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Comments by Jason"loonyboi" Bergman My sister Stephanie "Bobbi" Bergman is off in Seattle attending that Microsoft Gamestock shindig, so I'm handling the witty commentary in this week's MailBag. And boy, was there a lot to work with this week…we got more mail from my "Overrated" column that ran on Monday than we have for any single article. Yowza. So let's hop right in, shall we? From: "Scott Roberts" <scaatt@execpc.com> Subject: feedback Hi Jason, nice column. First of all, let me say that I agree wholeheartedly with your opinion of zelda64. I tried it out for an hour the night I gave it to my nephew, and had no interest in trying any longer. Mario64, on the other hand, almost made me buy a console. That is one hell of a beautiful game! What I’m really writing about, however, is your Cyan bashing. I’m not sure why it is that so many "hardcore" gamers get so incensed over people liking Myst. While I wouldn't make the mistake of equating popularity with quality (The A Team WAS the number one show on television once), there was a reason why so many non-gamers were drawn to Myst. It created an experience that few other games have achieved: the feeling |