Favorite game magazine?

Tacodude · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject: Favorite game magazine?

What's your favorite gaming magazine (if you have one)? Mine is EGM. They are the best when it comes to rating games (though they may be a bit tough on some). I have only purchased one issue of Game Informer and hated it.

Go ahead and flame me for that last comment, if you really care to do so.
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jesternim · Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 1772 Location: Alberta

Nintendo Power!!

Know why? Because it's the only gaming magazine that comes to my house, since my 9 year old brother gets it =p I wanted to feel included in the gaming forum for once.

I wasn't serious about it being my favourite. I have none. I shouldn't have participated. I knowwww. Tear.
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mep · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject:

GamePro is really all i've ever bought..

jesternim · Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 1772 Location: Alberta

Oh yeah, when my older Brother was around, I'd take his Gamepro, and look at the RPG section =/
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kidnemo · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

Of all time - Gamefan, though Next Generation and Gamers Republic were both great.

Nintendo Power is okay, though it's skewed for a young audience and is mostly just a big ole Nintendo ad.

Gamepro is not so good, though I admit I probably have read an issue in seven years, from what I still hear, the quality hasn't improved much.

I currently read EGM, PSM, OPM, and a coulple others here and there. Right now I think that EGM is the raining champion, and has been for a while.
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jesternim · Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 1772 Location: Alberta

I wanna be the 'raining champion' =(
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kidnemo · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

It's not a bad job, pretty wet though.
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mep · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:

...It's wet because it's a tough job, you get sweaty and take lots of showers..right? ...right?!

byronhulcher · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 1153

I read GI because they are cynical, sarcastic, and have a keen eye for Hot Shots Golf.
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al27 · Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 544 Location: [insert joke here]

I really like Game Informer because of their reviews. They were the only one I knew of that gave Rouge Squadron III: Rebel Strike a bad grade (6.25/10 if memory serves) and they were right on. That game did suck!

Also, they are really funny.

I used to subscribe to Nintendo Power, but I never really read Gaming mags except for news and reviews. NP did a decent job with the news part but their reveiws went to crap, they couldn't even settle on one rating, but had 6 reviewers rate the same game and just put the scores all next to each other. That bugged me. Plus, they gave mad grades to ANYTHING made by Nintendo, regardless of the faults. Finally, they never said anything bad about any bad game. The short reviews of crappy GBA games only contained good points, even if the star ratings they were giving them told me that it was obviously a sucky game.

So I stopped subscribing, and I really like Game Informer for their reviews, their sense of humor and some of their departments are fun, like the quiz at the end of the mag or the part where they just expose people to cool stuff like gaming music and HALO action figures. Half of that I wouldn't even know existed if they didn't plug it in their mag.

Plus, with GI, you just give $10 to some clerk at Gamestop and you get hooked up with 10 issues. Can't beat that price, no sir!

And EGM isn't bad, but I wouldn't subscribe.

The rest I don't read because I don't pay news stand price and feel guilty about tearing open the plastic cover just to browse.

(of course, these are just my opinions, I don't want to step on anybody's opinions)

-al27
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BizarreJojo · Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 796

My favourite gaming-magazine is...

INTARWEB!

Mzo · Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 473

I'm gonna say GMR tells it like it is more often than not.

EGM is mostly ok, but they really suck at videogames. When they label a game like Maximo to be prohibitively difficult, they're having problems.
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BulletHolesInBridalGowns · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:05 am Post subject:

I haven't bought a game-mag in ageeeesss.
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Seraphyn-E · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 165 Location: The Netherlands

last game mag i bought was pc-gameplay, very good...and very local >.>
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steelknight · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 537 Location: The Moon

The last gaming mag i bought wasn't a video game magazine. It was a Wizard - Inquest. I bought it because it had a mail away Heroclix offer in it. I didn't feel like buy the Clix on line and paying an extra five bucks. I like EMG because of all the pretty pictures.
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