Super SUGGESTION THREAD II Turbo: Champion Edition

Topic started by BoG on Feb. 24, 2009. Last post by Bellum 8 hours, 23 minutes ago.
Post by LordAndrew (4,558 posts) See mini bio
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Mercanis said:
"In the image viewer, various information about the image is contained in a box to the right. Tucked away within these boxes is the image caption. I believe that the caption should feature more prominently, perhaps below the actual image? It's too easy to overlook in its current spot."
As someone who looks at and uploads images a lot, I didn't even notice that. I assumed you just couldn't view the caption from that page. So yes, the caption needs to be a hell of a lot more prominent.


Post by Forcen (383 posts) See mini bio
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Add a special category for game compilations!
Its just like a gamepage, but with a list of the included games.


Post by Karmum (9,532 posts) See mini bio
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When flagging a topic or post, a description box to go with it would be cool. Just to give the moderators the heads-up on what they need to look at.


Post by LordAndrew (4,558 posts) See mini bio
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Forcen said:
"Add a special category for game compilations!
Its just like a gamepage, but with a list of the included games."
So instead of dumping a list of games into article (and getting a ton of points for doing barely anything), we could have a separate part of the page listing the games in the compilation? Sort of like this? Or are you suggesting something else entirely?


Post by Forcen (383 posts) See mini bio
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LordAndrew said:
"Forcen said:
"Add a special category for game compilations!
Its just like a gamepage, but with a list of the included games."
So instead of dumping a list of games into article (and getting a ton of points for doing barely anything), we could have a separate part of the page listing the games in the compilation? Sort of like this? Or are you suggesting something else entirely?"
Exactly, the same kind of list there are in the concept pages. And then the info could appear on the other end to, the Altered Beast page could say that the game is included in the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection on a special page of the altered beast page.


Post by BiggerBomb (5,747 posts) See mini bio

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This is a small suggestion, but I hope it's one that can be easily implemented. For polls, I'd like to see a *view results* option instead of having to vote first. You know, for curiosity's sake?


Post by AnimZero (1,027 posts) See mini bio
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I suggest that, when watching a video in full-screen on GiantBomb's video section, that when the UI elements disappear automatically the mouse disappears too. I know Hulu does it, as well as a couple other sites, but I hate having to always bury my mouse into the right side of the screen so I can't see it.


Post by Forcen (383 posts) See mini bio
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Bring back the related game links, covers and descriptions on the videopages.


Post by ep_driver (135 posts) See mini bio
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I was thinking that it would be a good idea for GB to add a 'classics' tab to the video section so we all have quick access to videos like the madden '09 football blowout extravaganza video, age of booty preview, the choco taco rap vid, and many others. Anyone else feelin' this idea?


Post by DJMattB241 (11 posts) See mini bio
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Now that TVersity supports video websites like Hulu, NBC, Comedy Central, Juiced (or whatever it's called), etc... you should get together with them to get your videos streamed over TVersity. I love watching the endurance run, but I do not love crowding over my girlfriend's laptop with her to watch it. I'd love to watch it on my TV.

(Tried watching it in the Wii browser, but the Wii browser does not play well with this site in general).


Post by Optiow (1,623 posts) See mini bio

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Okay then...I say that we should have a Roll Call, like the bombsquad back.


Post by Dethfish77 (1,802 posts) See mini bio
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It would be nice if the "sister sites" of Giant Bomb had links to them on the main GB page.


Post by jlrm01 (202 posts) See mini bio
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I have another silly idea... ^_^; I would like to see an "Add To Database" page. In this page, there will be links that allow you to create all the kinds of pages you can make at GB. Sort of like the "Hey I noticed you're missing..." section of the FAQ, but much friendlier, probably with big nice icons, for each type of page, that you can click (like the Add Image buttons, for example).

To avoid (even if just a little bit) people just going to that page and adding things without checking if they exist of not, maybe there should be a built-in search. As you type the name of what you are trying to add (kind of like the "similar topics" section when creating a forum topic) it should show you a list of similar items, with each one's blurb shown.


Post by Kou_Leifoh (1,530 posts) See mini bio

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All that stuff that's blocking the banner on my profile (except for the avatar and user name), move it out of the way because I don't like that most of the image is being block.


Post by Video_Game_King (3,565 posts) See mini bio
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I'm sure this was probably suggested/stricken down before, but could we have smilies? Maybe a Bomb Smiley?...


