We went through the forest and the road came out and turned along a rise of land, and out ahead of us was a rolling green plain, with dark mountains beyond it.

For every anecdotal tale of a marriage destroyed by ' addiction 'to the game, there are a dozen stories of loving relationships and unlikely friendships forged and strengthened in the rolling plains and bizarre cities of the game.

Some years ago, 11 to be precise, I had a small rant about the dearth of mighty dramas on radio, the absence of peaks in the endless rolling plains, the rarity of works that shake and inspire you and fill your imagination and never let go.