8 Biggest Recent Gaming Industry Disappointments By phact0rri  [10 more lists]

Like most the teenagers in the 90's, I grew up on ultraviolent action/shooters. Duke Nukem, Doom, and Wolfenstein, just to name the classics. So when I heard they were doing a parody game about a washed up 90's shooter hero. Well, what can I say my nostalgia really made me sit up and take notice. I read all the previews salivating, ready to laugh my ass off at my childhood getting a proper roasting. That excitement ended when I put the game into my PS3.

To be fair, the game does make some good jokes about video game history and characters. But this game is no laughing matter. The graphics look like games during the early days of the PS2 (there are cut scenes where they don't even bother to animate the mouths during dialog). The A.I. leaves no difficulty at all, as the enemies stand out in the open waiting to be lined up in your cross hairs.

But the most painful part of the game has to the be the ridiculous amounts of bugs. The melee animations are awkwardly slow, and with spawning enemies you are pretty much dead if you run out of bullets.

I'd have happily trudged through it if the story was there. I was hoping for a VH1 behind the music sort of deal.

What I got was a game that took itself seriously with a few funny bits thrown in that didn't match the game at all. It was such a great concept for a game, but what we all got was a game that was boring and full of bugs... bugs you can't shoot.

Sony wasn’t the only video game manufacturer who really failed at delivering a decent update to its platform.

The DSI itself isn’t exactly the update we were hoping for, but at the very least more ram, two cameras (there’ve been some interesting games mentioned to use these features, actually), and internet connectivity was a step in the right direction.

However, the market place for the DSI has yet to really show off any games that make anyone ready to trade in their lite for the machine. And aside from the market place, there haven’t been very many DSI games that have even launched, let alone a good title that really makes someone think twice about their beloved Lite.

With Sam and Max and Monkey Island have been rocking out in terms of bringing old point and click adventure games back to the world to show us why we loved them in the first place; but the Larry games continue to miss the point.

The games we were all playing in our college dorm rooms, or while our parents didn't understand what they'd just bought us, were (in the last two years or so) given a mediocre kick in the face!

They didn't age well like Monkey Island, but instead the Larry games suffered from someone trying to bring back something from the dead without rethinking what made it a classic.

The humor is over the top in the way that makes people puke in their mouths, and the game controls remain horrible. We can only keep hoping someone does justice and adapts Larry to the new millenium soon.

Or better yet, maybe they can make another Space Quest.