With the very greatest of respect...
The gaming world would be a better place if game journalism just went away. No information whatsoever would be much better than having idiots like the ones who made this list spouting their crap constantly. It'd be far, far too easy for me to simply replace 'game journalism' with 'blog commenters' and throw that right back at you - but it'd be lazy stereotyping with very little basis in fact. Wait, that I can throw back at you.;)
I'm not going to sit here and argue our reasons with you - like we said, the list is subjective and there was never any way we were going to please everyone, so we threw that out right at the start.
One thing I *will* say is that we're not 'fans' of any particular console or developer. And, per your Sam and Max comment, I think it's safe to say that not one of us has bought any of the episodes. Our mentioning of them was for finally getting the episodic model to work properly - much like we mention Sakaguchi because his utilisation of the Hollywood model, which might be how game production goes, is peerless.
Anyway. Already written too much;)
It doesn't cost anything to sign up and you only need to put in a username and e-mail address. You only have to pay if you want to read the Weekend edition or any back issues. Soon they may only allow the first week to be visible to un-paying readers and lock the newer content - they don't want to do this but are going to have to.
So there's absolutely no risk. Also, you can get a full refund of any unspent money at any time.
It astonishes me how many people just don't get it. It is an emulation of Teletext, because that's where Digiworld's roots lie. Digitiser, it's Teletext-predecessor, was funny not only because it had excellent, sharp, honest writing, but because it had hilarious characters drawn using the teletext limitations.
If Digiworld did not use the teletext style it wouldn't be able to carry off the characters in the same way.
I'm just astonished that you guys can come up with all these excuses not to read it. Just how lazy are you? Disappointed that it doesn't run in 1900x10000000 resolution? What website does! You're all missing out on the best gaming journalism that exists out there at the moment, and the first professional ad-free gaming journalism venture, and you people won't read it because you have to click the right arrow button now and again.
Stop a moment and think about this, about what you are saying. Are you saying that you want truly independant journalism to die? And don't go plugging your website and saying you're independant and great, or whatever, because you're in no way professional, whereas these guys are award winning journalists.
Fine, whatever. Maybe you don't deserve it. Just go back to your Official magazines and realise that they are all funded by advertising. Did they score Enter The Matrix highly? Hmmm, I wonder why.
(Oh, and I'm not a staff member of Digiworld - I am a paying customer, though, and am of the opinion that everyone should be)
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I'm not going to sit here and argue our reasons with you - like we said, the list is subjective and there was never any way we were going to please everyone, so we threw that out right at the start. One thing I *will* say is that we're not 'fans' of any particular console or developer. And, per your Sam and Max comment, I think it's safe to say that not one of us has bought any of the episodes. Our mentioning of them was for finally getting the episodic model to work properly - much like we mention Sakaguchi because his utilisation of the Hollywood model, which might be how game production goes, is peerless. Anyway. Already written too much ;)
Sakaguchi didn't have anything to do with the GBA port - he left Square Enix years ago.
It doesn't cost anything to sign up and you only need to put in a username and e-mail address. You only have to pay if you want to read the Weekend edition or any back issues. Soon they may only allow the first week to be visible to un-paying readers and lock the newer content - they don't want to do this but are going to have to. So there's absolutely no risk. Also, you can get a full refund of any unspent money at any time.
It astonishes me how many people just don't get it. It is an emulation of Teletext, because that's where Digiworld's roots lie. Digitiser, it's Teletext-predecessor, was funny not only because it had excellent, sharp, honest writing, but because it had hilarious characters drawn using the teletext limitations.
If Digiworld did not use the teletext style it wouldn't be able to carry off the characters in the same way.
I'm just astonished that you guys can come up with all these excuses not to read it. Just how lazy are you? Disappointed that it doesn't run in 1900x10000000 resolution? What website does! You're all missing out on the best gaming journalism that exists out there at the moment, and the first professional ad-free gaming journalism venture, and you people won't read it because you have to click the right arrow button now and again.
Stop a moment and think about this, about what you are saying. Are you saying that you want truly independant journalism to die? And don't go plugging your website and saying you're independant and great, or whatever, because you're in no way professional, whereas these guys are award winning journalists.
Fine, whatever. Maybe you don't deserve it. Just go back to your Official magazines and realise that they are all funded by advertising. Did they score Enter The Matrix highly? Hmmm, I wonder why.
(Oh, and I'm not a staff member of Digiworld - I am a paying customer, though, and am of the opinion that everyone should be)