OFFICIAL
66.1
worth a look |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
9.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
10.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
6.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
48.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
11.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Temp Fill : |
6.6 / 10 |
| sub-total : |
6.6 / 10 |
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As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Nice and cheap!
2. Exclusive content.
1. Site is pretty small still.
2. Both pictures and videos look pretty bad.
3. No dated updates.
"Even as a newer site, there's just a ton of work to do here to bring it up near par." |
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Night Club Girls is another entry into the reality scene, and they claim to bring you the after party from their club-going friends. The site that immediately came to mind as competition to this one was InTheVIP, since they're also a reality site that focuses on club parties. Looking around the tour a bit here, all I see is some amateur-ish pics around that don't really have a lot to do with clubs at all.
Inside, the site doesn't look a whole lot better (in does look pretty similar to the tour, so you can get an idea there what it looks like). Thankfully, it's easy enough to get around with a pretty straightforward menu.
I went to the pictures section first, and my first thought was wondering why they chose blue links against the black background. It made for some difficult reading of the gallery titles for sure. I was also surprised to see there were only 22 photo galleries up right now, which seems a little small. Granted, since they're only charging $10 a month here, they may be a newer site which is fine.
Browsing around through the photos, it's really hard to tell what's going on exactly in a lot of them. First, the thumbs loaded a little slow for me. Not that the server was slow, but more than the program they used to display them loaded them one at a time, which slowed things down a bit. Then, a lot of the images seemed to be random indoor or outdoor pictures of nothing really. Several sets have at least a few pictures that I literally couldn't see anything in - they were simply black. Others had serious focus problems, with the completely wrong thing being in focus, while the girl is totally blurry. Once you find some pictures you like, they're still so dimly-lit and poor quality that it was just tough for me to enjoy any of them. They averaged around 700x500, although two galleries I saw had size options (of 640x480 or 1280x960), and one other one had zip downloads. Even though they're in clubs supposedly, I really need to see more light here overall.
The videos section, unfortunately, is more of the same. The quality was better here in that they're all Windows Media Videos at 320x240 and 500kpbs, but there's still a ton of lighting issues that get in the way of enjoying anything. Even the indoor sex scenes they seem to leave the light off, save for a camera-mounted light it seems which only illuminates a small circle in the middle of the screen. I also was a little annoyed at first that I couldn't figure out what to click to play the videos (turns on the thumbnails on the right are links to clips, I didn't read correctly and thought they were just previews), and also by the upsell to buy that video from an online store. Unfortunately, my main problems with the site are content, and more related to how they shoot it (which I'm sure wouldn't be an easy thing to change). But poorly-lit photos and videos just aren't doing it for me; the quality is too low.
The interactive link is basically a blank page, and the store link just leads you to the store where they make money by selling videos (I'm not sure if they're all theirs or not). The $10 price tag is about the one good selling point here. But for that money, I'd rather join something that gave me more for my money, even that little of an investment. There's also better reality sites out there (although they cost a little more); pretty much all of them are more entertaining for me. For Night Club Girls to do better, I'd need to see much better content, and more of it (I can't tell how often they update since they aren't dated). Maybe in the future they'll work out the kinks a bit, and I can recommend it more - we'll see.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 12-22-04 |
Unfortunately this site didn't leave a great impression on me the first time we looked at it; I didn't even quite remember reviewing it initially to be honest. After reading what I wrote and looking over the site again, not much has really changed. There is some life here as things have grown a little bit, but with the time that's passed I would have liked to have seen more new stuff here.
The only other mention is a slight price increase to $15 recurring at $10 a month, which can't help things. One thing I did want to clarify is that the video quality here actually doesn't look too bad now, but I think whatever camera they're using is the culprit of the few problems they have. There's usually a bad color tint to videos here and there. 700kbps Windows Media isn't too bad though, which should bump that score up some.
The site is still a bit random to me with the content they offer, and nothing really stands out here above any other sites out there. I think, for the price, 64 is a little low and will bump that score up a bit - but not because they've changed a whole lot since last time unfortunately.
Score increased from 60.0 to 66.1.
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