The Hound review is exactly what I am thinking video reviews should be. The guy stumbles a few tims. But, you get a good review "in-fiddle". (Asides: Ravage looks really interesting, if diminished for the lack of guns and colors. Hounds transform has some really worrisome cracking noises at the beginning.)
The Cyclonus review suffered a bit more for the lack of focus, both visual and verbal. But, at this stage, I expect the reviewers to jump around a bit. The bit about liking the colors was a bit tacked on, but not terribly so.
Oh, by Primus, that theme on the TFA combine review is friggin' awful. I can forgive the reviewer being inarticulate. I assume he does not speak English as a primary language. He is making an earnest attempt. But, the opening them song is dreadful. The redundant "this guy is named......" was....well redundant. I can forgive the inarticulate description, but the redundant naming of the figures was leading be in circles. Along similar lines, the review goes on for longer than it needs to, using words for elements best handled visually. The camera lady jumping in does not help in the face of an inarticulate and redundant commentary.
Yessirree, an earnest attempt that I can respect, but redundant and tedious in places.
Dom
-hopes somebody enjoyed the style of that paragraph. I was really tryng. (In all seriousnness, I am not even sitting through the whole review.)
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Watching that TF:A Jetstorm/Jetfire review reminded me of "my life is pain!"
See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
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People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
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Not a total "review", doesn't tell you good or bad points, just shows what it does. Also, that greenscreen is painful to look at. But it is pretty cool and well executed.Onslaught Six wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xYH9YJL44
This, on the other hand, is really really cool.
See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
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Greenscreen didn't really bother me, but it never has, in anything. I assume that it's there so the guy can maybe do other stuff with it anyway.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
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If you look at his Youtube member page, it's also green. I think it may be his theme.Onslaught Six wrote:Greenscreen didn't really bother me, but it never has, in anything. I assume that it's there so the guy can maybe do other stuff with it anyway.
See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?