CrazyGamer

Dungeons & Dragons Online, and Guild Wars (i have no life). Vanguard has the best graphics by far of any of the games I just mentioned. Mr Sharkey needs a new computer if he thinks the graphics aren”t up to par. What is he talking about?

What sensible MMO developer wouldn’t try to use the interface from the most popular game of all time (WOW)? Also, what fantasy MMO doesn’t have “boring quests and highfantasy cliches”"? Even the great WOW has those…all pretty much cloned from D&D way back when I was starting to game on the PC in The late ’80s (yes - 1, too, am an old-timer at 39). I hope your readers are bright enough to try Vanguard for themselves, as your magazine has a history of low review scores on newly released games that were pushed out too fast (which, I agree, Vanguard was). I know, not your problem. You are just doing your jobs, and you do your jobs well, most of the time. I think you missed it on this game, though.

I have an idea: You shoufd get reviewers who actually enjoy the type of game they”re reviewing.

It sounds to me like Sharkey doesn’t really like MMOs at ail. If you needs any help in the reviewing of MMOs, I will gladly volunteer, as long as you put me on the payroll.

I have tried just about all of the MMOs out there (except Auto Assault, as it was shortlived).

With the exception of EQl. I tired of the others very quickly. WOW was just too darn easy (no hate mail, please). Leveling l-to-70 in a month is OK for some people, I guess (4 gazillion subscribers cannot be wrong)…but I prefer a challenge. I’m looking forward to enjoying Vanguard for a long time. I just think Sharkey blew it with this review, and hopefully, the game will make it - even though he pretty much burned it to the ground.

Granted, there were a lot of bugs when Vanguard released. Things are much better now, which makes me wonder when Sharkey reviewed it. The March 29 patch fixed all the bugs that I had problems with. Maybe I am just lucky, but I doubt that.

I really despise a trend I’m starting to see more and more of: people who criticize game critics with the line, “If you can do better, then why aren’t you making games?” The assumption that all game developers are experts on game design is laughable at best. The industry seems full of people like John Romero who were essentially just in the right place at the right time, I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a game that would have been 100 times better if the designers [had] listened to the more critical gamers out there.

As a 25-year-old gamer, I feel the “Gray Power” article. Hit on some good points. Perhaps the older crowds aren’t as ridiculed in some gaming communities as [in] others, but let’s face it, generally speaking, if you’re beyond your early {very early) twenties and caught playing an MMO, then the unofficial imaginary teenybopper handbook states: “You have become too old to piay games or enjoy yourself: now go die.”

Oh how I treasure those golden “You’re how old?” moments while playing a game because, hey, whats not to love about being made to feel like an outcast freak? So I play games at 25 years old. At least I can take comfort in knowing I’m not alone in my senior citizen-gamer status. My wife is an avid gamer too, and we’re celebrating her 48th birthday very soon.

One thing you should have mentioned: that evil StarForce copy protection, I’ve read all the horror stories about StarForce, and I chose to avoid having one of my own - so I cracked DiRT (a game I legitimately bought) just to avoid this mess.

DiRT was the first game I bought that included StarForce, and it wiil be the last. If I [had known] about this ahead of time, I wouldn’t have bought DiRT.

What”s with that 10 out of 10 score given to BioShock in issue 11? You make me sick! It’s not perfect, not close to perfect. The A.t. is clunky, the gunfights are dull, the plasmids don’t offer much of a difference in the game, the end-boss battle is a joke, and there is absolutely no replay value once you’ve beat the game. Not to mention the fact that the endings are bland, 5ince you guys are connected, check into what’s going on with the Advent Rising trilogy. People want a second and third game, and I have yet to come across any game that has tome out since Advent Rising that has a story that actually has me wanting more or has kept me on the edge of my seat. Yes, Advent Rising had quite a few flaws, but the story and overall gameplay make it a must for any FPS/action junkie

I’ve been a StarCraft addict for about five years, and I would do just about anything to get my hands on a demo of StarCraft II. However, i play games on my laptop. It isn’t a state-of-the-art, $6,000, gold-encrusted machine,, but it’s sufficient, I can play games like Warhommer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade. However, I was wondering what StarCraft Us system requirements will be. Do you guys have any guesses?

I finally have the motivation to write [to] your mostly harmless magazine. It was only a few paragraphs into the BioShock preview when a nasty spoiler was burned into my brain. And while it wasn’t as nearly as cruel as an idiot screaming. “Snape kills Dumbledore!” out the window of a passirg car to fans outside a bookstore, your unforewarned Spoiler has ruined at least a small part of the game for me. A bit of vagueness would have been in order, or at lest some spoiler warning before you basically gave a play-by-play of the game s opening, I understand that this is a preview of game and at least some of the information will be revealed, but please, leave the details out. And just for a bit of payback; In Titanic the ship sinks, in Apollo 13 they make it back home safe, in 300 they alt die, and Vader is Luke’s father