I'm bored and have nothing better going on in the immediate moment so I'm going to dump the September 2001 issue of EGM so we can never forget what was going on in gaming during that tragic year when Sega announced they were discontinuing the Dreamcast.I'm skipping the ads though because I don't have time to sit here for the 3 hours it would otherwise take to get through this and literally half of old gaming magazines were ads.
Can't you just post the pdf
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>>748725580>Shows bare feetYuna was a harlot
Literally 12 pages of ads to get to this point by the way.
>>748725608I figured something like this would be fun and different from the usual bait and xitter screencap threads. Just posting a link to a PDF is boring.
>>748725580It's crazy how gaming would die less than a decade after this. I blame women and politicians using shit that also happens in film and television but restricting it if it's vidya for this. Literally retard shit. Also fuck trannies and niggers.
>>748725842The actual answer is the 360 and its stable of normalfag games that mainstreamed gaming.
>No Cloud and Tifa >>748702046 aka Nomura's nasty secondhand fap material(s) >>748705363 from some actual 1993(=97-4) porn frankensteined together>FYI: https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/737637672/#737639010'gaiden' [sidestory] game was planned for you, kids.
>>748726045Rikku looking a little chunky there
as a kid these were my favorite things to read and I would flip through them all the time. thanks OP
>>748726314>>748726314I read them all throughout childhood and high school. I'm an oldfag so this would have been early high school for me but when I was younger and I'd go grocercy shopping with my mom, I'd just park in the magazine aisle and read EGM, GamePro, Game Players and the like though I did buy plenty too. Even had a few off and on subscriptions.
Also I just chose this issue since it's September and this was September 2001. No significance beyond that, I forgot this was a big FFX issue.
EGM for a while around the turn of the millennium had these little one page comics.
>>748726829>>748726884I have no idea how I stumbled upon ICO, but I'm glad I did.
>>748725692should show the ads imo, may as well
>>748725948tekken 4 kino
>>748725580I have soo many old GamePro magazines but no way to scan them. They've been sitting in my closet for decades.
>>748726092ive never heard of this knob or seen anyone use or talk about it for any reason and i had a gba, cute to know though >sony employee glazing nintendo bottom right>top 5 gba launchespro skater 2 aged like ass the rest held up
I remember until it came out, Metroid Prime being an FPS was super controversial and seen as practically blasphemous.
>>748727317I just grabbed this from Retromags which has a lot of stuff though I've noticed some things, like a lot of the EGM Buyer's Guides, are still missing.
I miss magazines.
>>748726593>gbc and ps2 games selling side by sidecrazy, they don't feel from the same era I know its nearly the end of gbc relevancy but still
Even back then, people complained about paid online.
>>748727051is it just me or ppl do not talk about games like this anymore when talking about them
I assume Metroid IV became Fusion.
>>748727373luigis mansion looks a little different I don't remember that clock
I tried stitching together the actual spreads as best as I could for things like this where it was necessary.
>>748727956you did good
>>748727998The FF movie was that successful, huh?
>>748728209The opposite. It was a bomb and a money sink and that Square (and now Squeenix) that never recovered from and is a big reason it's in the shape its in right now.
>>748728307What I meant was that Square had to bundle an exclusive FFX trailer with the FF movie's soundtrack to get it to sell.
Sigh...I wanna go back...
>>748725842Dumb chudnigger
I remember when the SNES version of Turbo first came out you couldn't even buy it, it was a rental exclusive at Blockbuster. I pretty much begged my mom to rent it for me day 1.
Blessed thread. I was an EGM subscriber back in the day and read this issue when it came out.
>>748728507I'd tell you to quiet down Boco but I agree.
>>748726975I didn't play Ico until after Shadow of the Colossus. I remember seeing the cover in rental stores but it never looked interesting enough to bother at the time.
Indie gaming? That'll never take off.
>>748728685>Chrono Trigger that lowThat's surprising.
