Cost of PC game magazines..

megatron · 2 Mar 2007 at 15:03

I have absolutely no idea what u just said, even your sig makes absolutely no sence. Im going to guess Im not alone here.

iv-tecman · 2 Mar 2007 at 15:45

megatron said:
I have absolutely no idea what u just said, even your sig makes absolutely no sence. Im going to guess Im not alone here.

Erm nope. I'm trying best to decrypt what he means, but sadly failed in my mission so will resort to agreement with you.

Moving on - Old games and computer mags... I have fond memories of Super Play for the SNES and Amiga Fomat. The AF cover disc was great but if you took a years sub, you got the AF power cover disc as well, crammed full of great demos, freeware, shareware and PD games... Awesome..

PC Mags just haven't moved on... Perhaps they need to move focus to being something like IGN, just without the ads? And offer a PDF you can print off, all for £30 a year or something? I mean, the only reason you buy the off the shelf news is to read on a train, sofa or when taking care of business... If you know what I mean..

No.... Not that type of business, if it crossed your mind..

manveruppd · 2 Mar 2007 at 17:09

megatron said:
I have absolutely no idea what u just said, even your sig makes absolutely no sence. Im going to guess Im not alone here.

Who? Me?

I mean, the only reason you buy the off the shelf news is to read on a train, sofa or when taking care of business...

Are you Elvis? And, if so, what do you think of Singstar?

iv-tecman · 2 Mar 2007 at 17:31

manveruppd said:
*snip*

Are you Elvis? And, if so, what do you think of Singstar?

Sing along -

We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much baby

Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds

So, if an old friend I know
Drops by to say hello
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?

Here we go again
Asking where I've been
You can't see these tears are real
I'm crying

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds
And be can't build our dreams
On suspicious minds

Oh let our love survive
Or dry the tears from your eyes
Let's don't let a good thing die

When honey, you know
I've never lied to you
Mmm yeah, yeah

FoxEye · 2 Mar 2007 at 17:33

A quick glance at Metacritic will tell you everything you need to know about any PC game

They aggregate all the press reviews and user reviews, in the same way that Rottentomatoes does. Useful, really, since different mags have different bias.

Surfer · 2 Mar 2007 at 17:42

FoxEye said:
A quick glance at Metacritic will tell you everything you need to know about any PC game They aggregate all the press reviews and user reviews, in the same way that Rottentomatoes does. Useful, really, since different mags have different bias.

the problem is just because someone else says its brilliant or that its crap doesnt mean that you will or wont like it

i say try demos of any game you are interested in (if possible) and ignore reviews

manveruppd · 2 Mar 2007 at 18:09

FoxEye said:
Useful, really, since different mags have different bias.

Such as which publisher they're in the pockets of?

FoxEye · 2 Mar 2007 at 18:13

manveruppd said:
Such as which publisher they're in the pockets of?

You do have to wonder when obviously cack games are given 100% right, left and centre.

megatron · 3 Mar 2007 at 08:17

iv-tecman said:
I'm trying best to decrypt what he means, but sadly failed in my mission so will resort to agreement with you.

manveruppd said:
Who? Me?
?

Do u ever find yourself making a joke and afterwards u get an uneasy silence?

manveruppd · 3 Mar 2007 at 11:37

megatron said:
Do u ever find yourself making a joke and afterwards u get an uneasy silence?

NEVAH! I always laugh at my own jokes loud enough for everyone!

For the record, I was saying that the price of magazines is irrelevant because I can just read them in Borders for free while I'm sitting in their cafés drinking a mug of coffee, so effectively they cost as much as one Starbucks filter coffee. Like someone else said, the only time I buy magazines anymore is to read on trains.

The Too Much Coffee Man thing you wouldn't get unless you've read it, so don't feel bad...

Duke · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:03

caff said:
I'll never forget the joy of playing Duncan McDonald's "Lawnmower Simulator"

Funnily enough I played that last year, when a friend of mine bought an Amiga package off the net

It's actually quite good fun after consuming lots of alcohol

KraniX · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:35

They are expensive, but they do sometimes get exclusive information that only filters onto the net sometime later.

I have in the past come to the OCUK forum and posted review scores for some AAA release and quite often it's the first review around and occasionally I'll read about an upcoming game that I wouldn't have normally read about online as I wouldn't have thought it's my type of game.

I subscribe to PC Gamer, it costs less than a single box of cigarettes a month so in the scheme of things it ain't really a lot.

manveruppd · 4 Mar 2007 at 23:36

Generally the ones that get lots of exclusives are the ones least likely to give unbiased reviews. PC Gamer isn't bad, but the only really "untouchable" reviewers work for Edge and GamesTM, both of which have probably alienated every publisher on the planet by slagging them off at some point in the past