Woah. That guy is WAY out of touch. The article on the front page is a pretty funny read, though.
Man that guy was almost nowhere to be found from about '87 to 2000 or so. What say you, sir, was he on a 13 year bender with hookers and blow?
My fantasy gaming magazine would be one delivered to me weekly by Christina Aguilera, it having been neatly folded in between her boobies. Uhm, and I guess TomChick could write articles in it or something.
Why would you want a mag that comes with VD?
Steve Bauman- no doubt a fine editor but I enjoy him the most when produces reviews or articles. Whenever I pick up CGM and say “wow this story is literature” Steve’s name is at the end.
Seriously? There is a differnce between “literate” and “literature”. No matter how much I love Steve Bauman, and I don’t really love him at all, I could never confuse the two. His reviews are nice.
Tom Chick- I’d make Tom review all the bad games, firstly because I think he gives every game an honest try, even if the game doesn’t deserve it.
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This is why I bother to read this forum. Rather, he is why. When I read his Emperor of the Fading Suns review I knew I could count on him. Just because nobody, anywhere, fixed that game is of no consequence. It was, and is, a beautiful game never made.
He’s from the South. My Mom is from the South. He went to divinty college and I like God. Read his Sims 2 review again. How fucking sincere and generous do you have to be to get noticed? It was a great review.
JeffK- Humor. His reviews of Morrowind, GTA San Andreas and Warcraft III are probably the funniest articles about gaming I’ve ever read. He does hardware reviews, satire and interviews too. I’m suprised no gaming Mag has thought of putting him on salary for a couple of issues yet. (Yes I know his real name so don’t tell me in some authoritian tone that JefFK isn’t a real person)
Really? I can’t even read it and find Zacks reviews of failed Nazi technology more amusing.
Dave Markell- Wargames and strategy of course.
Stephen Heaslip- news and previews. I haven’t seen anything in the game industry slip by Mr. Heaslip and his site is the first one I’ve read every morning for about 3 years. I know he owes a lot of this to his staff but with an unlimited budget I’d bring them along.
I am doing Html! I don’t know how to do html but I am copying syntax. If it doesn’t work let me assure you that I am not mocking you but that this forums quote system sucks. Isn’t quoting and responding the God of interactive board thingys? Will you make easier someday?
Game walkthroughs and strategy articles- The staff at double jump books.
Again, huh?
Mark Asher- RPGs and MMORPGS. How could you not want to read work from the man who went head to head with Derek Smart and won. He’s a usenet celebrity and I loved those early gamespin articles.
He won? Wow, congratulations.
I like him because he used to write for something I used to read. But he is a print celebrity. He shines when he has time to think.
No slights to anyone not mentioned here are intended. I’m just wishing there was a magazine where I could read the work of my favorite gaming journalists all at once instead of having to use google when I want to read articles about games from my favorite authors.
Computer Games magazine is really pretty good. Steve Bauman is just like Cleve said, but the magazine is well done. You can read most of your favorite reviewers in there, albiet a month later, and get a laugh.
No love for Jason Cross?
That guy kicks ass.
I think the main question I’d have in this is, would I get a paddle?
Because both Jeff Green and Steve Bauman get paddles that they whack people with when they come and visit.
Which reminds me, I’m visiting CGW next week. I need to practice my “Yes sir, may I have another…”
;)
I’d make Alex Handy the editor and let him post all the email he wants. Then I’d have Mattc0m as feature writer. The rest of the mag would be excerpts from the WoW forums like this one in “Nerf Pallys Thread, Volume XXXLCMXTVZII5” from a Warlock who fought a higher level Paladin with his friend and lost:
“Even without a pet I don’t think we should have lost. I alone
have taken out Rogues 18 levels higher, mages 12 levels higher, and
pretty much everyone else at a higher level. But Paladins just seem to
tough”
And pictures of Boromir. In fact we’d call the mag “Pictures of Boromir” and use that song the Cure wrote for Hewlett-Packard in our commercials.
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Yeah, that just needs a punching
Did The Cure really write a song for HP? If that’s true, I am so totally not smearing lipstick all over the lower half of my face today nor am I going to decline to comb my hair in any reasonable manner. Will the sellouts never end? What next, Morrissey pitching for Dell? “There is a place in Dell for me and my friends”.
Yeah it’s this song about a printer that makes pictures look so good that you’d think you were looking at the real thing. Bob really takes digital photography seriously.
For more Todd Rogers awesomeness, you should buy this book which has a great Daniel Nester essay about him peppered with awesome quotes. Oh, and I have an essay in it too but WHATEVER.
Scorpia - I know she had a flame out but for a while there no one wrote about RPG’s better.
Bruce vs Tom
Jeff Green writing Greenspeak again!!
Russell Sipe doing anything - Subscriber to CGW since '90
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Would this magazine have a centerfold?
Your check is in the mail.