Shit!
I just re-upped last month. At least it wasn't TOO expensive. I'm sure i'll get something in the mail soon enough offering me a awesome selection of new mags to replace my current subscription with.
Shit!
I just re-upped last month. At least it wasn't TOO expensive. I'm sure i'll get something in the mail soon enough offering me a awesome selection of new mags to replace my current subscription with.
Because it makes no attempt to be great, it is therefore extremely great.
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I was never a big fan of EGM, but it still sucks when people lose jobs.
While I can't claim to be a big fan of their recent issues, it's very depressing to have such a long-running magazine, that was basically the giant of its field, go under. Video game print magazines are dying left and right. What the heck is left at this point?
Online gaming news sites will NEVER replace print magazines. If all you want is "hey, so-and-so game has been announced, it'll be released at so-and-so date, and we give it a blah out of 10" great, but if print magazines disappear, say good bye to insightful, well-researched, well-written articles that delve into all aspects of gaming that take love and care, skill and talent, and, most importantly, time to produce. Most people take writing for granted because just about everyone can do it, by to write WELL and to be a good journalist is something most cannot.
Havent cared for the mag sense the late 90's and I'll shed no tears from their parting. EGM had a good start but just failed to impress once they became nothing more then the great Sony hype machine.
Absolutely terrible news. EGM has always been the best videogame magazine IMO, even though they haven't been as good as they were the past couple years. I'm more upset over the fact that nearly everyone with any talent is leaving 1up, which means no more podcasts or 1up Yours. 1up produced the best gaming podcasts on the Internet, and had good reviews as well. I know I'll never be visiting the site again after this shit.
I still have my EGM "In your face!" T-shirt from 57 years ago when I first subscribed.
RIP....
You gotta be kidding. There were plenty of ads to read!Originally Posted by Tupin
I wasn't aware there were still people with fondness for EGM in its current state. I never paid much attention to it, though.
I'd hate to see 1Up go the same way as Gamespy or Gamesdomain - but then, I wouldn't really miss it much given how little attention I paid to it. Still, on those rare occasions, I found it to be a source of nifty, clever, well-written articles. Where the heck is Solid Sharkey these days, anyway?
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There goes my subscription for 3 years
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welcome GAMEPRO
This was the only magazine I actually bought and read. It's sad to hear this, but like others stated, I saw it coming. The magazine was just getting thinner and thinner every month. I still remember buying my first issue, #29 at the mall. Thanks for the memories...
If you think it was nothing but fluff, you probably have not read any from the last year or two. Seriously the state of gaming in Japan issue released earlier this year was one of the best realized magazines I have read. From cover to cover it follows a wonderful cohesive theme and offered many insight you would have never seen otherwise.
Sad to see it go. It did have a good run.
Good riddance.
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Damn. I enjoy listening to the podcasts at work. The magazine, in it's current state, made for good toilet reading. Ah well.
I remember in the late 1990s, there was EGM, Game Fan, GamePro, Next Generation, Game Informer, and Gamers' Republic. What's left?
(Not that any of them were ever that great.)
Who knew Gamepro would outlive them?
I can't say I'll shed a tear for them though, they haven't really been all that great since circa 1994.
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I considered Gamers' Republic and Next Generation to be the better of the lot. GR tended to give reviews I found spot on and didnt pull punches just because it was from a popular company of for a popular system. While I believe that led to their downfall, to me it had better cred then EGM had for the past 10 years. I know many of the staff went on to join up with other gaming mags, many of which are no longer in print, but it has always remained one of the few I considered worth reading.
You're right. I know the staff at both magazines tried to cover video games in a more intelligent and mature manner. Sometimes they succeeded.
If I remember correctly, the staff of GamePro used goofy avatars and pseudonyms in the magazine. I hated that.
I stopped reading EGM when they got greedy and started splitting their content across two monthly mags (EGM and EGM2) in order to sell more advertising.
I stopped reading game mags altogether after Next Generation and Gamefan when tits up.
I will miss this mag, for me it's sad to see it go. I have been an avid EGM reader since issue 9 and did read EGM until it ended. The days of the review crew of Senrad, Harris, Alessi and Sushi-X were splendid, I also think that Hsu did a magnificent job, sadly Mielke did not had enough time as editor-in-chief with EGM but managed to pull out some great issues, specially #232 (Japan Special!). A good trip while it lasted, now I sadly have to say Good Bye Electronic Gaming Monthly.
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