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Pretty much, yeah. Once again, Cracked.com cuts through the BS and tells it like it is.
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I could almost have written that whole article myself. In fact, in many ways, I guess I already have. The main difference between me and John Cheese there, however, is that I am not willing to cut the game any slack for all of its shortcomings. We've known the game was going to be drowned in extraneous, unnecessary crap for over nine months now and, yet, people still apparently piled on like it was all going to be sunshine and roses. As for me, as I've said a buttload of times in the past, I simply refuse to buy the game at all while all the additional baggage is in place (and, at this point, I'd have to give it some very serious consideration before buying it even if Blizzard finally did come to their senses and remove all of the useless crap). Does Blizzard care about this, though? Nope. They already got theirs, what with all the other people who have shelled out for this intentionally broken piece of crap.
But the really sad thing is that, in the end, Cheese talks about how good the game is. That's what makes this so irksome for me. I know that, once you finally get past all the extraneous fecal matter that has been piled on top of it, there most likely is a good game lurking somewhere underneath. I just don't feel like it's worth the effort of having to take a shovel to it in order to reach that point. But, given how many other people have bought this game, I guess I'm in the minority here. And if this is indeed representative of gaming's annoying future, I honestly don't know how much longer I'll be able to call myself a "gamer" then.
Oh well, there's still a ton of older, pre-fecal matter games out there that I haven't played yet, as well as indie devs making games similar to these old, non-drowned-in-crap games, so there is that at least.
( Profanity-laden copy/paste from Cracked behind cut )
I could almost have written that whole article myself. In fact, in many ways, I guess I already have. The main difference between me and John Cheese there, however, is that I am not willing to cut the game any slack for all of its shortcomings. We've known the game was going to be drowned in extraneous, unnecessary crap for over nine months now and, yet, people still apparently piled on like it was all going to be sunshine and roses. As for me, as I've said a buttload of times in the past, I simply refuse to buy the game at all while all the additional baggage is in place (and, at this point, I'd have to give it some very serious consideration before buying it even if Blizzard finally did come to their senses and remove all of the useless crap). Does Blizzard care about this, though? Nope. They already got theirs, what with all the other people who have shelled out for this intentionally broken piece of crap.
But the really sad thing is that, in the end, Cheese talks about how good the game is. That's what makes this so irksome for me. I know that, once you finally get past all the extraneous fecal matter that has been piled on top of it, there most likely is a good game lurking somewhere underneath. I just don't feel like it's worth the effort of having to take a shovel to it in order to reach that point. But, given how many other people have bought this game, I guess I'm in the minority here. And if this is indeed representative of gaming's annoying future, I honestly don't know how much longer I'll be able to call myself a "gamer" then.
Oh well, there's still a ton of older, pre-fecal matter games out there that I haven't played yet, as well as indie devs making games similar to these old, non-drowned-in-crap games, so there is that at least.
