Press and Reviews Thread

[p-saurus]

A nice one here:

http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.a ... page=33683

Look at Yak's post which is eight posts above yours.

I refuse.

[gilesgoat]

And finally something good from Italy as well

http://www.gamesvillage.it/news/reviews ... 61%5D.html

It's pretty good

[Misfit]

And finally something good from Italy as well

http://www.gamesvillage.it/news/reviews ... 61%5D.html

It's pretty good

So is all this good press actually turning into some reasonable sales numbers?

[gilesgoat]

And finally something good from Italy as well

http://www.gamesvillage.it/news/reviews ... 61%5D.html

It's pretty good

So is all this good press actually turning into some reasonable sales numbers?

Huh ...

Hmmm ... hmmmm ...

Well .. "we are working on some things" .. that should make things go more interesting .. soon we'll be out in some
more distro places as well.

About the numbers .. ... well .. not sure how to interpret the data yet.

Let's say so, we are not - so far - swimming into gold .. I don't think we'll ever be but let's say we aim to "a more reasonable reasonable".

We certainly can say we are having a very good press and appearently reception of the game as well that "could
not be much better than this", I'd say this time "press and feedback been very nice"

At least we got one thing right

Stay tuned for more news/updates on GR Rev, there will be.

[IronGiant]

I wonder why there's no Gamespot review yet - they did a very nice preview then .......... nothing.

[gilesgoat]

I wonder why there's no Gamespot review yet - they did a very nice preview then .......... nothing.

Boh ... no bloody idea ..

[WladimZappo]

And now the printed version of the free magazine "GameReactor" is out in Denmark! I think it's mostly the same as the online version, but this magazine is free to everyone, and it is pretty popular! 8/10!!! A very good score. Thousands of copies all over Denmark! YAY!

WZ

[gilesgoat]

If you can read Japanese, it looks pretty nice

.. but I don't know what they are saying

http://www.4gamer.net/games/100/G010051/20091030054/

[PVB]

If you can read Japanese, it looks pretty nice

.. but I don't know what they are saying

http://www.4gamer.net/games/100/G010051/20091030054/

Babel Fish wasn't much help.

Paging fuwafuwa!

Noticed a bit about 360 Neon at the bottom, along with a link to a pdf of the 'play' guide that fuwafuwa translated.

[pogo]

Before ふわふわ does it properly here's Google's attempt which is surprisingly coherent in parts:

http://translate.google.com/translate?p ... ry_state0=

[axel000]

Is someone going to follow up on the facebook page for llamasoft ? Seems so obvious one should be out there considering how common FB is within the core gaming demographic.

The fan page needs to be created by a company rep according to Facebook rules.

[Repsol]

GRR received 90% in the new Retro Gamer (Issue 70),
earning a Retro Gamer Sizzler.

[ALLseeingEYE]

Nice, Retro Gamer pulls through.
Noticed Metacritic finally has some more reviews up there for Grid Rev.

86
Games Master UK
- Unashamedly retro and riotously good fun - another hit from the Llamasoft stable! [Dec 2009, p.71]

80
PC Format
- An acquired taste, but not a bad one. Once your taste buds - or neuron receptors - are entirely killed. [Dec 2009, p.99]

72
PC Gamer UK
- Bursting with ideas, but occasionally collapsing under their weight, Gridrunner Revolution is good, but not baa-rilliant. [Dec 2009, p.96]


Overall Metacritic score is down to 82, but that's still great. Add that 90 Retro Gamer score, and that'll give it a bit of a boost.
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platfor ... revolution

[IronGiant]

Nice, those should get more people downloading and buying.

[gilesgoat]

Nice, those should get more people downloading and buying.

I don't want to sound harsh or such or pessimistic and I am sure that to some extent "it does something".

However - and this is where the puzzlement, "depression", confusion and "what the heck is still missing ?" part begins - is
that "it should but it does not" and/or let's say the "virtual ratio" "good press vs sales" is pretty small.

The press is fantastic,we can't really complain about it this time it really is very good

Yet or the effects of it are going to be quite slow and "on a really longer time" or it really looks like there is not such a big
relationship/rate between 'very good press and sales'.

Still we have to see how it's going to be the moment we'll be on Steam, as I said it's going to be it's only a matter of time
( and could not have done before ).

We'll do some changes for when we'll be there, we'll see if they will do something ( in terms of sales ).

Nobody is/was expecting "super uber stuff" from Gr Rev, altough I must admit with such a different kind of game
"easier to pick up" you'd expect a bit some more than what something like SG did.

Now if all this press really helped .. well then it mens that without it then the sales of GR Rev would have been ZERO
and I really mean zero .. ok maybe not really zero because there's the forum

[edit] - to be more precise let's say "sales from people not knowing about/into LS" so "new customers".

Could be the pricing is really a bit too high ? Mah .. we'll see ..

I think this time at least we got two things right : the game is really good, the press is really good.

I think we still miss "a third thing right" to say "ok now we got it all right", we are still trying to figure out what this third is.