Hello all! Some of you may know me as jameslieb1, most of you probably won't. Anyways, I've created this account to begin a journey to become the official critic of Forge Hub! I know that sounds like a bit of a stretch, but it could happen! My posts will be, obviously, reviews. Don't get me wrong though, I will indeed also socialize through this account, I just created it mainly for reviewing maps. If I see a map, good or bad, that I think seems worthy for a review, I'll reply a very thorough review. I'll only review after playing a game on it though. So that's me, The Critic. I hope to write many reviews for you all!
The testing guild already kinda does that but good luck anyways, and welcome. If you're not completely up to date with all the forge know-how you could go check out that section of the forum to be more through with your reviews.
Welcome to Forgehub! I've seen one of your reviews and one thing I would suggest is a suggestion to the forger about fixing the thing you didn't like about their map. Fee free to message me if you have any questions about the site. -AmercanPsycho
First of all, welcome to Forgehub. I'm pretty sure I'm on your Xbox Live friends list, so I guess this is an extra special welcome.. . Anyway, here at Forgehub, we adhere to the rules pretty closely, you can find those here. (Anything from a how-to on reporting posts to signature sizes) Past all the boring, but yet still important stuff, I know firsthand you love infection maps, as you invite me almost constantly too. You can find those in the Map section, under Casual. You can find many other kinds of maps in there aswell, including Competitive, Minigame, and Race. (MLG if your Pro enough If you ever want to have a conversation with someone, you can also Vistor Message them, but I think a better way, and even a way to immerse yourself with the community is to head over to off topic, and more specifically, the PPC. So I hope this was enough of a welcome, and I also hope you enjoy your stay as much as I have so far.
Wait a sec... Jameslieb? you already have an account here. Use your other account for reviews. And someone tell me if im being stupid and what hs doing by creating a 2nd account is okay.
Yes, a fellow newbie. One day we will take over Forgehub, then the WORLD!! MUHAHAHAHA... Sorry, hi, Welcome 2 here///
I can't see the official thing happening, TBH. We do have a (not really functioning at the moment...) Official Review Hub, which is a bunch of reviewers. Though I'd like to see whatever you have with critiquing, it's much harder than it seems...have to have the time, perfect know-how, and so on, and then there's the matter of balancing an opinion between just trying to be hard on everything (IE. Zero Punctuation, which kind of fails as a review but TBH is very funny), or not really realizing anything about the design (the majority of 'reviews' here). On that happy note, good luck...lol.
hey james, you going to be reviewing nowadays? I recommend you apply for the testers guild, I've recently applied and you could help testers out with rendering their films like you've helped me out.
Not only that, but respect goes hand in hand with it. If you've never made a good map yourself, why would someone take your criticism seriously? The only type of critics that get any respect are those who are retired map makers. So if you want to become this great critic, you better pump out a few features. If in response to the line above you tell us that you're not a map maker, you're a critic, then you are just another one those lowly nubs. Nobody is going to take you seriously. Like right now, I don't take you seriously. Show me you've had a feature. Show me you've been here long enough to know what a good map is. Show me all the maps you've tested, called out as good maps, that were then featured. Show me that, and then my friend, I will consider you a critic.