RWS's Incoherent Rambling

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The Most Overrated List of all Time. Thus, my last respect for Gamespy flew out the window. Was there any reason for this list? How does this help someone buy or find good games? It's entertainment value is about -7. If anything, it makes me feel like stapling my eyelids shut. Never mind that multiple times through out the list they state that the game was extremely fun, but that's beside the point, right? If the game play/graphics/multiplayer/weapon/hole/rock wasn't perfect, the game was over hyped. The fact that people are rating a game that was released ten years ago is irrelevant right? Morrowind was over hyped? That's ***I'm Stupid for Swearing***ing bullshit. I had NEVER played an RPG till Morrowind. I have the attention span of a walrus, and I'm an FPS fan to the heart. Yet, Morrowind was one of the most amazing games I've ever played. I remember reading a scroll in a Daedric shrine that pointed to an ancient armor off the coast. Finding this armor had to be one of the coolest gaming moments I've ever experienced. To call Morrowind an over hyped game is a crime against humanity. Enough of my biased ranting, let's investigate their reasons for this choice itself.

you could stand the bugs.

What game doesn't have bugs? Morrowind had one of the least buggy releases to date for such a large scale RPG. From now on, I'm not going to like Gamespy because the logo has the color green in it. This is so trivial and stupid I want to punch someone in the kidney. The only example they ever give of these 'ominous' bugs is something about the mercantile skill being broken. We must have been playing different games because I never ran into this bug, or heard about it on the Morrowind forums. Come up with something more substantial ladies.

I played for hours and hours on end, slowly developing a character, building up my faction status

I'd still recommend it to any RPG fan with a lot of patience.

After about 20 or so hours

Anybody that goes around playing the same thing for 20 hours and complains about seeing repetition is a moron. If I watched football/soccer for 20 hours and said, "It's the same thing! All they're trying to do is get the ball in the other team's goal!" I'd be dragged into the street and beaten. Do you want change every 30 seconds, jackass? How about you being fired from Gamespy and forced to adopt the career of a male hooker to pay for your EQ account. They should be praising Morrowind for keeping them ignorant of such repetition for 20 hours. After 37 seconds, I noticed that I was being attacked by the same monsters in Half-Life. I wish I had known that people keep timetables of when they're playing a game. The most I do is watch the clock to make sure I'm not late for work or class.

Several fans and some co-workers think it's the best PC RPG in years.

This had to be the dumbest statement in the entire list. It's incoherent thought makes me want to watch The Time Machine again. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't your "co-workers" other Gamespy employees? It says something about Gamespy when their own employees call it "the best PC RPG in years," but still place it on the '25 Most Overrated Games of All Time' list. Let's not mention the fact that Psylancer never actually admits to playing the game. He just makes obscure references to other people telling him things, and a few "technical issues." Never once have I seen these people on the Morrowind boards, but they are oh so more knowledgeable about the game than me. Working for Gamespy makes you always right about every game of all time, you can do no wrong. This is, of course, not including all the reviews by Gamespy that praised these "over hyped" games. They even point out their own reviews, and say things like, "We don't know what we were thinking back then." Well jackass, it shouldn't be too tough, seeing as some of these games were released less than a year ago. When Robert Jordan(Yes, the author) praises Morrowind, you know it's a shitty RPG. I could write a novel on all the inconsistencies and hypocrisy within this list. You should also note that I only wrote about TWO of the items on the list: Mortal Kombat and Morrowind. Imagine how long and grammatically incorrect this post would be if I did all 25. I think Penny-Arcade put it best in the end.

P.S. Morrowind uses a bartering system where each trader will offer you a set price for a particular item. This price varies from trader to trader, but does not change overtime. That trader will always offer you the same price when the item is in excellent condition and such. You get to barter by selecting how much gold you'd offer to counter the original price when buying. The higher your mercantile skill, the less you can buy it for. Hence, Ben's statement doesn't make any sense, since the original price will ALWAYS remain the same with a certain trader. The only thing that changes is how much you can counter for. I also don't see how his mercantile skill could ascend when he's supposedly selling for lower and lower prices. Correct me if I'm wrong(again), but increasing your mercantile skill comes from bartering and increasing the amount you sell an item for. This leads me to believe that Ben is a confused moron and had trouble figuring out the extremely simple interface.