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« on: April 04, 2002, 06:53:51 AM »
Hey, who here has nintendo power magazine? (i do)  How would you rate it on a scale of 1 to 10?

Insane Steve

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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2002, 09:59:50 PM »
I USED TO. I started my subscription at issue 50 (I also have Issue 37). I stopped getting it at issue roughly 140, as I started to realize I was disliking the mag's layout more and more.

They did away with the comics. Then They did away with that manila thing. Then they did away with the 0-10 rating system, changing to an inprecise 5 star system (both games rated 8.6 and 9.4 would therefore get the same rating, 4.5 stars) and now they give way too many games 4's and 4.5's. I had given it an 8 or 9 at issue 100 or so, as that was when i liked it the most, but now it has overly-special-featured itself down to a 4 or 5 now, so I subscribe to EGM now.

And what happened to Expert Gamer? That was, at one time, the best mag ever, then they changed to GameNOW after 38 issues (and i have all of them except that one they forgot to send me... D'oh!) Now, the format of GameNOW is too disorganized, as the ratings systems is done by only 1 person, with the school grading system (Expert Gamer never even rated games) and that is a flawed system... I miss Expert Gamer... oh well, I am content with EGM for now...

*My real signature went on strike, said something about "unfair working conditions". So, this is a temporary replacement sig, until I can work things out with the real sig.
~I.S.~

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