RODEN'S PROFILE

Description: I'll generally only bother to read the description if the game already interested me with the graphics and presentation.

Game Page Presentation: This hardly matters to me. I like a well designed CSS as much as the next guy, but it's just fluff. It has nothing to do with the game, so you'd be better off focusing on having good screenshots.

Download Amounts: This is like "number of subscribers" in terms of importance. It basically means nothing to me. I'm sure I would appreciate a high download count as a developer, but it makes no impact on my decision to be interested in a game.

Graphics: This is the most important part of a game in terms of presentation and marketing, honestly. If the game doesn't look nice then the bottom line is that most people won't want to play it. When I look for a game on this site I look for stuff with interesting menus, maps, characters, art, and so on. I easily pass by stuff that uses Rudras or rips in general (unless they're used VERY well like in Everlasting Journey and Starless Umbra).

Videos of the project: I'm sure that if I was drawn to the project I'd love to see videos of it before downloading. I've never really noticed this around RMN though, most people don't seem to do it.

Creator: This varies, I guess. It really only comes into play when someone reaches amazing levels of fame or becomes well known for their prowess in game design, like kentona, Craze, & dragonheartman. Also it seems that European creators just kick serious ass at everything.

Comments: Honestly I don't really read main game page comments unless I'm the developer. I go over the ones on images because there's usually less of them, and they're more interesting to read.

Game Score: Higher rated games with lots of reviews stand out to me like they would to anyone, yeah. This is a hard thing to get a good feel about on RMN, since only a few games get a fair number of reviews for a truly honest score. Even then I don't often agree with it, like Forever's End being highly rated. My tastes differ from most people's, I guess.

Reviews: I can't say that I read them. Unless I'm the developer, that is. I don't know, I don't really need to hear an essay about how great/shitty something is when I could play it myself.

Hype: I almost never agree with the hype. Case in point, Forever's End.

Features: This can play a big role in it, I suppose. It works like you'd expect it to, I find certain features interesting and it makes me like the game more.

Recommendations: See Hype + Review answers.