite (with some help I'm sure) and so if he could do it my mind would be at rest but if there's one thing I hate it's people who say they will do something and ditch it halfway through like a pussy. So if anyone DOES have a TV Tuner which I doubt and WANT to help out then you better be sure what you're getting yourself into.
Why exactly do we need one anyway? We don't need sprites for one. Let's say for example we need screenshots for Baten Kaitos, there are tons of sites out there that have it, if we need walkthroughs we can just contact people from GameFAQ's and ask if we can put their Walkthrough up on our little site, as for Item guides and such, you don't really need images for that you can just provide descriptions. Personally I think the TV Tuner thing is more of an 'extra' of a requirement to make a good site.
#28
Posted 25 November 2005 - 06:52 AM
A HDTV Tuner card would allow high-resolution screen captures, which allows you to get crisp images, and is something most other websites wouldn't have. Sure, you can be a run-of-the-mill site using screenshots from other sites and FAQs from other sites, but where is the fun in that? Just something to think about.
#29
Posted 25 November 2005 - 04:04 PM
Advance wars.
Google got this; Results 1 - 10 of about 17,800,000 for Advance Wars..
Yeah.. Not amazingly small. The game itself (or atleast Dual Strike) is awesome. Fantastic. Suhweet.
So.. A suggestion of mine.. Is the Advance Wars Series.
#30
Posted 25 November 2005 - 10:57 PM
Max, on Nov 25 2005, 12:52 PM, said:
A HDTV Tuner card would allow high-resolution screen captures, which allows you to get crisp images, and is something most other websites wouldn't have. Sure, you can be a run-of-the-mill site using screenshots from other sites and FAQs from other sites, but where is the fun in that? Just something to think about.
Where can I find one of those HDTV Tuners anyhow, and how much do they normally cost? I want one for my personal use since some people don't believe my certain stats on some offline games.
Oh and Max, about the Maple Database idea, getting the first wave of users is very easy. Let's see, half of this forums active members regularly or sometimes play Maple Story, they can always do some in-game advertisement. Another thing is affilliation, I'm sure MapleTip.com, Sleepywood.net and hidden-street.net would glady affilliate with us and they get ALOT of hits so we'd have no problems attracting our first wave of members. I think it's a great idea to consider, I'd do it myself but I lack the coding skills or experience to make a website by myself. But I think if we can't come up with an agreement on which game to choose this Maple idea could be a great way to start off the 'network'.
There's a Market website that resembles Ebay dedicated to Maple Story buying/selling in-game items. the guys site started off little, but in a matter of week/months more and more people started to register and try and sell items and now the place is common place for many Maplers. I personallyt hink this idea cannot fail unless we don't put the effort in to make it work in the first place.
sibsag, on Nov 25 2005, 10:04 PM, said:
Advance wars.
Google got this; Results 1 - 10 of about 17,800,000 for Advance Wars..
Yeah.. Not amazingly small. The game itself (or atleast Dual Strike) is awesome. Fantastic. Suhweet.
So.. A suggestion of mine.. Is the Advance Wars Series.
You know funny enough, that's not a bad idea at all. Why? The game is a huge hit, yet there are barely any websites out there that do a decent job of supporting it. There are two popular sites for the series I have found on Google, they are Wars World which is a crappy looking Gamespy-based fansite, and then there is http://www.awbunker.com/ which isn't half bad but I bet we could do better. We could cover Advance Wars ,Advance Wars 2, and Advance Wars DS and if we do it good enough, we can even try and cover the GameCube version but I forgot the name of it, they changed the name for the GC version for some reason.
So basically, Advance Wars is another good idea for a fansite we should add to our consideration list.
#31
Posted 26 November 2005 - 03:28 AM
I've done some research.. Or more so, looked at stuff on the UK ebay, for you. And on there they sell for about 10 pounds. I think.
Advance wars fansite;
I'd be happy to help with some content on an advance wars site.
#32
Posted 26 November 2005 - 06:20 AM
About TV Tuner cards: regular (non-High Definition) TV "capture" cards are made by various companies. A google search turned up this very nice list of available cards with reviews of each: http://www.tv-cards.com/reviews.php. If you are going to spend the money, you might as well get an HD-compatible card so that you can get HD screen caps from the new consoles (360, PS3). I would personally buy the ATI HDTV Wonder, which runs about from $100-200 (link).
