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The
History of BS Gaming
Our two members, Brandon
and
Sam, have been gamers for almost all their lives, they would trust
reviewers like IGN and Game Informer. After Sam picked up Halo, he and
Brandon became good friends, often playing multilayer with each other.
In the summer of 2006 Brandon and Sam started noticing bad reviews by
many reviewers, in particular ign.com. They decided to let their own
voice be heard. Shortly
after that they started BS Pro Gaming. BS Pro Gaming went a long time
with no one knowing about them. BS Pro Gaming was originally a gaming
team that was going to participate in tournaments and do reviews,
however they quickly dropped the tournament part to focus on reviews.
The
reviews for BS Pro Gaming were extremely short and uninformative.
Despite going against gaming site IGN, BS Pro Gaming created an IGN
account. Brandon managed the blog and the reviews posted on the site.
However, it was clear that something needed to be done. The name was
changed to just BS Gaming. Their website still wasn't very good, they
didn't a whole lot of reviews and no videos. However, they did make
another IGN account. The main BS Gaming logo at the time was a red
dollar sign, a blue background and the words "BS Gaming" across it. In
the later years, that logo faded out and the header, which had blue and
yellow stripes became the main face. No one really found out about them
until a year
after that. On July 12, 2007, the BS Gaming youtube channel was
created, and soon after that we created the very first BSG video
review. The Devil May Cry 5th Anniversary Pack was uploaded to youtube
on July 21, 2007. They later came out with Final Fantasy
and Metal Gear reviews as well as other reviews and gameplay
videos. On November 23, 2007 they came out with the first BSG Battle in
which they tied and Brandon set a BSG record which was broken later.
Soon after they released the second BSG Battle and Sam dominated
winning all three rounds. BS Gaming made videos reviews for almost a
year when a thought came into Brandon's head. BS Gaming then began work
on the Metal Gear Retrospective, this project was to make BS Gaming
more popular, inform MGS4 buyers on the story of Metal Gear and
remember some great moments in the series rich history. If everything
went as planned, BSG would become a lot more accepted and popular
within the gaming community. And for the first 4 parts, everything was
perfect. After part 4 they noticed Game Trailers was doing a Metal Gear
Retrospective as well, but they made mistakes in theirs making the BS
Gaming retrospective superior to the Game Trailers. BSG got to part
five when Brandon noticed that Gametrailers.com did a copyright claim
on part one and part three. He took all the parts off, and then they
stopped
getting very many comments and views than they did when the
retrospective was up, and with no videos to look forward too, this
begins a dark time for BS Gaming. Soon after BS Gaming obtained a
Playstation 3 and did a review for Rainbow Six Vegas, it was very
successful and on the day it came out, they did a video review for
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, both reviews were later
rerecorded. After that, BS Gaming became
scarce, only posting reviews every so often and going months with no
videos. Brandon had started Metal Gear Help, a walkthrough
website for Metal Gear games. After that Sam started SBWalkthrough92, a
Youtube page for walkthroughs. BS Gaming had been untouched for the
last quarter of 2008. Brandon did not want BS Gaming, nearly three
years
old, to die. Brandon and Sam then created a whole new website and new
videos calling it "A new BS Gaming!" This also involved deleting a lot
of the old and bad reviews and videos. At this point, it was March
2009. BS Gaming was now focusing on being informative, reviews for
Playstation
3, Wii were coming, but handheld reviews were scarce, and Sam was only
able to give scores for the Xbox 360 games, not written reviews. April
10th, BS Gaming
received its third member, Rock. He is a big Xbox fan and a great addition to the team. A
week later on April 17, Sam's friend, Steve-o officially became part of
the team. He, as Rock, is an Xbox fan. Because of this, BS Gaming set
up three teams similar to IGN. The BS Gaming Sony Team is to be headed
by Brandon, Nintendo is Sam's corner of the site. BS Gaming Microsoft
Team has two members at this time, Rock and Steve-o. Not to long after
this, Mitch, a hard core Nintendo fan joined the team bringing to count
to five. However, on October 3rd, 2009, Sam decided to give up of
his share on BS Gaming, giving of his half of the site to Mitch.
Mitch joined
Brandon at the head of the site. Rock and Steve-o left the group
shortly
after. This brought and end to the "BS Gaming Teams" which never
amounted to anything. With this new BS Gaming, which was run by Brandon
and Mitch, things were opposite that of the Brandon and Sam era, where
video reviews took a priority over written reviews. Written reviews,
and a new review system, became more important and videos, while still
very important, were more of an after thought as strongly written
reviews, and fixing some of the older video reviews that no longer fit
the style of reviewing BS Gaming had become fond with, became the main
focus.
Review Team
Brandon - A founding
member, handles
written and video reviews and manages the website. He is an extreme
Metal Gear
nerd, but enjoys Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and
Rainbow Six. Loves a lot of under appreciated games that Sam, a former
member of BS Gaming, shows him
(thanks!) Owns a Sega Dreamcast, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Gameboy
Advance, Nintendo
Gamecube, Playstation 2, Playstation 3 and PC
Mitch - Currently sits at the head of BS
Gaming, he mainly handles Wii and Nintendo DS reviews Owns a Wii and DSi. He loves
Nintendo franchises and under appreciated Wii and DS games.
Review System
Intro
*Background info on a series
*quote from game
*paint a scene from the game
*a summery of first 3-5 hours of the game
Story
*Main characters
*Main Goals
*Summery of Exposition and beginning of Rising Action
*Overall thoughts on the story - good/bad, strait forward/confusing,
linear/nonlinear, plot twists and
attachment to characters, satisfied
with story/stale
Gameplay
*Mission types - driving, shooting, stealthy, minigames.
*Standard Stuff - aiming reticles, jumping, cover systems, character
customization
*AI - smart/dumb, reacts to your actions/ignores actions, cheap/fair
Design
*Level Design - object placement, item placement, enemy placement,
overall structure of map
*Graphic Design - Character Design Models, Backgrounds Textures,
overall graphics
Sound
*Localization - Menu Text, Subtitles, Voice Acting
Voice Acting - Switch to other languages?, VA performance Actors
fit characters?
Background Music
Sound Effects - gunshots, crashes etc
Replay Value
*Extra dungeons
*Extra Boss
*Hidden items
*Unloackables
*Multiplayer
*Etc
Ending
*Summarize each section
*Final Thoughts
*Recommendations
BSG Breakdown
*Story - [Score], [Reason]
*Gameplay - [Score]. [Reason}
*Design - [Score], [Reason]
*Sound - [Score]. [Reason]
*Replay Value - [Score]. [Reason]
*Score - [Score]
In addition to surfing the site and looking for reviews...
When a tittle begins with the word "the", we don't file it under "T".
The tittle will be filed under the first letter of the second word. For
Example: The Legend of Zelda would be under "L" not "T".
If one of our editors liked a recommends a game more than usual, he
will give it
Editor's Choice Award, it will be on the page of the review and will
look like this...
Contact us
If you can, contact us
through the BSG youtube channel (brantaybsg)
If you can't Brandon's
email is brantay@metalgearhelp.4t.com
