New Releases 06/24

[Kiwi]

Oh man!! Time flies by as you get older I tell you!! Ten issues of Comptiq from the scanner of Hubz have been added to the site as I try and catch up on getting all his releases added to the site.

       
       

[Kiwi]

Another ten issues of Comptiq have been added to the site thanks to Hubz....

       
       

[Kiwi]

Jason brings us three issues of Australian Net Directory including one issue with e "sealed sex section"!!. Ooo ... aaahh!! 

   

[kitsunebi]

Game Players MS-DOS Strategy Guide Vol.1 No.4 is now available HERE.

Hope you don't like ancient-looking brown pages because I GOT RID OF THEM.  This mag got the restoration treatment, a step and a half beyond simple editing, which requires a minimum of 5 minutes per page, since there are multiple stages of editing and color correction which have to be done independently from each other, selecting and deselecting areas so that the text, screenshots, and page borders can all be edited separately.  Does the mag look better than it probably ever did?  Yes (unless you like that old-timey parchment feel to your scans.)  The screenshots in particular can be tricky since they're of such poor quality in the first place (taken with a camera?) where images from the same game will look wildly different from screenshot to screenshot based on whatever lighting conditions were present when the photo was taken.

This is Vol.1 No.4, but remember that Volume 1 of Game Player's was actually split between the PC mags and Nintendo mags.  So this is only the 2nd ever Game Player's PC mag (and the first proper PC gaming mag, as Vol.1 No.2 was a PC game Buyer's Guide).  This is also the final issue of Volume 1, so from Vol.2 onward, the PC and Nintendo mags were completely separate titles.

[Kiwi]

Twenty issues of Comptiq scanned by Hubz have been converted to 300dpi versions and added to the site.

[Kiwi]

New goodies for the weekend with Gregorick giving us 360 magazine issues 16 and 42.

 

[Kiwi]

Ten issues of 360Zine are now available thanks to Gregorick.

[Kiwi]

Another ten issues of 360Zine from Gregorick have been added to the site.

Updates will be sporadic for a few days as I am down with COVID and it's worse this time around than last. Must be old age I guess!!

[Gregorick]

Likewise, sorry for the lack of new mags from me everyone. Got a bit of family emergency at the moment so haven't been and wont be near my scanner for a while. I know a few people are waiting on magazines they have donated so I apologise but it will be a while.

[zaraned]

New goodies for the weekend with Gregorick giving us 360 magazine issues 16 and 42.

 

Badass Lara is best era. Modern era she's 'vulnerable' --- processing heavy emotional issues while still taking out entire armies of private security goons. And they go all in with the suffering, falling down cliffs, beaten up aspect. Replacing Desert Eagles with bow and arrow? Come on man. I completed all three of the 2010 games, they're still decent but I fear the peak has been reached.

[Pulstar]

Badass Lara is best era. Modern era she's 'vulnerable' --- processing heavy emotional issues while still taking out entire armies of private security goons. And they go all in with the suffering, falling down cliffs, beaten up aspect. Replacing Desert Eagles with bow and arrow? Come on man. I completed all three of the 2010 games, they're still decent but I fear the peak has been reached.

I don't think we'll be seeing Lara anytime soon. The industry is about to implode and publishers are wary of investing even in established franchises. It would be fresh to have more middle-aged protagonists though, seeing that the median age of gamers has been growing in the past couple of decades. MGS4 did a tremendous job even though the corny cutscenes featuring other NPCs made me want to gut myself.

Anyway my only beef with old Lara is her wanton destruction of endangered species. Surely she could have used sleeping darts on all those semi-extinct wolves and tigers!

[zaraned]

Badass Lara is best era. Modern era she's 'vulnerable' --- processing heavy emotional issues while still taking out entire armies of private security goons. And they go all in with the suffering, falling down cliffs, beaten up aspect. Replacing Desert Eagles with bow and arrow? Come on man. I completed all three of the 2010 games, they're still decent but I fear the peak has been reached.

I don't think we'll be seeing Lara anytime soon. The industry is about to implode and publishers are wary of investing even in established franchises. It would be fresh to have more middle-aged protagonists though, seeing that the median age of gamers has been growing in the past couple of decades. MGS4 did a tremendous job even though the corny cutscenes featuring other NPCs made me want to gut myself.

