*grabs Storm by the earlobe and drags her in*
Go on! Rant at them! Rant!
Ok, Ok! I'll rant! no need for violence!!
Oh, wait, it's an MOE thread... there's definately a need for some violence. Carry on
I myself wasn't deceived into thinking MOE was an adventure game before I playing (maybe only when discussing it on some forum before it even came out). I knew what it was, so I was expecting the worst - and guess what, I got the worst
I'm sorry for all those who bought & played the game thinking it was an actual KQ - I always wondered whether Sierra made more money off selling MOE to action gamers who weren't familiar with KQ than it did selling it to unsuspecting KQ fans or to people like myself, who played it simply because of the "KQ" on the title
I know there are people out there who like MOE, but I think they're mostly self-deluded adventure gamers, action gamer with very low standards or a mixture of both
To those who think MOE was a good adventure game, I can only recommend they have their heads examined, or spend some time playing the other KQs to understand what "adventure" really means
To those who think it's a good action game - I don't play action games and can't really tell whether it's good or bad in that sense. However, I heard people who DO play action games say MOE is not up to par with other action games released at the time, and when I ask my brother (who is about the only action gamer I know) "why don't you play MOE? It's an action game! you like action games!!" he looks at me like I'm a pathetic little idiot who just asked him to do something totally irrational, like downgrade back to XT
I must admit I didn't suffer too much playing MOE - as a game it was pretty harmless actually, but I would never have played such a game if it didn't have "KQ" on it's title
The reason I resent MOE so much is that it's something like the proverbial "last nail" in the adventure genre coffin - the fact that Sierra's praised flagship series, which pretty much started the entire graphic adventure genre, is reduced to a mostly-action game, shows more than anything the decline of adventure games, if not contributes to said decline
I was overdue for a long MOE rant...
