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darkknightkryta on 13 July 2011

I really started off with IGN. Mind you this was like back in the PSX era when it was actually good and not a blog site set up for hits like it is now. The others I've used were gamespot, gamepro, cloudchaser and I think one more. After those, a few years back I was using qj.net. This was when the psp hacks were coming out and their psp.qj.net redirected from pspupdates.com. I mainly come here now since qj.net got rid of their science portion of their site and their general site turned into an ad portal. I use Kotaku every now and then as well. I still use IGN for comics and wrestling, but I havn't gone there in a while for them.



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darkknightkryta on 13 July 2011
d21lewis said:
One thing I dislike about the internet age: I used to be a lot happier with video games before I had access to all of this info. I used to be the best gamer in the world before I saw these youtube gamers and record breaking clans. I could have fun with a shitty game before people (video game magazines included) told me how shitty they were. I bet I would be absolutely floored with current gen graphics if it wasn't for online graphic whores telling me that the Unreal Engine looked like shit or that this game has flat textures. Sometimes, I think ignorance is bliss.

I whole heartidly agree with you.  Hell I saw more games in a monthly magazine than I do with websites now adays.  Seems like only certain games get exposure now when before every game got atleast a quater of a page with a screen shot and a blurb of text.



Goddbless on 13 July 2011
darkknightkryta said:
d21lewis said:
One thing I dislike about the internet age: I used to be a lot happier with video games before I had access to all of this info. I used to be the best gamer in the world before I saw these youtube gamers and record breaking clans. I could have fun with a shitty game before people (video game magazines included) told me how shitty they were. I bet I would be absolutely floored with current gen graphics if it wasn't for online graphic whores telling me that the Unreal Engine looked like shit or that this game has flat textures. Sometimes, I think ignorance is bliss.

I whole heartidly agree with you.  Hell I saw more games in a monthly magazine than I do with websites now adays.  Seems like only certain games get exposure now when before every game got atleast a quater of a page with a screen shot and a blurb of text.

I agree with both of you. I remember playing the game for Street Fighter the movie and my friends loved it. If you look on any internet gaming site that is one of the worst games ever. I remember I never knew anyone better than me in Perfect Dark on N64 until I saw some videos on YouTube. I miss EGM and the excitement of reading through the whole magazine. I would read about games I was never going to play and I was still excited.



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darkknightkryta on 13 July 2011
Goddbless said:
darkknightkryta said:
d21lewis said:
One thing I dislike about the internet age: I used to be a lot happier with video games before I had access to all of this info. I used to be the best gamer in the world before I saw these youtube gamers and record breaking clans. I could have fun with a shitty game before people (video game magazines included) told me how shitty they were. I bet I would be absolutely floored with current gen graphics if it wasn't for online graphic whores telling me that the Unreal Engine looked like shit or that this game has flat textures. Sometimes, I think ignorance is bliss.

I whole heartidly agree with you.  Hell I saw more games in a monthly magazine than I do with websites now adays.  Seems like only certain games get exposure now when before every game got atleast a quater of a page with a screen shot and a blurb of text.

I agree with both of you. I remember playing the game for Street Fighter the movie and my friends loved it. If you look on any internet gaming site that is one of the worst games ever. I remember I never knew anyone better than me in Perfect Dark on N64 until I saw some videos on YouTube. I miss EGM and the excitement of reading through the whole magazine. I would read about games I was never going to play and I was still excited.

You know I was reading a Playstation Magazine that I picked up a few years back.  It had a bunch of games in there that I've never heard of.  It even put some games on my radar, mind you I got none of them and I forgot most of them, but I'm sure if I grab that issues I'm sure most of those games are out and no one knows of them.  Maybe I'll get a subscription to EGM.



Boutros on 13 July 2011

Gamespot and Jeuxvideo.com



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Faxanadu on 13 July 2011

Magazines.

They were called "Videogames" and "Maniac".



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blkfish92 on 13 July 2011

I'm to young at 18, so I always feel like ign and vgchartz were around.



           

sethnintendo on 13 July 2011

Nintendo Power!

I did enjoy the Next Generation magazine but it didn't last more than a couple years. I used to read Gamepro back in the day but they eventually turned into crap. Same with EGM. This generation has made me hate almost all magazines considering they put Nintendo on the back burner. You would be lucky for them to cover 2-3 Nintendo games per issue. I am glad most of them went out of business or to internet only. They deserved it.



-Newcloud- on 13 July 2011

Gamegrep and afterdawn, this is when I first started looking up game news so I didnt know if they were legit. But I did find VGchartz one day on a afterdawn forum.



sethnintendo on 13 July 2011
The_Botman said:

And to think..... I used nexgenwars to track console sales before finding out about vgchartz.

Current nexgenwars numbers:

Xbox 360: 32,500,000

ps3: 25,000,000

Wii: 53,500,000

For news, Gamepro & vgchartz

Those nexgenwars numbers are spot on!  I mean they have the most scientific tracking device ever created.  You can see each system sold every second!  Anyways, I am a little ashamed that I visited that site before finding vgchartz.  I suppose I didn't know any better.