Anyway my only beef with old Lara is her wanton destruction of endangered species. Surely she could have used sleeping darts on all those semi-extinct wolves and tigers!

The median age thing makes sense but publishers seem to have thrown all theirs chips down on the under thirties, teens etc. I tried The Finals multiplayer FPS because it's free and all the bunny costumes and other 'wacky' stuff put me  off. The same kind of thing happened to Rainbow Six. It was almost a simulator starting off and now it's aliens etc. As you say there may/will be a correction soon.

[IloveCats100]

Badass Lara is best era. Modern era she's 'vulnerable' --- processing heavy emotional issues while still taking out entire armies of private security goons. And they go all in with the suffering, falling down cliffs, beaten up aspect. Replacing Desert Eagles with bow and arrow? Come on man. I completed all three of the 2010 games, they're still decent but I fear the peak has been reached.

I don't think we'll be seeing Lara anytime soon. The industry is about to implode and publishers are wary of investing even in established franchises. It would be fresh to have more middle-aged protagonists though, seeing that the median age of gamers has been growing in the past couple of decades. MGS4 did a tremendous job even though the corny cutscenes featuring other NPCs made me want to gut myself.

Anyway my only beef with old Lara is her wanton destruction of endangered species. Surely she could have used sleeping darts on all those semi-extinct wolves and tigers!

The median age thing makes sense but publishers seem to have thrown all theirs chips down on the under thirties, teens etc. I tried The Finals multiplayer FPS because it's free and all the bunny costumes and other 'wacky' stuff put me  off. The same kind of thing happened to Rainbow Six. It was almost a simulator starting off and now it's aliens etc. As you say there may/will be a correction soon.

I don't know if they'd appeal but i believe the FPS games valorant and the current iteration of counter-strike don't use any sort of 'wacky' player skins but restrict skins to the gun models only, so perhaps you would find those to be more grounded?

[Kiwi]

BF2 is still by far the best FPS as far as I am concerned. Later games in the series just didn't do anything for me at all even though I bought them all except the latest one (BF2042?).

Maybe the games were okay but I think I got sick of EA's forcing you to buy new campaigns etc. BF1942 and BF2 had a thriving free mod scene going on. Hell, BF2 is just a full blown release of the Desert Combat mod which was fantastic!!

I must be a jaded old gamer I guess. Most of the games I play are arcade games as they only require a few minutes effort/thought. I don't have the time or inclination to slave away over one game for days/weeks anymore.

[zaraned]

Badass Lara is best era. Modern era she's 'vulnerable' --- processing heavy emotional issues while still taking out entire armies of private security goons. And they go all in with the suffering, falling down cliffs, beaten up aspect. Replacing Desert Eagles with bow and arrow? Come on man. I completed all three of the 2010 games, they're still decent but I fear the peak has been reached.

I don't think we'll be seeing Lara anytime soon. The industry is about to implode and publishers are wary of investing even in established franchises. It would be fresh to have more middle-aged protagonists though, seeing that the median age of gamers has been growing in the past couple of decades. MGS4 did a tremendous job even though the corny cutscenes featuring other NPCs made me want to gut myself.

Anyway my only beef with old Lara is her wanton destruction of endangered species. Surely she could have used sleeping darts on all those semi-extinct wolves and tigers!

The median age thing makes sense but publishers seem to have thrown all theirs chips down on the under thirties, teens etc. I tried The Finals multiplayer FPS because it's free and all the bunny costumes and other 'wacky' stuff put me  off. The same kind of thing happened to Rainbow Six. It was almost a simulator starting off and now it's aliens etc. As you say there may/will be a correction soon.

I don't know if they'd appeal but i believe the FPS games valorant and the current iteration of counter-strike don't use any sort of 'wacky' player skins but restrict skins to the gun models only, so perhaps you would find those to be more grounded?

Forgot about Counter Strike, the granddaddy of a modern settings online FPS. Good to hear it hasn't lost its way. I sometimes dip in and out of some genres. There is still some hope out there and Ready or Not looks fun but requires a nuclear powered PC to run.