good ones, bad ones, wtf ones... from magazines, turn of the century websites, etcpost 'em
>>11963795brits will shit all over megaman then play some retarded amiga game and give it an 11/10
>>11963795i think that guy doesn't really like colors very much...
>>11963801Mega Man is bullocks. Gary the Sheep Herder, now that's a brilliant game.>game is a yellow square that tries to push pink circles through a hole while white triangles that are supposed to be birds try to shit on you.
>>11964147>mythologies with a 71%In what world did these people live in?
>>11964187The same world that gives Rockman Dash an 80%.
I still have no idea why this board gets so upset over British reviews of Megaman. Now this review is completely fucking retarded.
>>11964279Because this board is full of sissies.
Meanwhile in Japan>noooo action gamu too hard!!!
>>11964279I found the Megaman one more retarded
>>11964130>MK3 a 9 JoJo a 6 and Guilty gear a 4.Brits everybody, brits.>>11964297>Purisu misuta Enix givu mi doragon kuesuto.
>>11963795>oi, now me ole' speccy, that's some beautiful use of colour right there, m8!
>>11964279reread the review in the op, it's basically about the game being too happy and colorful. it's like that bong in question just hates colors because he lives in always grey london or something
>>11963795This review kind of proves that controversial opinions and bait are the easiest way to capture people's attention, hence why this is so widespreadThink of all the reviews in every old mag, and the only ones that get reposted are British reviews shutting on MegaMan
>>11964330The PAL Guilty Gear release was a heavily cut down budget release, it didn't even have the "heaven or hell" graphics, also you people all call it "kusoge" now anyway.
>>11964181Thanks for the game idea, sucker.
>>11963795>MegaEvatards are still malding over a random reviewTruely the God Hand tryhard of the 90s
>>11964130I used to read this magazine. I am still to this day pissed off they gave that crap Medievil 2 a higher rating than Medievil
>>11964136major mike has godlike taste compared to those other faggots
>>11964756>bong spends entire review complaining about colors>people rightfully mock it for being shiti don't even like mega man, bro
>>11964297Honestly this is so refreshing to westerners giving everything a 8 or 9
>>11964297Seems like fair reviews. I like that last review of Megaman 4 remarking already that the series is just starting to be more of the same and it'll probably sell to the diehard fans at least.
>>11965409Famitsu is known to give really high scores to some really dubious games.
>>11963795
>>11964386Shitposting gets shitposted on 4chan, but if you think we're still going to remember your shitposts 2 hours after they were posted you really have a high opinion of your shit.
Where's that one Yoshi's Island review
>>11965552Is this an AI upscale? lol
>>11965552This is so much worse than the Mega Man review
>>11963795based
There are anons on this board eternally seething about 30+ year old reviews written by people who quickly forgot about them once the next assignment came in and later went on to pastures new.
>>11965552Based British pagans dabbing on shmup autists.
>>11963795>>11965552Napoleon was right
>>11966464Filteredalso >didn't play long enough to know there is a run functionI love when they out themselves like that
>>11966491>age restriction>restrictionNo wonder they think zniggy is a masterpiece if they weren't allowed to play Silent Hill
>>11966498Anon it's the equivalent of the "Mature" warning, it's not a hard and fast rule.
If you've never played it, it's a game that starts with a few easy levels before devolving into NES hard bullshit.
>>11963795Anyone have that review where someone said Battletoads was great, EVEN TWO PLAYER?
The all mighty Ace Combat.
>>11965548It wasn't always like that. It feels like it changed around the end of the 6th gen and they became easy to bribe idiots. I remember FFXII getting a 40/40 like the beginning of the end, before that there were only a handful of 40/40 games in the entire history of the magazine.
>>11963795Dont have a picture but i still remember being hyped about Killer 7 and eventually not buying it (or asking my dad to buy it) because IGN gave it a 5.5 with the title "Killer 7 more lole Killer 5.5" and because we were working class my dad didn't just buy me any game i wanted at any time, so i decided to just not get it, played it years later and its one of my favorite games ever. Screw you IGN.
Not a specific review, but I like how the contemporary reviews of Breath of Fire 3 almost universally go "this game is wonderful, the graphics are really great, it's fun... but WHAT is up with this JAZZ MUSIC soundtrack???"
>>11967295No shit. IGN has always been a dudebro site. Its job was to warn dudebros from playing artsy fartsy games, and lead them to dudebro friendly genres like shooters, sports and racing games.
