Arena

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Diablo II was a lot of fun while it lasted... I find it quite boring to play again after I completed it (on Normal) the first time, but still, it was a fun game. And it has a lot of polish, a nicely complex system of skills and upgrades that requires thought, and a greatly detailed and well thought out world...

I absolutely hated the combat system, and it had nothing else that interested me.

Morrowind by way of the previous games. And I made it VERY clear that one of the main thing I wanted was for someone (you or others) who had played Morrowind to compare what I was saying mostly about Arena and Daggerfall and tell me which of those things are still true in Morrowind and which aren't. I'm still hoping for someone to do that...

No, you did that later. First you complained about Morrowind, and since you've never played it yourself you posted an article from the very dumb people at Gamespy about why the game is overrated. Very sad, very juvenile.

You can't play it for just a few minuites if you want to progress, at least not at first... you can't save until you finish the whole first stage after all and that takes quite a lot of time. How far am I? Not that far, I think I've just beaten the first two stages of Greece... fun game though. It's cool that you can drive almost anywhere and steal so many vehicles, and searching for hidden rooms and stuff is fun. But fully open-ended? No. You must go to some specific points. You must stay in this part of the world until you beat the boss of it, which requires doing a few specific tasks at certain places. It is NOT fully open-ended. I can't visit the later game areas after all, or other time periods, until I get that far in the linear game progression... now, this isn't a bad thing. A game like that works best with a linear progression and new areas to unlock. I think that the game design is great. I'm just saying that I think that you are expanding its freedom and open-endedness beyond what it has, if I am interpreting you correctly.

GTA is the exact same. You're given specific mission objectives but can choose to just run around and have fun. And the whole world is never open at first, you have to unlock it. And while you can't go back to previous time periods later on in the game, each world is larger than Vice City and GTA 3 combined, so it's no big deal. I know very well how open-ended the game is because I have it. You have only played a few minutes of it, so you have no right to debate this with me.

What with this recent trend of arguing about stuff you know almost nothing about, Brian? It's very sad.

I said in my last post how it's funny that it often comes out negatively while Arena is definitely a fun game in plenty of ways...

That didn't make any sense.

And I find these numbers where?

What am I, your nanny?