NAG magazine

[Senticall]

Also stopped buying Nag when I got uncapped

 

[Neo]

LOL signs of our times:

Jussssssssssssssssssuss man my brother has 2 big boxes filled with NAG magazines.

If that was 11 years ago or more, that sentence would have referred to porn. No doubt about it.

Anyways - on the topic - the only thing I admittedly do miss about the NAG, is the collection of Screw Attack videos on the disc. But, luckily I have a 25GB 4mb adsl account - and I can watch them online whenever I want. Stuttering Craig is hilarious.

 

[to0kenZA]

LOL signs of our times:



If that was 11 years ago or more, that sentence would have referred to porn. No doubt about it.

Anyways - on the topic - the only thing I admittedly do miss about the NAG, is the collection of Screw Attack videos on the disc. But, luckily I have a 25GB 4mb adsl account - and I can watch them online whenever I want. Stuttering Craig is hilarious.

Is it just me or does your last two posts ion the forum have the word -porn- in them? I'm starting to see a pattern here...Bwahaha

 

[Azimuth]

Also its difficult find an Azimuth column that isn't taking a swipe at PC gamers.

You're not looking very hard then. I count maybe... two in the last year. Everybody gets a turn in my column, and PC gamers aren't some special exception. Y U SO SENSITIVE?

 

[Murph]

I still buy NAG. Personally I prefer to sit and page through a mag on the stoep (or wherever) and take my sweet time with it.
While I have the DVD, I may as well look at it - and these days they have some cool soundtracks on them, which for me is great.
Each to his own I guess.

 

[speedz]

I buy NAG once in a while, especially if they are writing up about some new hardware or the next big title

 

[judgefredd_za]

You're not looking very hard then. I count maybe... two in the last year. Everybody gets a turn in my column, and PC gamers aren't some special exception. Y U SO SENSITIVE?

I may have been exaggerating but I find the content of a lot your columns are about the superiority of other consoles over the PC, even if you don't state it directly.I'm not being sensitive, its just that you can't make comments about a whole community of gamers and not expect to be challenged.

 

[Graal]

I may have been exaggerating but I find the content of a lot your columns are about the superiority of other consoles over the PC, even if you don't state it directly.I'm not being sensitive, its just that you can't make comments about a whole community of gamers and not expect to be challenged.

I count only columns where Azimuth takes swipes at stupid people, not PC gamers.

 

[Xero]

Funny How Times Change
Spartan and I (Incase anyone here didn't know, we are brothers, he is adopted though) grew up literally living and breathing gaming
We scrounged together cash for games / PC's and Peripherals / Hubs and Network cards and got into mainstream gaming by means of Reading the NAG. Before this most of our youth was spent on DOS games and 8 Bit consoles
We bought one NAG per month and both of us read it, well actually I made him buy it and then forced him to read it to me, on account of him being adopted and all

It was the sole source of gaming news we had, aside from store browsing etc and it helped us pick out hardware, software and games
Each month was spent comparing games and reviews so that the money we saved would be wisely spent, don't ask me how Septerra Core slipped through that network of planning, but it did.

The NAG was informative and entertaining
When we got our first access to the Internet, an old Motorola External 36 600 BPS Dial up modem we still bought the NAG, as the Disks were often invaluable

Years later, having access to always on Internet, huge amounts of CAP and the compiled knowledge of all reviewers, everywhere, things have changed. We no longer huddle around a news stand or rush to the news agent to buy the monthly NAG magazine, we buy massive amounts of games, randomly sometimes and then never get to play them, as the dream of finding a job to fund gaming sadly turns to being enslaved for 80 hours a week so that you only have to work 20 hour weekends

I do on occasion pick up the NAG, for nostalgic reasons, and despite the changes in reviewing and purchasing methods by modern gamers I sincerely hope that the print version of magazines like the NAG are around forever, even if only so that I can show my son his first gaming magazine and have him hold it, paper cuts and all, instead of holding a Kindle