#33
Posted 26 November 2005 - 01:07 PM
#34
Posted 26 November 2005 - 01:10 PM
#35
Posted 26 November 2005 - 03:43 PM
I have yet to beat the game since I took a break from GC games, so I would deffinetly not be a good staff so I guess I'm just suggesting.
#37
Posted 26 November 2005 - 05:19 PM
Eugine, on Nov 26 2005, 03:43 PM, said:
I have yet to beat the game since I took a break from GC games, so I would deffinetly not be a good staff so I guess I'm just suggesting.
Wasn't Tales of Phantasia supposed to come out on the GBA? NP has been putting that in their Game Watch for months. Did they pull back on that or something?
Anyways, I loved ToS, the story was great, and I think that would make a great fansite.
#38
Posted 26 November 2005 - 06:19 PM
#39
Posted 26 November 2005 - 08:28 PM
I'd try some myself, but I'm currently using my grandmother's computer. It's not the greatest computer in the world, and I don't want to, you know, mess with it.
#40
Posted 27 November 2005 - 02:36 AM
So here's what I'm going to do, Max isn't making this site until he finished his latest and final version for the GSS site. This doesn't mean we sit here like dopes all day, I want everything planning-wise to be done by then so we can get on with the actual site.
To do this I'm going to put up the games that are most likely to turn out succesful. I won't put up my Maple idea since it doesn't seem others are as enthusiastic about it as me so fair enough. But Advance Wars, Baten Kaitos, Tales of... series, Sword of Mana, Shadow Hearts and Animal Crossing. Feel free to add any last minute sugestions, I won't make the Poll until tonight so you all still have time suggest anything extra. But any of the ideas listed already are good enough and even though we'll only be using one of them for now, I'm pretty sure another one of those listed will be used for our second fansite.
#41
Posted 27 November 2005 - 08:00 AM
In about two weeks time I anticipate that I will be able to begin setting up the backend coding for this new site so that you all can start entering the content before we even finalize a design. Anubis has stepped up to a leadership role in all of this, so I will live him in charge of the planning for now. I will continue to monitor this and offer suggestions, but this will be your site, so you get to do all the fun work involved in making a website.
#42
Posted 27 November 2005 - 10:08 AM
#43
Posted 27 November 2005 - 10:44 AM
But, I'm sure alot of people have beaten it here, so no biggie.
#44
Posted 27 November 2005 - 03:07 PM
One being, awrev.com. I hate the members there.
Also, I have a DS + AWDS and AW1+2.
#45
Posted 27 November 2005 - 04:13 PM
I love advance wars, especially the first one, and I haven't even seen an advance war
community, so like nick said ...they must suck.
#46
Posted 27 November 2005 - 05:28 PM
#47
Posted 03 December 2005 - 04:30 AM
#48
Posted 03 December 2005 - 09:31 AM
#49
Posted 03 December 2005 - 02:45 PM
#52
Posted 04 December 2005 - 05:11 PM
Sea_of_Time, on Dec 3 2005, 10:14 PM, said:
If you claim Nintendo Power magazine has been putting the game on their 'Gamewatch' then yes, that could be a fact, I think Sibsaq assumed you were saying something that resembles "Nintendo Power gave it great reviews, so it's gonna be awesome since you can always trust the review from an official magazine, right?" that kind of thing.
#53
Posted 04 December 2005 - 05:16 PM
Anubis, on Dec 4 2005, 05:11 PM, said:
I could never trust scores given by that magazine. They've given every Nintendo published game 8.0 or higher out of 10 in the last two years. (Except for Geist, but that shouldn't count)
#54
Posted 04 December 2005 - 05:18 PM
#55
Posted 05 December 2005 - 11:06 PM
I'l definately help out with this site. Keep in mind though that I just bought WoW (ie. I'm playing that 90% of my day :P) and I'm trying to make a fansite of my own...