>>11966759>they got the number of levels wrong Interesting
>>11966759In other words, only one reviewer actually played the game enough to get to the difficult levels?
Does Seanbaby's NES page count
>>11966759>>11967451>>11967461I've always wondered if they got a beta version or something, which isn't unheard of. It's just weird that everyone would get the number of levels wrong.
My favourite pages in the back of old British gaming magazines.
>>11968536>Brits give a retro collection anything over 6/10Colo(u)r me surprised Guess they only did it to say "Pac-Land was the first side scroller, not Mario">>11968542Oi I'm gonna chat with an American lass and tell her I have healthcare innit
>>11968546Buddy I would love to fuck some white trash Tennessee pussy with my naturally uncut cock.
>>11963801Brits are snobs with rotting teeth.
>>11968548We're not lolYou're cut from the same cloth, stop getting so mad at white brothers because we like the same things as you.
>>119685272 points of interests for me in this review: acknowledge how influencial Pandemonium was (which I always say in the "forgotten games" threads), and another review that claims infinite continues make the game worse which gets to show how far the "harder=better" mentality went and how that standards have evolved (these days it's more like "finite continues=bad design" and that's not new since even AVGN complained about that early on).
>>11968551You can dig up a lot of interesting things in old reviews.
>>11964380Joke's on him, I've been to London recently and it's very "colorful" now!Maybe if the game came with the smell of rotting garbage he would like it more.
>>11968568>brown and black>colour
>>11968568You are REALLY salty about this MML review.
>>11968574>Gamers weaned on more complex games such as MGS, Syphon Filter, Medal of HonourThe 5th gen really was the start of the death of fun for the sake of fun.Also I wonder how long it took him to turn his coat around on this style of gameplay once DMC came out
>>11968595You're putting more stock in this than the actual writer at this point.
PlayStation Max was a really thin magazine but I enjoyed reading it as a kid..
>>11968629>silent bomber>lifespan 3/5If he had made it to the final boss that would have been 5/5
>>11965378The least gay faggot
>>11968629£9.99 for a retail game is so fucking cheap.
>>11968546>Guess they only did it to say "Pac-Land was the first side scroller, not Mario"Damn your butthurt is palpableIt's ok brother, America didn't invent Mario, let go, you don't need to defend Nintendo's honor with such relentless strength.
>>11968556>>11966680They are from the same issue in 1997, also in that issue Tomb Raider 2 and maybe Crash bandicoot 2 too, and some great racing game too I think.
>>11968831I'm just kidding dudeI just mean that British mags hated 2D games more than Yuji Naka hated gaijins
>>119688522D fighting games got pretty high scores though.
>>11968536Probably the first positive review of 4 I've ever seen. That game's underrated af
Posting because relevant.
>>11968894>Mortal Kombat, the black sheep of the beat em up family
Taking time out of my day to dunk on more fags who get mad about ancient Megaman reviews.
>>11968572"Salty" is still more of a flavor than British food has.I dint care for MML but the review is funnily bad. "It has colour so it's bad", lol, what a wanker.
>>11968971hi vikram
Croc scoring higher than Megaman X3 kek
No fucking way, I don't remember this review.
>>11968998
>>11968994Croc is a great game and fairly original by platformer standard. That X3 review is for a port of an SNES game to a 5th gen console.
found this amusing considering it got another overpriced re-re-re-re-release this year but everyone was praising it because it's been long enough that it's now seen as interesting vidya history instead of a lazy rehash
>>11968915it was mid-late 90s people after MK1, MK2, MK3, UMK3 were a bit exhausted.
dino bros...
>final fantasy VII at home.
too many army men.
I played pon a lot back then, it deserved at leas 6 or 7.
Virus
Capcom generations volumes 1 to 4.
>>11969039>ports of old games previously only in arcades>review says nothing about the games themselves, only that games meant to be played over and over don't have as much "content" as RPGs>new, more accurate ports are also bad because "it's not new enough"really nowinteresting thread though
>>11969115bad because they're selling 35 year old emulated roms at $40
The Marvel Super Heroes review on this page continues for three more pages and got 90%.
>>11969150Marvel it is pretty famous back then it was the 90s ,that plus capcom fighter.And let's get real megaman is just an USA thing.
>>11966690>Take 1942, substitute dragons for planes, fireballs for bullets, all manner of nasty things for JapsTop kek.
"Jap cartoons".
