CLASSIC/OLDER GAME PROFILES?

Sounds really nice. Although, the obscure request thread already has formed a cohesive list of available/unavailable games. It's just not properly divided for discussions. Or based for discussion at all since it's just a request thread.

I thought about hosting an "RM archive" to act as a replacement for the obscure/rare games topic I made. But as of now I lack the funds or know how im actually going to make it at the moment.

Idk I think RMN's site policy should be strictly user submitted content. If a feature like this would actually come to light it would have to be greatly separated from the current games here. Plus you have to worry about abuse. There's also the issue of difference between an RM game made in 2004 and an offsite RM game like Exit Fate if any user can submit an "oldschool" game. I sort of like the way it is even if it means relying on sites like megaupload.

tbh I do not see many people talk about old classics that are already up here on RMN. The thread I made is enough.

Would Americana Dawn count as such a game?

Think about it - some people, for whatever reason, don't want their game associated with RMN, and we should respect that.

I always wanted to put up or see gamepages for Kamaus games, Philosophers Stone, Genesis Project series, FF:Endless Nova, Devil Hunter, Legacy001 games, The Most Stupidest Game Ever Re-duh, etc.

Y'know the games from people you know aren't coming back and are quite old now. I think this idea is great, I think I tried to ask the same thing when WIP was still here.

As long as the classic games are hosted at a reliable location (read: here), I don't think beautiful presentations in the style of game profiles and so forth are that important.

Take the Rare Games topic we currently have as an example: It's been doing the job pretty well, the only problem is that its completely reliant on unreliable, 3rd party file-sharing services like Megaupload.

We can do better for the classics we've come to love and/or respect, couldn't we? (っ´ω｀)っ

Well the idea in the original post wasn't for us to host it. It was to create a game profile with "maybe an off-site download". I would actually advice against the off-site download being officially added by staff members, but can definitely see why people might want a discussion page. We have lots of game profiles without downloads, and I don't think that a discussion page would be any sort of infringement on the author (any more than starting a fan website of their game would be). If users decide to upload the game and link to it in the comments of the game page, well, that's probably fine. From both a legal and ethical standpoint, I think that's very different from staff-sanctioned links or file hosting.

That said I'm not sure how useful this would be. More or less all the game page discussion I see is directed at the game author. Even simple comments like "Whoa, cool graphics" seem pretty pointless when the author isn't there to hear them. But then again, GameFAQs has an entire forum for each game, so without an author there to provide easy answers, maybe they'd actually get more gameplay discussion and speculation.

The problem I forsee with the game-profiles-only approach is that, because the games are much less accessible on average, there isn't going to be as much spontaenous discussion on the games unlike your average game readily hosted here or elsewhere.

I'm all for seeing game profiles of Legion Saga, The Chronicles of Haledos, or Romancing Walker, but what's the point if the players don't know what the games are and/or can't play the games in question to discuss about them?

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Perhaps an effort should be made to contact the makers of these games, and ask if they can be hosted either my the creator making an account or letting an admin do it.

This. I still think it's best if we got the original creators permission first before we post anything up, unless they've vanished off the face of the earth for five years+