Exactly right, Ghandi.
RtCW was great in the single player, most of the patches have been to optimize multiplayer stability, etc. Jedi Knight: OC is also a great game; finally LucasArts is (perhaps) redeeming their name for stable, well done games. No, it wasn't groundbreaking, but damn it was fun.
Anyway, you've helped prove my point that it is pretty much a fact that most (and I stress *MOST* - I'm not making wild generalizations here) games released these days are closer to late-beta than they are really ready for the shelves.
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Having worked for one of the game developers up here in Seattle at one point, I know that sometimes politics and promises will outweigh whether or not a game is really
ready for the store shelves, but it's still irresponsible on the part of the upper-ups in the games companies. That's why I respect Morrowind's makers to a point - They could easily have released this game in time for Christmas, only to piss us all off, but they didn't. For that, I'm glad. I have high hopes for the game.
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I just wanted to justify my reasons for being jaded, as they were called into question.
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