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one of the few publications that seemed to do actual work. what a shame.
Is it actual work to just say what the publishers tell you to say and give everything a 7?
If you actually read their interviews and reviews you will see that it is way more in-depth than any YouTube essays or twitch streams. It sucks that those things attract more people because I get way more informed at an objective level with GI articles and similar podcasts.
I’m gonna guess they got better in the 15 years since I was subscribed.
I wouldn’t say better, if you didn’t like them in their earlier days then I doubt you would like them now. To me, they just provided more thorough insights into the games than random YouTuber or Reddit comment section.
Eh… they were beholden to the games industry as much as any publication, and perhaps more due to their ownership.
yeah i meant work as in interesting content rather than journalism. never referred to GI for reviews but they had fun content.
that’s fair. I suspect their relationship with gamestop, which had it’s own mini-e3 for a while, led to a ton of great content discovery that many journalists didn’t get access to back in the day.
Times change, but this magazine was great for a long time.
Fuck. It was one of the few remaining good videogame-related publications. They will be sorely missed.
Where to go from here?
I remember absolutely being a fanboy in the 90s. It was so much better than it’s rivals like EGM and GamePro.
But around 2005, either I aged out of it or the magazine got worse. Then I remember GameStop giving it for free at some point. I just remember it being a shell of a shell of a magazine, as the rest of the gaming industry moved to gaming blogs.
The Gamestop deal would have been 2002-ish. I actually hadn’t heard of the magazine before we started pushing it in the store. With Game Informer’s features mirroring our store marketing, it was the first time I realized how incestuous the industry was (easy to see the signs of it now when looking back at even older mags). The bizarre amount of coverage it had on the PS2 game State of Emergency was one example from the time. It’s wild to me to hear it being called reputable here and elsewhere today when it had such a fundamental conflict of interest for the vast majority of its run.
You’re totally right.
I was in middle school when I had fond memories of gaming mags, and that’s probably when I was the most infatuated by the publications.
And by high school (2000s) it was getting weird and slowly dropping off.
At some point was the whole Kotaku gamergate BS and completely checked out of gaming news because it wasn’t just weird, but then it got real racist/sexist.
I remember their reviews being fairly good, once you accepted that 70 was a minimal passing grade.
They were surely paid for coverage but I don’t recall anything being wildly undeserved. At least once you got to their 9s and 10s anyways.
I’m kind of in the same boat as you. My mainstay for the longest time was RockPaperShotgun, probably from 2008–2016 or thereabouts. Once the old guard left the quality of the site drastically changed, and it became significant shallower in terms of reviews. Not really sure where to get the same kind of journalism these days.
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GamePro was fantastic
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Thank you, GI, for years and years of awesome magazines when I was a kid.
Well, probably should go archive the old crew Super Replays. Hearing Dan’s laugh as Reiner loses his shit at him is like an old comfort blanket.
Reiner was my favorite always and forever
Tim, Dan, and Reiner in any horror themed Super Replay is fantastic. I went through a really rough separation and I needed something happy-ish to fill the dead noise at night and found the Megaman Legends Super Replay and the rest is history.
I just signed up for their 2 year subscription deal, and always looked forward to getting my latest edition. Also listened to their podcast, which was great too. Super bummed about this.
Damn. I’m glad I have a small collection of their issues now.
Is there any way to read Game Internet online now (archive or whatever)?
I’d really love to check out the Vampire Survivors interview from the final issue.I really liked their covers. I subscribed just for those alone.