Yeah I definately agree with what angry_beaver and phantom_leo say on the site redesign thing. This place needs forums to make it easier to post in topics of interest.

Anyway the Capcom vs. Tat game looks very cool but my doubts in it being released outside of Japan coupled with news that there will be a Marvel vs. Capcom 3 makes me much more interested in the latter game.

gamingeek said:

You should read the blog and comments. There's a lot there. I disagree in that I find that IGN/gamespot/kotaku do have their certain looks.

They have color-schemes and themes to them occassionally, but it's not like they look like a newspaper, TV, etc... I think you are all overthinking that particular aspect when it should be secondary. Content and the name are more important.

We do want forums and that's coming for the future. The whole point of this place is that if you dont want to talk about anime you can talk about whatever you want, just raise the subject or ask a question. We all just bring any random stuff that bugs us to bear. For instance I was pissed at capcom shafting the wii and we all talked about it. I raised the subject. But if you never say anything how can anyone respond?

And I am saying, talk about whatever you want to talk about. You'll find that people who like gaming DO share quite a bit in common, BUT if someone comes here looking to discuss Force Unleashed and sees 3 pages of anime (which is fine)... It almost seems like it's off-topic to start discussing games in the middle of all that. Forums should kill that particular problem. I don't say things too often, because when I do, to backtrack to find if there were any responses to what I posted is cumbersome and time-consuming; time is what I DON'T have a lot of right now.

If you check daily I don't really understand how its hard to follow. I can understand yarcoffin, once a week visit, but daily reading and you can't follow?

Nope. If I have to page back and back and back to find the last converation thread I remember to see what the latest response or question was = Can't follow.

I agree with you on all of the organisation stuff of course. I really think you should read the blog, did you see my mockups?

Fine, if forums are in then, good.

The newspaper mock-up, then...

One headline should be fine, then subsections on the front page like: Nintendo News. XBox 24/7/365. The PlayStation Panel. Portable Place. Otaku Korner. Something like that.

The panels should be in the same place daily. With the biggest news story on top.

Putting some kind of randomizer in that swaps the news link for each of the subsections would be wise.

One main headline block on top. 6 smaller panels comprising the bottom 2/3 rds of the page should be easy enough to do. No?

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I don't think "Gaming Planet" will work well as a site name. I just did a quick google search and there already are a number of sites using it.

ravenprose said:

I don't think "Gaming Planet" will work well as a site name. I just did a quick google search and there already are a number of sites using it.

They shall all be destroyed.

phantom_leo said:

The New Games Times

or

The New Geek Times (in the New York Times font)...

or

The Geek Street Journal

or

The Game Geeks Journal (in the Wall Street Journal font)...

or

The Daily Gamer (in the Daily Planet or Daily Bugle font)...

How about the Gaming Reporter?

I think we want to steer clear of using anything to do with my username. We want to get participation to a max. So for instance I would love for you to handle a retro section Phantom.