^^ What Paper Mario 2 fiasco?

IGN didn't like No More Heroes all that much either (7.8). However, that game was a fun 12 hours and the graphics aren't as bad so as to ruin it (some people complain too damn much).

I never wanted to pay for a magazine or wutever with tbe $15 EB Edge card, but now that I know it's GI, I REALLY don't want one.

I used to like gaming magazines. Which ones are good anymore?

yes it does!! ;-; but who hates!?

They don't like the Wii.

The only magazine I read is EGM because I got a free subscription to it online several months ago. I used to really loathe EGM because it might as well have been called Sony Gaming Monthly instead of Electronic Gaming Monthly. They sucked the teets of Sony like a malnourished puppy.

It's funny, but I also post on the GameInformer forum and there are threads there (in the Nintendo section) that pop up from time to time exactly like this one. The Paper Mario Wii fiasco was followed by the extremely annoyed No More Heroes fiasco where they gave the game a relatively poor review and acted like it was a misguided GTA clone when that's exactly what it wasn't.

Who is the more biased the magazine or the biased members complaining about bias. I suppose a great many members here strongly feel their shit smells better then most. The reality is all of you are equally guilty. First there is nothing wrong with a magazine having a particular perspective. That makes them easier for readers to relate to. Especially when the reader shares the same frame of mind. Second I suspect the missing games may be due to redundancy.

Most gaming magazines from my experience tend to reserve editorials, interviews, cheat guides, and humor articles for high profile games. Either eagerly anticipated, or the highest quality titles on their respective platforms. That is part of their marketing strategy read us this month we are talking about your favorite game.

So I ask the original author has the magazine covered those missing titles already at length? Have those titles received dedicated articles within the past six months? See things like that are often forgotten when your sharpening a pitchfork. For some strange reason people forget positive position when they are upset. Though my little doubter suspects that a few of those titles you claim are being neglected probably got at least a full page article devoted to them. So they already got their time in the limelight. Any time that second string and third string titles get coverage is a good thing.

I simply get the feeling that your complaining about a rest of the shit article. Which just about every magazine happens to do. Whenever any magazine focuses on a platform for one of these articles, and begins to fill them a good many undesirable titles make the cut. Every month Electronic Gaming Monthly has a rest of the shit article which basically mocks a number of DS games. Do I think they hate the DS no not really there is just a lot of shovel ware on the DS. Every so often they have a hundred games covered edition, and those are jam packed with garbage.

Now is the magazine biased I cannot say I have never read that particular one. What I can say is that the fanboys on these forums generally over react to even the mildest criticism. So if their is a bias on their part it is probably slight in comparison to the monumental one your probably perceive.

True but we aren't proclaiming our lack of bias and getting paid good money for it in the process.

No they don't hate the Wii. I thought that them giving No More Heroes a 6 and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games a 4 were both completely fair. Whenever they say it looks good for a Wii game which is about every other review I stand up and applaud. There affiliate Gamestop also is completely unbiased. Whenever I say that I bought a Wii they say things like,"Big Mistake!" and things that I can't quite make out because their lips are squarely planted on the 360's ass. Once again all I can do is nod solemnly and agree with what is true.

They did review No More Heroes. Look at my previous post if you missed it.

I'm not the biggest fan of GameInformer either. I think a good portion of the game shots have been photoshoped to make the magazine look more appealing.

But in defense of GI, most of the games listed in the OP are very close to the metacritic average.

Lets look at the games you listed that were not in the Feb article.

* Battle of the Bands - GI score 6 - Metacritic score 60
* Blast Works - 8 - 83
* Boom Blox - 8.5 - 85
* Castle Shikigami III - 6.5 - 67
* Final Fantasy Fables - 5.5 - 78
* No More Heroes - 6 - 83
* Pinball Hall of Fame - 8.5 - 82
* Samurai Warriors Katana - 6 - 53
* We Love Golf - 6 - 77
* We Ski - 6.25 - 67

GI scores are very close to the metacritic average with only No More Heroes being quite a bit off from the average.  Also, GI has said many times that they like to write articles on games that aren't quite known.  Take for instance their cover games.  They are always games that are quite well unknown.

It's not so much the scores as it is how they talk about the Wii. They don't even pretend to not dislike them. They at one time were listing the Wii under last generation with the PS2. This lasted for an issue or two. They were comparing multi-platform games and calling it the generational difference. If that's not disrespectful than I don't know what is.