Suggestions

[George Petrisor]

If you think our website needs something or you want to tell us something that you don't like, fell free. We are here to create a gaming website for you not for our ego.

[SaltwaterC]

Ask Mişu to fix this:



This appears when you click that annoying banner from Soft32.
Later: and instead of smilies, the place has texts, a favicon would be nice, and also a Sweet Titles implementation for the title attributes of the anchor tags, and some more optimization to the speed of the site.
PS: a XHTML 1.0 Strict/Transitional (depending on the page) Validation of the code of this place won't hurt tho ... After all the doctypes say XHTML, but is not valid.

[Emanuel Avram]

I'll let him know though he already hates me for so many bug reports He claims it's a firefox bug - it's true that I haven't seen it in other browsers...

[Mihai Gabriel]

The XHTML compliance and speed optimizations will take some time. Anyhow you do realise that the site wasn't written from scratch, so it is a lot of generated HTML code that i hadn't had time to look after and, when nedded, to fix. The text instead of smilies... was a administrative setting that needed to be enabled (and i'm not the only administrator); hope it works from now on. The footer appearing beneath or above the site columns is a browser bug... try refreshing the page and you will see it correctly; it happens in IE and Firefox (i'll try to work something out ... but everithing seems to fail  ; i'll keep trying). And... i'll try to fix the title attribute  ;D most probably while working on XHTML compliance. Thanks for your post, it really helps.

[Emanuel Avram]

While it's true that you aren't the only administrator, you are the only administrator who moved the files

[Zuluf]

Hello.

Well since Emanuel Avram is my friend, and I tend to be pretty honest with friends, here's what I think of your site after about an hour of browsing:

Crits&Comments:

1) The website's functionality is pretty high, the layout is balanced and either the bandwith is high or the resource distribution is very well optimized, because it loads a whole lot faster than most game review websites, works on any browser, kudos.

2) The reviews are sloppy, and I'm not going to ennumerate the grammar errors, phased sentence building or inappropriate selection of words, but I really hope you get to work on that because it might affect some of the incoming readers who are a bit more pretentious of your english skills -_-. What's more disturbing isn't the fair amount of errors but some things that you say, like prones to argument your ideas, that could be said in ways that come to mind instantly, and aren't hard to look for.

3) Some of the reviews lose focus on what reviews (in my opinion) are supposed to do. I sometimes frowned upon the conclusions that you came to after dodging main ideas for a few phrases. For instance, if I were to buy the new Harry Potter game, I'd read a few reviews about it and then decide over it, and most websites out there (talking about Gamespot, although I'm pretty reluctant over Gamespot's conclusions, Eurogamer, gametrailers a/o) manage to form a pretty solid picture in my head wether i'm going to spend or save. The impressions that I had after reading the Harry Potter review here was a bit fuzzy, as if I had been explained in a very convoluted way the essence of eating burritos (or other menial activities).

4) I mentioned Gamespot earlier, so I'd have to pinpoint this - you can see the layout similarity a mile away. What's good about you guys is that you don't flood my browser with commercials, and I hope you stay that way even if and after you're going to get enough visitors for Sprite to ask you for a banner

Well, I hope this has been of some help, thanks for reading and good luck. I look forward to these issues getting solved or treated

Cheers!

[Sergiu Petrisor]

Thanks Zuluf for your opinion.

Indeed, our reviews are sometimes sloppy but this is because we have a small team and we try to add as much content for our readers that sometimes we make errors. Another thing is that we cannot write as an American might expect as we don't think the way they do. Sometimes it's a bad thing, some it isn't.

Regarding the layout, indeed there are some similarities with Gamespot for example but this is because their website is very functional and it wasn't our intention to copy Gamespot. We want to create our "flavor" not to copy anyone.

Regarding the commercial at a certain point in Games32's existence we will post some banners as we cannot survive without them. But we will try to make them as painless as possible.

We hope we will improve in time thanks to your suggestions, even if they criticize us. We must learn from both good and bad, so keep them coming.

[Emanuel Avram]

Zack (or Zuluf if you want)...

You made me re-read my Harry Potter review! I really disagree with you about that. It looks simple and to the point to me.

You can obviously find some mistakes. We do our best to correct the articles and news we post. Unfortunately it’s impossible to cover everything. You have to realize it’s not just games we’re reviewing. We do everything site related: add the latest downloads, screenshots, trailers, create streaming videos, talk to producers, add news, add new games, check the forums, maintenance and these are just a few tasks we have to deal with everyday.

As we get more experience with the job we will surely do everything better and faster, but consider we are only 3 months old.
In this industry you have to be as fast as possible and provide the most quantity of information. We don’t neglect the quality, but we try to balance all those factors in order to get a fully functional and enjoyable website for you guys.

What good is a perfectly written review if it is 6 months after the release? And you know our HQ location doesn’t help at all in receiving the latest titles fast enough.

As for the website layout – it’s just a layout, anything to get the job done as best as possible. It’s modular and can be expanded to do a lot of stuff. And it looks decent.

Like Sergiu said, there will be ads in the future, but we will try to have contextual ads and nothing too obstructive and annoying.

