The aptly-named Curmudgeon Gamer has kicked up an interesting review of EQ: Champions of Norrath. This game is routinely awarded huge scores, so this article comes as a surprise. There's no score, so here's part of the closing rant:In summary, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the game industry suffers from the following devastating flaws:
* Inability to design new gameplay, instead recycling old gameplay taken to silly extremes
* Obsession on graphics over gameplay and innovation
* Increasingly buggy games, despite no means of patching
* Insultingly poor narratives
* Exploitation of licenses without added value |