Anyone else miss EGM?

Anyone else miss EGM?

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I miss this the most

EGM still exists though, doesn't it?

Also, I miss Play more. And Tips and Tricks. That one sorta still exists though...

no

>SNES is the best system as of 95
I don't see the problem here.

you dont see the problem of the sega 32x being rated the same as the genesis? or the fact that someone gave the 3d0 and the snes the same rating?

>not thinking Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is GOTY

I mostly miss it around 2004ish. Their coverage of Metal Gear Solid 3 was the hypest.

ebin

>Hsu & Chan will never make another comic
>Dan Hsu will never blow developers like Molyneux the fuck out again

What a terrible time to be alive

The 3DO actually has a nice handful of good games. Japaneses ones.

I don't really miss the pre-internet days when you had to read magazines to figure out which games might be good. It's a lot more convenient now. All these younglings on Sup Forums should count themselves fortunate they never had to.

Sure, but at the same time, buying games was way more exciting when all of my purchasing decisions were based on a handful of screenshots and a review. I couldn't fucking wait to get home and see what the game I just bought was like.

Hey I remember that issue. That was the one with the April Fools joke that said there was a secret way to make all the girls topless in pic related.

oh that's right. with the star censoring.

Both of these were the only video game mags I ever gave a shit about.

EGM had pretty good coverage at times and had some genuinely funny content, like Seanbaby's reviews and Hsu & Chan.

Nintendo Power was always comfy as fuck and some of their walkthroughs were helpful.

Fucking this. It was just so much more exciting back then when you ran home to see what the game in action was really like. The internet (more specifically, Youtube) pretty much destroyed that. There's no sense of surprise or letting your imagination run wild in suspense anymore. You can see everything months before games ever come out now.

I Miss Judgement Day, and Icons.

>I Miss Judgement Day

no you dont

Yep.

My PS1 rocked that sticker in the day.

I was subscribed from 93 to 2008.
Quality went down hill in 2003.

>Nintendo Power was always comfy as fuck and some of their walkthroughs were helpful.

Holy fuck, yeah. Since they were affiliated with Nintendo they published super legit maps for 1st party games that you couldn't find anywhere else. Then they stopped because "lol u can just find strategy on the internet now" and the magazine went to shit.

>Seanbaby's reviews and Hsu & Chan

>tfw have a huge box of tons of EGM and nintendo power magazines at my parents house

I used to read the MGS3 issue religiously in my restroom and it had all these water stains on it, I hope it hasn't gotten tossed haven't seen it in a while.

The last game I remember feeling that for was actually Command & Conquer 3. I had paid absolutely no attention to the game, but I wanted to use up a Fry's gift card someone had given me because the store was a really long drive from my house, so I bought it on a whim.

It sucked when you got burned on a purchase though just because a magazine hyped it up

It still exists, and it's still corrupt as fuck. Back in the late 90's they were brutal, then as publishers started strong arming them with advertisements, they let Nintendo and EA walk all over them.

Damn Tommy.

Oh man, PSM was great. There was a guy who used to work for them who was Sup Forums before Sup Forums existed. His name was Bill Donohue, and he always had a segment at the end of every issue where he shit all over stupid reader opinions. He was also obsessed with mocking the British.

I wonder what happened to him.

>Holy fuck, yeah. Since they were affiliated with Nintendo they published super legit maps for 1st party games that you couldn't find anywhere else. Then they stopped because "lol u can just find strategy on the internet now" and the magazine went to shit.
In some ways, the internet kind of ruined video game culture. Even though video game reviews were always shit, the other user had a point in that everything is so readily available on the internet now, and with all these leaks, it's so hard to be surprised by a game anymore.

Tommy Tallarico was such a faggot about everything.
Gave every single Nintendo game

nintendo power was so fucking comfy

I miss all the hype leading up to Twilight Princess. Everything made it look like it was going to be the ultimate Zelda game.

Those were the three I had subscriptions to. EGM, PSM, and Nintendo Power.

I know PSM and Nintendo Power are gone, but what about EGM? I know they still have a website but I can't figure out if they still have an actual magazine or not.

TP did have a hype as fuck trailer. Just listen to this music.

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Same. I have a collection of old EGM and Nintendo Power magazines somewhere. They're probably not in the best condition, though.

I like to pull them out every once in a blue moon and just reminiscence about the early 00's to mid-00's, when video game magazines were at their prime still. Those were one of my primary sources for video game information. I remember having one issue of EGM that covered Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2, and another that I can't remember. I was so hyped for MP2 in particular.