This post has been edited by Neon: 05 December 2005 - 11:10 PM
#56
Posted 06 December 2005 - 01:43 AM
#57
Posted 09 December 2005 - 07:06 PM
#58
Posted 11 December 2005 - 04:14 AM
Every fansite we make from this day on will be added to the network. Who knows, in a year if we're GOOD we can make about 10-12 fansites. That's if we're REAL good though. If we take it slowly but nicely we can finish a fansite for a non-RPG game in about 2 months, considering the genre and lifespan. Making for example a Halo fansite would mean the guides don'tneed much detail and there's not much to cover, but we'd still get alot of fans, but covering a fansite for say for example FF7 would require alot more guides and alot more detailed info since it's an RPG. I just personally hope all of our fansites aren't Nintendo games, I want to attract gamers of various tastes to this network, I don't want this to just be one huge meeting point for every Nintendo wh0re on the planet. I want some PS2 fanboys and some Xbox fanboys and even maybe some PC fanboys to hopefully someday all hang out on this forum.
#59
Posted 15 December 2005 - 10:04 PM
Unfortunately, it seems like i'm no longer part of the inner circle anymore *taps hat* so... yeah i got a question... will the fansites be managed by different individuals (multiple webmasters) or just by GSS (Max) itself and have the members create quality content? I've seen the topics and stuff and understand that the members will be contributing to this project but i just wasn't sure if there would be a group of staff for each site or just a huge one doing it all o_0
#60
Posted 18 December 2005 - 03:56 AM
We will only be working on 1 website at a time, so once a website is completed there is no staff or webmaster for it. It's just a completed site. A completed site no longer requires any work from staff other than making sure the links are still working etc. so basically this is the basic concept of who rules the roost:
Max.
Content Providers.
That's it.
Anubis hopes this wasn't too confusing, as it was for him just to type this out while keeping a straight face and playing Pro Evo 5.
#61
Posted 18 December 2005 - 09:29 AM
Anywho, let me just clarify/add on to what Anubis said:
Basically, I manage the server and write all the scripts that allow other people to add content to the site. Like Anubis said, I'm working on a content management system called Zephyr (not final name) that will allow people to add just raw content to the database which then gets processed and displayed as defined in templates.
That allows me to do the hard HTML work up front, and then people can add content without worrying about formatting it and keeping it consistent with the site look and feel. So once I invest the initial setup time, other people can add content to the site without having to go through me, which frees me to do other sites or projects. We will probably leave one or two people "in charge" of each individual site to post news, approve new content, etc.
P.S. If anyone has a cool name/alias for this script (called Zephyr for now), I'd love to hear suggestions via PM (do not post them in this thread).
#62
Posted 18 December 2005 - 12:46 PM
#63
Posted 18 December 2005 - 08:45 PM
I like the idea so far, but then it certainly takes away that proud feeling you get after building a site from absolute scratch. Yep, the good old days =p. If this idea can be carried out with close care, it'd to a LOT more than just keep this community alive. I'll check back more often to see if i can help in any way. It is winter vacation after all ^o^.
This post has been edited by Julian: 18 December 2005 - 08:45 PM
#64
Posted 21 December 2005 - 07:55 AM
#65
Posted 21 December 2005 - 12:43 PM
#66
Posted 21 December 2005 - 06:24 PM
This post has been edited by Julian: 21 December 2005 - 06:24 PM
#67
Posted 21 December 2005 - 08:44 PM
#68
Posted 21 December 2005 - 08:46 PM
#69
Posted 21 December 2005 - 08:56 PM
A thread/forum isn't a bad idea, except i find that a chatroom would make things run a lot quicker, the people are actually there and are waiting to reply rather than having to wait for them to actually log on and post a responce.
#70
Posted 21 December 2005 - 08:57 PM
#71
Posted 21 December 2005 - 09:25 PM
#73
Posted 22 December 2005 - 01:26 AM
But anyhow, I think it's best if we had a private forum to discuss all site related things for the AW site and for every other future site.
#74
Posted 23 December 2005 - 05:47 PM
#75
Posted 24 December 2005 - 03:34 PM
#76
Posted 27 December 2005 - 12:53 AM
I've got AWDS, and I think I'll help with some content stuff. I'd like to do a technique/strategy page, to help newbs place units strategically, attack effectively, etc. It's not a walkthrough, just a guide page.
#77
Posted 03 January 2006 - 04:46 PM
If anyone needs me add me to MSN.
[email protected]
HOIGHT!
Also; From tomorrow to next friday I'll be on a holiday with some mates. To the beach :P
Sooo.. Contact me before then. It is now 11 AM and I'll probably get off at about.. 9-11 tonight.. ;D So you got untill then. Cya!
#78
Posted 24 February 2006 - 05:57 PM
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