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"Shingen" <Shingen@aolsukd.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 06:28:14 GMT, "Bill Huffman"
> <bhuffma1@REMOVE-THISsan.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >I respect your and Br d's opinion of the game. It just sounds horribly boring
to
> >me and the time that I played the free version for a couple hours (okay most
of
> >that time was trying to get the damn thing installed) it was far more like
work
> >than fun. Being a software engineer, reading technical manuals and struggling
> >with bugs is gosh darn work, not my idea of hobby fun! As you said,
> >
> >Opinion may and will vary. =P
> >
> well if it was a crap release of the same game, I would be the first
> to scream about it. The fact is there is DEFINITE "production value"
> in this release. It may not be on par with M$, but it's still far
> superior to any Activision game I've ever bought.
>
> Gameplay is entirely subject to the gamer, but the title is NOT a
> "value product" even though DC chose to market it as such.
>
> It's a good buy for the price even if it's exactly the same as BCM
> with improved graphics.
>
> Maybe you should expand your horizons and purchase it just so you can
> say you played the game and it was indeed crap.
>
> ...or maybe, if you opened your mind and closed your prejudices, you
> might find a game worth merit after all...=P

This is a serious response.

Opening my mind or prejudice has nothing to do with it at all. I rarely read
game manuals because it is generally too much like my daily job. I have very
little patience for bugs, for the same reason. It is just too much like my daily
job except unlike my job, I don't get the self satisfaction of fixing them. I
have to keep experiencing the bugs over and over. The maximum patience I have
for bugs is a game like Morrowind after it was patched up. For me it CTD maybe 4
times. A couple of those times it still almost made me stop playing the game
because I hadn't saved the game in a while. I had to let the game sit for a day
or two before I decided to pick it back up again. Dealing with complicated hard
to use interfaces in games is something that I have even less patience for. My
time for gaming is very limited (at least relative to what I'd like). I don't
have enough time to waste it on a second or third tier game. The only
frustration I'm willing to deal with in a game is like when the Galactic
Civilization's AI kicks my butt. There's more top rated games available than I
have time to play. Actually buying the game would be only a very minor annoyance
in that I'd have to go find a used one and parting with the $5 or $10 to buy the
thing would be totally insignificant. The big barrier I have to ever playing the
game is that the list of games that are high quality and almost universally
praised that I would like to play outstretches my time to play them by a long
shot.