>the modern internet kind of ruined video game culture

FTFY. In the early 2000s Internet peacefully coexisted with everything else. It wasn't until 2007 that it started going wrong. Really, I'd say modern Internet has ruined just about everything.

I remember reading a review for 'The Guy Game' on EGM, and saying that it would be difficult to play a game with only one hand. My precious 10 year old mind did not understand what that meant.

>I remember having one issue of EGM that covered Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2, and another that I can't remember


that's the MGS 3 issue I'd read over and over again. had the reviews for GTA SA, MP2, MGS3, Halo 2...how fucking BASED was 2004 bro

>tfw that game is literally illegal to buy or sell in the United States now, as it's considered child porn

directed By Retro and Iguana,founder.

God, I remember that. I even have that issue.

I was so disappointed when the game came out, but looking back, the hype really was something else.

I agree.

Well, yeah. I had that issue, but there was another one that had previews for Halo 2 and MP2 and I think another game. But yeah, that issue was great. I remember the review section being longer than it usually was iirc.

And yes, 2004 was fucking based.

It still pops up on eBay rather often. There's like four copies for sale on eBay right now.

Too Human is another game that's illegal to sell that pops up on eBay all the time.

Kek, I remember this game. I think EGM had a few reviews that ripped into it or was I thinking of something else.

Incredible how the devs thought they could get away with that one.

Yeah, one of the girls was only 17 right?

Social media really ruined everything. Before Facebook and Twitter really exploded in popularity, most people still didn't use the internet constantly, much less have an "online presence".

It was when when preteens and grandmas using the internet became normal that everything began to suck.

>tfw you can still find the entire footage on youtube anyway
god bless amurrica

Dan "Shoe" Hsu years as the EiC were the better years for that magazine

I still have many of these magazines for EGM and PSM.

A couple other magazines from PSM2, Expert Gamer.


>Mfw 1 of the summer bikini magazines for PSM the one with Chun Li on the cover went missing.

Very much so.

Especially Hsu and Chan.

Man that's some weird looking FFVII art.

Aeris looks like Lara Croft.

Only kinda related, but I miss 90's-early 00's era 'totally not-anime/manga' comic book art. That artist doing the work for that cover looks somewhat familiar. I wonder if they got a comic book artist to draw that.

...

EGM is dead again. The last issue they published was in 2015.

Their was supposed to be a June issue this year but that obviously didn't happen.

Sad but understandable.

RIP

Haha, I remember posting on the EGM forums then. PS fans, xbox fans, and Nintendo fans were all arguing about which game would get the highest score between MGS3, Halo 2, and MP 2.

2004 was great.

Gameplayers, Ultra Gameplayers, and PSM were the best.

I used to post on Nsider, the official Nintendo forums.

I was a little edgelord back then and I probably wouldn't be able to read some of my old posts without cringing. That said, I miss it. It was always super comfy.

To some extent I miss the time when most or all of my information on my hobbies and interests came from magazines. It made every little thing I could find so exciting and precious: each EGM, Inquest, Nintendo Power, Animerica... all of them were treasure troves of facts AND speculation.

Now when everything is just a single Google search away... some of the mysticism and excitement is gone.

I miss being able to go to the book store and having a couple different game magazines to chose from.

Now they either have nothing, or expensive import magazines from the Uk that are way overpriced :/

Gamepro was my bible from 1997 to around 2004. 2005 was when they shit the bed. And thank fuck I jumped ship before it turned into a picture-less article book for its last two or three years.

I was a huge fanboy too

My first forum was Gamespot's System Wars board, which I found by googling "xbox sucks"

I remember when Gamepro switched from Monthly to seasonal in a last bid to stay open but they only managed to put one issue out under that format before going under :/

It sucks that Game informer is pretty much the only comercial Gaming magazine left on the market.

And the only reason for that is literally giving it away at Gamestop. I bet if they didn't have their precious magazine to shill whatever is hot now, GI would be dead too.

It was badass how he leaked the advertising scandal, and how he brought a bunch of new features to the magazine, but it didn't excuse the fact that he became editor in chief due to years of kissing Nintendo's ass in reviews.

Isn't Edge still around? They've always been really good.

>Edge

Sure in the Uk. It's like $16 an issue before tax here however which is way too damn expensive for a magazine

>the fact that he became editor in chief due to years of kissing Nintendo's ass in reviews.
Why would that help him become EIC? Nintendo didn't run EGM, and their interactions with the press have always been notoriously hands-off.