Playing God
We humans are a pretty horrible species really, when you start thinking about it. It doesn’t seem to matter how much a game tells us that we’re meant to be bringing peace to a fragmented land or helping a small tribe of settlers achieve their destiny as masters of the universe, when it comes to god games, it’s all about the size and destructive power of the lightning bolts. No, that’s a little unfair. The fireballs are quite good fun to play with too. And then there are the volcano's, of course. Oh, and the odd flood, only we don’t forget to deal with the fish, like a certain deity we could name.
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Anonymous (not verified)
16 March 2009 - 2:46pm
PC Format Posts
Whats happening with your writers you are getting so lazy the posts are getting to be short meaningless drible that nobody wants to read where are the paragraphs of whitty comments and honest opinions your last 2 post were not worth the dowload time to post.
Get a grip try adding more of your usual content Thnx.
Dave James
16 March 2009 - 3:38pm
Lazy writers?
Short? There's a whole lotta copy in those six pages of article. Or are you getting confused with the e-zine thingy and simply read the preview text and didn't actually read the article it was taken from?
Colour me confused.
Manitou (not verified)
16 March 2009 - 3:47pm
Yauw - what a preview
This rocks - unlike the guy above I DID read the flashy flippy pages. How did you do that and will you do more of those?
I guess you could call me a fan.
Alan Dexter
16 March 2009 - 3:47pm
Usual content?
Bit confused on your comment as well, Mr Anonymous, Richard Cobbett (the author of this article) is opinionated, witty and honest. He certainly knows his God games as well. Please expand on what it is exactly we should be getting a grip of?
Dave James
16 March 2009 - 3:58pm
Flashy flippy pages! We loves 'em!
Cheers Manitou, we're definitely looking to use more of this stuff. There's lots of great articles we've run in the magazine that don't translate online in the normal confines of lengthy columns of text.
This allows us to put across articles from our back issues as our excellent design staff originally intended. Expect more of the good stuff :)
Prettin
16 March 2009 - 4:08pm
Gonna try to buy ur magazine
Gonna try to buy ur magazine here in Holland. (probably exspensive)
Dave James
16 March 2009 - 4:11pm
Buy us :)
Unfortunately yes it is a li'l more expensive to get the mag outside of the UK. If you want to pick up a single issue you can grab them from our back issues site (inc. the latest issue despite the name...)
At the moment it's a bit of a convoluted way through, but we'll be getting a 'buy it now' button sorted soon. Navigate to:
http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/
Then hit the 'Computers' tab, scroll down to PCFormat and hit the 'Buy a back issue' button.
Or you can go for a full year's subscription (13 issues - monthly plus an extra Christmas issue) at the subscription tab at the top of this page.
Jeremy Ford
16 March 2009 - 4:15pm
Lots more to come folks.
We've got loads of old articles we are planning to get on the website, so stay tuned!
Anonymous (not verified)
16 March 2009 - 6:49pm
Memories of powermonger. My
Memories of powermonger. My favorite game of the time. I really enjoyed the article and love the presentation.
Thanks
Prettin
17 March 2009 - 12:22am
Thkz, for the link. Gonna
Thkz, for the link. Gonna check te magazine and 63pounds for a year isn't expsive compared to €15,00 per issue ( most of the foreign magazines ).
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