The OPCFG is back

[Dire 51]

http://splatterhouse.classicgaming.gamespy.com/opcfg/

Just thought I'd let you all know. Some of you may remember the original OPCFG, but this is very different than it was the first time. Now I'm focusing on compilations and online-only sequels.

[Steven]

Welcome back Rob... again ;)

[G-Boobie]

Very cool! I still check out the original archives now and again.

[roushimsx]

Don't know if I've ever told you, but I fucking love your site.

[Dire 51]

Welcome back Rob... again ;)
Thanks Steven. :)


Very cool! I still check out the original archives now and again.
Heh, cool. Glad to hear someone's still getting some use out of it. :)


Don't know if I've ever told you, but I fucking love your site.
Don't think you have... thanks! :)

I know I mention it on the main page of the new site, but I thought I'd throw it out here again: if anyone interested in writing up a review for it, feel free. Especially those online-only sequels. I have no way to play them at the moment, so I won't be doing it.

I plan to also include remakes as fair game for reviews (older ones like Mega Man Powered Up and newer ones like Bionic Commando Rearmed), so if anyone wants to review any of those, feel free. Except for MMPU, that's already been covered.

[Keir]

Glad to see the OPCFG come back! The compilation focus should be interesting.

[Dire 51]

Thanks Keir. :)

[Dire 51]

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Sorry about that, but I'd really like some input here. I'm back to talk about the OPCFG again. Despite having been basically forgotten over the past couple of years, it's the only one of my old sites that remains active, for lack of a better word. The "compilation database" idea that this thread was all about died almost as soon as it was conceived. This was partially due to lack of interest on my part, and due to lack of participation from almost everyone that promised reviews. But that's neither here nor there.

I want to pick the site back up and dust it off, maybe start updating again. To quote the update I made a couple days ago:


6/27/13, 2:15 P.M. EST (latest update today) - I decided to come and update the site today. Why? It's been nearly two years since I last updated. The new direction didn't go as well as I'd hoped. No one has submitted any more reviews. People that promised reviews never came through. I haven't written any either. The database hasn't been updated in forever and is now woefully out of date. The old OPCFG here has sat on the back burner, as it's been about #5654958997 on my priority list in recent years.

That's not to say that the OPCFG is dead. A couple months back, I started an OPCFG Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/opcfg). While getting nowhere near the likes that the West Mansion Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/westmansion) has, it's got a couple of devoted followers and an assortment of friends and well wishers that like it. I'm also (slowly) working on a revision of my currently out-of-print book Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, which I've more than once described as "the OPCFG in book form." Every so often I'll pull up the manuscript and tweak it a bit here and there, but I've yet to dive headfirst into it the way I'd planned originally. But it's still on my mind.

But what about the main site? Since the relaunch idea fizzled, I've toyed with the idea of making the site more like the way it used to be, back during its heyday. I don't have a ton of free time these days, so I can't go all out, but all my other websites have been shut down, and a part of me does want to keep this one going (after all, it was my first). But what to talk about? Most of the major classic gaming sites have everything under the sun covered. But I always considered the OPCFG to be my own personal place to talk about games. I've spent the past couple of years getting pretty heavily back into classic gaming, this time focusing heavily on the Famicom and Super Famicom. I could talk about my collections, the obscure little oddities I've discovered. In essence, I could turn the site into yet another gaming blog. But I'm not sure if I want to do that. I could also discuss how I've adjusted to the modern era, what games I have that I play on my Xbox 360 (yes, I do own a 360. Don't act so shocked about it) - that kind of thing. But the OPCFG has always been about classic games. Still, variety is the spice of life, as they say.

Well, I'm out of ideas for now. So I'll pose this question to what readers I still have (if any): what would you like to see the OPCFG become? If you have any suggestions at all, let me know. I'd like to hear them.
Anyone have any input? Would anyone even be interested in seeing the site come back? Let me know.