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The 10 Most Disappointing Games of 2008

The games chosen by the usual panel of Wired.com contributors is in no way supposed to be a list of the worst games of 2008. Those are all for the Wii, cost $10, are about dogs and/or babies, and they wouldn't be caught dead playing them. No, these are the games that let them down the most this year. Most of them are actually good games. But they failed to live up to the hype, or didn't deliver on their promises.

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BRACHATTACK - 379 days 6 hours ago

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Flame On!

Hyped games weren't THAT bad, but unforunately didn't live up to the hype they produced, like the majority of 360 games this year...

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Nathan Drake - 379 days 6 hours ago

1.1 - True,that's what the list is

If I were them I would include Gears of War 2 solely for it's completely broken Multiplayer experience

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ionstorm - 379 days 4 hours ago

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oh u mean like LBP and R2?

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shingo - 379 days 4 hours ago

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RESISTANCE 2 was very very dissapointing! :(

And this is coming from a hardcore Resistance 1 fan. Insomniac took a totally wrong path by trying to make R2 a CoD4 v1.5! Competitve mode (which is the core part of MP) is just BROKEN in R2.

I'll never forget such dissapointment, it's the biggest in my gaming history.

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Danja - 379 days 3 hours ago

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Dead Space was one of the best games I played all year

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was also good..not great but enjoyable

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BLuKhaos - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.5 - @ionstorm

Considering LBP out scored all of the 360's exclusives on metacritic,I doubt it failed to live up to the hype.
LBP=95>Highest rated 360 exclusives,Halo 3 and GeOW 1,=94>GeOW2=93.
http://www.metacritic.com/g...
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r1000 - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.6 - @ shingo

Oh man... I couldn't agree with you more... i thought i was the only one... Resistance 2 was a huge disappointment in my eyes... I like you was a HUGE r1 fan.. the multiplayer of r1 kept me going for months... it was great... this time around the single player was meh... and the multiplayer left a lot to be desired... Was not impressed..

I luckily managed to get it sold on Amazon market place earlier today ;)

It's a shame, the last good game i played on my ps3 was Metal Gear Solid 4 and GTA4, so we're talking a couple months back.

I'm waiting for Fallout 3 to be delivered, hopefully i can get into that type of game... Cus right now i have no games to play and I own Little big planet but thats another topic all together... Lets just say i shouldn't have bought that game...

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ionstorm - 379 days 3 hours ago

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@bluk
it did fail to the hype, it didnt sell sh1t.companies want alot more than a good metacritic score, they also want to make a profit.

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shingo - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.8 - @r1000

I managed to play R2 heavily before buying it, and I was totally convinced not to spend a single buck on it. Man, what a shock it was.. because R1 was my favourite PS3 game. :(

Anyways, surprisingly at that time I received a code for KILLZONE 2 Beta in my email, and boy oh boy!! It was a gift from the skies!! Made me so happy and got me over the bloomy, sad mood after R2 dissapointment. I got officially addicted to KILLZONE 2 Beta and kept playing it for hours and hours on daily basis untill they put down the servers yesterday (Thursday). KILLZONE 2 is the best PS3 game I have ever played!!! Can't wait till February!! This game will blow minds away.

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BLuKhaos - 379 days 1 hour ago

1.9 - @ionstorm

Really?It didn't sell sh!t?I see you missed the article on the front page that stats that LBP has passed the 1 million mark.I guess selling 1 million is nothing.Some people...

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Sheddi - 378 days 19 hours ago

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How can u guys say R2?!?!
I LOVE that game! the multilayer is PURE fun!
This is madness!

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ionstorm - 378 days 16 hours ago

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@bluk
yea but with the kind of hype it had those are dissapointing sales. 360 hyped titles sells millions in 1 week. get with reality dude.LBp JUST made that million after months.

