Prez wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 19:39:
"Most Overrated Games" lists always come across as trollish to me. They know damn well that hundreds of people are going to rush to the defense of whatever games they call out, inciting a massive forum war, getting them more hits for minimal effort.

jdreyer wrote on Dec 17, 2012, 17:24:
Yeah, Ars game reporting has fallen off a bit. Ben was good.

That "overrated" game article was kind of crappy, although when they did the best of thing, the followup comment article was pretty awesome.

Editor’s Note: As there’s no release date given for Dragonborn on the PC, and the content will be identical to the console versions, we’ve taken the liberty of performing our review on the XBox 360 instead.

But unfortunately, I have one complaint, and it’s sort of a deal breaker.

Obviously I was playing on the XBox 360, as that’s the only platform Dragonborn is released on so far. So I was already dealing with abysmally slow load times. Sometimes there is lag after loading a new zone that is so long, you wonder if the game is crashing. But no, it’s just being ridic slow. After the fourth or fifth time the game actually crashed, though, I was ready to put my adorably pink controller through the TV. I wasn’t even doing anything particularly demanding. It would just stop mid-stride, and a primal scream of rage would escape my lips.