THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: mojovonio on July 10, 2008, 01:24:08 PM
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I've never read such a useless preview.
Basically this is what Shane mentions,
The Helghast are in the game
You play one guy
There are nice graphics in the game.
There is a cover mechanic
No talking about a level playthrough, no table of weapons in the game, nothing new.
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who would want to buy a magazine to hear what shane has to say about killzone
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Who would want to buy EGM?
I've got a free subscription until 2012.
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Ill just buy Killzone 2 and be the judge of it.
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You're getting old, mojo. Don't have the reflexes and sharp sense you used to have :'(
I didn't get my speed fix today. A police dog found it on me and took it away.
They use cocker spaniels in the police force right?
Goldendoodles in the more ritzy neighborhoods too.
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lol EGM
and lol @ shane covering an FPS
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He's a PC gamer too. Embrace him, Borys.
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He's a PC gamer too. Embrace him, Borys.
borys would only accept me if i had crysis jammed up my asshole. farcry/crysis just bore me.
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No man's asshole will ever be in a high enough resolution for Borys regardless. :'(
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I enjoy my free subscription 8)
Though I enjoyed my free subscription to GFW even more :'(
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I really don't understand why they'd send Shane to do a coverstory on an FPS. Was this part of the deal? CONSPIRACY.
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I really don't understand why they'd send Shane to do a coverstory on an FPS. Was this part of the deal? CONSPIRACY.
because ZD has like two people working there now
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I really don't understand why they'd send Shane to do a coverstory on an FPS. Was this part of the deal? CONSPIRACY.
because ZD has like two people working there now
Yeah, I'm really counting down the days till a company picks up Shawn Elliott, probably doesn't want to be a community manager (lol).
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I am curious to see how little they probably get paid at 1up/EGM. Things are getting shutdown all the time. I think there are like 3 workers and everyone else is an intern. This is all Che's fault.
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They recently rehired two fired staffers, so they're not done for JUST yet. But soon! EGM's days are sooo numbered.
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Mark needs to come back. That or there needs to be an 8-4 podcast. He went out like a champ by tricking everyone into thinking he was going to work on that Halo game. Shane even said he heard about it :lol
At least John still visits 1upyours often.
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I actually did the survey they're pimping in the magazine (I could win an EGM jacket worn by Shane :o).
There were questions about how much I'd be willing to pay if there were a thicker, higher quality EGM, so maybe they're seriously looking into becoming a more serious publication. I'd be curious to see it, though I'm not sure if it would work out.
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other b-list games egm covers insufficiently: damnation, the conduit, soma bringer, super mario sluggers
why are we having this dicussion, nobody cares about killzone 2
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other b-list games egm covers insufficiently: damnation, the conduit, soma bringer, super mario sluggers
i thought soma bringer was good ???
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Luke Smith was only payed $14,000 a year. He left on bad terms, also.
Plus they fired the hottest chick they ever had working there, that one CM Jenn Frank.
I would stick it in her plump body.
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Luke Smith was only payed $14,000 a year. He left on bad terms, also.
Probably got a huge pay raise and benefits at Bungie. On the latest podcast their tech maintenance guy was making Luke wet with a custom build and rigged podcast room he'd like to do in the new building/annex or something.
What were the bad terms?
From comments of other people I know 1up/ZD pays the worst (compared to other 'big' websites)
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Seems like Sean (from the GFW group) went to Blizzard.
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Waaaaaait.
No way. There is no humanly way Luke made 14k a year at ZD. Even IF he had two roommates, that's not enough to live off of, especially not in SF. Where did you hear that?
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14K jesus no wonder everybody leaves that place
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I don't even know what the source is that he only got 14k and left on bad terms. I could understand if they were mad about all the shilling he did for Bungie during the years he worked there only to actually work for them later on, but I don't think he was doing that for that reason.
And I wouldn't be surprised if he did have like 4 roommates or something. Everyone at 1up seems to live together. It is really weird.
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14K jesus no wonder everybody leaves that place
BS. I'm guessing around 40K. Ziff has really become ''finishing school'' to CM positions.
Che->Turn 10
Luke Smith->Bungie
Bryan Inthihar->Insomniac
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I know Luke personally. Take it or leave it guys.
http://infinitelives.net/
Thats Jenn Franks blog.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/497556849_a55353a762.jpg?v=0)
That's her 100 pounds lighter aka not as sexy
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Well whats the minimum salary in California? Whatever it was, it was that. In NH it's 14k. All I remember him saying was it was the lowest.
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Here's a real Killzone 2 preview
Killzone 2
(http://i26.tinypic.com/2hxu03q.jpg)
(http://i29.tinypic.com/qqo8di.jpg)
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Well whats the minimum salary in California? Whatever it was, it was that. In NH it's 14k. All I remember him saying was it was the lowest.
