Andrea Rosa wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:45 am
You should definitely go for it, you are doing a great and much needed job. If I were you, I would open a specific thread dedicated to your reviewing effort (both here and on Staredit.net), where you can expose your thoughts to an audience that would not normally see them, but maybe it's a bit late since you have already reviewed most of the campaigns. Needless to say, I'm totally ok with the fact that you are using this thread to talk about your progress, but you may take this idea into consideration.
I'll consider it, I'm not really sure which subforum I should use for SEN though, its all so vague over there. The thing is, I'm already necroing old campaign threads each time I review one and the ones with no campaign threads to bump are usually not worth going into much detail. I was planning to make a big thread for the spreadsheet once I finished reviewing everything (excluding things that are still being worked on, of course)
For now, here is the latest news on coronacraft:
- StarCraft: The Shadow of Space turned out to be a pack of scenanrios, 3 campaigns, and multiplayer maps. There is also a mod featured but without an executable. I used mpqdraft to generate one. All 3 are crap
- Dark Cold was insanely boring, I quit that one quite early on.
- Guns of tyrador started off as a pretty neat campaign but it is sadly unfinished. It uniquely features the unfinished maps themselves as well.
- Terran vengeance is one of the worst campaigns ever made, it competes with the likes of Starcraft Heroes, Starcraft gold, and stellar forces, campaigns so bad they are worse.
- Trial of the protoss was just ugh, the maps aren't even properly connected.
- Legacy of Kerrigan... I almost gave this a conditional recommendation as a IWBTG campaign, it is without a doubt the hardest properly functioning campaign I have ever encountered. What ultimately stopped me from doing so is that I could not figure out how to win the last level and I think its due to a bug.
- Silent warfare has nice spacious maps, which is a big relief after 3 campaigns full of cramped maps. Still, the plot and english is so abysmal that I had to quit after just 2 missions.
I now have only Montag to review, everything else I added to the corona tier as a result of being notified about montag has failed to get a recommendation.... Hopefully Fringe Wars, space madness, and the mind wars turn out to have a surprise for me, but I'm not optimisic at all after what you told me about Fringe Wars.
I'm also going to find whiplash's old thread and post the bad news regarding Ascension of Duran.
Andrea Rosa wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:45 am
As a side note, I took a glimpse at Fringe Wars and... ugh! The best part is probably the readme, in which the author self-proclaims his work as "the finest campaign available outside of Blizzard" (which is never a good idea, even if you actually create a masterpiece), and also asking for economic support.
Well, he's technically almost correct actually. At the time of it's release, Fringe wars was the 2nd best campaign ever made. A short lived position to be sure. 1998 was such a terrible year for custom campaigns....