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Originally Posted by Jacek Dobrzyniecki
- I don't like the cover. It's a bunch of images arranged randomly on a generic gradient background.
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Newsflash: that's what magazine covers in the 90's did except for the "gradient" which is simply the forum's colour.
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Originally Posted by Jacek Dobrzyniecki
- I dislike the whole "Versus" idea. I'm afraid that editors will simply be afraid to rate a new game gigher than the old one, since that would be a "blasphemy", and thus the old game will be typically elected the victor simply for being old.
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Well think of it like this: most modern sequels are based on great classics. They won't make a sequel to a poorly selling and unloved game, now would they? The idea is to compare games and not to plainly review both (something which Fubb didn't quite get sadly enough) and to see how they changed the sequel compared to the original.
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Originally Posted by Jacek Dobrzyniecki
- There's a phrase loosely hanging ("...Duke of Ander's Moon is anointed") at the top of page 9.
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Nothing special that - it's not hanging loosely anyway, it's just the end of the paragraph of the previous page. I try to avoid such things but there are worse flaws in the design - like the quote on page 11 having too much space below. Having to create a mag from scratch in a month is no easy feat so such errors are to be expected in the first issue.
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Originally Posted by Jacek Dobrzyniecki
- The quote on page 10 is rather pointless and badly chosen, as Simoneer pointed out.
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Well it was one of the better lines to quote - I personally don't see how it's pointless - not anymore than the other quotes anyway.
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Originally Posted by Jacek Dobrzyniecki
- I disliked the "2D or not 2D" article. It states a lot of obvious information ("2D is just not fashionable anymore. Young gamers prefer flashy 3D" - no, really?) and basically says nothing new. We all know that 2D graphics are all right, there's no need to take up a whole page for it.
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Listen Up! is meant to be a soapbox. It's not an informative article but is just someone talking about an experience or something he likes, dislikes, finds interesting but wants others to hear about. In this case, I believe the idea of the article is a very solid one: why always go for 3D when 2D can do the job as well? Whether it's something "new" or not, is not the question - we're dealing with 15 year old games here, so if you're looking for "new", I suggest just reading a Playstation 3 magazine (although the generic crap in there is hardly new either).
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Originally Posted by Jacek Dobrzyniecki
- Typo near the bottom of page 13 ("Please vivist...")
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Already been noted.