[EbeneezerAl]

I've always found that people put way too much stock in the cosmetic quality of games. Are your minds really so closed that you can't enjoy a game without superior looking graphics and voices? Whatever did you folks do back in the SNES days? OK, I admit, as an audio geek I love how much better sound quality in games has gotten. I love how there's the ability to do voices, realistic SFX and real orchestral music. Indeed I place sound way above graphics, something I don't think many other people do. But it still doesn't affect my overall appreciation of a good game. I thought the voice acting in FFX sucked in most cases, but it was an excellent game. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time looked and sounded horrible. Hell CoM has more voice acting than Zelda did. And you know what? It's still one of the greatest games ever made and always will be.

Ya'all really need to learn to appreciate a game for it's important factors: it's story, it's gameplay, etc., and not for the stuff that is nothing more than cosmetic application.