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Reading Games magazines should come with a health warning. Every time I pick one up and read it I see a new game I want to get, but I still keep on buying the things.
I mainly buy magazines for the news and to aid me in my buying decisions, having a playable cover disc helps too, but in the end I just end up going to the list of games at the back and crossing through any I already have, then circling the ones I want. You can rest assured that there are a fair amount of games circled too, though they’re titles I may not ever end up getting.
The other problem is that I’m a multi-format kind of guy, I like to have more than one console if I can get away with it (although space, it has to be said, has become somewhat limited) The multi-format games magazines aren’t exactly the best in the world though, so I just end up coming home with more than one magazine and a big hole in my pocket instead.
Now, if I actually thought about this logically, I could just save my money and read these forums instead. There’s enough talk about games and many differing opinions here as well, I could get all the information I needed on what games to get next, but I’d be missing the all important cover disc. Well, looking at my pile of games, I also notice that there are an equally large pile of redundant cover discs lying next to them. After a couple of goes on the demos you know whether you really want to buy a game or not and you are not really going to bother playing the disc again, so there’s another waste, this time of money and space.
If only I listen to my brain when I enter shops instead of looking at the rows of glossy covers, I may have more games now than I actually do. This is getting more and more important with the Gamecube coming soon and all the shiny new GameCube magazines coming out. Is it worth getting them? I’ll just end up putting circles around almost everything on the list! Not only that, but every time I buy a magazine I’m taking money from the small amount that would have gone towards buying the actual games I’m reading about in the first place. This weird form of logic goes right out of the window when I walk past the heaving shelves of Playstation, PS2, GBA, Gamecube, Xbox and multi-format magazines, all crying out to be read.
If I had more time I could stand in the newsagents all day, reading, but I’m sure the management would have a few choice words to say about that. For now I will content myself with the knowledge that one day all those cover discs might actually be worth something and Hugh Scully might just be interested in PSX Disc #43 as a work of art….
I mainly buy magazines for the news and to aid me in my buying decisions, having a playable cover disc helps too, but in the end I just end up going to the list of games at the back and crossing through any I already have, then circling the ones I want. You can rest assured that there are a fair amount of games circled too, though they’re titles I may not ever end up getting.
The other problem is that I’m a multi-format kind of guy, I like to have more than one console if I can get away with it (although space, it has to be said, has become somewhat limited) The multi-format games magazines aren’t exactly the best in the world though, so I just end up coming home with more than one magazine and a big hole in my pocket instead.
Now, if I actually thought about this logically, I could just save my money and read these forums instead. There’s enough talk about games and many differing opinions here as well, I could get all the information I needed on what games to get next, but I’d be missing the all important cover disc. Well, looking at my pile of games, I also notice that there are an equally large pile of redundant cover discs lying next to them. After a couple of goes on the demos you know whether you really want to buy a game or not and you are not really going to bother playing the disc again, so there’s another waste, this time of money and space.
If only I listen to my brain when I enter shops instead of looking at the rows of glossy covers, I may have more games now than I actually do. This is getting more and more important with the Gamecube coming soon and all the shiny new GameCube magazines coming out. Is it worth getting them? I’ll just end up putting circles around almost everything on the list! Not only that, but every time I buy a magazine I’m taking money from the small amount that would have gone towards buying the actual games I’m reading about in the first place. This weird form of logic goes right out of the window when I walk past the heaving shelves of Playstation, PS2, GBA, Gamecube, Xbox and multi-format magazines, all crying out to be read.
If I had more time I could stand in the newsagents all day, reading, but I’m sure the management would have a few choice words to say about that. For now I will content myself with the knowledge that one day all those cover discs might actually be worth something and Hugh Scully might just be interested in PSX Disc #43 as a work of art….
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Yeah, that's what stopped me from buying PC Gamer.
If I put a fiver in a jar every month, and just looked on the internet for news instead, it'll be a lot more worthwhile.
As with the Gamecube mags... I'll wait until they start doing demo discs until I get one. I don't want to bother with it quite yet.
