I spend a lot of time in the System Wars forum. Don't ask me why, or what I'm thinking, because I simply don't have an answer. Maybe it's because it's amusing, I don't know. What I DO know though, is that there is a general lack of opinion on System Wars, even though the whole point of it is for people to voice differing opinions. This is not how it works in practice, however. In actuality, System Wars is mostly a collection of bumbling fools who must rely on the opinions of the humble Gamespot editors in order to shape their own. The sentiment is rarely "I think this game is better than that one because...". Instead, it usually sounds more along the lines of "Greg Kasavin says it's better so it has to be true!!"...only with worse grammar and spelling.

One major quote of contention comes from good old Greg K. (my favorite GS editor), in reference to the ongoing Halo 2 vs. Half Life 2 debate (which is a stupid thing to argue about in the first place since they're both awesome). The first part of the quote goes like this: "The content of the games is different. Half-Life 2 is apparently a significantly better, longer single-player game than Halo 2." This quote is often used by hermits, the PC fanboys to prove "their" point. However, what they fail to do is use the rest of the quote, which goes like this: "However, Half-Life 2's multiplayer component is the already-established, love-it-or-hate-it Counter-Strike: Source; there was a missed opportunity to include an original multiplayer component, but it's obvious that the focus on the single-player campaign paid off. Meanwhile, Halo 2's best feature is its online multiplayer component, which, in the context of consoles, is pretty revolutionary in its implementation. So, in addition to being two different games on two different platforms, these games' respective feature sets are actually not very similar, nor are their greatest accomplishments." The hermits never use the rest of the quote because it disproves what they believe. Greg K. is right though. They are both great games with completely different focuses, and shouldn't really be compared in terms of which one is better.

But you know what? It isn't necessary to use these quotes at all. If you're having an argument about one game being better than the other, there can be no winner...no one is right, because opinions are not fact, which is why we call them OPINIONS. One isn't suddenly going to make the other see the "error" of their ways, and quoting Gamespot editors who agree with them isn't going to make a difference either. It all comes down to opinion, and the people in System Wars need to start coming up with opinions of their own.