I guess I missed a spread, ah well.
>>748725580>I'm skipping the adsWith egm, if you skip the ads you won't be left with much.>literally half of old gaming magazines were ads.Only american ones. British ones weren't nearly as bad.t, 46 year old boomer who's been collecting all the mags he threw in the bin in the 1990s, as well as getting ones ive never read before.Expensive hobby but it's fun, i love old mags.
I like how there's so much shit for GBA lights because of how awful the situation for it was.
>>748729089>NeoRageXI like that they just didn't give a shit about being open that they emulated stuff. I remember first hearing about BLEEM in an EGM article too.
A little old FF vs. then current FF.
>>748725756I agree, thanks for sharing
And a preview for next month. That's it.
>>748729705>all that praise for 16-bit FFs, while PS1 FFs were that looked down uponEven back then, it was still "old good, new bad".
>>748725580>all sequels and spinoffsGaming is dead.
>>748729990I think it makes sense, the PS1 games are wholly different in a lot of ways than the 16-bit ones and there was always a divide between those who liked the new ones and those who felt the post-SNES ones moved away from what they liked about the games.
>>748729781For the record, XG never covered Oracle of Ages.
>>748730096I bet if EGM was around during the NES days and in Japan, there'd be debates over why the NES FF games were better than the SNES FF games lol
>>748725589>Amano drawn coverThat's pretty cool
>>748726345Poetry
>>748730192Nah, the SNES games a pretty clear evolution of the NES games. The PS1 and later games are a stark departure as the fantasy elements got toned down a lot for more sci-fi stuff and cinematic drama and the FFX is an even bigger departure.
>>748726006The wii bears a share of the blame too desu
>>748729781>Advance Wars and MGS2 came out around 9/11Didn't even register as a child lol
>>748730413Also Spiderman Enter Electro which was really funny since the final boss fight is on top of two towers that are presumably the WTC
>>748726152Damn man those numbers are mid. Not even lara in her prime could sell an action movie starring a woman
>>748730529They were. They had to redesign the last boss fight so its two generic buildings with a bridge between them.
>>748730352Not to the NES crowd. EGM even touches up on it >>748728138 ATB was a big change to the combat system at the time. The games also became increasingly story-driven and linear.
>>748726714Also hot damn Hsu and Chan was amazing.
>>748730413So did GTA3.
>>748730560Video game movies were largely jokes and the Tomb Raider movie sucked.
>>748729705Based Mark
>>748725580I use to have a bunch of these but sadly, half of them got mold and had to give them as reading material for the local hobos.
>>748725821>all those people rooting for the Dreamcastdamn, its fucking sad.
>SEGA Gaming never recovered from them leaving the console business. 2001 in general was a hard year.>SEGA discontinuing the Dreamcast and leaving the console business>WCW in that same month of the announcement got brought out by Vince, WCW magazine kept going for two more months>9/11>Xbox came in with policies and habits that infected the modern gaming scene to this day>>748725821
>>748726996i still remember when sports games had huge memorable changes in style and gameplay every year
>>748725580I want the Switch 2 version of FFX and X-2, but I think it's $59.99 or something
>>748732102They're on Switch 1 too, ya know.
>>748725842I think Crysis 2 was the first sign of gaming's enshittification. That's when I first felt gaming was going to nosedive anyway.
>>748729781>next month>devil may cry>silent hill 2damn
>>748731642>>748731923The Dreamcast was my all time favorite console up to that point, even more than the SNES, and I bore a fucking grudge against Sony for years over the PS2 "killing" the Dreamcast. Like I don't think it was until around 2003 when I finally got a PS2, I even got the Gamecube (a system I ultimately wound up disliking) over the PS2 that Christmas because of it. In hindsight maybe I should have gone with the Xbox since that was basically Dreamcast II but I wasn't going to spend money on a Microsoft system and that lasted until I broke down and got a 360 because of Mass Effect 1.
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