DISCLAIMER: Before you start with the "Oh, you're just a [Insert console] fan boy, and you hate [Opposition console's game]. Go DIAF." I'm stating now that I have no affiliation with any system. I have most consoles, and I play games because of the game, not the console, so you can save your comments. Thanks.

So every time I log into Gamespot I see their poll. I read it over, and never actually submit anything. I realize that they are commerciall plugging certian games, and that's why you see enormous ads on both sides of the screen, but I thought the idea of a poll was to be non-bias; to get a feeling for the people's general decision. All they have become is yet another commercial plug tool that you can't respond to unless you want to sound like a fanboy extremist.

Take today's poll for instance. The "Halo Bug." Your poll choices are "I like it.", "I love it.", or "I'm a crazy fanboy." To me that's not a very accurate description of a poll. Where is it "Eh, I might play it sometime." or the "I'm not interested in Halo 3." options? One could make the argument that "Well this poll is only for people who like Halo 3, to gauge their response so far." but why make a poll so stupidly centralized and try and call it "results"? And atop that, why put it on the front page? This isn't just a knock on Halo, as every day it seems the new big game is thrown into the poll, with similar responses.

Granted this isn't the most important gripe, but seriously.If it's a poll, make it a poll. If Gamespot's marketing department is influencing polls, that's just a cheap plug and shouldn't be a "Poll of the Day" question. Unless of course they add "P.S. - We sold out."

Ahh I just made it up as I was going. That's what I got from the game out of my time spent with it. I'm ready to move on to smaller and better things. Preferably to a game with a community that has an average age of over 16.

Heh. The purpose of the game?

You join the endless battle between the evil, horrible monsters of the Horde, and the peaceful, righteous and all-knowing Alliance. Or the evil, horrible monsters of the Alliance, and the peaceful, righteous and all-knowing Horde. It depends on what General chat lore battle is going on at the moment.

Anyways, you pick a side and join their ranks and quest your way up to level 70, all the while being shat on by every player and the mother because "You're not even 70, you don't know anything." (This rule was at one time "you're not 60" but will soon change to "you're not 80" but the same meaning is applied. Only those who are 70 are allowed to have insightful comments. Comments by players 69 and below are not valid in any conversation.)

During your time you are leveling you can group with other players and tackle dungeons for good experience and loot. While in these dungeons, you are expected to fill the role of exactly what your group wants, regardless of your spec. Balance druids must heal and tank. Shadow priest are only allowed to heal. Hunters need not apply. Rogues pick my lock box and gtfo. Pick your class carefully.

Once you're 70, you can spend your time in one of three ways.

• First you can join a raiding guild and tackle larger, harder dungeons in a mad rush to get every item that drops. You and your guild can then spam trade channels with your loot announcing that yes, you do have these items and no one else does. (Sometimes if you're really lucky you can link Legendary items that dropped on other servers and add a WTS in front. This is always advised.)
• The second thing you could do is join in the PvP arenas and battlegrounds and fight other players. The people who fight n PvP are superior to the Raiding players, because it takes more skill to fight another player than it does a scripted battle. Just ask one. PvP is something you can do solo, but its also a lot harder than raiding because everything you do is wrong. You should be healing instead of trying to get honor kills. You should be getting the flag instead of chasing that rogue down. You should be defending that rush of 6 horde into your flag room regardless of the fact that its 1 vs 6.
• The third and final thing you can do it the most rewarding of all. You can sit in the WoW channels and the WoW forums and add your snide remarks to every comment you see. This is most effective if you are in game sitting atop your epic mount ( or flying mount) and wearing a goofy set of level 1 grey items, or if you are in an obnoxious place, usually on a mailbox or inside the auction house, preferable dancing. Here you can argue your knowledge of the game, question players sexualitybased on the race they picked, tell your tales of battle about how you spent the afternoon killing players 48 levels lower than you who were trying to questin PvP zones, and other nonsense, but all of which builds your reputation as an elite player.

Aside from these 3 main focuses, there are other smaller parts of the game like China farming, putting random items like skinning knives on the auction house for 100,000 gold, and rotting your brain cells with Chuck Norris comments in the Barrens chat. All for a mere $14.99 a month. If this sounds like what you're looking for, that World of WarCraft just might be for you!!

So far no one has mentioned World of Warcraft. That could be the best thing I didn't read all day.

Diablo 2 : Lord of Destruction gets my vote, followed close by RainbowSix 3: Raven Shield.