Suggested improvements to new layout

[theyuz]

I'll try to restrain myself from complaining about new layout and will focus on things that can be improved.

1. I am only interested in PC game reviews. I used to go to the site and check out new reviews quickly to see what's being released for PCs and what gamers are saying about the game. It's impossible to do now, since I am flooded with new reviews for Xbox, PS2 and every other gaming platform that I don't care about. New Reviews section should allow viewing only reviews for a given platform.

2. Usually, there are plenty of reviews for the game, it is not productive to read them all. You'd want to read some positive reviews and you'd definitely want to read negative reviews as well. Old layout used to show review headers along with the score next to them so that you could quickly pick positive/negative reviews to read. Now you're forced to scroll through very long pages of text, arranged in narrow columns. Not user friendly. There should be an ability to view just review header.

3. Review text should not have fixed width - if I am using high resolution, I should be able to take advantage of that.

[E.T.]

Hmm...I admit reviews are different from old board, but I actually like them. I find them better organized: Click on "Reviews">"Gaming Reviews> select platform "PC"> select genre....
I read three reviews; two from "Action" & one fron "Strategy", found them easy to read.
IMO, I prefer the vBulletin layout of reviews.

[Chris]

The problem here is that people are posting complaints but haven't been reading our responses to other threads. I've addressed these concerns already. The fixed width of the site is something that was decided on for all of our 11 sites. That likely won't change, I apologize. The reviews shouldn't look much different than before as far as "headers". Each will have the number of reviews and ratings listed to the left of the review. I'm not sure how you aren't able to find reviews for PC games only... they're all listed here:
http://www.videogamereview.com/PCGames/PSC_3764crx.aspx

We are planning on creating a page for latest reviews on games for each platform. This is a unique feature that we knew the community would want, but we weren't able to develop it until we switched the sites over to the new system.

[theyuz]

<div class=\"smallfont\">The problem here is that people are posting complaints but haven't been reading our responses to other threads. I've addressed these concerns already.</div>
I apologize for posting the problem that you've "addressed", but the number of complaints about new layout is so large that I don't think regular visitor of the site can be expected to read through all of them. Thanks for replying, anyway.

<div class=\"smallfont\">The reviews shouldn't look much different than before as far as "headers". Each will have the number of reviews and ratings listed to the left of the review.</div>
I guess I did not make myself clear. I'd like to see condensed list of all reviews with just titles and ratings. If a game has 50 reviews, titles + ratings will fit on one page, while in current format I would have to click through several pages.

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I'm not sure how you aren't able to find reviews for PC games only... they're all listed here:
http://www.videogamereview.com/PCGames/PSC_3764crx.aspx
We are planning on creating a page for latest reviews on games for each platform. This is a unique feature that we knew the community would want, but we weren't able to develop it until we switched the sites over to the new system.
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Again, I probably did not make myself clear. Of course I found PC games section. What I meant was that clicking on 'Latest Reviews' link shows reviews for all platforms, not just PC, while I would like to see latest reviews for PC only, but you are going to address this problem, so thanks for your reply.

[Lara]

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