The Shrine

I kinda like this article from IGN, in particular #2 and #3

http://wii.ign.com/articles/113/1130160p1.html

And no, Sine and Don, it's not a Wii-related article, it just originated from the Wii team. You can click without feeling insecure

Heh, and the first one on the list is arcades. Sigh. Pretty much killed fighting games, too. And the second one is "lies"? Seriously? We still have people balking at GTA or Mass Effect, and lying about what's actually in the game. Multiplayer and controllers are dead?

Also, they misunderstand the point of the "Nintendo Seal of Quality". It had to do with people cloning the technology (especially Tengen) and making their own games. Not sure if Nintendo won the lawsuit or not, but Nintendo started putting that on there to tell people that it was actually a Nintendo game.

This is spot on, however:

What are these shitty magazines? I'm still very pleased with my PC Gamer subscription.

However, game reviews are basically the last thing I ever read in the magazine. The vast majority of the time I already know I'm going to buy a game before it comes out And it's still easier to flip the page away from an advertisement then fucking having to find some small text in the corner of a screen to click on to move past an online ad.

Shrinweck wrote:What are these shitty magazines? I'm still very pleased with my PC Gamer subscription.

However, game reviews are basically the last thing I ever read in the magazine. The vast majority of the time I already know I'm going to buy a game before it comes out And it's still easier to flip the page away from an advertisement then fucking having to find some small text in the corner of a screen to click on to move past an online ad.

The best video game magazines in the history of this continent - EGM and Next Generation - died from the advent of the internet. It's such a losing proposition that Nintendo sold Nintendo Power. Do you think they'd EVER sell a money-making business activity? Mags are basically dead, just a couple left for the pure hardcores. Hey, I luvs my mags, I have a huge collection of them (including Nintendo Power #1-80 something, Gamepro #3 or 4 up to a lot, and EGM # 6 on to the end) and I wish I could get the good ones. But they dead, man.

Growing up, the reviews in the mags were always interesting and may have swayed the decision-making process on borderline games but yeah, I pretty much know what I want. But I always read them. And I'm not sure about you, but I used to actually read the ads, they were some of the most interesting parts of a video game mag. Fabio dressed up as an ancient warrior with fire and brimstone and a mountain range behind him? Classic :-)