He made 45k, got an insulting counter from Ziff after Bungie approached him about a job, and then he quit. Maybe Davison knew the ship was sinking and didn't try to keep him . . .
kev why you bashing 1up? I thought your career path was forum personality -> GAF mod -> ZD writer
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bashing ZD? I'm not bashing ZD.
you'd have to be delusional to think that me predicting doom for egm is bashing ZD.
I love 1up's media services.
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I do agree with you, Kev, EGM will probably be dead soon, give or take a year or so is my prediction. 1up.com will be the ZD game group's focus, along with excellent podcasts and video content.
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EGM dieing would be a shame
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EGM dieing would be a shame
it has been shrinking for a while...this month they (largely) did away with 3 person reviews...which, imo, is a good thing (longer one person reviews), but you can't help but think that this is a personnel driven decision (they have defended the "review crew" tooth and nail before). they now "cover" PC games for the ad revenue, and their index of advertisers is down to like five or six companies as of the latest issue. and one of those is sony, who will be out of business soon, and ms, who is leaving the console market in four to six months.
i'd say print is dead, but GI seems to be growing (for obvious reasons). GI has a HUGE exclusive every month.
. ziff was late to the online party too, but i still vastly prefer what they DO with the web than what GS or IGN do.
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I keep hearing "pc ads" but look at older EGMs from this year or last year. They already had PC ads.
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Yes. But they hope to get more now that they are adding more PC coverage in the mag.
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PC gamers are the last people who want a magazine. gaming magazines are obsolete.
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PC gamers are the last people who want a magazine. gaming magazines are obsolete.
Tell that to Gameinformer or Game Pro both are still doing well
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it has been shrinking for a while...this month they (largely) did away with 3 person reviews...which, imo, is a good thing (longer one person reviews), but you can't help but think that this is a personnel driven decision (they have defended the "review crew" tooth and nail before). they now "cover" PC games for the ad revenue, and their index of advertisers is down to like five or six companies as of the latest issue. and one of those is sony, who will be out of business soon, and ms, who is leaving the console market in four to six months.
i'd say print is dead, but GI seems to be growing (for obvious reasons). GI has a HUGE exclusive every month.
. ziff was late to the online party too, but i still vastly prefer what they DO with the web than what GS or IGN do.
EGM is one of the two magazines I get in the mail (I am thinking of getting EDGE), but I still think it is going to go under soon. And despite thinking 1up has the best podcasts/original video content of all the major gaming websites, their actual news coverage, videos and pictures are pretty bad. Gamevideos is horrendously slow, and with Gametrailers around there is no real reason to visit it outside of exclusive content. Just compare the new Mirror's Edge trailer on Gamevideos to Gametrailers-
Gamevideos: 13,177
Gametrailers: 116,063
That is almost as bad as the gap between next gen systems and the Wii in Japan.
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"Perfectly effective," sounds like another AAA title to me
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it has been shrinking for a while...this month they (largely) did away with 3 person reviews...which, imo, is a good thing (longer one person reviews), but you can't help but think that this is a personnel driven decision (they have defended the "review crew" tooth and nail before). they now "cover" PC games for the ad revenue, and their index of advertisers is down to like five or six companies as of the latest issue. and one of those is sony, who will be out of business soon, and ms, who is leaving the console market in four to six months.
i'd say print is dead, but GI seems to be growing (for obvious reasons). GI has a HUGE exclusive every month.
. ziff was late to the online party too, but i still vastly prefer what they DO with the web than what GS or IGN do.
EGM is one of the two magazines I get in the mail (I am thinking of getting EDGE), but I still think it is going to go under soon. And despite thinking 1up has the best podcasts/original video content of all the major gaming websites, their actual news coverage, videos and pictures are pretty bad. Gamevideos is horrendously slow, and with Gametrailers around there is no real reason to visit it outside of exclusive content. Just compare the new Mirror's Edge trailer on Gamevideos to Gametrailers-
Gamevideos: 13,177
Gametrailers: 116,063
That is almost as bad as the gap between next gen systems and the Wii in Japan.
Whoa, I actually didn't know it was that bad.
I think GT is okay...I don't really agree with some of their writers (voicers?) sometimes. I'm not even really sure why GameVideos was spun off.
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Yeah, I don't agree with the reviews or opinions at Gametrailers at all, but I still like the video content they provide. Plus they are incredibly fast for me compared to gamevideos or other sites. 2+ megs a second vs 50-100 kb.
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http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19889
Killzone 2 on the 1upshow. I don't know if there is new footage or info because this shit is downloading really slow, but there it is.