I played 'Haunted House' quite a bit on the Atari VCS (2600) although I was more interested in Warlords and Night Driver at the time.

One thing I really hate in games is poor writing when it comes to text. Found mostly where either the writer is doing a translation piece and he or she edits their own work, which ends up with some questionable language that doesn't make sense in any context, or even when the text is done in one's native language, except they use poor judgment or are trying to sound hip, which just turns out to be tragic.

Some of the things that bother me the most is using a "z" to end a word that really ends with an "S", replacing the word "you" with the letter "u", the constant use of the made up word "alot" in place of "a lot", and/or "noone" instead of "no one."

It's hard to take anybody seriously if their spelling and/or grammar looks like it was written by a retard. I see this everywhere in Internet forums, but when it creeps into games, it is totally unacceptable.

you didn't include Xenogears?

The ODST name change was probably either: 1. Halo 3 Recon was a development name, never intended to be the name of the final game, or 2. Bungie and/or Microsoft didn't want to have people get the name confused with Ghost Recon.

Different people dislike different games. I get that. I'm probably the only person in my Zip Code who 1. hates Madden NFL, and 2. has already pre-ordered Virtua Tennis 2009. All of the editors have valid points, and that cool.

Except for the guitar playing douche. Guitar Hero and Rock Band are about having fun. It's not the same as playing a real guitar, and we get that. Why do we play those dreadful games, when we could be playing a real guitar? Maybe because we lack the talent needed to do so. Not everybody is gifted enough to actually play a real musical instrument. Just like most people who play Forza probably can't race a real car, or of the people who play Call of Duty 4 may not be candidates to carry and use firearms too the full potential.

The other articles are about popular games that some editors don't like. Mr. Keast has written not about the games, but how he hates the people actually like them. Hate the games, not the players.