I havent played ET but it seems to me that most people who bash it are people who werent alive when it came out and think it sucks because the graphics are terrible by todays standards. If you were there when it came out, maybe it was good for the standards of 1982 or whatever. Its just a really old game that looks silly today, but there are games which imo are probably far worse... such as Dragons Lair. Kind of a popular game to bash on... and with good reason. It is seriously the biggest pile of shit I have ever had the misfortune of playing. But then there are a lot of games that should be despised more, such as Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine and the entire Halo and Metroid Prime series.