30th January 2003, 8:10 PM
Although the story was just plain utilitarian, it wasn't needed if you enjoyed just the playing of it.
In ABF's defense before anyone claims he's some kind of story miser, I'm pretty sure what he meant was simply that the game itself wasn't that fun, and there was no story to fall back on to force one to want to go through the game.
As for me, I really enjoyed it mainly because I felt like it was quite possibly the longest possible multiplayer game I've played yet. The matches start the second you start up a new game and last for weeks up until you actually link up against your opponent and battle it out.
In ABF's defense before anyone claims he's some kind of story miser, I'm pretty sure what he meant was simply that the game itself wasn't that fun, and there was no story to fall back on to force one to want to go through the game.
As for me, I really enjoyed it mainly because I felt like it was quite possibly the longest possible multiplayer game I've played yet. The matches start the second you start up a new game and last for weeks up until you actually link up against your opponent and battle it out.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)