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that would be awesome, would be by far the best selling issue of Retro Gamer ever.Some are acting as if they're going to open issue 125 and it contains the history of Halo, the making of Call Of Duty
But that helps no one does it. By wanting all that in the mag, you're just as bad as the ones you moan aboutHalcyonDaze00 wrote:that would be awesome, would be by far the best selling issue of Retro Gamer ever.Some are acting as if they're going to open issue 125 and it contains the history of Halo, the making of Call Of Duty
if a few dinosaurs have to be left to die as the mag moves forward then so be it.
It's all about keeping the balance so there's something for every reader. ) 4 pages
not at all cos im not saying it should be all COD and Halo and nothing else, I love the 8bit stuff too.But that helps no one does it. By wanting all that in the mag, you're just as bad as the ones you moan about
Thank you for giving me the longer answerDarran@Retro Gamer wrote:The magazine will always stay skewed towards older systems, but it would be ignorant and selfish of 8-bit fans to not expect the occasional article dedicated to the PS2 etc. Some are acting as if they're going to open issue 125 and it contains the history of Halo, the making of Call Of Duty, an Interview with Cliffy B and the 25 best GameCube games. That won't happen. It might happen in 30 years time, but we'll all be dead by then anyway
I love what you do with the magazine and I know I'll be reading it for a long time to come. To be honest, I wouldn't mind the top 25 Gamecube games haha. Despite being an 8-bit head, I'm being exposed to a lot of Nintendo stuff and have got far more into gaming again via Nintendo's output than for any other reason. While you're listening : PLEASE more N64 stuff. At least that should be retro enough for most folks! 
That's actually a good idea Crusto. Interestingly though, we've had a lot of complaints that while the NES didn't do well in the UK, it wasn't the case for most of the rest of Europe. It's an interesting idea though.crusto wrote:I know the mag is aiming for a wider audience than just the UK so can understand the reason for its coverage as it was a huge hit elsewhere. so how about an in depth article on how poorly the machine fared over here and the reasons why? America etc are already well aware how successful the NES was over there, I'm sure they would be interested in hearing our side of the story, games considered classics over there getting poor reviews over here etc etc.
Oh, I'm 36 by the way.
We kind of cheat with the Future Classics, in that many of them are already regarded as classicsLimbrooke wrote:I think coverage of the Dreamcast/PS2/GameCube/Xbox era of games (not limited to home systems but looking to PC and handhelds as well) is suitable given it's at least 10 years old and more. I think a good example is looking back at Load 19 - it featured articles on Super Metroid (then 11+ years old), Thunder Force 5 (then 8 years old for Saturn, 7 years for PlayStation), and Perfect Dark (then 5 years old).
Having said this, I think the Future Classics section is appropriate only for really new content but at the same it's hard to justify the impact of such a game after a short period of time. I think what it boils down to is whether or not newer systems (as time moves forward) can find room in the magazine alongside the already extensive catalog of "current" retro systems.
And in reality it's not all that new anyway!Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:I fully understand that people are scared of change, but it's not going to be at the expense of the magazine's soul. I just did a making of Eternal Darkness for gamesTM and I think it proves that that newer games can have interesting stories.
Fab game though.Yeah, that was the one bit about the NES article that really rubbed me the wrong way, the paragraph about Europe. The NES was incredibly successful in Europe, just not in the UK.Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:That's actually a good idea Crusto. Interestingly though, we've had a lot of complaints that while the NES didn't do well in the UK, it wasn't the case for most of the rest of Europe. It's an interesting idea though.crusto wrote:I know the mag is aiming for a wider audience than just the UK so can understand the reason for its coverage as it was a huge hit elsewhere. so how about an in depth article on how poorly the machine fared over here and the reasons why? America etc are already well aware how successful the NES was over there, I'm sure they would be interested in hearing our side of the story, games considered classics over there getting poor reviews over here etc etc.
Oh, I'm 36 by the way.
I was a little surprised when I most recently saw Bayonetta featured, definitely a cheeky move for "future" consideration.Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:We kind of cheat with the Future Classics, in that many of them are already regarded as classics
Someone mentioned we should point our necks out a bit by not going for safe options, which is why we've started included brand new games occasionally.
Oh, that's probably a good read and would've been nice to see in RG. I'll need to check that out, which issue will it appear in?Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:I fully understand that people are scared of change, but it's not going to be at the expense of the magazine's soul. I just did a making of Eternal Darkness for gamesTM and I think it proves that that newer games can have interesting stories.
It's not been printed yet, so I'm guessing it will be in the next couple of months.Limbrooke wrote:Oh, that's probably a good read and would've been nice to see in RG. I'll need to check that out, which issue will it appear in?Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:I fully understand that people are scared of change, but it's not going to be at the expense of the magazine's soul. I just did a making of Eternal Darkness for gamesTM and I think it proves that that newer games can have interesting stories.
The fact that it's completely wrong doesn't irk you then? Weird, you usually like to point out even the smallest faults in the mag. The feature mentions facts that only apply to the UK but claims they are true for all of Europe. Despite the fact that the UK only made up probably less than one third of the European market back then. The other big markets, Germany and France, as well as most of the smaller ones, were completely dominated by the NES. It's okay to mention that the UK was not like the US, but overshooting the target and claiming the rest of Europe was different too is just as bad.The Laird wrote:That was one of the best bits of the article for me as that fact is too often glossed over.
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