Remember when you were younger and you would go to the store and see a game that you never heard of but the box art looked so cool that you had to have it. I remember those days. I didn't know what I wanted. Gaming sites and mags didn't exist back then so you didn't know when something was coming out until it came out. Even then you didn't know what was coming out before hand. Those were the days. I say that because people rush out to buy a game immediately because they've heard about it's release date for years (although it kept getting pushed back). The previews are so frequent that you know the story before even entering your first save point.

My point? Well my point is that gaming was so much better before reviews, previews, and game news. If you liked a game, you liked it even with the flaws that it came with. Now we have IGN and gamespot (lower case for a reason) telling us what they think of it. This influences us so much that we just don't care how good/bad the game actually may be. I've fallen to this low point in my gaming life too. At the same time it's necessary because some of these companies/developers are putting out complete and utter crap.

So I guess I'm trying to say that I miss the old days before money ruled games and I could find the unknown release dropped on the unknown release date without reading that unknown review.