>>11969131Even if setting aside the lost prototype and new game they included with that new collection, both of them included new modes, practicing and also various game settings, along with being highly accurate, something very important for shoot em up players. Being able to enable/disable slowdown in the PS2 one alone says more about it than that whole review, and things like hitbox viewing aren't present in your average emulator and do matter to those who play these games, which is why they buy them. Saying "this is a worthless purchase because I don't care about these things" is like doing a review of a racing game talking not about the handling and physics, but the lack of a Crash Bandicoot-styled mode where the cars jump and spin through platforming levels.
>>11969005What's this ad?
>>11969520Old chat site.
>>11968998was going to disagree with this but remembered the PAL version of the game fucking sucked and i've been playing the translated JP version for years now
>>11969008I had this game (still have it)It's not great yeah
>>11968629wtf Is that ad at the top right? Is it supposed to be a prank call hotline that you would trick a friend into calling?
>>11968543Grandia looks better than ffvii
>>11970406
>>11968998what is wrong with brits, jesus christ
>>11970448>Due to development constraints, the plot in the international versions of Ace Combat 3 was heavily cut down, with characters, backstory, and its multiple endings being completely removed. This version lacked voice acting and the majority of animated cutscenes present in the Japanese release, with the non-gameplay story elements being told through text slideshows between major missions. >Frognation, a Japanese dubbing company, was contracted to assist in production of the localization process. They contacted Agness Kaku, a translator known for her work on games such as Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and D2, to help translate the game. She recalled doing a demo translation based on the original Japanese storyline, but because of funding being cut Namco America scrapped the translation entirely and chose to completely re-do the plot for overseas audiences; this included removing the multiple endings, branching story paths, and almost half of the missions. It was also slightly altered to fit onto a single disc. While an official reason was not given for the cut of funds, Kaku believes it was due to the game not selling as well as Namco hoped in Japan, which gave the American division little hope in it being successful either.
>>11970480That's fine and all, but>Ever wished for a PC-style flight sim on PlayStation? No, neither have we
>>11963801OI ME SPECCY
>>11970121Yes.
>>11964148The only odd one out I see here is Rise 2 Resurrection getting 88%. The fuck?
>>11964358Given how fucked the Spectrums handling of color was, this is indeed pretty impressive looking. You only see color bleeding to a sprite in one spot.
>>11971126Misprint? The comment is "hideous robot beat 'em up, a bad date".
>>11969162Uk mag mentioning chrono trigger? We didnt even get it officially until the DS.
>>11971210Not a mystery if you're an industry person whose getting exposed to all sorts of things, also import stores existed in the 90s.
>>11964130>Sneak 'em Up
>>11968629The only thing I remember about PlayStation MAX is its dog mascot who was obsessed with shitting. It had a comic strip which would always end up with Max shitting himself.
>>11964136FUCK I love mid 90s EGM. That Dec 1994 issue that's like 400 pages>>>> Anything else
>>11971349Truly based.
>>11968629i still have poster for metal gear solid from this magazine
I read all these in the voice of Guru Larry (if he were ten times as loud and missing a few chromosomes)WELL BOLLOCK ME KNACKERKNOBSPACKA NAFFIN PLONKERSRUBBISHY BILGERIDDEN PIDDLEWANKCORRR WOTCHER LOIKE
>>11963801never trust the Bri'ish
>>11969162Anime word term didn't became a thing until 1995.
>>11964187Mortal Kombat was still a hot brand and people were actually impressed by the FMV cutscenes. Hindsight's always 20/20 but you need to have actually lived during the time to see it.
>>11968550>white brothers???
Why do all these reviews act like more than 3 years prior was like 30 years ago. They literally act like the meme.
>>11972642Frankly this just goes to show that gaming used to evolve very rapidly. Compare 1993 to 1996, or 1994 to 1997. The difference was insane. Even 1998-99 to 2001-02 was ridiculous. Even if you took the same gen, just 2 years difference could mean a jump from Crash to MGS, from SM64 to OoT and Goldeneye.It's today when 3 years is basically nothing. There won't be another jump to 3D, or open world and FPS on console.
it's interesting how game discourse evolves over time, the things said in old reviews seem so quaint in retrospect, they never discuss things like level design etc
>>11966467I fucking love Gokujyou Parodius how could they do this
>>11968512These shit for brains journos really believe Ridge Racer scores higher on value than audio lmaooo
>>11972681Remembering the Nintendo Power storytimes we had a while ago and you could watch in real time the magazine go "OOOUUGH PRERENDERED GRAPHICS NOTHING IS HOTTER THAN THIS OUUUGHH" to "Feh, pre-rendered? Who even likes that stuff, am I right? It's so old fashioned."