"Some of the reviews lose focus on what reviews (in my opinion) are supposed to do." - So what is this main idea that I am (we are) missing? What additional information could have helped you know the game better?

Thanks for posting your thoughts.

[Puzzle]

I have something I don't like.
I'd like to know why my comment here http://www.games32.com/Tom-Clancy-s-H-A-W-X-(XB360)-Previews was deleted when I didn't break any rules. Criticizing your editors writing skills and showing him where he made mistakes isn't a good reason to delete my comment, in my opinion.

[Flaviu Volosciuc]

Hello Mr Puzzle,
"I have something I don't like." What?

I see you have a lot of spare time criticizing me. Which is good! Criticizing only my articles makes me think you really enjoy reading them. You are not the first person criticizing the grammar aspect of our articles, as you can see above this post. Therefore I will give you the same explanation as my collegue Emanuel gave it to Zuluf:

"We do our best to correct the articles and news we post. Unfortunately it’s impossible to cover everything. You have to realize it’s not just games we’re reviewing. We do everything site related: add the latest downloads, screenshots, trailers, create streaming videos, talk to producers, add news, add new games, check the forums, maintenance and these are just a few tasks we have to deal with everyday."

I know that this explanation will be just another catalyst for you to keep on criticizing me even harder because you don't give a damn about our problems. And I fully agree with you. So, let's make this problem simple:

If you don't like what you see here, go away! Or start writing your own articles! Maybe someone will spot you and you will become a happy employee.

Anyway, enjoy your stay.

[Puzzle]

Hello Mr. Flaviu Volosciuc,
Have you wondered why I criticize only your articles? It's because your mistakes stand out and really iritate me. I was actually looking forward to reading something about Tom Clany's HAWX and you ruined it with your poor English, as I said in my comment... which you deleted. I also noticed that you did not answer my question posted as a comment on your article. Exactly why was my comment deleted? Because you don't like my criticism? I hardly think that constitutes as braking the rules. I have seen other commenters that criticize other editors, yet their comments seem to remain. Care to explain?
"If you don't like what you see here, go away!" Wow, nice way to attract visitors! Friendly editors around here! As for your suggestion, I hardly see the relevance. I don't want to write my own articles, if I did, I wouldn't visit your site and read yours!
I understand that you do your best to correct articles, yet I see a large number of mistakes and typos that could have been corrected. By the way, I also noticed you just deleted my comment and didn't even correct your mistakes, so insted of telling me I don't give a damn about your problems, maybe you should look at yourself and see who doesn't give a damn about correcting his articles.
Thank you and I am enjoying my stay.

[Puzzle]

My suggestion would be to stop copying from Wikipedia, if possible, and try writing your own articles. Just because you modify or rearrange some words doesn't meant it's your writing!
Check my Zeno Clash comment for more.

[Flaviu Volosciuc]

Man, I'm glad you are back!
I'm sorry that I couldn't answer at the right time. (some of us still have a social life). But let's get back to the Wiki problem:

Wiki was the only source from which I found out that Zeno Clash was a finalist in the Independent Games Festival, so I thought it will be worth mentioning it, because the developers really deserve it. Similarities with dark Messiah and Double Dragon are obvious, and I'm not the only one to mention them. Versus screens are obvious again. How do you want me to name them? Last two fragments are facts from the story, so I don't see what's your problem.

[Puzzle]

Wow, you copied your comment from the article.
Copying from other places, without mentioning them and giving proper credit is called stealing, and this is no exception. A couple of quotes and saying "Wiki says" would have been much better.
As for the fact that you're not the only one to mention similarities to Double Dragon and Dark Messiah (I wonder if you actually played these games or just took Wikis word on it), I'm sure you would know, as I'm sure you've read all the reviews out there, for inspiration, of course.
Damn, I'm enjoying my stay! Thanks for having me here

[Puzzle]

Coincidence or not, I can't post comments any more. What's up with your site?

[Flaviu Volosciuc]

Seems there is an access problem to the database.  You are not the only one with this problem.
You have to wait a couple of days until my collegues will solve it somehow. Be patient!

[Puzzle]

A friendly reply! What's this world coming to?

[Puzzle]

That's an interesting solution you have found to deal with my comments on articles. It seems I can't comment on them due to some weird "anti spam check form" problem, when there is no such thing, and my comment previews just fine on news for example. Way to go. Sweep it under the rug, if you can't answer. Poor administration.
PS: I did make one comment yesterday that seemed to work, but it didn't show up, and now nothing works. Wo-Hoo! I'm going to bed. Fix your stupid comment problems, if they are problems, which I seriously doubt.

[Puzzle]

So, any answer on why my comments no longer seem to be published? Do you not like my constructive criticism? I understand that your English is poor, and you do not like people correcting it, but how about trying to write articles that don't need correcting, instead of "sweeping criticism under the rug", like you're doing now. Sheesh, I don't get it, is nobody watching you? Don't you have someone to answer to, or someone that decides what gets published or not? Or do you publish whatever you want, then delete all unfavorable comments? Well, Mr Volcosciuc?