Great article, but you forgot one major offender: Jurassic Park - Tresspasser. It promised immersive controls to give an unprecedented feeling of being in the game. It delivered floaty arms and unprecedented boob angles.
Stupid Spore! I was all jacked about ti for 3 missed deadlines and once i get it...it was kinda ok until the space level. Every time i went to visit another planet some douche-y alines would attack a planet i had, so i had to go back and fight them, then try to go back to the planet i was going to explore only to be attacked again. I tried to squash the invading annoying scum only to realize i wasn't able to attack large gassy looking planets....then they attacked me again....then spore collected dust.
I still do like State of Emergency, despite all it's flaws. There was something very cathartic about kicking the ever loving holy hell out people in a mall after working 10 hours in holiday retail.
It can not be denied that Peter Molyneux is a great game developer and has been responsible for some fantastic games (Populous and Black & White for example), but he needs to learn the following....Peter repeat after me
"Under promise and over deliver"
(not the other way around).
I have Blinx lol :D. I never cared enough, though, to play past the first level. And I also have Spore, but I stopped at the tribal stage. By that time the game had lost my interest. So yeah, those two definitely fit the bill here.
I friggin' loved The Great Giana Sisters! For me, the fact that it was such a blatant ripoff gave it an air of really wanting to be popular that I somehow found adorable.
Ummm Fable was a kickass game! U guys gave it a 9/10! What the hell? And as for blinx fuck blinx up the ass. My friend showed me it a couple times and urged me to buy it but it sucked too much
Am I the only one who actually LIKES QTEs? Yes, they're a cliche, but due to the amount of boring cutscenes it makes a change and a challenge, doesn't it?
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a great movie and i am glad i own it on DVD along with the great live action mario movie. And no i am not jokeing.
I bought Advent Rising off Steam after hearing the main theme off of the VGL album, and was really disappointed. The only problem is that the ending is incredibly awesome and sparks so many questions that I'm aching for a sequel because I know AR2 will be so much better, but since it won't be made, I guess it can't be better.
I really like Fable. That may partially be because I hadn't really heard much of Molyneux's hype about it, and just liked it for what it was, rather than what it was supposed to be.