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MERCS 2: IT'S A VIDEO GAME!

 The title of this post is less a statement of fact, and more of a reference to a very classy Giant Bomb video that popped into my head when I was reading the Gamespot review of Mercenaries 2.
As someone whose is now waiting on his second of three PC digital downloads of the game(the first one having somehow been sent with a broken file, making installing the game impossible) I've definitely been feeling a little iffy about the whole Mercs thing. My first warning sign should have been all the frustrated talk on the last podcast, a warning that this was a game that had sabotaged itself in the last stages of its long development cycle. And yet, still , without thinking, I bought the game(P.C version, to boot! It's like I'm playing games in the 90's!) just in the hopes that the,
So, imagine my surprise(damn you, Irony Gods!) when I saw that my nonrefundable purchase may have been for naught: A 5.0 flat score from Aaron Thomas and Gamespot (If ever there was a sad box art comment for a video game, it's "Too Human! It's Better than Mercs 2!) So, I'm activly waiting to start playing a potential clunker of a game, digital proof that I wasted money. This must have been how the confederates felt at Pickett's Charge.

The one "positive" of the "low score, hyped title) Gamespot Review(see Twilight Princess, Too Human...You know, similar games). is that the forums litterally go crazy, with every lunatic on a keyboard posting things that make me weep for the medium, and all of mankind to boot.
And that's the real reason I wrote this blog post: to share with you one of the saddest, most misguided comments I've ever read about a video game:
Warning: This Shit Is Not Edited.

"GS has a habit of pointing out and excessively telling how bad the game is due to bugs and glitches. Instead of telling the parts that make you play the game in the first place."

Come hang out in my college dorm sometime, the world. We can weep together.

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