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callahan09 - 378 days 16 hours ago

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I agree that LittleBigPlanet and Gears of War 2 were both disappointingly broken in the online department. But Resistance 2 was certainly not. It works perfectly and has since day 1. I've never experienced any lag in that game, surprisingly. Not one match has ever had one instant of lag. I've never had a long wait to connect to a match, either.

The only thing that's wonky with Resistance 2 is that sometimes the matchmaking makes uneven teams. But that's not that big of a deal, and it's nothing compared to the ridiculous lag, frequent disconnections, and long wait times for online matches in LBP and Gears 2.

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yaboi - 378 days 16 hours ago

1.13 - Too Human

was in development for 10 years and it failed.
How bad does that suck
LOL

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kevnb - 378 days 9 hours ago

1.14 - resistance 1 multiplayer was horrible

resistance 2 is good, but not as good as I was hoping. At least the single player in R2 is pretty good imo, it blows away Resistance 1 overall. I think Ill just wait for Killzone 2 for a purchase though, Killzone on ps2 was horrible but the one on psp was awesome... so I have some faith.

@ ionstorm, I didn't know 5 weeks was months...

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gaffyh - 378 days 9 hours ago

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Dead Space is awesome, although a little stupid that the engineer has to go and do everything, but the game is fantastic. One of the most surprisingly good games in 2008 IMO.

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Eiffel - 379 days 6 hours ago

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This list is fail..common Dead Space..Force Unleashed.

I want to see this sites list of "Greatest Games of the Year"
starting off with all wii games...meh.

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ProperFunked - 378 days 8 hours ago

2.2 - nah...

Dead Space loved it, Force Unleashed was a fvcking chore to finish. the moment i finished that annoying game i put it right back its envelope and dropped it in the mail box, good riddance. extremely unbalanced if you ask me. you fall down, and your dead before you even have a chance to get up, fvcking lame.

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Bob Dole - 378 days 6 hours ago

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GTA4 should be number 1.

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jorgeanaya000 - 379 days 6 hours ago

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I have to agree, battle mode for Mario Kart Wii did get castrated.

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Nathan Drake - 379 days 6 hours ago

4 - Have to agree with Wired

Too Human was the worst videogame product I've played in the past 10 years of gaming,ironically,it took them 10 years to make it : |

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Milo Garret - 378 days 5 hours ago

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You never played it and you know it troll, I can't understand how you are still allowed in the gamer zone, it's an embarresment to this site.

Not only that but you just owned yourself showing everybody how you obviously didn't even read the article, you just wanted to troll, troll. This is what they actually have to say about it:

"No game in 2008 had as much negative word-of-mouth as Silicon Knights' action RPG. On release, it neither owned the haters nor made prophets of the believers: Too Human turned out to be a flawed but enjoyable experience. The most disappointing part about it, though, was that it was over so soon. Perhaps designing a game as a trilogy isn't the best idea, when it means splitting a storyline into three parts and ending the first the very moment that the plot actually becomes interesting."

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rhood022 - 379 days 6 hours ago

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Listing "failed to meet hype" as a criteria is a double-edged sword for claiming something to be disappointing. I mean what is "good" hype and what is "bad." Every one of those games received ridiculous hype from the same places that, upon their release, claim they didn't live up to the hype.

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Lou-Cipher - 379 days 5 hours ago

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My most Disappointed games of 2008

10) Grand Theft Auto 4
9) Ferrari Challenge
8) Need for Speed: Undercover
7) Infinite Undiscovery
6) The Last Remnant
5) NBA 09: The Inside
4) Spore
3) Haze
2) Wii Music
1) Too Human

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Sitdown - 379 days 3 hours ago

6.1 - My question would be..

what did you hear about Wii music that put you in a place to be disappointed? When the first details emerged about it..a lot of people wrote it off.

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DA_SHREDDER - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Fable 2. I cant believe I sacraficed my life so that everyone could live. They killed my dog, wife, kid, everyone I loved,, and then the ungracious f*cks that I saved only made a statue in my honor. I got so mad I went on a killing rampage, to only find out that everyone I kill comes back to life eventually. What was the point of saving everyone then? Fable 2,, the most overhyped goty ever.

