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MW_Jimmy

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I dunno but a couple of articles in the most recent Edge felt oddly familar. Seems to me as they've been reading this forum for ideas.

The start of the Street Fighter article sounded suspiciously like the recent thread on distinctive game sounds, and short Amazon review article was more or less the same viewpoint as Neb's frequent "Shock!" threads.

What does this mean? Nothing probably.

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jeff mills gran

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I dunno but a couple of articles in the most recent Edge felt oddly familar. Seems to me as they've been reading this forum for ideas.

The start of the Street Fighter article sounded suspiciously like the recent thread on distinctive game sounds, and short Amazon review article was more or less the same viewpoint as Neb's frequent "Shock!" threads.

What does this mean? Nothing probably.

do you mean NEG?

http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=27794

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I've always felt this about EDGE -- though not necessarily in a bad way. Certain topics ALWAYS seem familiar when reading about them. But then the EDGE staff and now TM are part of this forum in whatever small way.

No bad thing, I say.

(and journalists will always be lazy)

They were accused of ripping a whole retro thing off the web sometime last year though weren't they? That's not so good...

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I've always felt this about EDGE -- though not necessarily in a bad way. Certain topics ALWAYS seem familiar when reading about them. But then the EDGE staff and now TM are part of this forum in whatever small way.

No bad thing, I say.

(and journalists will always be lazy)

They were accused of ripping a whole retro thing off the web sometime last year though weren't they? That's not so good...

Yeah they started doing this when the Edge forum was up. I remember a few times, seeing an Edge feature and realising it was something that had been covered quite in depth on the board. I mentioned it a few times when the staff got high-and-mighty about "edge's house" or whatever, pointing out that many different companies in many different industries would literally kill for the almost-constant customer feedback and input that their forums gave them.

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gaming forums discusses current issues in videogames. EDGE discusess current issues in videogames. Of course it'll seem familiar when you're reading something which is released every month and hence may already be old news. When I first started using the internet I got a sense of deja vu reading the news sections and reviews in magazines.

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I had a flick through edge today in the newsagents. Is it just me or does it reek of lazy journalism with these new one page features they're doing? The one about the amazon reviews was pitful, yet it gets two pages to it. No content lately and a need to fill it up perhaps?

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I had a flick through edge today in the newsagents. Is it just me or does it reek of lazy journalism with these new one page features they're doing? The one about the amazon reviews was pitful, yet it gets two pages to it. No content lately and a need to fill it up perhaps?

followed by a one-page special issue @ £6?

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... these new one page features they're doing? ...

I quite like the new one page features (although I haven't read the amazon one yet). I think they are rather classy, and it's good to see something different in Edge for a change, in terms of format.

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I'm in two minds about the one-pagers. I kind of feel that they'e just trying to fill space but I also like the idea of shorter, snappier articles where appropriate.

I completely agree and like the one-pagers... but I'd prefer them even more if they were just one page!

In fact they were a single column of text (just about ok)... taking up a whole double page spread! (hmm).

I don't mind too much, because I don't read close to every word of EDGE anyway, yet I did read these... but it certainly IS filling a lot of space with one paragraph! :ph34r:

-J

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Those one-pagers catch me off guard. I always turn the page to read more to find it's finished. I'm sure there's room for these pieces but some do feel like padding...the one about nVidia aiming for global domination was particularly feeble. It just said they want their product in everything with a screen...a company that wants to grow bigger and make more money? Fuck off, that's just ridiculous.

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