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windwaker
Posts: 1091/1797 |
Well, I don't care about banner ads, I know whoever owns it has to keep it up somehow, just, advertising goes way too far sometimes (see "IGN", "Gamespy"). |
Seph2k4
Posts: 481/619 |
I read the "Good" Gaming sites and was thinking Game Spot, but then I came across the "without pop ups" thing and came up with nothing.
Sorry, nothing doing there. |
windwaker
Posts: 1088/1797 |
Meh. Maybe I'm just used to standards as high as The Legends of Zelda's. |
Xeolord
Posts: 1244/3418 |
I take it you haven't heard of halo.bungie.org or highimpacthalo.org?  |
windwaker
Posts: 1084/1797 |
Indeed. The only good gaming sites out there are game specific, which, sucks major ass.
And there isn't one good Halo 2 fansite.  |
Xeolord
Posts: 1236/3418 |
Well there are still good RPG specific sites out there that I like and check over often, RPGfan.com, RPGamer.com, and a few others.
Oh, and don't you just love the ads that "pop up" when you hover over them? Or the ones that consume the screen and you can't find the "X" to close it? |
Colin
Posts: 6546/11302 |
The Pay-to-View structure really bit both GameSpot and IGN in the butt though. How did it work... I think GS was "you have to pay to see reviews that are more than 7 days old" and IGN was "you have to pay to see reviews that aren't 7 days old yet". 
Needless to say, neither of those systems exist anymore.  |
windwaker
Posts: 1079/1797 |
Well, the companies can make $5-$10 for each thousand people see their ads... And they get like 50,000 unique hits a -month-. They can rotate ads, too, so that's like ten ads, getting like 30,000 hits a day... |
Anya
Posts: 4125/5337 |
Originally posted by DarkSlaya
*DarkSlaya points at thread title.
Not really.
The fact that most of them are full of ADs while they don't really need that much makes it worse.
Which is why I really don't go to gaming sites anymore. Usually I'll hear it through word of mouth, or I'll go to the game's actual site.
Its either way too many ads, pop-ups, you have to sign up, you have to pay, or some other crap like that. |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 3373/4249 |
*DarkSlaya points at thread title.
Not really.
The fact that most of them are full of ADs while they don't really need that much makes it worse. |
windwaker
Posts: 1078/1797 |
Well, I've found that the only semi-good corresponding website to a magazine is 1up.com. Everything else's reviews come late, because they want people to buy the magazine without just viewing it online. |
Anya
Posts: 4097/5337 |
Game Informer
Haven't really gone there myself yet, but it is the same as the mags that we carry at work, and I tend to look through those when I have free time at work, and it seems to have good info. |
Rydain
Posts: 443/738 |
Colin - That pretty much describes it. Similarly, certain special interest and OS boards (Game Design and Programming and UNIX/Linux are two that come to mind offhand) tend to attract smarter, more well-behaved people. Sure, there are occasional arguments over Windows vs. *nix, but generally, the conversation quality is pretty good.
windwaker - True, true...I totally forgot about that. For pictures, I usually just visit the external review links. Some of those sites are choked with ads (like, as you mentioned, Gamespot), but I ignore or block them. Unfortunately, I don't know of any major site with picture articles that doesn't have a buttload of ads. |
windwaker
Posts: 1074/1797 |
Originally posted by Rydain
What sort of info are you looking for? For FAQs and reviews, I just go to GameFAQs. It does have ads, but Firefox + AdBlock kills 'em off. As far as the boards go, they vary very widely in quality. The extremely popular game boards tend to move fast and have assloads of dumb people, but there's still good information to be found, and the quieter game boards (at least for the games I like) are usually decent to great. You just have to try to ignore the stupidity when it appears.
GameFAQs is great, but I <3 pictures. |
Colin
Posts: 6533/11302 |
I guess I'd call that a type of "educated gamer" complex. The immature kiddies tend to gravitate towards the best-sellers, while the more educated players can be found talking about games that aren't so popular.
Of course, you'll still have your mix on each board but it's slanted. |
Rydain
Posts: 441/738 |
What sort of info are you looking for? For FAQs and reviews, I just go to GameFAQs. It does have ads, but Firefox + AdBlock kills 'em off. As far as the boards go, they vary very widely in quality. The extremely popular game boards tend to move fast and have assloads of dumb people, but there's still good information to be found, and the quieter game boards (at least for the games I like) are usually decent to great. You just have to try to ignore the stupidity when it appears. |
Emptyeye
Posts: 1406/2273 |
I'm pretty sure the Game Informer thing is nationwide, and actually started back when Gamestop was Funcoland.
Did anyone else note the page briefly being FUBAR at the bottom? |
windwaker
Posts: 1073/1797 |
Yeh, gaming sites are like the media these days: biased and sucks.
gamesradar.com is a british site (I think), so I guess I'll just wallow in my gamespot misery.  |
Xeolord
Posts: 1229/3418 |
Originally posted by Ailure
I actualy goto the gamefaqs board, sure there maybe is alot of stupidity there. But sometimes you do pick up some intresting news... and rumours. Apparently there is rumours about DS online for example, but i'm as always taking thoose with a grain of salt.
Then, rumours around Nintendo usually aren't that false. DS was started as a rumour after all, if anyone remember...
I hadn't seen 1up until know, but at least I read a few fun reviews. Sometimes I like to read reviews for games that I bought, even if I like them I want to see other people opinions too. <.<
That's what I usually find myself doing these days. Checking forums for news. Like WW said, I don't care about paid subscriptions for actual good info (IGN, GameSpy, FilePlanet), or for stupid banner ads (Oh these are great on IGN these days, nowadays there an entire page and you're forced to "click" somewhere else to continue to an article or whatever you wanted to see), and all that other lame crap.
Magazines are fine, honestly. I don't see why people diss them so often, I'm fine with my free subscription to Gamepro (Love this magazine, way better than biased EGM in my opinion, and they actually do PC games) and my 5$ every 10 month subscription for Game Informer is pretty nifty too. (I do this through Gamestop, not sure if that's a nationwide thing?) |
windwaker
Posts: 1061/1797 |
Originally posted by Trapster
Well, I ususally go to megagames.com or gamespot.
You can download freeware games at megagames too. 
You can also download game patches/cracks for pirated copies.
=o
Games Radar is a great site; I'll use this from now on, it seems. |
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