Do You Buy A Games Magazine Every Month?

tipperaryboy

Just wondern,do you buy a games mag every month or often if you do which one do you buy?Interested to know if many or any people here in ireland buy the magazines listed on the poll.Vote on the poll,but only vote on the magazine in which buy.If you buy more than one per month or often you can also vote on the others you buy.

Creamy Goodness

PcZone?

Retr0gamer

Was buying a few magazines during summer but it was mainly to stop me going crazy during the night shifts i had to work. Don't bother now. IGN.com rpgamer.com and the excellent eurogamer.net are enough to do me and they are free. Theres no such thing as a magazine exclusive anymore. They always get leaked on to the net and usually have exaggerated scores.

Two magazines I would buy are Gamestm for the excellent retrosection and the joiurnalism is of high quality, and american magazine EGM for reviews of import games, the great 3 reviewer system and the excellent articles.

One magazine i will never touch is EDGE. Got this months edition for the treasure article. The rest of the magazine including the reviews was a load of pretentious ****. I didn't read half of the magazine it just bored me silly.

I wouldn't touch any other magazine especially PC Gamer who's reviews seem to be based on how much money they receive from the publisher.

I have to kudos to the playstation magazine Play. they are a terrible mag but they lost a lot of exclusive reviews for giving terrible games low marks (hapened when they gave Manhunter 3/10 for their exclusive review).

Jim

Whats with all the freakin' polls?

I used to buy a English N64 mag when I had that console. It was brilliant. Reviews were excellent, and it was pretty funny to. Anyone remember the name? I think it might have just been called N64, and then they changed the name to 64...I think.

Cabaal

How about adding to new options to the poll "none of the above" or "I don't buy magazines because all the info is available on the net"
?

tipperaryboy

Xbox World

Their is a lot of games magazines therefor i cannot include all of them.I wanted to include more but the poll would only allow me 10 choices.I know pc zone is the best PC magazine

tipperaryboy

Xbox World

I do agree with whoever said eurogamer.net is an excellent site.As to whoever said he ust to buy english n64 mag,well buddie all of em are english

Jim

Its ok boy.

It was called N64, now known as NGC.
Btw, use the edit button.

Deadwing

Official Xbox Magazine

Retr0gamer wrote:

I have to kudos to the playstation magazine Play. they are a terrible mag but they lost a lot of exclusive reviews for giving terrible games low marks (hapened when they gave Manhunter 3/10 for their exclusive review).

Play always kinda sucked tho. Ever read psw? That used to be such a cool magazine, it was like an FHM for videogames. Then it went down the tubes and now it just plain sucks.
Anyone remember Arcade?? That was hands down the best multiformat magazine ever. What happened to it??
And youre right retro, Edge is pretentious ****. Gamestm is like edge, without the stick up its ass.

Doodah7

Always get GamesTM every month. A top magazine with a great retro section as well as covering all the major formats. (it's not in the poll D'OH!!!)

tipperaryboy

Xbox World

As i said earlier i cannot include every mag in the poll.Anyway ive never heard of gamestm

Retr0gamer

Deadwing wrote:

Anyone remember Arcade?? That was hands down the best multiformat magazine ever. What happened to it??

Yes i do remember it. And remember it fondly. Only have a few issues but it wa a great mag while it lasted.

super_furry

I get GamesTM every month and have a subscription to Retrogamer magazine. I get Edge every once in a while, but it can be really pretentious quasi-highbrow rubbish.

Arcade was indeed great and I have every issue, but it came out at the wrong time. It's very similar to GamesTM, but the market wasn't right for it back then.

Wolfy

im shocked the joke of a mag pc gamer was included in the poll but pczone wasnt... well okay not shocked but surprised and i buy pc zone every month even if the last few mags havent been as great as normal.... or maybe im out growing them one or the other

evad_lhorg

sometimes i buy NOM but it's fair crap. there's a major lack ofdecent releases for the nintendo consoles lately. that will pick up soon enough though.

Moriarty

NGC

PC gamer sub here. That along with one or two other mags are perfect reading material while on the porcelain throne.

ShiverinEskimo

PC Format count?

Its got games, but also loads of other quality **** too.

rainbow kirby

I read Nintendo Official Magazine every month, and whatever random crap is lying around in the backroom in work (Official PlayStation 2 Magazine today...). GamesTM is great as well.

JBoyle4eva

Xbox Gamer

I get the OPS2 mag, really because it gives demos, but it also has great review sections, but altough I like this mag, I do feel like it's a bt of a rip-off @ €9 or more!

jonski

pc zone , dvd ver. every second month , sometimes every month .

Retr0gamer

Official magazines are the work of corporate demons and demagogues.

tba

NGC

Retr0gamer wrote:

Official magazines are the work of corporate demons and demagogues.

