I'd rate IGN a 7/10. It has a little bit of something for everyone.
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Other than being in existence longer than pretty much any other game review platform, ign still isn't that great, or accurate. Reviews have been meh for the last decade or more.
Now PC Accel, THAT was a fucking gaming magazine
I'm not going to pretend that I read many of the zombie outlets.
But understand that games media (and most other news media) has been getting gutted for closer to 20 years than not. The only reason so many outlets are even SLIGHTLY good is because of people like John Davison working their ass off to fight for every single inch.
So maybe, just maybe, we could avoid "Whatever, they suck so fuck 'em" levels of posts? Focus more on what got games media to this state rather than self-righteous apathy.
Don't they call IGN in China 8GN or something like that because every review they posted for a while was an 8?
Next Gen was the high standard for English language gaming magazines.
I still have most of my old next Gen issues, with the demo CD roms. I think I have the entire run of PC Accel, which unfortunately was just way too ahead of it's time. Look up the story if your can find it, it was pulling in more and more subscribers every month but the publisher scrapped it because basically, it was subversive, it was 18+, it was viciously critical of games and the industry when warranted but also gave the best praise to those that earned it. It was the non-douche precursor to Maxim(if you can believe such a thing exists).
It's a sad story, after they got shuttered, the lead editor and several others put most of their own money on the line to try and restart the company publish new issues, but this was long before the Internet had any social immediacy. Subscribers mostly didn't hear about them trying to restart, there was no real forum or community where people could keep up on the topic and join the cause. I found out like 4 months after they tried to restart and was devastated, I had no idea and would have resubscribed in a heart beat.
It's also really shady how the publisher discontinued it. I had already subscribed for the next two years and I think they canceled it with like a year and a few months left and so then I just started to get PC gamer, not even a refund.
Game Informer is back! With the magazine and everything!
I cant specifically remember what IGN did to make me avoid it. There was a revoly.on reddit years ago that stuck with me.
They also rank shit games high and are a but boring, but I think maybe there was a lot of ads or something.
It was catered toward the masses. If you were already in the know or had specific tastes, it wasn’t for you.
IGN and Gamespot were basically the legacy (text) web media in the US. And they definitely both tried to rely on ad revenue for a lot longer than The Internet would tolerate it.
So basically every single youtuber trying to make a name for themselves attacked it. Because old media are corrupt and you can only trust this new channel who would never try to sell you anything so let's play some Raid Shadow Legends". Which then ballooned when we had folk like totalbiscuit and gamergate both actively arguing that all these old game journos are corrupt because they... speak to the people they interact with on a daily basis or whatever that nonsense was.
We saw similar with the rise of twitch streamers where they would be really quick to paint all the youtubers as corrupt shills because they take sponsor deals and totally only say positive things about games because they are getting money under the table. Now time for twelve ads in a row before grinding to take part in the twitch rivals event next month!
I thought it got caught up in the whole gamergate thing but don't remember the details.