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First Impressions:
My first impressions of this forum are that it looks awesome, loads fast, and has a great board structure! I love how well the theme and background image fit in the with the DMC aesthetic. My only complaint here is that the logo is just the DMC5 logo. Applicable, but I'd like to see "DMC Forums" somewhere on there.
As mentioned in my Switch Forums review, the performance could use some improvement in regards to compressing the images. This would help get rid of the second or two it takes to download the background image. The site itself does load pretty fast otherwise so that's nice.
Great
Site Structure:
DMC Forums has a pretty good forum structure. It focuses mostly on the DMC series and looks pretty standard as far as gaming forums go. The standard XenForo structure works well for these kinds of forums so everything flows nicely.
Great
Originality:
I think the design of this forum suite the DMC aesthetic pretty well. The dark macabre / gaming design is perfect for this type of forum. Being that this isn't an original design(Omni by Pixel Exit), it's hard to say its very original, but I think it suits this forum well. I'd love to see some tweaks to the theme's fonts, maybe get the DMC serif font like:
It's hard to dock points for being unoriginal when a premade style works with the forums theme so well, but I feel it should be custom tailored a bit to stand out some. I'm really conflicted here because of how well this works for DMC!
Okay
The thing I liked the best: Theme
The thing I liked the least: Slow/large images need compression
Overall Thoughts:
I really like DMC Forums! I've been wanting to get into the DMC series for some time and this is the kind of place I'd want to go to when I do. It needs some activity, and a dash of creativity in its theme, but it does look great and fits the DMC design very well. I hope this place takes off some day, it could be a great place to discuss Devil May Cry. 🙂
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