Post by LordAndrew (4,558 posts) See mini bio
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Dethfish77 said:
"It would be nice if the "sister sites" of Giant Bomb had links to them on the main GB page."
For awhile Giant Bomb did have a link to Comic Vine on the main page, and Comic Vine had a link to Giant Bomb. But with Giant Bomb's front page redesign and Comic Vine's site redesign, both links have been removed.

Video_Game_King said:
"I'm sure this was probably suggested/stricken down before, but could we have smilies? Maybe a Bomb Smiley?..."
It has indeed been suggested and stricken down before. It seems the consensus is that emoticons would be seen as annoying.


Post by MattyFTM (6,705 posts) See mini bio
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Dethfish77 said:
"It would be nice if the "sister sites" of Giant Bomb had links to them on the main GB page."
Yeah, It would be really easy to add a link to Comic Vine, Anime Vice and Political Base down the bottom by the Whiskey Powered sign. It'd be cool to see them linked to down there.


Post by HitmanAgent47 (744 posts) See mini bio

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How about an ignore list.


Post by cky71321 (9 posts) See mini bio
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I noticed that profiles contain inputs for PSN IDs and XBL Gamertags. Well, that idea's great and all, but how about expanding it to a few more platforms? I know Wii FCs can be a tad dicey, but you need to consider other forms of gaming networks, such as Steam and Starcraft 2's upgraded Battle.net when it launches. I'm sure there's more out there, but those are the ones I can grab off the top of my head.


Post by CountRockula (161 posts) See mini bio
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A version of the video player formatted for televisions would be nice.  I'd love to watch Giant Bomb video content on my tv.


Post by Willy105 (1,666 posts) See mini bio

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  • Have User Reviews be capable of being posted on the forum, just like blogs.
  • Have more options for posting pictures on the forum, such as being able to have captions on center pictures and be able to post custom sized pictures.
  • UNIONS!
  • Generally more events for users, to increase activity.


Post by BoG (2,790 posts) See mini bio
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On wikis, we need a soundtrack section. People can get thousands of points posting soundtracks in the body, this needs to change.


Post by Kou_Leifoh (1,530 posts) See mini bio

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A better spell checker. Seriously, my spelling is shit; there should be something like this, when you click on the misspelled word, a list of correctly spelled words will appear.The Capcom Unity forums actually has this, and this site should have it too. It would also be helpful for wiki edits.


Post by MattyFTM (6,705 posts) See mini bio
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Kou_Leifoh said:
"A better spell checker. Seriously, my spelling is shit; there should be something like this, when you click on the misspelled word, a list of correctly spelled words will appear.The Capcom Unity forums actually has this, and this site should have it too. It would also be helpful for wiki edits."
Can't you just install a spellchecker add-on into your browser?


Post by AgentJ (6,522 posts) See mini bio
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Couldn't the friends list be in some sort of logical order? Because it doesnt seem to be as is. It should really be in alphabetical order


Post by uhrag (8 posts) See mini bio
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Option to compare lists with other users (favorites,owned games,top 10,wishlist...). And page to view charts about your games, divided to different kind of categories; companies , genres and platforms etc... Like "Games you own by platform: Wii: 33%, Xbox360: 33%, PC: 33%".
Then option to display those stats graphically "pie-charts, custom pictures..."


Post by LordAndrew (4,558 posts) See mini bio
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MattyFTM said:
"Kou_Leifoh said:
"A better spell checker. Seriously, my spelling is shit; there should be something like this, when you click on the misspelled word, a list of correctly spelled words will appear.The Capcom Unity forums actually has this, and this site should have it too. It would also be helpful for wiki edits."
Can't you just install a spellchecker add-on into your browser?"
The YUI-based editor might cause some problems with that. They are working on a new editor though, so that should take care of that problem.


Post by StarFoxA (1,939 posts) See mini bio
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It'd be nice if the "edit blurb" thing was still there, so I don't have to click edit article and then close the editing window every time I want to edit the blurb.


Post by Puppy (261 posts) See mini bio

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Kou_Leifoh said:
A better spell checker. Seriously, my spelling is shit; there should be something like this, when you click on the ... [more]

When in doubt, www.dictionary.com is your friend. That or MS Word, if you have it.

Anyway, I find it irksome that when wiki'ing, you cannot add images and edit the wiki overview in the same edit. Switching to the images prompts the wiki'er with a message that states that the editing session will be exited out and all unsaved progress will be lost if he/she proceeds to the image page. I'd like to see this fixed, so going back & forthe between the two pages can be done without losing any progress.

:D


Post by Alexander (726 posts) See mini bio
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Hardware pages would be nice. Ones that detail SKUs, release dates, hardware modifications, special edition consoles, controllers.