Samface wrote:I bought about 4 issues of NOM back when I got my 'Cube, in mid '03, but it was quite awful so I stopped. It seems to have got a bit better now but it still ain't up to much.
I dunno if anyone here read NOM during the N64 days but it was absoloutley fucking dire back then. Here's an example of a typical reader letter from that era:
Reader: LOLOL N64 rulez! It way better than GreyStation and DreamPants!
Magazine reply: Yeah LOL! N64 rulez!
Any magazine that encourages fanboyism like that and makes up stupid nicknames for rival consoles is just pathetic! That said it has improved a lot now but still isn't very good!
Those are the worst nicknames for rival consoles I've ever seen. At least call it the GayStation or even in the FagStation--or as that would translate in England, "CigaretteStation Tallyho."
That era was filled with mindless fanboyism. I'm quite sure I remember letters of a similar calibur appearing in Playstation Max magazines with Nintendo fanboys writing in saying "Playstation sucks, my N64 has Goldeneye and Mario 64," and then they would reply with "You can only name 2!? Our Playstation has 100s of games better than the Nintenpoo 64." I don't think such attrocities occur today, but then again I don't read game magazines anymore...
As for the Shadow game...Goddamn it, but every new morsel of info that's released is getting me wetter and wetter for this game and I can't bloody help it.
shadow teh hegdehg mre liek jazz jakrabbit lolz m i rite
Seriously, the game's looking better (although that comparison's still... interesting). I might actually consider buying it, if it weren't for the fact I have no next-gen consoles.
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Ngangbius wrote:What's wrong with EDGE? I heard it was currently one of the best video gaming mags in circulation.
It's very well-informed and knowledgable, yes, and beautifully designed. However, it's also self-congratulating, egotistical, smug, po-faced, humourless bollocks. I hate it with a firey passion.
I would have reccomended GamesTM, but I've stopped getting it now. Firstly because it's suddenly become more humourlessly nerdy than an average sized sci-fi convention, but mostly because it's now got so many "features" (long boring articles full of deveoper hype or how much the daily mail sucks) that it only manages about ten previews and reviews per edition. Shame; it's the first, and only, games magazine I have bought more than one issue of.
I used to buy this magazine called Ação Games (something like "Games Action", because here the media has the awful tradition of using the english word "game" when they are talking about videogames to sound cooler and younger, like an executive with a red cap). It was very nice in the Mega Drive and SNES era, until the PlayStation came. It became something that dedicated half of its pages to a stupid Tomb Raider walkthrough. Sometimes they got some interviews with people like, I dunno, that guy from the Street Fighter series, but they were filled with stupid questions.
Sometimes, I managed to buy an EGM or GameSpot, but they were worth like a gajillion gold pieces. I remember this english magazine I used to pick at my school library called Computer and Video-Games (CVG) that had two of the coolest sections. One was the drawing section, they always put the best and worst drawings, and the comments for the worst were very funny. The other one had suggestions for future games, and sometimes there were some very stupid ideas. Thinking about it, too bad it all revolved about laughing at other people's creations...
CVG was always good. The Drawinz Wot U Done section you mentioned was always good; pictures were rated out of 5 bones (by a dog, you understand) and the really shite ones would get a steaming turd rating. How I laughed.
I used to buy this magazine called Ação Games (something like "Games Action", because here the media has the awful tradition of using the english word "game" when they are talking about videogames to sound cooler and younger, like an executive with a red cap). It was very nice in the Mega Drive and SNES era, until the PlayStation came. It became something that dedicated half of its pages to a stupid Tomb Raider walkthrough. Sometimes they got some interviews with people like, I dunno, that guy from the Street Fighter series, but they were filled with stupid questions.
j-man wrote:CVG was always good. The Drawinz Wot U Done section you mentioned was always good; pictures were rated out of 5 bones (by a dog, you understand) and the really shite ones would get a steaming turd rating. How I laughed.
That section kicked arse. It was one of the highlights of CVG. I loved to laugh at most of the "turd" pictures.
Shadow seems to be built on Heroes engine, but at least you play with only one character this time.
And with elements from Panzer Dragoon, and Devil may Cry. Different endings, and a more deeper story than Heroes ('Eggman will rule the world yet again...'). This can turn out to be very good.
With the variety of endings I would assume that Sonic gets shot or seriously hurt in at least one of them. I doubt he will be killed off, as crap as the continuity in Sonic games is these days, I'm sure Sonic will still be alive in all the endings in some way, shape or form.
