QUOTE(Magefire @ Mar 30 2006, 06:58 PM)
I haven't been playing MW that long, compared to most of you, so it certainly isn't so stale. However, my character is now level 27 and can beat most things easily, so the challenge isn't so great. I haven't started either of the extensions yet however (chicken!).
I can't see why one would want to give up MW just because of OB - unless one had played the game out.
However, the world certainly divides into two parts - those who love MW and those who can't understand why. One evening, we were driving to a local restaurant with the family, and my husband and I were talking about the sheer coolness of the silver longsword he'd just enchanted with soul trap (this was early days in the game) and the kids in the back groaned and made us promise not to mention 'that game' over dinner. Hmph!!!
Actually I know almost no people who 'can't understand why', as you said it. Only these who
-Don't understand the game
-Only played the game for 5 minutes
-People who played the game that much that they're sick of it - but they loved it before
and those three don't count, I think.
Only one friend of mine who can't be placed in one of these groups doesn't like the game, because of the AI and the fact that NPC's look like they're made of wood - they don't really live. But he's an old braggard that looks at the most strange aspects of games (for instance; he stands still, does nothing, and if nothing around him happens, he think the game sucks).