>>11973310Job descriptions for these magazines would have looked at how much you knew how to write, not how much you knew about games.
>>11972642>>11972681>Compare 1993 to 19961993 >2D platfomers and action sidescrollers in general still the hottest genre1996>Another 2D platformer like we've seen a thousands of, sigh, maybe if you're a RETRO GAMER you'll like this otherwise PASS!"1998>Resident Evil 2 is the greatest game ever made and surpasses the original by a long shot!!! A must buy for everyone!!2001>Tank controls?! That stuff is so DATED and LAST GEN!
VC reviews from Nintendo Power during the Wii era
>>11973570>at this point you're forced to restart the entire game if you lose your lifesWhat?
>>11973570The Final Fight 2 review is pretty accurate
>>11968629I loved psx max as a kid, I only have a few issues from 1999 or 2000.
>>11963801ThisI wonder if it's just that ironic British sense of humor.
>>11967385lol what's it like living in a different timeline?
>>11969701but still a 3 out of 10 is excesive for ace combat 3 a 4/10 or 5/10 would had been fair.
>british game gets a 10 out 10, colour me surprised!
>>11974862
>>11974863i mean the TOCA games were pretty much the best racers on the system if you prefer it more realistic, had hilarious cheat codes too
>>11974906Yeah they are good, I love TOCA 2, but a 9/10 would have been accurate.
>>11974917i mean this is an official mag we're talking about, scores were always inflatednow that i think about it i don't think i even played toca world touring cars, just the first 2 and the later race driver games, should give it a try
Colony wars
Overboard, loved its demo and its music.
Wing over.
Clock tower.
hercs adventures
Moto racer
Agent armstrong
Air race
oh is that famous game from 4chan.
>>11964181gary square was a true classic 'miga game innit
nhl 98
croc bros...
>>11963795it's funny how zoomies have convinced themselves they like Megaman Legends just because of the "low poly" girl models.
>>11975263>>11975267>>11975269>>11975250>>11975225Some of these really show how fast opinions changed back then. 3 years later within the same generation and a critically acclaimed best selling game is now "dated crap", unless it's part of a still on going relevant series like Tomb Raider or Crash.In other words, this shit is just like reading nu /vr/
>>11968574Rising Zan is like Tenchu?
>>11975901No.
>>11975902
>>11975905Yes, I've seen this. The reviewer is retarded. It's only "like Tenchu" on a very shallow surface level that is "it's a third person action game on PSX with Japanese stuff". They're nothing alike.
this game is a 8 out of 10 at best.
>>11975876I just find unfair croc, loaded, mickey, rayman ones
centipide bros...tiger woods bros...
south park bros...
chocobo bros...
these british are on fire.
south park fans can't catch a break.
>>11963795Not a review, but I spent so much time looking at this 2 page preview of Megaman Legends in the October, 1998 issue of EGM.
how were they able to live this down?
>>11965379They focus in on that it's Megaman instead of the trend of Brit reviewers just being joyless and miserable. MML is far from the only classic that British reviewers hated on. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night immediately comes to mind as another one they shit on.
>>11977763lmao i remember not liking that control scheme and wanted games to play like goldeneye lol. thats funy
Zoomers will tell you that Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye were both irrelevant games, but we all know better and even have the receipts.
>>11968559>>11968556What the fuck was wrong with britbongs back then?
>>11974953>Only 1 photo is from Alpha2
>>11968904No, anon, you don't understand. This was actually the true gem of 3-d platformers of this era. This, alongside Croc, are the true masterpieces. Zelda and Super Mario were just pale copycats.t. Zoomer who wasn't alive back then, but knows better than the people who were.>>11968915They really didn't understand the difference between a fighter and a beat-em up. How sad.>>11968972RE3 did not deserve a 10.>>11975225Oh, hey look at that, it's Croc and an accurate scoring of it.
>>11977763By reading the rest of the review.
>>11977812it goes on to complain that it's difficult, as if that's a bad thing
>>11977824And that dual stick is an inferior band aid to mouse controls, and even mouse controls couldn't make that game fun.
Ocarina of Time reviews
>>11963795the dungeons and enemies are all washed outis he colorblind?
Based brits giving honest opinions and not just shilling.
>>11963795This page got GamePro on my shitlist forever. I hope they enjoy their death and may god not have mercy on their souls. Fucking cunts
>>11977959Oh hey Breath of Fire III.
