Posted on 02/04/2014 at 12:26 AM
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I loved going to the grocery store and picking up EGM every month and looking at a bunch of games I wanted to play, but weren't in my future, simply because I so loved the personality of the mag's writing style.
I will most remember the mags that came out during the Gamecube era. I loved when Shoe was Editor, had a lot of gaming tastes in common with Milky, and it was funny how they'd rag on Shane Bettenhausen for being a Sony fanboy. I really liked how reviews of the same game would contain joking references to each other, like you were reading an actual conversation, but with more with than can often be mustered in a live-on-tape setting like multiple reviewers have online now. I also really liked Seanbaby and some of the cartoons in the back I can't remember the names of. I really liked some of the sarcastic responses to reader mail, though I felt once Milky was Editor, some got a bit too mean-spirited.
I just wish that terrible Wolverine cover wasn't the last one I got in the mail, aside from the Call of Juarez cover when they decided to reboot. Is there a way to order that SFIV cover online, the one after the awful Wolvie one? I always wished their prime era could have ended there instead, and if I get a copy, I can pretend it did.