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mintaro - 379 days 4 hours ago

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it seems like your only angry cause you picked the crappy ending.

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XXXCouture - 379 days 4 hours ago

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thanks for spoiling the ending retard

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read disc error - 378 days 16 hours ago

7.3 - it's only one ending

there are more than one ending. but, yeah, the comment should be deleted.

Fable 2 is awesome. Didn't like it at first but now I'm addicted. the side quests are awesome and you even get a bunch of new quests after you beat the main quest.

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Kamikaze135 - 379 days 4 hours ago

8 - Wtf

I find it really hard to agree with Dead Space...I find that to be one of the gems in 2008.

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Milo Garret - 378 days 5 hours ago

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Yeah man WTF was up with that?! Great game that deserved more hype and sales than it got, without a doubt one of the best single player experiences this year. After playing the pretty but BORING demo of RE5, the brilliance of Dead Space shines even more.

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Hulk0408 - 379 days 4 hours ago

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How in the hell is Dead Space disappointing? It a really fun and scary game.

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Bigrhyno - 379 days 4 hours ago

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I only have 1 disappointment this year and that is Grand Theft Auto 4. Don't get me wrong, it had some really really good moments... but I expected more things to do and less repetitive missions. Other than that pretty much all the games I was looking forward to met my expectations.

The only other minor disappointment is Mirror's Edge and that's because I have to play the lackluster story campaign to do what I wanted to do all along, the time trials. Oh well, good thing the story is only about 5-6 hours long.

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Bob Dole - 378 days 6 hours ago

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Yeah it's sad when Bob Dole traded GTA4 in for something else and kept on playing San Andreas.

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ProperFunked - 378 days 8 hours ago

11.1 - lol

yeah and it will show how much of a bullsh*t list this is, when it is nominated

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ionstorm - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Dead Space to me was a sleeper hit. very good game but these asshats publishers decide to release every single game between nov1-nov7, thus it got overlooked

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Lombax - 379 days 4 hours ago

13 - Giant Facepalm of Death!!!

Dead Space? Mirrors Edge?

...sometimes, man. sometimes...

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Sheddi - 378 days 18 hours ago

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Yeah, that was what i thought too :S

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panasonic23 - 379 days 4 hours ago

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number 1 is haze ps3fans thought this was a halo killer omg haze gonna be awesome but too human did suck too but atleast it better than haze.

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Bigrhyno - 379 days 2 hours ago

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Neither Too Human nor Haze were a disappointment in my opinion. But that's because I expected both to fail.

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Mahr - 379 days 3 hours ago

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I'd like to see us go full circle and thus have an article wherein we have a list of the ten most disappointing "Ten Most" lists of 2008.

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ExgamerLegends - 379 days 2 hours ago

15.1 - lol

If i had the will to go back and look up all those articles i'd definately do it.

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ProperFunked - 378 days 8 hours ago

15.2 - lol

thats actually a great idea

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mrdxpr2 - 379 days 3 hours ago

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ok the force unleashed was a good game it wasnt disapointing i hate starwar games but that game had me hooked and mirrors edge is another good game just people dont liek the style i do its new and inovative...

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TheWickedOne - 379 days 2 hours ago

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i loved dead space

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ExgamerLegends - 379 days 2 hours ago

19 - Well

Haze wasn't on the list but Dead space was?

Yup that pretty much killed this guys opinion.

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HALO-32 - 379 days 1 hour ago

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The only game on this list I agree with would be Age of Conan.

From the looks of it everyone hated Too Human...I guess I'm the only one who liked it...but after awhile the analog stick claking got annoying.

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tatotiburon - 379 days 6 hours ago

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LOL dead space, prince of persia and Mirror's edge?? where is HAZE the biggest flop of the year??...EPIC FAIL!

