/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1804113]

wow this is major bullshit

[Anonymous No.1804124]

It's hilarious how much bullshit magazines spouted back in the day (well, they still do in regards to reviews). Going back to read my old magazines, it's obvious when they didn't do their research or actually played the game, or were being blatantly paid off.

[Anonymous No.1804150]

>>1804124

And it hasn't changed.

Game "journalism" is a joke. They're a wing of game companies PR departments.

[Anonymous No.1804186]

>>1804113
What am I looking at that's bullshit? I've never played Primal Rage PSX.

[Anonymous No.1804197]

>>1804124
I have an old magazine from 1998 that talks about Hey You Pikachu, "based on the Pocket Monster craze that is sweeping japan and should be arriving here soon" and that it's about "a green dolphin called FinFin that talks to you via the microphone"

[Anonymous No.1804202]

>>1804186
the graphics

[Anonymous No.1804214]

>>1804202
Which part is the BS? The part about making the arcade graphics look tame? Because I can believe it looking better than the Gen/SNES version. Arcade is one hell of a stretch, though, judging other ports on the system.

[Anonymous No.1804269]

One of these people played the game for more than ten minutes.

[Anonymous No.1804285]

I remember a story someone told here once. I have no way of verifying it, but it rings true. He said that he worked for Reuters, and one of their jobs was to assess potential affiliate sites for journalistic integrity, on a percentage scale, on which anything below 64% was an automatic fail. He said at one point, they assessed several major gaming news outlets, and the highest score any of them received was 18%.

[Rozwell No.1804361]

>>1804124
i'm amazed how often i fell for that horseshit

i stopped reading vidya magazines altogether when i was about 17. egm went under around that time, but by then i'd grown sick of obviously paid-off glowing reviews (and, by contrast, obviously "fuck these shitheads for not paying us" bad reviews), pointless scoring systems as a result of said reviews, shit like that. i was a big tips & tricks fan even after they became obsolete because of gamefaqs, but mostly because they were always well-researched, and consistently good-natured in a time when all games magazines were starting to become pointlessly edgy.

[Anonymous No.1804379]

>>1804361
I remember vividly how a spanish magazine gave Bubsy for Sega Genesis a 10, and a 4 page spread article. I went out and bought it pretty much right after I had read it.

Fuck Spain.

[Anonymous No.1804380]

>>1804285
I only see one other reference to Retuers in the archive and it's not that.

[Anonymous No.1804403]

>>1804269
>sound is decent

It's one of the best soundtracks on the NES

[Anonymous No.1804407]

>>1804380
>retuers
spelling it correctly might help

[Anonymous No.1804447]

>>1804407
derp, typo in that post, but not when I checked the archive.

[Anonymous No.1804595]

>>1804214
it does not look as good as the arcade

[Anonymous No.1804616]

>>1804285

[Anonymous No.1804619]

>>1804269
>I can't get excited about moving a little booger around the screen though
>a little booger
>booger

[Anonymous No.1804652]

>>1804269
>The score would have been higher if it wasn't so easy
Hahahahaha

[Anonymous No.1805147]

>>1804113
Typical American gaming magazine.

[Anonymous No.1805167]

[Anonymous No.1805221]

>>1804269
Maybe he should score it higher for being that difficult.

Fucking faggots

[Anonymous No.1805223]

>>1805167
Thank Jesus we have YouTube, Steam recommendations, and all sorts of other things that are considerably harder to fake or pay off.

[Anonymous No.1805427]

>>1804269
I agree with this for the most part. Never understood why people went nuts for that game.

[Anonymous No.1805442]

>>1805147
Typical jelly Europoor. I love being a rich American.

[Anonymous No.1805479]

>>1805223
>Youtube
>harder to bullshit

Hahahahaah, ask /v/ about bullshit promos for AAA games.