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games should have a related games thing under them

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 12:23am

PROBOPASS

PROBOPASS

28 posts

Wood - Squire

that way you could easily find games similar to some of your favourites

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 10:58am

Graham

Graham

4,154 posts

Wood - Prince

could display it's tags and the games with the same tags.

tags are overused and inaccurate.

games with the same names in title could be completely different.

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 7:39pm

Ernie15

Ernie15

5,362 posts

Gold - King

This has been suggested before. One of the reasons it was shot down was because it would create major lag and take tons of precious time to create a page of "similar games" for 1400+ games.

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 7:46pm

Kasic

Kasic

348 posts

Gold - Squire

Maybe just a better tag system. I mean, games like tag the fence are considered an action game? You move a brush over a background. How does that classify? I would catogorize that as misc. Who determines what games are tagged as what? The game maker? Someone on this site? There needs to be stricter classifications for setting tags, that way the tag system would work for a related page and use the current one already in place.

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 7:53pm

Zephera

Zephera

152 posts

Gold - Serf

This has been suggested before. One of the reasons it was shot down was because it would create major lag and take tons of precious time to create a page of "similar games" for 1400+ games.

I don't think it would cause too much lag, and I don't think you'd have to do it for every game. If that was the case, then Youtube would have to do the same for every video that's on that website. (I think over a million.)

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 8:26pm

Ernie15

Ernie15

5,362 posts

Gold - King

I don't think it would cause too much lag, and I don't think you'd have to do it for every game.

The optimization part would be hellish lag, and it wouldn't make sense not to do it for every game.

Youtube would have to do the same for every video that's on that website.

Youtube does have related video lists for every video. The difference is, Youtube has tons of workers who do nothing but find ways to make the site faster, and they have even more workers who can make videos code themselves into lists without having to do it manually. People get paid to work for Youtube, remember.

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 8:37pm

Zephera

Zephera

152 posts

Gold - Serf

The optimization part would be hellish lag, and it wouldn't make sense not to do it for every game.

No, I meant you wouldn't have to code every game.

Youtube does have related video lists for every video. The difference is, Youtube has tons of workers who do nothing but find ways to make the site faster, and they have even more workers who can make videos code themselves into lists without having to do it manually. People get paid to work for Youtube, remember.

Maybe we could just have separate lists that would include certain tags. Then games with those certain tags would go into their specific list. It seems crazy to me, that you'd have to code each individual game.

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 8:55pm

Freakenstein

Freakenstein

466 posts

Gold - Squire

bah...

So why doesn't every developer who submits a game not submit a tag as well? Or is it because the site isn't as generous with the options?

And then the daggum games search would just be to search tags. When a user types in something that's not a tag, it wouldn't search anything, and instead provide a list of all the tags available. Games don't have tags? Put tags on them! Remove the search based on key words and instead based on tags.

One of the reasons it was shot down was because it would create major lag and take tons of precious time to create a page of "similar games" for 1400+ games.

How lazy for people bring these two reasons up! Not necessarily you Ernie, but for those that bring this up for every idea that comes up. LAZY. Everything causes lag, and everything takes time to do. Anyone who says this doesn't contribute any sort of constructive criticism for suggestions.

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 9:28pm

Blu3sBr0s

Blu3sBr0s

1,190 posts

Iron - Knight

You know why this wouldn't work?

What is related to "Red?"

What is related to "The Unfair Platformer?"

Nothing.  Unless they have sequels.  And if a game has a sequal it is usually linked to in the previous game's menu.

Unless you mean similair games.  Which still isn't that great because they go in sections to begin with.

Although I must say, if its the AG ppl who decide the section they really suck at it.  And if it's the designers then...well...they're dumb xD

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 9:42pm

Gantic

Gantic

1,114 posts

Wood - Duke

Moderator

There are subgenres to shooters. A vert shooter isn't the same as a side scroller or an FPS or a (fixed turret) defend the whatever or arena shooters. If someone likes a vert shooter, maybe they'll want to look for more vert shooters, but you can't do that right now at all except by picking trial and error.

 

Posted Nov 6, '09 at 9:55pm

Ernie15

Ernie15

5,362 posts

Gold - King

If the similar games lists are created using tags, Four Second Frenzy would be a similar game to Age of War.

 
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