"Do Any Of You Buy Video Game Mags?" or ""Printed Media Dying Out?"

[Kim]

Seil doesn't like Dead Space because he's a terrible person. Or he's a terrible person because he doesn't like Dead Space. Chicken/Egg

[Yrcrazypa]

I used to buy PC Gamer a lot, but then I started noticing that the reviewers had completely different tastes than me. What with giving the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 a ludicrously high score, despite being a shoddy port of an overrated game. Not to mention it being too expensive, I'd rather just get my reviews online, at least then I can find reviewers I trust.

[DFM]

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

what

No, really, I didn't read the rest of this post yet. Explain This.

Dead Space was awful, Dead Space 2 will likely be awful. There you go.



Also I used subscribe to PCGamer but the magazine seemed to go gradually downhill in terms of review quality (Hellgate London got like an 88% WTF) on top of being a good month or two behind the internet with any of their stories.

Don't blame them though PC is a dead platform hurfa durf.

[Seil]

what

No, really, I didn't read the rest of this post yet. Explain This.

(Game magazines are still my prefered method of getting game information cause I like having a physical copy of things around)

DFM got it. Dead Space was pretty terrible.

Anyway, yes EGM is still around - Seanbaby's bit in the back was about killoing his virtual babies. I don't usually agree with everything that's in them, but I like to read something at work that's less about celebrities and more about, well... video games and video game celebrities.

[Aerozord]

well if EGM is what it used to be I will pick it up without a second thought. Wonder if they got Hsu n Chan back too.

[edit] oh and I like magazines because it gives me information in digestable chunks. Internet has alot of information, but thats exactly the problem. To find out about a game, you first need to know it exists. But the review sites primarily focus on the big games. While information on other ones is there, its alot easier leafing through a few pages to skim whats coming out that month then sifting through a series of links which normally only tell you the games name.

[synkr0nized]

Since this has been in my head for the past few days, I'll just post it.

Seil, with your "first thing" or "second thing" thread titles, I am beginning to wonder if you wrote for Rocky and Bullwinkle. However you are lacking puns.

[Viridis]

Hm. Is Game Informer still good?

[DFM]

I think my favorite part of Rocky and Bullwinkle was one episode where they're surrounded by the army/a bunch of landmines and the announcer cuts off for his usual "Tune in next time" bit and says "Will our heroes escape Boris' fiendish double cross?" and then there's a heartbeat pause as a tank blows up the house and he goes "No!"

Then the show went on for a few more minutes before doing the actual "Tune in next time" bit and I don't know I wanted to share that because I thought it was really funny when I watched it thanks everyone.

[Nique]

Seanbaby is back in the latest EGM doing 'The Rest of the Crap', so it's still a'ight. No more comic though (Hsu and Chan IIRC?)

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Seil

DFM got it. Dead Space was pretty terrible.

Uh huh, I'm calling bull on both of you.