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gamespot looks kinda like classic 1up.com now
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VictimOfGrief
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having trouble loading it.
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VictimOfGrief
Banned
Gamespot to FireFox.... "FUCK YOU!! hahahaha :lol :lol" 
Sathsquatch
Member
I saw it too. I went there earlier today and everything was different. I went there a couple of minutes ago and it reverted to how it was before.
Doom_Bringer
Banned
looks cool! I like the new design
Naked Snake
Member
I hate the new design, it doesn't allow me to open their screenshots in several tabs, have to see them one at a time... NO SALE
The redesign is in transit right at this moment. We're working through a lot of issues so anything that doesn't seem right (quick, someone mention the Metal Gear Solid 3 review score) will soon be fixed. Sorry for any confusion or inconvenience. The reason you might still be seeing the old site is because the new one's not yet propogated to all our servers.
jamesinclair
Banned
Oh God, its all lowercase, like gamespot's download website.
Bad move, makes it look less professional.
Bad move, makes it look less professional.
jamesinclair
Banned
bummyhead said:
Not to mention that I cant find the legacy platforms, and that Ive gone from level 23 to 0.
Ill give it a few days.
GDJustin said:
Simple reasoning behind is that the VAST majority of people who visit GameSpot still use 800x600 (yeah, I know...hard to believe) and 1024x768...it would be improper to just shut those 800x600 users out...
I think about how I will go to like a relatives place or a friends place who has a "family computer" and when I see it, I go blind by all the big text on it...because they do in fact always seem to use 800x600...ugh.
Here's our official response.
Q: Why aren't you moving to a wider page width?
A: In the interest of presenting you with clean-looking pages, and not alienating the majority of our audience that browses at resolutions of 1024x768 or less, we chose not to change the dimensions of our pages. However, by replacing the left-hand nav bar found on most GameSpot pages with our new horizontally oriented navigation, we've effectively created more room for content.
Patrick Klepek
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I love how the one-stop place for centralized damage control for any gaming site nowadays is GAF.
jamesinclair
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DaveT said:Simple reasoning behind is that the VAST majority of people who visit GameSpot still use 800x600 (yeah, I know...hard to believe) and 1024x768...it would be improper to just shut those 800x600 users out...
I think about how I will go to like a relatives place or a friends place who has a "family computer" and when I see it, I go blind by all the big text on it...because they do in fact always seem to use 800x600...ugh.
Here's our official response.
Q: Why aren't you moving to a wider page width?
A: In the interest of presenting you with clean-looking pages, and not alienating the majority of our audience that browses at resolutions of 1024x768 or less, we chose not to change the dimensions of our pages. However, by replacing the left-hand nav bar found on most GameSpot pages with our new horizontally oriented navigation, we've effectively created more room for content.
Even though Im currently viewing the internet on a laptop with widescreen, I agree. At home I always use 800x600. Yeah, my vision isnt so good, but the rest of my family likes that resolution as well.
The site still has bugs, I was browsing and I suddenly started exploring the old design for some reason, including the evn older N64/DC?GBC pages.
Actually, what bothers me most, Dave, is that Ive seen you post more at GAF then GS over the past month....
to the gamespot guys- I like where your going with this but it looks like it needs a bit more testing before its uploaded 100%, isn't there a temporary URL you guys could use to work the bugs out prior to throwing it on gamespot.com ? It also says Ihave 2 messages but I have none, I'll assume again its the transition faze. I think Kasavin said in a quickie article over the weekend that this'll take all week so hopefullyits all up and good by friday.
Actually no, the new design is better.. Couple things:
- I like how there's no more cluttered lefthand menu. That was horrible.
- I haven't been able to load the PS3 or X360 pages yet, but I hope you guys use a different shade of green for X360 and a different shade of blue for PS3. (Just a nitpick, but I like when sites do color-coded pages for systems. And purple for DS sucks, it's already used for GC and GBA. (Copy EB.com's colors.)
- A redesign of the GameSpot logo might do some good. It kind of pops out in a weird way next to the system names, and speaking of, pleasssssse don't keep them lowercase. It looks less professional.
- It matches the other sites better, like TV.com. Of course TV.com still has plenty of layout problems and.. other problems. heh.
- The uh, Browse All Reviews link on the GameCube reviews section doesn't work yet.. shows me no results. But the new Review page setup is nice.
- The bar at the top with the Search/Backround Color options takes up some pointless room near the top. Move the Search somewhere else and put the background color thing somewhere like.. to the left of the Prefs link at the top when you're logged in.
That's mainly just some nitpicky stuff. Nothing big. But whatever.
The site looks better, but it does still look pretty cluttered.
- I like how there's no more cluttered lefthand menu. That was horrible.
- I haven't been able to load the PS3 or X360 pages yet, but I hope you guys use a different shade of green for X360 and a different shade of blue for PS3. (Just a nitpick, but I like when sites do color-coded pages for systems. And purple for DS sucks, it's already used for GC and GBA. (Copy EB.com's colors.
)- A redesign of the GameSpot logo might do some good. It kind of pops out in a weird way next to the system names, and speaking of, pleasssssse don't keep them lowercase. It looks less professional.
- It matches the other sites better, like TV.com. Of course TV.com still has plenty of layout problems and.. other problems. heh.
- The uh, Browse All Reviews link on the GameCube reviews section doesn't work yet.. shows me no results. But the new Review page setup is nice.
- The bar at the top with the Search/Backround Color options takes up some pointless room near the top. Move the Search somewhere else and put the background color thing somewhere like.. to the left of the Prefs link at the top when you're logged in.
That's mainly just some nitpicky stuff. Nothing big. But whatever.
The site looks better, but it does still look pretty cluttered.
Pachinko said:
You'd think we'd be better about something like this, having done it something like six times in nine years (not to take away from the intended impact of this particular revision, which makes a lot of key improvements). But yeah, the transition process is difficult to predict when the site has this many pages and so much data drawing from different pools. Not to get into too much detail, but there's been plenty of testing, yet it doesn't entirely account for when the rubber meets the road.
But all that sounds like a bunch of excuses. It's a good thing we're not in the business of launching space shuttles. At any rate, it'll all be much better soon and once things settle down I'm confident you'll think the new site is a lot better than the old site overall.