PC Gamer - October 2011

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intoxicating scent of thicker, higher-quality paper. Enjoy! PCG

■ Terraria is awesome. I prefer it over

Minecraft. I can’t wait for more bosses and additions.

Congrats on the

400,000 sales—I’m sure you’ll quadruple that in no time.

Justin Prazen

■ Jennifer Hale’s voice totally legitimizes Commander Shepard’s character.

The male voice actor’s so dry.

Bryan Harper

There’s nothing like the aroma of a freshly opened PC Gamer.

■ I love Marine-KingPrime—his

StarCraft II games against MMA were pretty epic.

Stimmed Maruad-ers cutting tanks to pieces is always fun to watch.

Alex Chiang

■ Dawn of War 3? Shouldn’t this be like Afternoon of War by now? Jorden Beatty

Nose magic

This may sound odd, but the thing I enjoy most about your magazine isn’t the awesome game reviews, or interesting articles, or anticipation-filled previews. It’s the scent of the freshly churned pages as I flip them close to my nostrils—

sniff I love the smell of a new book, and I love the aroma of a

Pad rage

Andy Mahood wants an iPad 2
for a touch-screen flight sim
controller? Seriously? A
Motorola Xoom has a more
powerful CPU, expansion ports,
and can output 1080p video to
your TV. And the iDisplay app
that turns it into a touch sensi-
tive add-on-display is $5 for
Android, too. But you’ll prob-
ably run, frothing at the mouth
like the other Sheeple, to buy an
iPhone 5 and iPad 3 this fall
anyway. Leave your Cult Of
Apple fanboy fantasy some-
where else! Russell Tuss

just-opened PC Gamer magazine—there’s nothing like it.

People look at me funny on the train, but I don’t care, I sniff with pride. Come on, I know you guys do it too—admit it!

John Plomaritis

Take a deep breath, John—just for readers like you, starting this issue we’re filling your nostrils with the

THE HOT MAIL

We’re pretty much as far from
Apple fanboys as you can get, but as
long as the iPad plays nice with PC
hardware, we’ve got no beef with it.
The Android-powered Xoom is a
perfectly valid option, especially for
those who like to do a lot of tink-
ering—but it’s pricier. The Xoom
starts at $599, next to the iPad 2’s
$499. PCG

Apple fanboys as you can get, but as

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■ With F2P games, Steam just got even more amazing. Charlotte Birse

■ Star Wars: The Old Republic is the one game that’s going to challenge my refusal to play subscription-based games. James Lockard

■ I am a proud PC gamer, and I will never buy a Call of Duty game ever again. Rafi Jarjous

■ CoD:MW3 will win the consoles, but Battlefield 3 will dominate the PC. PC gamers have fond memories of BF2 that many console gamers missed out on. Mike Bare

Give a dragon his due

I am extremely
disappointed with PC
Gamer ’s review
of Hoard in the August issue.

I’m just awestruck in a terrible way that your usually very fair and level-headed magazine trashed a game like this. I concede that it was buggy upon release—at first I couldn’t play more than 15 minutes before it crashed—but it was fixed for me with the first major patch a few weeks later. It’s still not perfect, but it’s way above a 47%. I’d humbly suggest you publish an update

in your next issue to present the current state of things. Mike Blodgett

It’s always a shame when
bugs ruin an other wise promising
game, but some bugs never get
fixed, so we can’t assume they’ll
all live happily ever after.
Ignoring those bugs would
just tell game makers that
releasing broken games is fine
by us—and it isn’t. We can’t go
back and re-review every game
with every patch, but we can print
letters from gamers like you who want
to speak up for a game that’s been
polished since release. PCG

Hidden treasure Thanks so much to Desslock for writing about Drakensang: River of Time in the July issue. I thought the RPG gameplay from the good old days was dead and gone—I’m glad you showed me it’s alive and well, just not on my radar. That’s what I like about PC Gamer: there are other sources for previews of the next big thing, but PCG does a great job of letting me know about hidden gems.;Martin Bishop

A great letter deserves a great prize; that’s why we’re sending Mike a copy of FEAR 3 in appreciation of his stellar correspondence. Ping us at letters@pcgamer.com with a question, comment, or rage-fueled rant to earn your chance to win next month’s PRIZE OF MYSTERY!