Bandit LOAF said:
It is odd that PC Gamer dedicated half of a column to begging for Worlds of Warcraft space money and then half to attacking classic games without explaining why, I'll grant you that.
I don't know much about the publishing industry, but if there's one area where it seems likely that all the doomsday predictions of print media dying because of the internet will come true then it's gaming magazines. PC Gamer should be trying to counter the Gamespots of the universe by providing higher quality content rather than poorly written filler.
I Think this article is quite sad. First off this person obviously has little personality, its mostly ego. This is definetly a filler article. Even my PCPowerplay magazines have better (and actually amusing!) filler articles. They also recently introduced a new section into their magazine where they revisit the truly classic games, like Adventures of Monkey Island, Leisure Suit Larry, and most recently, Interviewed Bruce Shelley about Civilisation. Personally I have seen PCPowerplay deteriorate a little bit, but not as much as this weird PC Gamer mag. If anyone of you can find copies of PCPowerplay in the US, have a look and peruse it, its a great magazine.
With my own little bit of advertising about Australian gaming over, Ill talk a bit more about this article. By the sounds of it, they are heavily sponsored by all the graphics companies, and a few of the publishers/distributors. Like someone said, its all about upgrade,upgrade,upgrade! Someone would only bother to do that if they were being paid. PCPowerplay isnt too worried about tthe graphics, they care about how a game carries itself. Wing Commander has a great graphics engine for the time, and a great storyline, and one of the best mission sequence things ever! (Anyone know of any other games which will let you keep playing a different mission if you fail an objective during a mission? I only know the other Wing Commander Games
) Anyway This guy is definetly trying to run support for old games into the ground. Anyone who believes that article would be an idiot.
He also seems to talk about how great he is, and he has to include a quote to empasize that point? Thats just amusingly sad. He also has to talk about how great he is at keeping topics going. His topics sound about as interesting as changing every word in every book, in every library around the word to dull, and then reading it out in a dull tone of voice. Seriously, how can people support him?
His other problem is that he did not set out to try to find the best way of finding a good way to play his old games. Personally I love Wing Commander 1, and my box of the deluxe edition is a treasured item. Neither is he discussing the issue, or trying to find both points of the issue, which is what a good article should have in it. Nor does he try to tell anyone how they might be able to find a good way of playing those games.
His article at its most base is a highly commercialised absolutely useless stupid and mostly ignorant steaming pile of crap. Avoid trying to read his articles they might make you stupid. I don't think it was World of Warcraft that made him stupid, I think it was just something that happened at birth.
Anyway, I'm done worrying about the article, I don't really think its much to worry about, those that really care about their old games will keep playing them because we know the truth. Those that have old games, and won't want them after reading that, well it just means theres more copies of them out there for the rest of us!
