Quote Originally Posted by Guillaume le Batard
An interesting observation: after many, many, months of anxiously awaiting this game, I have reached a new level of hype-exposure: Total Burnout!

I don't know how I did it, but I actually exhausted my desire for this game before it has even been released.
LOL, you've put it very well. I must say I've been feeling much the same way. I was quite excited by the initial announcement, but the closer it's come to release, the more "ho-hum" I feel about it.

I think it's partly that, quite frankly, after playing three games, two expansions and several mods in the series already, I simply have no burning desire left for more of the TW experience. I think it would take something pretty special to rekindle my enthusiasm, and nothing I've read about M2TW makes me think it's going to be that special.

I think what would really get me excited about the series again would be if they did a complete makeover of the campaign game, and gave us a really complex and logically consistent world to play in. But I'm afraid they haven't moved far enough forward on this front - and they probably never will, because it's not where their focus is. So it looks like it's going to be pretty much the same old one-dimensional campaign, albeit with a few tweaks like castles, and the return of some tinsel from the earlier games.

Don't get me wrong, I will probably still end up buying it, but this time I don't think I will mind at all waiting six months for the bugs to be ironed out, a couple of enhancement patches, a good mod or two, the opinion of other orgers and last but not least a price drop to make the whole package when I finally sit down to it that much more tasty