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The most heart-rending gaming disappointments of 2008

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From ArsTechnica:

"As 2008 draws to a close, there's lots of talk of the best games of the year, and the things that made us happy to be gaming... but this talk only tells part of the story. We tend to remember the games we fall in love with every year, but the things that drive us crazy tend to fade away with time. That's a shame; you can learn just as much from failure as you can from success.

With that in mind, the Opposable Thumbs staff came together to chat about the things that let us down the most this year, and here are our top five heart-breakers. In no particular order..."
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Yi-Long - 330 days 12 hours ago
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1 - Pro Evo 2009 was once again a bitter BITTER disappointment...
Bad online, still not REALLY next-gen, and wayyy too often you are left completely infuriated because your player decides to do something completely different to what to you 'ordered' him to do.

It's unbelievable that Konami still dares to release this game for full-price.

The biggest disappointment of 2008 though, werent the games. It's the industry in itself. from just really bad marketing decisions (too many different SKU's, to bad quality bundles (Kung Fu Panda and Indy Jones? Really?, too still way too overpriced accesories (sp?), to the constant barrage of DLC scamming and nickel-and-diming gamers for pretty much EVERYTHINGGGGGGGGggggggggggggg gggg.

I just really hate the way the industry is going, with the DLC, with the high prices, with the bad-mouthing the competition, etc etc.

The games are great. Nothing to complain about there. The whole 'industry'/'money-making' deal is just kinda a put-off.
There's actually way more to complain about, like Europe still being the industry's whipping-boy and all that, paying most for less... or about Nintendo not really releasing anything really worthwhile for their Wii, which must suck for those who actually bought a Wii.

Ah well... let's hope in 2009 there will be a little less greed and a little more love from everyone involved in the industry!
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ReBurn - 330 days 12 hours ago
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Couldn't agree more.
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Peow - 330 days 10 hours ago
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Notice this all happened when Microsoft joined in...

I don't really believe it's because of Microsoft or anything, its just bad time on their part.

But DAMMIT! Gaming is turning into a business, focusing on money than the consumer... Pah! You don't see consumer focused groups anymore, everyone's based (more) off of money! Things are losing quality. All the old fashioned toys were made of tin and stuff, everything is plastic now.
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OnslaughtX - 330 days 11 hours ago
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I think making the NPD sales public has essentially ruined the ability to intelligently discuss gaming online from the angle of ...what's the word I want?? Oh yeah... FUN!
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IDemonstalkerXI - 330 days 11 hours ago
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3 - Its christmas time...
Is it the bad economy that makes the gaming media so pessimistic?

Most dissapointment in 08 for me was that Tekken 6 was not coming till 09. Plenty of goods in 08 though.....how do you leave out Haze and Too Human? Those where a couple of games that let alot of folks down..
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ReBurn - 330 days 9 hours ago
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I was disappointed by no Tekken in '08 as well.
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sltPoison - 330 days 9 hours ago
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4 - LittleBigPlanet
AN HONORABLE MENTION! Kill me now.
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ThatCanadianguy420 - 330 days 9 hours ago
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Infinite undiscovery,The last remnant,Too Human,Fable 2.

Those games all failed me so badly,each in there own special way..

IU's lame PS2 like graphics,TLR's glitchy horrid frame-rate/Cheezy dialogue,Too Human.Nuff said,Fable 2's lack of freedom..

That's all i herd about Fable.."You have so much freedom" "Do whatever you want" And yet it's just as scripted as every other linear RPG.

Oblivion had REAL freedom to do what you want,when you want.
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Raz - 330 days 8 hours ago
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..But Fallout 3 is another epic fail... Bethesda was kind enough to finally release an update and the damn thing still freezes my PS3.
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Devil May Cry 4 for me.

It still boggles my mind how badly they managed to mess that game up.
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Spore and Nintendo I agree with...

Some uncalled for swipes at the PS3 at the end... Suicide to sell at high price. 'Then, of course, since this is Sony, there were server problems.' And why would LBP be on the honourable mention list when the author mentions 'everyone should play the game'!!

And why no Too Human? Surely the single biggest flop of the year. Awful game, overhyped and then Dyack tells us that it's not really a POS, we just don't 'get it'. OK.

Also, not sure Home deserves a place on there (yet). I don't like it, but until it moves from Open Beta to full release I'm not going to judge it.
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