Posted: 11/8/2013 3:20 PM
Post subject: Technical ratings
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thatguy
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Can someone give me some guidance on how to give technical ratings to movies? I've never TASed (and at the moment don't have plans on doing so), but I understand the process decently well. I decided to make an account because this site has given me so many hours of entertainment that I thought I should at least give something back, and rating/voting seems to be the easiest thing to do. The technical rating seems basically "How hard was it to make this TAS?" And I don't know because I've never TASed - even if I had, it's hard to make a judgement unless you've attempted to TAS the same game. So for me it seems like it should just be the number of rerecords (lots of them = high technical), with maybe a few modifications for if the TAS does something really crazy/slightly sloppy.
Posted: 11/8/2013 3:24 PM
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There are Wiki: VotingGuidelines, but here's what I personally advise to think about when watching a movie in order to rate it: http://tasvideos.org/Feos/Ideas.html#BetterRatingGuidelines
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Posted: 11/8/2013 4:42 PM
Post subject: Re: Technical ratings
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jlun2
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thatguy wrote:
The technical rating seems basically "How hard was it to make this TAS?" And I don't know because I've never TASed - even if I had, it's hard to make a judgement unless you've attempted to TAS the same game. So for me it seems like it should just be the number of rerecords (lots of them = high technical), with maybe a few modifications for if the TAS does something really crazy/slightly sloppy.
Luckily, it's ok to simply rate on entertainment and leave the tech rating blank; in fact, if you clicked on the ratings for a movie with x.5 votes, you'll usually find one or more users who didn't leave a tech rating.
LLCoolDave wrote:
This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 11/9/2013 9:35 PM
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Warp
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While it's naturally not wrong to give a technical rating based solely on how you felt when watching the run, it's preferable if you have at the very least read the author's description on how the run was done (and if there are previous versions of the run for the same game, all the previous descriptions as well, because authors tend to leave out things that have been explained in the previous versions.) This can give a much better idea of how much effort the author put into the run and what kind of techniques and tools he used. (I'd say that a well-written submission comment by the author goes a long way to a higher technical rating, especially when the run deserves it.) Of course it doesn't hurt if you know TASing techniques and the games themselves more in depth, but I'd say it would be a bit unreasonable to demand that kind of knowledge before recommending people could give a technical rating.