If I put a fiver in a jar every month, and just looked on the internet for news instead, it'll be a lot more worthwhile.
As with the Gamecube mags... I'll wait until they start doing demo discs until I get one. I don't want to bother with it quite yet.
Reading Games magazines should come with a health warning. Every time I pick one up and read it I see a new game I want to get, but I still keep on buying the things.
I mainly buy magazines for the news and to aid me in my buying decisions, having a playable cover disc helps too, but in the end I just end up going to the list of games at the back and crossing through any I already have, then circling the ones I want. You can rest assured that there are a fair amount of games circled too, though they’re titles I may not ever end up getting.
The other problem is that I’m a multi-format kind of guy, I like to have more than one console if I can get away with it (although space, it has to be said, has become somewhat limited) The multi-format games magazines aren’t exactly the best in the world though, so I just end up coming home with more than one magazine and a big hole in my pocket instead.
Now, if I actually thought about this logically, I could just save my money and read these forums instead. There’s enough talk about games and many differing opinions here as well, I could get all the information I needed on what games to get next, but I’d be missing the all important cover disc. Well, looking at my pile of games, I also notice that there are an equally large pile of redundant cover discs lying next to them. After a couple of goes on the demos you know whether you really want to buy a game or not and you are not really going to bother playing the disc again, so there’s another waste, this time of money and space.
If only I listen to my brain when I enter shops instead of looking at the rows of glossy covers, I may have more games now than I actually do. This is getting more and more important with the Gamecube coming soon and all the shiny new GameCube magazines coming out. Is it worth getting them? I’ll just end up putting circles around almost everything on the list! Not only that, but every time I buy a magazine I’m taking money from the small amount that would have gone towards buying the actual games I’m reading about in the first place. This weird form of logic goes right out of the window when I walk past the heaving shelves of Playstation, PS2, GBA, Gamecube, Xbox and multi-format magazines, all crying out to be read.
If I had more time I could stand in the newsagents all day, reading, but I’m sure the management would have a few choice words to say about that. For now I will content myself with the knowledge that one day all those cover discs might actually be worth something and Hugh Scully might just be interested in PSX Disc #43 as a work of art….
I mainly buy magazines for the news and to aid me in my buying decisions, having a playable cover disc helps too, but in the end I just end up going to the list of games at the back and crossing through any I already have, then circling the ones I want. You can rest assured that there are a fair amount of games circled too, though they’re titles I may not ever end up getting.
The other problem is that I’m a multi-format kind of guy, I like to have more than one console if I can get away with it (although space, it has to be said, has become somewhat limited) The multi-format games magazines aren’t exactly the best in the world though, so I just end up coming home with more than one magazine and a big hole in my pocket instead.
Now, if I actually thought about this logically, I could just save my money and read these forums instead. There’s enough talk about games and many differing opinions here as well, I could get all the information I needed on what games to get next, but I’d be missing the all important cover disc. Well, looking at my pile of games, I also notice that there are an equally large pile of redundant cover discs lying next to them. After a couple of goes on the demos you know whether you really want to buy a game or not and you are not really going to bother playing the disc again, so there’s another waste, this time of money and space.
If only I listen to my brain when I enter shops instead of looking at the rows of glossy covers, I may have more games now than I actually do. This is getting more and more important with the Gamecube coming soon and all the shiny new GameCube magazines coming out. Is it worth getting them? I’ll just end up putting circles around almost everything on the list! Not only that, but every time I buy a magazine I’m taking money from the small amount that would have gone towards buying the actual games I’m reading about in the first place. This weird form of logic goes right out of the window when I walk past the heaving shelves of Playstation, PS2, GBA, Gamecube, Xbox and multi-format magazines, all crying out to be read.
If I had more time I could stand in the newsagents all day, reading, but I’m sure the management would have a few choice words to say about that. For now I will content myself with the knowledge that one day all those cover discs might actually be worth something and Hugh Scully might just be interested in PSX Disc #43 as a work of art….
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