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Content
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| Quality : |
14.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
11.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
51.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
11.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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| Editor: Maggie |
Initial Review: 08-10-06 |
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1. Mostly exclusive content.
2. Pretty good sized video section.
1. Plain design.
2. No browse features.
3. No video options.
4. Slow download times.
"Raw, amateur bdsm that truly is raw and amateur." |
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Becky's Dungeon is a bdsm site of "Girls Enjoying Their Darker Sides." Who is Becky? I don't know. The tour says nothing about her and the member's area offers no pictures of her. She must just be the local girl with the dungeon. So rather than a girl named Becky, you'll find around 55 girls on her site getting freaky with ropes, chains, gags, and painfully placed clothespins. It's not all bdsm, though. Becky's girls like other fetishes like smoking, latex, shaving, anal, and even tranny loving. Welcome to the dark side, indeed!
The Goods -
Most (90%) of the content on Becky's Dungeon is original. At first I doubted it (some of the sets have different site names stamped on them) but they do state that they take pride in shooting as much of the content themselves. Sometimes they'll license outside bdsm content, but they try to do it themselves as much as possible. It's pretty cool that they're able to produce their own fetish content that gets this extreme.
There's a pretty good sized collection of video clips. Over 171 are online now. Though they warn in the tour that they don't promise weekly updates, they just try their best, around two weeks ago they began adding a new full-length video each week. This will definitely help the site continue to grow at a nice pace if they can keep it up.
The Bads -
The site design is very plain and navigation is more complicated than it should have been. The site features white text on a black background with no graphics and frequently broken thumbnail images. For browsing, I think your best bet is the model index, although it isn't great since it isn't even ordered alphabetically. You can't search the models, nor can you search for specific sets. There are some categories for the fetishes, but it seems not all of the sets are categorized so just clicking over to Shavin' Girls won't find you everything in the niche. It's poorly designed and poorly organized.
Content quality varies but for the most part is below average. The lighting is bad in almost every shoot (poorly lit even by dungeon standards) and most of the pictures are just too small (usually around 488x651). The pictures are amateur in style but it seems no effort was put into taking a quality picture.
The video section also needs work. To begin with, the wmvs are mislabeled. They're actually avis that you have to download entirely before you can watch them. The worst part is the incredibly slow download speeds of the site. I was getting 35kb/sec so even clips that were just two minutes long were taking twice as long to download. There are no full-scene options for the movies, nor are there any choices of other quality settings or formats. Instead, you get an avi or mpeg that plays at around 500k.
Conclusion -
I enjoyed the fact that Becky's Dungeon offers original fetish content but beyond that the site needs work. The content quality is below average and it appears little effort was put into creating the site itself. The price is reasonable at $20 a month but it's still a tough sell for me. Becky's Dungeon is best enjoyed by those who appreciate truly raw, amateur bdsm.
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