>>11977971
>>11975931What game is actually like Rising Zan though? Bear in mind it needs to be a game that was actually on the PlayStation by the time Rising Zan was released and was available in the UK.
>>11978061The closest thing would be action games like Akuji, Syphon Filter or Gungage
>>11978152add Tai' Fu to that list.
Doom bros????
Sonic bros I don't feel so good.
OH this reviews looks like:3D game: 9 out of 102D game: how dare you
Panzer dragon bros??also this magazine looks like OFFICIAL UK PLAYSTATION was in charge of saturn reviews.
Come on! Rayman is well beloved in vidya community.
>>11969115That was the first home console port of Gradius IV and its a really good port. The game is a mess to emulate still to this day.
>>11979884>Gameplay is allegedly lacking and no replay value 9/10 fucking masterpiece because its 3Dlmao what even is this dogshit review
Does chart's top right contains japanese croc score?
>>11979894japanese croc logo is cute
>>11977959Gamepro was always the DUDE BRO magazine even back then. They'd sometimes put out a guy or a decent review but it always felt a bit like they were forced into it. I remember they gave Lunar a pretty shit review too.
>>11979894No, the 100% is the game's development status.
Why are there never as many as US magazine reviews that ever get posted in these threads?
Its a little newer than most reviews on here, but its almost 20 years old and I havent forgotten it because my friend and I thought this review was the funniest thing ever in 2006.We loved Pokemon Mystery Dungeon when we first played it and couldn't picture someone hating it this much.
>>11979894Bottom right screenshots look like things not seen in the game>>11979864That looks cool, anyone try it?>>11979860>Sega will be letting the Saturn faithful down if the subsequent episodes of SF3 don't get translated.Yep>>11979837>flaws such as starting ou way back at the beginning of the level when you dieFiltered>>11979843>2D bad>colourful 2D in the UK? VERY BAD>>11979828>>11979816I am reminded of the anon a month ago who claimed there was no such as anti 2D bias during the 5th gen and I made it all up through cherry picking
>>11980934
lol @ the graph
>>11980861>Bottom right screenshotsMost likely a press pack.
>>11980824Most US magazine reviews are what you might expect of the era, but the constant candidness and general flippant attitudes of the Bong magazines make them more notable. Even the people in the UK admit some magazines got even WORSE and would try to go "eh lads lads lads you like footy right footy the best babes lads lads footy" to drum up sales before folding.Or it's just one guy posting the vast majority of pages. Take your pick.
>>11980946I always love when they have a vast collection of screenshots that shows exactly how far into the game they played (not very).
>>11980946>Even the people in the UK admit some magazines got even WORSE and would try to go "eh lads lads lads you like footy right footy the best babes lads lads footy" to drum up sales before folding.That was me in a previous thread about UK OPM, I still think they were - very high quality magazine for their first 5 years, but you can see that change after the millennium. I think the biggest thing which sticks in a lot of people when they read these reviews is that they were written by people who lived down in London and were of a certain class background and it would come across painfully clearly in how they wrote and their sense of humour.
>>11981012That's not just them. It felt to me like almost the entire magazine field changed with the 6th gen and the 00's, new graphical styles, new reviewers and editorial directions, everyone wanted to pretend they were hip and modern and wanted to make way with the "old world". Americans like to blame 9/11 on everything that changed in the early 00's, but it was much more global.In 1996-97 you could still find reviews praising difficulty and complaining when games are too easy. In the 00's this mentality was gone and ""hardcore gaming"" was just "we won't go so low as playing sports game yo, DMC and MGS2 now that's games for the true gamers!"See also Resident Evil being the hottest new thing in the mid 90's, but by 2001 tank controls were "dated old stuff"
>>11980941Resident evil was the top dog back then, alone in the dark a thing from the past and silent was the new guy.
>>11980835You press buttons and things happen.Wow, that guy really captured the essence of that video game. No other video game involves pressing buttons and things happening.
>>11980937Where can I found british, french, german and japanese magazines besides retromags and archive dot org. Libgen is TOO SLOW, and segaretro servers are a bit slowThere is some famitsu issues on ehenntaiBut I need more retro vidya magazines from 90s and 2000s, thanks in advance.
>>11981832Dunno about the other countries but for France this has a lot of stuffhttps://abandonware-magazines.org/
>>11965558I was about to post it but got hit with the image limit lol
>>11963814Kek
epic thread
>>11968502Was Edge the first pretencious magazine ever?
>>11966409be a British faggot elsewhere.
>>11985254How was it pretentious?
