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eddysterckx

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Since: May 13, 2005
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:37 am
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Hi,

Fellow ng-poster KG_Jag made an interesting statistical analysis over
here :

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/showpost.php?p=946593&postcount=21

As he says it's pretty endemic at all review sites which give game
scores and I have to sorta agree.

Sorta, because there's at least one publication that's still untainted
by this and that's PC Gamer UK.

From their latest issue : they have no qualms giving "Viva Pinata" -
an imaginative sim gardening game from a (relatively) small dev a 83%,
or "Condor" - a super-realistic glider sim from an unknown Slovenian
dev a 71%, while rating Beowulf from giant UbiSoft a 17% and "not
worth the plastic it's printed on"

Some other scores :

Painkiller : Overdose : 49% - "overdone" - "Wrists : slit. Head : in
oven"
Need for Speed : ProStreet : 55% - "problematic"
Empire Earth III : 61% - "third time's the charmless"
Fury : 48% - "what it's fans are going to be after seeing the score"

PC game magazines are in decline, but PC Gamer UK is still going
strong - one wonders why Smile

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

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RobP

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:12 pm
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<eddysterckx DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:62651663-f372-47ba-b636-5aa32be8a8c3@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> Fellow ng-poster KG_Jag made an interesting statistical analysis over
> here :
>
> http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/showpost.php?p=946593&postcount=21
>
> As he says it's pretty endemic at all review sites which give game
> scores and I have to sorta agree.
>
> Sorta, because there's at least one publication that's still untainted
> by this and that's PC Gamer UK.
>
> From their latest issue : they have no qualms giving "Viva Pinata" -
> an imaginative sim gardening game from a (relatively) small dev a 83%,
> or "Condor" - a super-realistic glider sim from an unknown Slovenian
> dev a 71%, while rating Beowulf from giant UbiSoft a 17% and "not
> worth the plastic it's printed on"
>
> Some other scores :
>
> Painkiller : Overdose : 49% - "overdone" - "Wrists : slit. Head : in
> oven"
> Need for Speed : ProStreet : 55% - "problematic"
> Empire Earth III : 61% - "third time's the charmless"
> Fury : 48% - "what it's fans are going to be after seeing the score"
>
> PC game magazines are in decline, but PC Gamer UK is still going
> strong - one wonders why Smile
>
> Greetz,
>
> Eddy Sterckx

Looks like the Uk PC Gamer has improved a lot since I last read it. In the
early to mid nineties PC Gamer Uk was renown for its skewed reviews. For me,
at the time, the most accurate reviews were in PC Zone, who weren't afraid
to rub people up the wrong way, including the then big publishers like
LucasArts.

Used to be a regular subscriber to both of the above and even have their
first issues, as I jumped on the PC games wagon when the only games magazine
available was called PC Review. Nowadays the internet happened. So if I need
to find out about a mainstream game I pop over to Meta-Critic.

RobP

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Vincenzo Beretta

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:12 pm
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> I jumped on the PC games wagon when the only games magazine available was
> called PC Review.

By EMAP Images. I remember it fondly - for the very good reason that I was
the chief editor of the Italian edition from 1991 to 1994. I worked two
weeks in Milan and two weeks in London - all expenses paid. Those were the
days Surprised)

There is an interesting coincidence I still remember. The second floor of
the building where we worked (in Farrington Road, for the Londoneers) was
home of the offices of "Just Seventeen" - a "girlie" magazine. One day, in
late 1994, we went out to eat with the people of JS and some young models
who were doing a photoshoot for the magazine. I almost missed that lunch
because I had problems with the layout of the front page for that month - a
damned front page which featured a "Terminator" game (by Bethesda, IIRC).

Anyway, I managed both to finish in time *and* to sit near this very
beautiful girl from Sweden, who looked twenty but actually was just fifteen
and had just began her modelling career - and had this curious name:
"Kristanna Loken". I still wonder if it was karma or what.
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