# Just because I didn't like it, doesn't mean I didn't play it. (long) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 14, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973 "2004-04-14T15:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2

**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973/21 "2004-04-15T04:53:25Z")

Read and responded to, **TM** and **Darkhold**. I hope you’ll be joining us at The Mysterious Site I Won’t Name, mainly because I don’t want to see Pit threads with “Why’d you trash \?” and my name… ---

**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973/22 "2004-04-15T14:09:00Z")

> [@Darkhold](#): > > Never even touched Everquest. I won’t pay money every month to play a game I bought (though World of Warcraft is making me want to forget I ever made that vow) I hear Everquest is…mildly addictive. EverQuest was _incredibly_ addictive…right up until the second I got into the WoW Alpha (now in Beta), courtesy of one of my guildmates who works for Blizzard. I literally just logged in last night to EQ for the first time in almost 3 months to say hi to my non-WoW beta guildmates (we’re actually on online gaming community, not just an EQ guild). Omfg, I haven’t had this much fun in an MMORPG in years. \<3 WoW. Not sure how I feel about some of the changes they’re instituting in this next push (downloading the new WoW Beta client as we speak, 2 hours 27 minutes left!!) yet, but hey, that’s what betas are for, right? Are you playing WoW presently, or just heavily anticipating? ---

**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973/23 "2004-04-15T15:43:54Z")

This is completely unrelated to my OP, but I just got my copy of Geneforge 2 in. If you want to try out one of the most in-depth roleplaying games you’ll ever play, check out Geneforge and Geneforge 2 from Spiderweb Software ([www.spiderwebsoftware.com](http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com)). Two of the finest old-school-style RPGs ever. Ignore the ugly graphics. ---

**Author:** ![Parallax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Parallax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parallax)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973/24 "2004-04-15T17:21:38Z")

Tanookie and I played a LOT of Diablo 2 so we picked up a couple copies of Sacred the other day. It has only been a few days but so far we like the game. It does have some bugs (like quests not always working right) and other issues but so far they haven’t bothered us all that much and supposedly a patch to address them is in the works. ---

**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973/25 "2004-04-15T17:25:15Z")

SpiderWeb is my favorite developer, both for their AWESOME games and because they’re great people who always helped me out when I was starting my sites. Here’s a reccomendation for the Avernum series. **Morelin** , the _Final Fantasy_ addict, had to be pried off of Avernum 3. I was trying to review the first Avernum and played it for a month before I finally turned in the review…and I was only about a third done. ---

**Author:** ![Parallax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Parallax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parallax)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973/26 "2004-04-15T17:40:49Z")

Kinda funny - I just stumbled across DeadlyAccurate’s review. I was reading the Sacred forums about the 1.6 patch that just came out and somebody had linked to a site with a bad review. I went to the site and noticed a woman’s name for as the reviewer. Thinking that it might DeadlyAccurate’s review I checked out the forum thread for the review and found the exact comments that she mentions here. 🙂 ---

**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973/27 "2004-04-15T18:33:19Z")

> [@](#): > > In contrast, the review of Sacred reads as if it was hurriedly written five minutes before the deadline by a rank amateur with no experience whatsoever. > > It is obvious that \ hardly bothered to play the game for more than a few minutes. Her ignorance is such that she fails to grasp even the most simple of game mechanics: skills take time to recharge. Instead of reading the manual or even taking the few seconds needed to comprehend what a child could figure out, she points the finger at some kind of mystery bug. Bwa ha ha ha! What surprised me was that _anyone_ agreed with me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-because-i-didnt-like-it-doesnt-mean-i-didnt-play-it-long/239973.md?page=1)