Im not too sure about that the reviews in PCGamer are pretty much spot on.

SantaHoe

Cabaal wrote:

How about adding to new options to the poll "none of the above" or "I don't buy magazines because all the info is available on the net"
?

Yeah that gets my vote tbh.
I used to buy them just to have some demos to play, now I've got broadband and I can just download them, instead of forking out like €12 for a load of reviews I don't want to read, written by people who think they're funny. :rolleyes:

Stephen

Yeah, haven't bought a games/pc magazine in ages, there's no sense paying for them (usually at extortionate prices) when all their content is out of date and readily available on the net anyway.

Retr0gamer

Im not too sure about that the reviews in PCGamer are pretty much spot on.

So that explains why crud like RTCW and SOF2 get 90%+ review scores.

delly

PC Format

Creature

I buy GamesTM when I remember to or I have the cash to spare.

Tusky

rainbow kirby wrote:

I read Nintendo Official Magazine every month, and whatever random crap is lying around in the backroom in work (Official PlayStation 2 Magazine today...). GamesTM is great as well.

why doesnt that surprise me
:rolleyes:

The only magazine I read is GAMES TM. IMO its by far the best.

Dont be at yourself

Games Master

I infrequently buy GamesTM and EDGE, and that's it.

Also: Future recently bought C&VG and PCZone. C&VG has been discontinued, and who knows what they'll do with PCZone, seeing as they already publish PCGamer.

BlitzKrieg

i use to collect pcgamer than i changed over to pczone. I dont collect any now.

My favourite games magizine was the Sega Saturn Magazine. Even after the saturn was dead the magazine continued spending most of the issue taking the p*ss out of things (they had a great whats wierd in japan section at the back) I think the reason i went over to pc gamer was because someone from sega saturn magazine said they were changing over to it. Its been ages so i cant really remember.


I hated Games Master and CVG, mainly because they were really childish.

Retr0gamer

hated Games Master and CVG, mainly because they were really childish.

Gamesmaster used to be good at the time when Sega Power was still around. Something went wrong when they got some of the PC Gamer crowd working for them and wrestling game started getting far too much attention. Ah, Sega Power, now there was a magazine that I would never miss an issue of.

Stormfox1020

XBM, Games TM, and PC gamer. Dont subscribe to them but i might pick up the odd copy of one.

BlitzKrieg

Ah, Sega Power, now there was a magazine that I would never miss an issue of.

i was just clearing out my room and found an old issue of that. Yeah it was cool. I esp love when they were reviewing alien trilogy that they would give half of the review to explaining the films and then going on about the upcoming alien 4 which has rumours of cloning in it etc. hehe ahhh memories...pity they are tainted now.

evad_lhorg

Retr0gamer wrote:

Gamesmaster used to be good at the time when Sega Power was still around. Something went wrong when they got some of the PC Gamer crowd working for them and wrestling game started getting far too much attention. Ah, Sega Power, now there was a magazine that I would never miss an issue of.

I hate gamesmaster. it is so cluttered. THEY TRY AND CRAM SO MUCH ONTO ONE PAGE.

sci0x

Do you remmember OIPM (Official Irish Playstation Magazine)? That was a great playstation magazine, but they just stopped after 20 or so issues.

Agent Smith

didnt it go bust? corerect me if i'm wrong

used to by pc gamer, just read online revies now, dam magazines getting too exspensive

Retr0gamer

sci0x wrote:

Do you remmember OIPM (Official Irish Playstation Magazine)? That was a great playstation magazine, but they just stopped after 20 or so issues.

Yes i remember it and it was a load of Sony biased rubbish. Actually it was the worst magazine I ever bought. I bought one issue because it had an exclusive FF9 review. Quite possibly the worst review I've ever read that wasn't in 1337 speak. They gave it 9/10 and said they marked it down by 1 point because the plot was similar to FF7. They obviously played the game for all of 30 minutes. And the letter page was a joke. It was full of 10 year olds letters saying how much better they are than the other people on the letters page because they beat MGS or FF7 in a faster time (I kid you not).

Its no wonder that this excuse for ass wipe was discontinued.

sci0x

Actually I remmember those letter alright. They had a highest score thing, buy sure you could just make up any score you wanted. I may still have those issues, must give a look. I won loads of games from them. I wrote in giving cheats to games people wanted and won Smackdown and I won some other game too through a competition.

Im probably just biased towards Irish based material. If another Irish PS2 mag came out, i'd buy it too.

Retr0gamer

It was a missed oppurtunity. It was only 5 yoyos and came with a demo disc. But the journalism was terrible and childish.

Len_007

For 6 years I collected Edge, every issue. & up untill last month I looked upon my collection with pride. Stopped my order in my local newsagent, came to the conclusion that I new more about video games then I did in the subject I'm about to obtain a degree in. Which was a bit disconcerting