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therev

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PC Gamer used to feel quite 'homely', but has to cater for a largely MMO and FPS audience now.

I guess all mags do; which is kind of a shame.

PC Gamer is my favourite games mag. I really enjoy reading it all, even though I hardly play PC games. I'd like a mutliformat mag that's wirtten and organised in a similar way.

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Terrible cover.

What on earth were they thinking?

Yay! I've just been looking through this thread to see if anyone was going to make that observation, so that I could either agree whoeheartedly or be the first to point out that someone has screwed up royally

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Tiki

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Still doesn't get underqualified old me a job though.

Coincidentally: well done on yours; didn't know you were 'industry'.

I might apply somewhere for junior QA next year...

Do - if you want in, it's the best way. And try to go somewhere small.

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PC Gamer is my favourite games mag. I really enjoy reading it all, even though I hardly play PC games. I'd like a mutliformat mag that's wirtten and organised in a similar way.

God, if there was a multiformat like Gamer I'd never write for anyone else.

KG

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Just read the Odama review, and - while it's an entertaining read (and very well-written) it seems to be coming from the standpoint that it's just too hard. Considering I don't complete many games these days (though mainly due to excessive length rather than obscene difficulty) and I finished it, I find that a little hard to swallow. There's a point about level six made, wherein the writer claims that a feature of the battlefield means that if you shoot the Odama into it, it's an instant game over. This would be fair enough if it were true, but considering you should really have several spare Odamas by that stage, and the fact that the tilt can get you out of it, is actually entirely false.

And the Oblivion review DOES read like a 7 - a lot of people are going to be irked by this following bit:

It's debateable (sp?) whether Oblivion is a great adventure

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therev

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And the Oblivion review DOES read like a 7 - a lot of people are going to be irked by this following bit:

It's debateable (sp?) whether Oblivion is a great adventure

Interesting, so the Oblivion review wasn't written by someone who loved the game but felt compelled to take some marks off for the bugs and glitches and oddities, but by someone who didn't really get on with the game?

That should be worth a read then, even if it's a viewpoint I find it hard to get my head around.

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And the Oblivion review DOES read like a 7 - a lot of people are going to be irked by this following bit: "It's debateable (sp?) whether Oblivion is a great adventure"

<_<

It's a meaningless comment - pretty much everything is debateable when it comes to opinion. I think their review is fair but for me it is still a 10/10 game. What Edge give a game does not affect my opinion or enjoyment of it one bit.

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The three interviews are 'interesting' for different reasons:

1) The Miyamoto one is miles shorter than the other two - like pages shorter. I wonder if this was a time thing, or they just didn't find what he was saying interesting? I guess as it was actually held a while ago he maybe just didn't have anything he could say.

2) Harrison is caught as the dirty, cheating liar he is with the PS3 development cost question. 'It's cheaper to make PS3 games', 'That's not what we're told', 'Did I say cheaper?, well obviously I meant to make games with no graphics or anything like that'. Gotcha!

3) Moore talks a lot (he gets a significant amount more mag space) but really says very little. He just can't find it in himself to praise anyone for anything either - it's all either 'we do it better' or 'we did it first'.

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There is a reference in the Oblivion review to one crash ocurring in 40 hours of playtime. Surely this is not long enough to form a considered opinion?

Yeah, talk about jumping the gun- I hear it gets really good after about 74 hours.

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There is a reference in the Oblivion review to one crash ocurring in 40 hours of playtime. Surely this is not long enough to form a considered opinion?

You're right, they should have played for at least <Dr Evil>one million dollars hours!</Dr Evil>

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Fuck me that name's a blast from the past! Quality mag that was, quality mag.

Whilst Ultimate certainly didn't challenge Edge's authority, it was fantastic to have some pure enthusiasm.

Same goes for Amiga Power of course.

PC Gamer used to feel quite 'homely', but has to cater for a largely MMO and FPS audience now.

I guess all mags do; which is kind of a shame.

Printed media is no longer a hub for hobbies, just opinion drifting in the face of the internet.

feel a bit badnow, i was being sarcastic. it was the worst magazine of all time

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Miyamato's interview is more of a "chat" than a Q'n'A. The other two guys are marketeers. Trained in the art of bullshite.

Harrison's interview is dull dull dull and he blatently avoids giving straight answers. He is such an uninteresting character. At least Moore's pretend american/english accent means that he annoys me enough to make him interesting. He does ramble on quite a bit and his interview doesn't have much content, but, it's still better than Harrisons.

It did confirm though, that basically the xbox 360 is all about MUSCLES and HORDES.

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I wonder what Phil Harrison was on about when he was talking about the top secret "external" reason why the European launch of PSP was delayed for so long. Nothing to do with not being able to make enough.

I thought there was a Trademark issue with the use of PSP or UMD in Europe.

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i just finished reading the FFXII write up and i cant say it has really made me any more interested in than i was after playing the demo that came with DQVIII.

I didnt like the demo and the write hasnt changed anything.

Im dissapointed as i loved 6 - 10 of the FF series but i cant seem to get into 12 so far.

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3) Moore talks a lot (he gets a significant amount more mag space) but really says very little. He just can't find it in himself to praise anyone for anything either - it's all either 'we do it better' or 'we did it first'.

Cow plop, he seemed to praise Sony slightly and even put Kutargi as te most important man in games even though it's clearly Iwata who's the man.

As for doing it first well with regards to a Live system, downloadable content straight to the console of course they did it first and should rightly take the credit.

I just read the GR:AW review today. They really hate the singleplayer don't they. Reading the review makes it sound worse than enter the matrix.

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That photo of the cover a couple of pages back is my poor photography skills at work. I posted it over on GR and the Xbox logo got obliterated by the flash. The cover still looks shit though.

As for Oblivion, I think it deserved a 9. I seem to remember that other popular sandbox game, San Andreas, getting a 9 and Edge wanking into a cup over that one. And that was a pretty flawed game. But great despite its flaws in much the same way Oblivion is.

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