PC Gamer Magazine - Review

[Ohio Joe]

Mods - If it is inappropriate for me to review a magazine, please lock or delete and I'll never do it again... well, I'll probably never do it again anyway, heh.

OK, it has been a LONG time since I've bought a gaming mag, with the internet they are pretty much useless by default. The last mag I had a subscription to was GameFan - A freakin great mag that always had the best pics and reviews I almost always agreed with. Plus the best quote in a review I've ever seen. heh, it was for Tempest 2000 and was something to the effect of - This game will put permanent butt marks in your couch - hahahaha, it still makes me laugh :D

Anyway. Tonight I decided to stop at a W.G. Grinders and grab a sub and being alone, I decided to stop at the CVS next door and get something to read. Man... CVS has a crappy mag section. I was deciding between the U.S. News and World Report special edition with facts about the presidents and something else (yeah, I've already started drinking and I forget what) that had an in depth interview with Michelle Obama when I saw the PC Gamer.

At first, I was kind of annoyed that they only had the "CD included" version of the mag and I really would have preferred to pay a few bucks less but... whatever. I got the mag, went and got my grinder (mmmm, pulled pork with cheddar and coleslaw... sweeet!) and started the mag.

The first article I want to read is a hands on preview of Starcraft II. Man... I love Starcraft and really trust Blizzard to put out a high quality game, so I'm looking forward to this. It starts out describing a match between the author, Tim Edwards and someone else (unnamed) against some people from a German magazine (also unnamed, not people or mag) and... their getting their asses kicked! It then goes on to talk about the original... popularity in Korea... oh... several pages later, no real information (that was not known a month and a half ago) annnnnnnnnd... They f'ing quit before getting defeated! F'ing douchebags like this are a part of the reason online playing sucks. Your either being schooled by some "leet speaking" (whatever it is) 13 year old and taking your lumps or near the end of the fair game, they drop so you do not get the victory. AND THEY ADMIT THEY DO THIS! Assholes.

Damn I'm pissed at this mag now... should have got the Obama interview.

What else we got in here... ahhh, a retro review of the original Xcom. Sweet, a godly game (hint, the least annoying thing here will be that it is available over Steam for $5). OK, Dan... whoever that is, first tells us that he is the only editor (? the mag apparently has 4 editors, Dan, Logan, Josh and Evan) at PC Gamer that has played the game... ever... WTF? OK, I am 46 but... WTF? They all go on to complain how hard the game is... but see why people liked it, its depth and strategy hold up even today they all admit but... it is too hard... WTF? I'm still supposed to take these guys word on games? Sorry but no way.

Is there anything worthwhile in here... lets see... There is a small picture of two woman from Sims 3 kissing but... I would have been better off with the mag that had the Obama interview, I bet it had much more, much bigger pictures of a real woman that is really HOT! heh, is it wrong to lust after the First Lady :evilgrin:

Bottom line, Joe says skip mags unless you do not have wireless... Hey, gotta have something to read on the throne :D

[Forkboy]

1. I gave up on that one years ago.

I always like Computer Gaming World better, especially in the mid 90's. Each issue was huge because pc games were taking off. PC Gamer always felt like it's little, cuter brother.

And I also hated having to buy the CD version of each issue of PC Gamer, because the places I got it at stopped carrying just the issue alone. x(

[Ohio Joe]

2. I remember CGW

I think... heh. That was the one that had all the different sections towards the rear of the mag... right? Killing Box for FPS's... Alternate Lives for RPG's... Crap, I can't remember the rest but the guy that did the TBS/RTS column was freakin awesome, I loved reading his column every month!

[Systematic Chaos]

3. It was a formerly great magazine that died the worst death imaginable.

It briefly became known as "Games for Windows" due to some deal between Ziff Davis and Microsoft. That lasted all of a few months and then they pulled the plug.

And I still remember reading CGW back when they had Atari 800 and Commodore 64 programs you had to fucking type in by hand.

[YOY]

4. Same thing for PC Accelerator...AWESOME MAG.

It was like Maxim meets PC Gamer. Kind of like G4 but in mag.

The jokes were actually funny. It wasn't like it was delivered by a bunch of 40-year-old-virgins.

It had hotties in it too...I like t' look at teh hotties...call me a pig.

Regular PC Gamer kind of blows. They had this section up until recently in every fucking issue about those stupid games you can play on your phone.

I always like that old coot who does their flight sim reviews. He knows his shit. I noticed that the company kept on bringing in people to work on the magazine sometimes that were from their other non-gaming magazines. Idiots...

I sent them a letter asking them if they were going to call themselves PC and Crappy Phone Gamer.

[Evoman]

5. What? Killing Box and Alternate Lives is PC Gamer, not CGW!

I think PC Gamer used to be pretty great....lots of pages, lots of content, less annoying advertisements. But it really sort of sucks now...especially since you can't open the damn thing without a subscription paper falling out.

[Ohio Joe]

6. Was it...

Damn getting old sucks, hahahahaha. They have apparently dropped them now (at least they are not in the issue I have). What the hell was in CGW then... damn, I know I remember the cover and logo but crap... I can't remember anything else... well, not reliably :D

Those subscription cards... heh, the best thing to do with them is drop them in the nearest mailbox, hahahahahaha, I bet if everyone did that they might re-think putting in so many in every copy of the mag.