History YMMV / GameInformer

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: In contrast to the obviously humorous Sacred Cow Barbeque, the magazine's rather scathing contemporary review of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' was evidently not done as a joke, and fans went justifiably ballistic because the magazine —for reasons still at large— tapped a reviewer who admitted to both preferring twitch/action games and openly detesting SurvivalHorror as a genre. While the logic behind this choice was somewhat sound (i.e. "If ''this'' guy likes it, then it must be great!"), assigning the review to a writer with an open bias against games like it also had a very obvious flaw (i.e. "If ''this'' guy hates it, that might '''not''' mean it's actually terrible."). [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Their continued potshots at the game and disbelief at its sales numbers in several subsequent issues]] didn't help in smoothing things over, either. ''GI'' would subsequently praise the game in retrospective articles, and unlike many of their other "retro" reviews, they never even bothered to archive this one, indicating [[BuryYourArt they want it to remain forgotten]].

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: In contrast to the obviously humorous Sacred Cow Barbeque, the magazines contemporary scathing review of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' was evidently not a joke, and fans went justifiably ballistic because the magazine —for reasons still at large— tapped a reviewer who admitted to both preferring twitch/action games and openly detesting SurvivalHorror as a genre. While the logic behind this choice was somewhat sound (i.e. "If ''this'' guy likes it, then it must be great!"), assigning the review to a writer with an open bias against games like it also had a very obvious flaw (i.e. "If ''this'' guy hates it, that might '''not''' mean it's actually terrible."). [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Their continued potshots at the game and disbelief at its sales numbers in several subsequent issues]] didn't help in smoothing things over, either. ''GI'' would subsequently praise the game in retrospective articles, and unlike many of their other "retro" reviews, they never even bothered to archive this one, indicating [[BuryYourArt they want it to remain forgotten]].

** The April 2011 ''Game Infarcer'' had an article about the last remaining subscriber to VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV, whose character is named “Chocobro”. The player in question, when talking about his favorite feature, gets the game mixed up with the Cataclysm expansion for VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft. Not only would A Realm Reborn, widely considered a successful AuthorsSavingThrow, be similar to Cataclysm in terms of game system changes and effect on the world, but in mid-2021 Warcraft would see a large number of players leaving it for FFXIV. “Chocobros” would also end up being a popular FanNickname for the party of VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV.

* SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny: The May 2019 issue has a page detailing video game-based socks that you can buy, all of which have fairly standard descriptions... and then there's "[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Horrifying Blue Boy Socks]]".

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The April 2016 Game Infarcer made fun of Creator/TelltaleGames for [[StrictlyFormula sticking to the formula]] in their games. This eventually became a vocal criticism of the company, and Telltale would end up dissolving just over two years later.

* HilariousInHindsight: In their inaugural ''[[AprilFoolsDay Game Infarcer]]'' section in 2006, one of their editors (who claimed to have played games that hadn't come out yet) left a "spoiler" that Donald died in ''Kingdom Hearts III''. [[spoiler:Donald does indeed die, as does ''everyone'' in the first attempt at taking on the Demon Tide in the Keyblade Graveyard.]]
* SoBadItsGood: A common feature on Replay and Super Replay. It even became an annual tradition to do a SuperReplay of a bad survival horror game every New Year's.

* HarsherInHindsight: The April 2016 Game Infarcer made fun of Creator/TelltaleGames for [[StrictlyFormula sticking to the formula]] in their games. This eventually became a vocal criticism of the company, and Telltale would end up dissolving just over two years later.

* SoBadItsGood: A common feature on Replay and Super Replay. It even became an annual tradition to do a SuperReplay of a bad survival horror game every New Year's.

* HilariousInHindsight: In their inaugural ''[[AprilFoolsDay Game Infarcer]]'' section in 2006, one of their editors (who claimed to have played games that hadn't come out yet) left a "spoiler" that Donald died in ''Kingdom Hearts III''. [[spoiler:Donald does indeed die, as does ''everyone'' in the first attempt at taking on the Demon Tide in the Keyblade Graveyard.]]