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DreamcastFanboy - 379 days 6 hours ago

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No you are the biggest flop this year and anyway Too Human is more of a flop after all ten year to make a game that people think suck? That should get a award of Floppage.

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tatotiburon - 379 days 4 hours ago

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lol nasim where were all this time? we miss in you in the threads of little big flop, home flop, resistance 2 resist the flop, all jrpgs of PS3 flop, VC sales flop hahaha, PS3 sells flop, all 2008 lineup flop...hahaha where were you buddy?

dreamcastfanboy hahaha too human have a better meta than LAIR or Haze and the 10 year of development?? hahahaha xbox 360 even exit back then

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BLuKhaos - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.4 - Xbawks R FEIL!!!!

Meanwhile LBP outscores all 360 exclusives on Metacritic.
LBP=95>Halo 3&Geow1=94>GeOW2=93.
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BLUR111 - 379 days 4 hours ago

2 - who wrote this! wtf

why is dead space on the list? Dead Space was sick

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Shoko - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Dead Space, Prince of Persia, and Mirror's Edge were not flopped. Mirror's Edge was defiantly a frustrating game and all, but it wasn't a flop. It was a good game. Haze should be on the list. I have no idea why Dead Speace is on there. It got good reviews. And how the hell was Mario Kart a flop? It's still on the top on the charts and it released way back in April and received average review scores of 8-8.5.

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ambientFLIER - 379 days 3 hours ago

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Was it too late to add Resistance 2 and LBP?

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Amp - 379 days 2 hours ago

5.1 - No PS3 exclusive made the list

but where was mario cart wii? oh, thats right #3 Not only does Mario Kart Wii completely fail to innovate in any meaningful way over earlier entries in the series, the awkward wheel peripheral that shipped with the title actually made gameplay more difficult. And the castrated battle mode was the airbag that failed to deploy.

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PS360WiiRocks - 379 days 3 hours ago

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dead space? prince of persia? mirrors edge? wtf? lol Too Human wasn't what it was supposed to be and star wars kinda sucked, but those other games were good games. What "HYPE" did dead space, prince of persia and Mirrors edge have? I wasn't hyped, I found about them last minute actually.

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ReTarDedFisHy - 379 days 2 hours ago

9 - Wow, WTH?

IMO, Dead Space and Prince of Persia should be NOWHERE NEAR this list... Mirror's Edge shouldn't either, but personally it kinda was, for me.

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xaviertooth - 378 days 23 hours ago

10 - too human is not the most disappointing game of 2008 ...

but of all time!

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Zulwarn - 378 days 23 hours ago

11 - dead space?! pop?! WTH?!

only a droid could make that dumb list
he forgot the biggest flop of 2008 HAZE

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Jenzo - 378 days 23 hours ago

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Mirror's Edge is trial & error gameplay at it's worst. I completely agree with that one.

Dead Space and Prince of Persia should not be on the list. The again this is some random blog so it should not be approved to begin with.

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Magic_The_Celt - 378 days 20 hours ago

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What a terrible list

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razorbladelight - 378 days 14 hours ago

14 - really mirror's edge

everything about this game (the ambiance, music and gameplay) all really seemed cool in reviews and commercials. I've never actually played it, but if there is a ps3 game I would have really wanted to play this gen (other than mgs4) it is mirror's edge. i guess how frustrating it is put it here (which was a universal complaint from all the reviews I read about it).

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JohnMcClane - 378 days 10 hours ago

15 - i agree with a few

Stalker is really good actually tho im not a pc gamer i saw it in a friends house and was impressed. Deadspace should not be on this list either yes it got caught up in an avalanche of games but still it wasnt overhyped and exceeded most peoples expecations.Also too human was waaaay too low on this list as it was awful and i was hearing alot of hype about it before it came out.

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Arcturus - 378 days 10 hours ago

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dead space? wtf! that game was pretty good. too human was definitely garbage and yes i have played it, bad decision.

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