THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2007, 10:15:21 PM

Title: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2007, 10:15:21 PM
Fuck the reviews, looks like they spent time on FEATURES.

*Halo 3 Super Double Feature EXTREME (awesome)
*Article on NON-GAME GAMERS and teh state of teh industry. Some good industry quotes.
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 04, 2007, 11:32:46 PM
I should cancel EGM since I only read it in the bathroom.  Even then, I rarely bother to finish reading the articles.  There's really not much in EGM that you can't get elsewhere online.  They probably make up shit in the rumours section so that people would keep reading it. 
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2007, 11:40:08 PM
Spencer: WE GRADE FOR EFFORT NOW
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 04, 2007, 11:50:53 PM
EGM is like special ed, reward them for EFFORT. I was happy to see actual features.
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: y2kev on August 04, 2007, 11:52:17 PM
worth buying lol

what gamer on an internet message board doesn't get egm for free?

i have no idea how they have any circulation at all....everyone who would likely read it can find it for free, and everyone who pays for it probably doesn't give a shit. well, that's not really true. I USED to be a paying customer, but then I found all those links GAF drags up frequently and now I have like six free years stocked up.


Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: Smooth Groove on August 04, 2007, 11:56:15 PM
Quote from: y2kev on August 04, 2007, 11:52:17 PM
worth buying lol

what gamer on an internet message board doesn't get egm for free?

i have no idea how they have any circulation at all....everyone who would likely read it can find it for free, and everyone who pays for it probably doesn't give a shit. well, that's not really true. I USED to be a paying customer, but then I found all those links GAF drags up frequently and now I have like six free years stocked up.




I'm still paying.   :(  I've been too lazy to cancel.  Are you talking about e-versions or print versions?  I tried the e-versions but they're too annoying to read on a mon.   They should just use adobe instead. 
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: Beezy on August 05, 2007, 12:03:22 AM
Quote from: Smooth Groove on August 04, 2007, 11:56:15 PM
Quote from: y2kev on August 04, 2007, 11:52:17 PM
worth buying lol

what gamer on an internet message board doesn't get egm for free?

i have no idea how they have any circulation at all....everyone who would likely read it can find it for free, and everyone who pays for it probably doesn't give a shit. well, that's not really true. I USED to be a paying customer, but then I found all those links GAF drags up frequently and now I have like six free years stocked up.




I'm still paying.   :(  I've been too lazy to cancel.  Are you talking about e-versions or print versions?  I tried the e-versions but they're too annoying to read on a mon.   They should just use adobe instead. 
I get both for free. Have been for like 2 years now.
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: brawndolicious on August 05, 2007, 12:24:52 AM
the co-op information isn't in the magazine because the news was announced a few days before it came out.  there's a lot of good screens of halo though and their impressions are actually worth looking at.
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: Himu on August 05, 2007, 12:49:51 AM
The Halo 3 preview took up like half the mag.

The reviews sucked. Persona 3 gotm and it gets half a page when Lair and Blue Dragon get 6's and shit and they get 2 pages. Funny thing is that one of the quotes for the P3 review is,"P3 proves that an rpg doesn't have to have be popular to be great." or something, and they write half a page review.

Oh EGM.
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 05, 2007, 12:50:36 AM
haha yeah, the reviews were crap :(
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: Himu on August 05, 2007, 12:51:48 AM

Quote from: y2kev on August 04, 2007, 11:52:17 PM
worth buying lol

what gamer on an internet message board doesn't get egm for free?

i have no idea how they have any circulation at all....everyone who would likely read it can find it for free, and everyone who pays for it probably doesn't give a shit. well, that's not really true. I USED to be a paying customer, but then I found all those links GAF drags up frequently and now I have like six free years stocked up.

I USED to be a paying customer...until they went to shit.
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 05, 2007, 02:51:57 AM
MAF what exactly is the non-gamer article about? I would imagine that developers are happy about the prospect of the industry increasing; after all it simply means they can make more money off more people. But how do they feel right now with Nintendo solely benefiting off the console, and does it talk about the software buying habits of these non-gamers? If some grandma bought a Wii last Christmas, how many games does she have now? My bet is one: Wii Sports
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 05, 2007, 03:32:20 AM
most devs in the article dont think the development of non-games will affect the development of 'hardcore' games as the two best selling games for wii are considered 'hardcore' games.
Title: Re: This month's EGM worth buying -- Two great features
Post by: Error2k4 on August 05, 2007, 04:14:37 AM
GI is the only magazine worth paying for. some really good exclusives there.

egm... lol