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http://www.gamepro.com/gamepro/international/games/features/117449.shtml1. The gaming media just play games all day long.
False. We write (and talk) all day, and we rather enjoy it. If we wanted to play games all day long we would have been professional gamers on the Major League Gaming tour or washed-up somewhere in our parents' basement.
The Verdict: Couldn't be further from the truth, though game journalism has its perks like an rewarding profession. Remember: the more we write the more coverage you get. We like it that way and we suspect you do, too. Oh, Gamepro. Who even knew you still existed?
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Yegolev
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If you say so, they are blocked in the corporate proxy. Perils of using the word "game" in your URL.
Sounds like they are saying they want to bullshit all day instead of play games. I need a picture of Mel Brooks as Comicus at the unemployment counter talking to Bea Arthur, but it's late so I will just let you think on that yourself.
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Kail
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4. Game journalists can't write original content.
The observation: game journalists write top 10 lists to no end, they slam Jack Thompson, and they overuse the word "suck" when describing a "new" feature. There's no way to sugar coat this charge -- sadly, it's often true. Original writing is lacking in video game reporting. That's not to say list stories don't have their place (hopefully this list is one of those places)...
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schild
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That was the other one I wanted to quote ;)
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Miasma
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You just know that article itself was a top ten list until the editor proofread it and found out it bashed... top ten lists. The response - "Cut it down to eight so we don't look quite so stupid".
A top eight list bashing top ten lists, fan-fucking-tastic. Also, the comments section, icing on the cake.
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Krakrok
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If game 'journalists' don't play games then why would anyone give a fuck what they have to write.
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Yoru
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If game 'journalists' don't play games then why would anyone give a fuck what they have to write.
It's Gamepro. No one's given a fuck what they have to write for a decade, if not more. Hell, I remember GameproTV - completely worthless, even in the pre-internet heydey of gaming magazines. |
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KyanMehwulfe
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Oh, GamePro. I remember when I used to still look forward to their magazines each month... In 1992... When The Wizard and neon in dark foggy arcades was cool.
Seems so foreign, the gaming scene back then as a whole, in hindsight to where we're at now.
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Oh, GamePro. I remember when I used to still look forward to their magazines each month... In 1992... When The Wizard and neon in dark foggy arcades was cool.
Seems so foreign, the gaming scene back then as a whole, in hindsight to where we're at now.
Even in 1992, The Wizard wasn't cool. |
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Yoru
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Oh, GamePro. I remember when I used to still look forward to their magazines each month... In 1992... When The Wizard and neon in dark foggy arcades was cool.
Seems so foreign, the gaming scene back then as a whole, in hindsight to where we're at now.
Even in 1992, The Wizard wasn't cool. But but..... Caaaaaaaaaaaalifornia... |
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FatuousTwat
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Sad what they have become. They were my first magazine subscription back in the day.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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HaemishM
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When I was working at EB in 1991, Gamepro was shit. It had the worst screenshots, graphic design and writing of all the magazines. EGM beat it like a drum.
I see no reason to think it's improved, and based just on the quotes pasted in this thread, I'd be right.
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schild
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My first mag sub was Ranger Rick.  |
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murdoc
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A top eight list bashing top ten lists, fan-fucking-tastic.
That's like Schild getting mad at people for starting introduction threads. |
Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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schild
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A top eight list bashing top ten lists, fan-fucking-tastic.
That's like Schild getting mad at people for starting introduction threads. No, that's hilarious. I'm not frontpaging an article about introduction threads. |
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Yegolev
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Mine was either Popular Mechanics or Popular Science. Computers, keke.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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I encourage you all to post introductions. It's never too late!
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schild
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^^^ that was my second one.
Nintendo Power was my third. Starting with issue #1. God I loved Nintendo Power back in the day.
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WindupAtheist
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Is that "Blast Processing doesn't really mean anything!" article Nintendo Power ran back in the day available online anywhere?
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Hayduke
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Heh yeah I had Ranger Rick and Zoobooks. Also Nintendo Power for way too long. BONK BONK BONK....
How great is it that this quote is right under the "Digg This" button. I swear that point just about sums up every web 2.0 social bookmarking site out there. |
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Kail
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I especially love their "refutations" of all these claims which are "not based in reality".
Point 8: Gaming journalism has no credibility.
Verdict: Yes it does! It totally does!
Point 7: Game companies are in bed with game reviewers.
Verdict: Yeah, some better transparency would help fix this, or something...
Point 6: Game reporting is too sensationalist.
Verdict: True, but so is everyone else.
Point 5: Game journalism is primarily there to hype the games.
Verdict: True, but only when companies don't tell us the bad things about their games.
Point 4: Game reviewers can't write very well.
Verdict: True! But we're trying to get better!
Point 3: Game reviewers don't always finish the games before they review them.
Verdict: Also true...
Point 2: Reporters only ask softball questions in interviews.
Verdict: It depends!
Point 1: You guys just play games all day long.
Verdict: This one is definitely false! Some of the time we spend writing top ten lists.
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Here I thought everyone's first magazine was:  But maybe other people were smarter and just had their kids read it when they were at the dentist or dr's office. |
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Yegolev
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I read them but I don't know about having a subscription or not.
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HaemishM
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I preferred Dynomite.
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Murgos
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My first subscription was to Dragon. I don't consider those kids magazines anything I subscribed to, it's not like I ordered or spent my allowance on them.
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Tebonas
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There seems to be no online picture of my first subscription magazine (XeST) in existence, therefore my second one will have to do.  Not that anybody but the Germans here would have a chance to recognize it anyway. |
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Yegolev
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If you mean the ones I put my own money on, I'm back to Popular Mechanics and/or Popular Science.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Chimpy
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I think Highlights was the first subscription for kids' stuff my house had (subscription was started for my older sister) though the first one I had for myself was probably Boy's Life.
I guarantee the first magazine I ever looked at was probably Playboy. My dad had a subscription from 67-79 and had all of them in the yearly albums on a shelf in the living room. (Back then the "free gift" for subscribing apparently was a schnazzy brown magazine album with a bunny and the year in gold letters on the spine)
Yes, I grew up in a classy household.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Velorath
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Nintendo Power was my third. Starting with issue #1. God I loved Nintendo Power back in the day.
But did you have any issues of Nintendo Fun Club News? |
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Ha my first subscription was too awesome for words :P here's a very small picture (couldn't find a bigger one :( )  |
As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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Yegolev
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Yes, I grew up in a classy household.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Chimpy
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Yes, I grew up in a classy household.
I see spherical chairs, brown shag, and your dad in a smoking jacket and pipe. I approve. We did have brown shag carpet. No smoking jacket, pipe, or funky chairs though. |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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^^^ that was my second one.
Nintendo Power was my third. Starting with issue #1. God I loved Nintendo Power back in the day.
I bet you were one of the little bastards that used to call me 50x a day at Nintendo, aren't you? Stupid toll free line... |
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