Posted: 8/9/2010 10:44 AM
Post subject: crescent moons
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cams
Joined: 8/9/2010
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The movies marked with stars mean the best movies. But what are the movies marked with crescent moons?
Posted: 8/9/2010 11:23 AM
(Edited: 8/9/2010 9:50 PM)
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Patashu
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I believe the moon's purpose is as a super-star, akin to how the moon in Super Mario World is a super-1up (a 3up). EDIT: Nevermind, apparently it's the other way around.
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Posted: 8/9/2010 11:29 AM
Post subject: Time to get the Guru glasses on
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Flygon
Joined: 11/4/2007
Posts: 1772
Location: Australia, Victoria
The moon means that, in the Publishers of whom that published the movies opinion, that it is a very notable movie. There is much more lax controls over it, and the moon can be added or removed at a later time by any publisher if the cause is justified (For example, Shining Force was mooned post-humously because at the time of when it was published, the feature didn't exist). In my eyes, the way I see it... considering that most of TASVideos's dedicated publishers don't have any direct TASing experience, it could be viewed as a bit of a more casual viewer eye of what the TAS is like... though your mileage really varies from publisher to publisher. I have some TASing experience personally, I just have nothing to show for it because I lack the time and motivation, heh.
Posted: 8/9/2010 1:54 PM
Post subject: Re: crescent moons
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Warp
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Joined: 3/10/2004
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cams wrote:
The movies marked with stars mean the best movies.
No. The movies marked with stars are recommended movies for first-time visitors. They showcase what TASing is all about. Some of the best movies in the site are not starred because they are not necessarily deemed as the first introduction to TASing (eg. because they are long and complicated, and someone who isn't so much into gaming in general or speedrunning in particular may find them boring because they don't understand what's going on). Also, starred movies tend to be selected from a wide variety of game genres, rather than strictly taking the top n highest-rated movies.