 

[shadowfox]

I do on occasion pick up the NAG, for nostalgic reasons, and despite the changes in reviewing and purchasing methods by modern gamers I sincerely hope that the print version of magazines like the NAG are around forever, even if only so that I can show my son his first gaming magazine and have him hold it, paper cuts and all, instead of holding a Kindle

QFT

I snipped most of it - since I found the final paragraph the most relevant but I agree with pretty much everything being said

Being able to hold a physical copy of something (doesn't really matter what it is) is worth so much more than being able to get hold of it digitally - as much as I can get news or information of anything online, I still prefer being able to read it off paper - it's becoming a bit of a lost art.

Fair enough - I'm one of the older generation, and my parents had me reading by the age of 5 so I could gain information and learn, and then fruitlessly tried to get me to stop later on in life so I could study for exams (for the same reasons). I just don't get the same appreciation for digital content as I do for the same content when it's physically reproduced.

I suppose this also accounts for my reluctance to get involved with that new digital anime magazine the guys over at Digital Natives tried to launch - digital magazines just don't work in my world view (especially if you're only going to publish them once every two months).

Well ... that failed anyways.

 

[Weasel]

i am a Nag magazine addict get my copy every month

 

[MOnk]

i am a Nag magazine addict get my copy every month

That doesn't really explain WHY you buy it.

As for the whole 'physical is better' story well I understand for the most part but I think a lot of that has to do with current display technologies, once we get to the point where digital displays can perform equally or better than print media then I think people will change their toon. The feel of the paper and all that jazz is really just a cultural/generational thing like how our parents or gran parents can't understand why we would want to text people instead of talking to them.

*also lol at a digital once a month magizine, that's like sticking a brick to your cellphone just so it can feel more like it used to.

 

[Dragonic]

Yeah also used to get this and PCF every month... after a while it was just NAG for money reasons.
Then because of internet(well not so much, coz the mag is actually fun to read) and my laziness to read(more this one) I bailed on it... but wow I used to start at the start of the mag(yes including ed's note) till the very end of the mag... also including the lol spine notes and cd cover notes, always couldn't wawit the read the crap they wrote there... spine notes started to fall away sadly... atleast cd cover notes survived.

I also agree with Xero, I hope they stick around for years to come...

 

[Azimuth]

I may have been exaggerating but I find the content of a lot your columns are about the superiority of other consoles over the PC, even if you don't state it directly.I'm not being sensitive, its just that you can't make comments about a whole community of gamers and not expect to be challenged.

Apparently you missed the bit where I pointed out that everybody gets a turn on the roasting spit. But whatever, if you want to get all butthurt about it, I'm not going to bother trying to persuade you otherwise. You're obviously not the sort of person who can laugh at yourself, and therefore not really the kind of reader I have in mind when I write my column.

For the record, though, I was a hardline PC gamer for most of my life, and I don't think any platform is objectively superior to any other. All platforms have their pros and cons, and more significantly, perhaps, you can play games on all of them. I always think that people being offended about perceived "superiority" issues are simply projecting their own biases onto what they read.

 

[Leyzer]

Pretty much same as people above have said. Nag was/is more for the Games and PC format is more for the overclocker/hardware person. Anyone know of a good website for Hardware and overclocking articles? preferably a SA site (just being patriotic and it would be more SA consumer relavent).

I subscribed to NAG for about 4 years so i have a few boxes full. one thing that made me sad was that every few months they would have a page saying if you subscribe now "you'll get something" and it made me bummed cos my subscription expired each year in the one month that there was no gift. and if you renewed the subscription i didn't get anything anyway. *I like free things besides the DVD*

 

[MOnk]

Anyone know of a good website for Hardware and overclocking articles?

Check out Anandtech and TomsHardware both really good sites and if you want a more by the minute technology site try Arstechnica. Not sure what relevance their country of origin has apart from the prices.