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Remus
Overgrown Cat
Joined: 03 Jul 2002
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Location: Fish bowl |
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Check this review at http://pcworld.idg.com.au/idg2.nsf/p/0007E3BA?OpenDocument&n=e&c=PC
I think if i want to criticize MW, i can find more bad points and legitimate weaknesses of that game than the author of this review.
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Rendelius
Critical Error
Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 16
Location: Austria |
Now, Ursula did a very bad review - and a bad one for her reputation. She states that there is no third person view in the game - that alone disqualifies her lines 
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Rendelius
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Tue Oct 29, 2002 6:52 pm |
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Rendelius
Critical Error
Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 16
Location: Austria |
Another stupidity from her review:
"The main problem with Morrowind is that you can't save. If you're an ace gamer that's obviously no problem — you can sail through the easy stages with no need to obsessively save just in case your powers aren't quite as impressive as you thought and you end up dead. Unfortunately, this fate was repeatedly mine."
Gosh.
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Tue Oct 29, 2002 6:54 pm |
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Remus
Overgrown Cat
Joined: 03 Jul 2002
Posts: 1657
Location: Fish bowl |
Yeah, when i read her comments about that i thought she was joking.
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Tue Oct 29, 2002 7:07 pm |
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Provis
High Emperor
Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 872
Location: Middle of the Forest |
The whole review sounds like a bad April fools joke, too bad it's a few months late/early.
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Tue Oct 29, 2002 7:12 pm |
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Max Killen
Exalted Potentate
Joined: 04 Dec 2001
Posts: 1112
Location: Why not Minot? |
One would think that the reviewer was beta testing instead of playing the finished product. I don't have a clue on what she is talking about. Sure, you can't save until you listen to the duties at the initial part of the game; but she mentions dying?? and not being able to save?? The very first time I played the game I tried jumping off the ship, I don't think you can do it, so I don't know how you can die before the save function of the game is operational. Sounds like someone has an axe to grind with Bethseda. |
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Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:23 pm |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
Be sure to check out my review of my mom's computer! It has very legitimate points about computers, if you know what i mean.  You can find it at the 'unusual' review of morrowind in the news comments section. Its very comprehensive review! Go check it out! LOL  |
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Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:33 pm |
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Legal_My_Deagle
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 05 Jun 2002
Posts: 46
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wow.
"Any RPG requires a certain amount of inventory management, but the way it's handled in Morrowind is unwieldy. To pull up menus requires a right-click mouse action, and then you have to select anything you want to manipulate."
oh no!!! God forbid you have to SELECT anything you want to interact with!!!
"This hardly leads to speedy gameplay — to fight effectively you really need a single click to swap to the most appropriate weapon. "
all she had to do is look in the controls for that button that wips out/sheaths your weapon.
jeebus H crackers.
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Wed Oct 30, 2002 9:21 pm |
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cfmdobbie
High Emperor
Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 1859
Location: London, England |
I've emailed a request for the review to be pulled and replaced with something more accurate. If you want to contact pc world too, email addresses can be found [url=http://pcw.idg.com.au/idg2.nsf/AllPCW/58E0269B8A8EFDE24A256A6A0040EC9C!OpenDocument&NavArea=AboutPCWorld&SelectedCategoryName=Editorial%20Contacts]here[/url], namely:
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Resist the temptation to flame! Be objective or they'll ignore you! 
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Thu Oct 31, 2002 2:48 pm |
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Carpathian Bob
Village Dweller
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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I always felt that the idea behind seeing through the eyes of the character and not through third person perspective was to create I heightened sense of immersion, of really being there. Something gaming has being striving for, at the behest of every gamer alive. I admit to using third person view to check out how cool I look, but that's only cause they didn't put mirrors in any rooms. Glass mirrors may be a modernish invention but ancient civilisations used highly polished bronze (read that in a book so I did!).
As to how to die early in the game, the only thing that springs to mind is after character generation you are encouraged to pick up a basic knife off the table in the next room. It is possible that she keeps attacking the people in the building which might get her killed. |
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Thu Oct 31, 2002 7:37 pm |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
I guess this update is all we could expect but I really don't buy the explanation. Ursula's review was inadequate in almost every way. |
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Fri Nov 01, 2002 2:53 am |
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Remus
Overgrown Cat
Joined: 03 Jul 2002
Posts: 1657
Location: Fish bowl |
She done more review on hardware like digital cameras & such. That would explains much of it. I think she is not good at reviewing a games, and the review look like been done by someone who not regularly play pc games, let alone specific genre like CRPGs.
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Fri Nov 01, 2002 3:37 am |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
Yes, I don't think games are her expertise, but I think her editor really should have realised this was an inadequate effort. PC World currently has the highest circulation of any computer magazine in Australia and one would expect high standards from such a large organisation. |
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Fri Nov 01, 2002 9:25 am |
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Pango
Village Dweller
Joined: 05 Sep 2002
Posts: 3
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA |
It has to be a joke  . Either that or she didn't read the manual. For example, she stated that you can't save. Well, you can save after you get your first assignment, but you can't save before that. Maybe she tried to save at the beginning and didn't try again.
And she complained about having to use the mouse to select items in inventory? How else are you going to do it? And seeing your char. in 3rd person is OK for a minute, but it's meant to play like a FPS, not Tomb Raider. |
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