My heart belongs to Dante from DMC :P great article :)

I have to agree about World of Warcraft :P Have been playing for a full year and I am starting to get SO bored because of the fact that it's just NO fun anymore ... i got to level 60 yesterday and it just made no difference to me >..<

Also, one game everyone adored but I loathed (and still do) is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the ps3. Truth is, I only bought this game because everyone kept ranting about how AWESOME it was.

But the moment I started playing, I was plainly disappointed. First of all the graphics of the characters(NPCs or not) looked not in the least bit like in real-life, which made character creation a torture for me. But I pressed on either way.

A little later I was supposed to set my character's unique skills, choose classes etc. I REALLY enjoy having the ability in a game to make my character unique and being able to control his/her development. But. TES4's customization was TOO much. It was so complicated that it just wasn't funny after a while. After I was finally done, it was time for me to check the battle system itself.

Which sucked. I don't think I've seen a worse battle system in a supposedly good game. Ever. It felt terribly unstable and as complicated and confusing as the customization before.

Finally after a while I managed to escape from the underground path that led out of the prison I was in, so after a few I entered the main city, whose name I don't currently recall. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy realism in games. I really do. But it's supposed to be a damn RPG for f*'s sake! It's not about realism, it's about fantasy and imagination and supernatural stuff, not pesky guards that are literally following your every step, meaning that simply entering a house at night could result in your arrest(or death, if you're a free spirit). There are so many random objects that one could pick from inside the houses, but even taking one of them will have the above-stated result. It's annoying, and to me, it robs the freedom that RPGs are supposed to offer.

Other than that, most of the general mechanics of the game are heavily flawed in my opinion. For example, leveling up: while you gain levels, the npcs level up silmutainously, and in so doing get more powerful attacks and abilities. Which means that, if you don't level up at all during the game, and remain eternally at level 1, then the final game boss will also be level 1. So why should one bother to level up in the first place?

Another thing I hated about Oblivion was the fact that in the huge world which it featured, I was all alone. No clumsy, silly, brave or intelligent party members. Just me, staring at the distance. Boring.

Also, don't get me strated on the voice-acting thingy. The same actor is voicing almost every NPC of the game. The look on the NPCs' eyes is also pretty much dead. DEAD I tell you! :P

The only thing that Oblivion succeeded in for me was in the scenery graphics. They looked gorgeous and realistic, but still had an RPG flair to them.

We gamers play games to have FUN. Most of us play in order to relax from a day full of tedious daily chores. At 22.00, when I come back home totally exhausted from a day full of school and extra lessons on both school curriculum and foreign languahes, I want to let my brain cool down a little. Trying to memorize all thousand tiny symbols that exist in Oblivion is a task that can't be accomplished in such a state, and I am not willing to strain my brain even further for a game, because this game just doesn't worth it.
I 've played coulntless games that are so much simpler than The Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion, yet so much better.

So true...i particularly agree with "We should really get better organised and form ourselves a union." That would be interesting \m/>.<\m/