Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philip Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Too much coverage of driving games in Edge? Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:36:25 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 37 Message-ID: <382FD419.53287424@easynet.co.uk> References: <38295C4B.A3E1E2BD@easynet.co.uk> <80bnto$2d43@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <1e17svi.n5ts4y1sh1vsxN@a1-88-133.a1.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.131.140.238 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Yes, I think more coverage of NY and shareware/amateur/semi-pro developers would be very welcome. Both the 'pro' developers columns in Edge are becoming pretty tiresome. Demis' used to be quite interesting but now it seems apparent that someone with a brain the size of a planet may also have an ego to match. I would like to see more coverage of 'real' games, rather than focussing on the latest graphics engine and technology. There was a good article by Ernest Adams in Gamasutra last week, getting nostalgic for the old classic 'adventure' games that no longer being developed now, and hoping for their return one day. Phil DEnnis Brinkhuis wrote: > wrote: > > > For a 'multi-format' magazine it does seem to be a little narrow-focused > > sometimes, since as well as handhelds/shareware/PDA there's very little on > > the online games/community as well, maybe it's not possible to cover > > everything though. > > I noticed that EDGE is most of the times just focusing at the latest > consoles. The last console is always the best. I remember when the PSX > is THE machine, they praised it in every issue. Now they focus on DC and > praise DC up in the air. And PSX is oldskool. Wait untill the PSX2 is on > sale, I bet they'll think the world of it and completely neglect the DC. > There is always some cool stuff on pro developers, but I'd like to see > much more about development in total. Every month 2 pages of amateur > development would be cool. And say every month 1/2 page of these 2 pages > about the NY. > > Cheers, > > DEnnis..