NGamer issue 36

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Zerudaaaaa! » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:52 pm

What did they give the first Pikmin NPC?

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Cropolite » Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:49 pm

Fruits Punch Samurai wrote:Pass Your Driving Test Theory Test 70

What price is this?

It's a one-off event, it's free online with trials and it's piss easy anyway. :lol:

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Parksey » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:31 pm

Bah, I wish NGamer would stop giving away guff free gifts - I always throw them straight into the bin. When I see the mag-in-a-bag on a shop shelf and see that it contains a freebie that an eight year old would be ashamed to be seen with in the playground, I despair at the fact that their kid-friendly exterior masks a very mature, funny publication.

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by Hero of Canton » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:39 pm

Parksey wrote:Bah, I wish NGamer would stop giving away guff free gifts - I always throw them straight into the bin. When I see the mag-in-a-bag on a shop shelf and see that it contains a freebie that an eight year old would be ashamed to be seen with in the playground, I despair at the fact that their kid-friendly exterior masks a very mature, funny publication.


This. I'd love a vanilla version of this and OPM. Or make it like the Harry Potter books - have one cover for the kiddies and another, more sober one for the adults.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Fruits Punch Samurai » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:43 pm

I dunno I like the tacky feeling of the magazines and the horrible colours they use, its part of the charm!

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Hero of Canton » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:47 pm

Fruits Punch Samurai wrote:I dunno I like the tacky feeling of the magazines and the horrible colours they use, its part of the charm!


I don't think the covers have anything like the same appeal as the best of Super Play, N64 or NGC.

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by Fruits Punch Samurai » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:52 pm

I liked the different second to last pages they had been doing to go with the covers lately and these Pokemon ones are quite nice. I guess it varies, the old art guy Paul was great!

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Parksey » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:34 pm

Hero of Canton wrote:
Fruits Punch Samurai wrote:I dunno I like the tacky feeling of the magazines and the horrible colours they use, its part of the charm!


I don't think the covers have anything like the same appeal as the best of Super Play, N64 or NGC.


The covers are, for the most part, completely awful and horribly designed. They usually just consist of a piece of promo art for one title with a bit of text splashed across. The lowest point was last year's Christmas issue, which looked like fan art done in Paint.

They aren't a patch on N64's Overton covers and even ones from NGC's early days (when they mag was still three miles wide). I remember the import review issues of Metroid Prime and Wind Waker looking great, and the sheer width of the cover art made it immediately distinctive.

Sadly, NGamer's recent efforts have reached Gamesmaster levels of direness.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by teh bork » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:43 pm

Parksey wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:
Fruits Punch Samurai wrote:I dunno I like the tacky feeling of the magazines and the horrible colours they use, its part of the charm!


I don't think the covers have anything like the same appeal as the best of Super Play, N64 or NGC.


The covers are, for the most part, completely awful and horribly designed. They usually just consist of a piece of promo art for one title with a bit of text splashed across. The lowest point was last year's Christmas issue, which looked like fan art done in Paint.

They aren't a patch on N64's Overton covers and even ones from NGC's early days (when they mag was still three miles wide). I remember the import review issues of Metroid Prime and Wind Waker looking great, and the sheer width of the cover art made it immediately distinctive.

Sadly, NGamer's recent efforts have reached Gamesmaster levels of direness.


Their N64 covers were a joy to behold, his Perfect Dark cover was lovely. But I agree with Parksey and HoC, they should ditch the kiddy look and free gifts, which is the apparently the reason it's £4.99 each month.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Parksey » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:46 pm

It's £4.99 a month?!

Cripes, as I'm a subscriber (and have been since 2002), I never notice the price - not even when the subs payment leave my bank account.

I can see why it's not reaching the number of readers it deserves now, as a fiver for quite a thin, seemingly childish, mag is asking a bit much. Edge is still 50p cheaper, right? If I could only get one mag a month, I'd struggle to pick NGamer over this, especially as I'm not gaming a great deal at the moment.

I really do need to get some more Wii and DS titles though, as there's a tonne of stuff I should play.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by KK » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:51 pm

Much like GamesMaster (though not quite as bad), it feels rather cheap - as in the production values are, to use my favourite phrase, in the toilet.

The budgets for some of these mags must be being squeezed incredibly tight.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Uppa » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:54 pm

Parksey wrote:I remember the import review issues of Metroid Prime and Wind Waker looking great, and the sheer width of the cover art made it immediately distinctive.


The double-page spreads used for the first two pages of both those reviews were spectacular. There was plenty of white, but the way they used the art was just sublime.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by teh bork » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:54 pm

Parksey wrote:It's £4.99 a month?!

Cripes, as I'm a subscriber (and have been since 2002), I never notice the price - not even when the subs payment leave my bank account.

I can see why it's not reaching the number of readers it deserves now, as a fiver for quite a thin, seemingly childish, mag is asking a bit much. Edge is still 50p cheaper, right? If I could only get one mag a month, I'd struggle to pick NGamer over this, especially as I'm not gaming a great deal at the moment.

I really do need to get some more Wii and DS titles though, as there's a tonne of stuff I should play.


Yep, although I've never subscribed despite having brought the mag since 2000. But your dead on as £4.99 a month for a magazine that has similar free gifts and page content to ONM, which is a pound cheaper, is seriously over the top. I think the reason for that price in the first place was because it used to come with a free DVD, but now they no longer do that I see no reason for why the price can't be lowered by a pound a month, it would be a fairer price and would encourage more people to pick it up.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by KK » Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:03 pm

Is an Unofficial Mag being more expensive than its official counterpart a first? I can't recall anything.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by Dalagonash » Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:28 pm

Herbi wrote:How could pikmin NPC possibly be better than Metroid NPC


Because grumpy Mike 'if it isn't new, I'm not interested' Gapper reviewed Metroid.

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PostRe: NGamer issue 36
by The People's ElboReformat » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:38 pm

teh bork wrote:But your dead on as £4.99 a month for a magazine that has similar free gifts and page content to ONM, which is a pound cheaper, is seriously over the top.


But, unlike ONM, NGamer is well written and funny.

As a subscriber the price doesn't bother me personally, but I do agree it is a bit much really. At first I thought it was worth it because each issue would come with an NGamer DVD (which were pretty good) but they soon stopped but the price stuck.

Sometimes the covers are awful (the Christmas issue for example) but quite a lot of the time I like them. When they're not all cluttered. This months one for example is quite good (well depending on which one you got. Sadly I got that gooseberry fool cat 'mon and not a Squirtle). Still, I'd love to see Wil Overton return to do some special covers.

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