>> Maybe it's just me, but given a game where you can do absolutely 
>> anything you want, my reaction is typically "so what are you supposed 
>> to do?"
>>
>> (I had this problem with Frontier Elite II, which is supposedly the 
>> best computer game ever written...)
> 
> But it can work, look at the MMORPG like World of Warcraft.

I don't play WoW, so I don't know quite how open-ended it is. OTOH, I 
gather that MMORPGs are all about the social element, so it would be 
really hopeless to design a single-player game along the same lines.

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