Default Prime: Worst of Gaming in 2009

2009 was a great year for gaming, and in expressing the greatness of it, we created what we thought the best of 2009 was. Well we said at the end of the article that there would be a worst of gaming in 2009 article, and here it is. We will reminisce through this past year that the gaming industry had for us. These are not things to be proud of, actually they are. So if you made one of these games, are a fan of any of these games, or just disagree with us, don’t.

Use of a peripheral

Tony Hawk Ride

Oh Tony Hawk, how we don’t love you at all. The games were good and all when they first came out 1999, but when everybody realized that you couldn’t actually do a back flip on a skateboard flat on the ground, they had to turn to a “realistic” environment. This included a skateboard peripheral that you used to do the tricks and move around and everything, but for $120, a 3 hour story, and just an overall shitty game, we were more than disappointed.

Whored-out game/franchise

Guitar Hero

Like there was even a question on whether this award could go to anyone else. Yes, the guitar-hero franchise is extremely whored-out, they’re sucking you’re money away, and Bobby Kotick is sitting in his golden chair made of shit laughing. That’s why the award below this one goes to…

Person that we want to punch in the face

Bobby Kotick

We’ve never met the man, but that doesn’t stop him from getting this award. As the CEO of Activision Blizzard, he has no problem taking the Guitar Hero franchise, offering up 3 different games a year with sub-par music for every single console, then every single piece of DLC that they could possibly release making even more money. They’ll shamelessly copy what Rock Band and other companies are doing and incorporate them into their own game, and we can all tell that he doesn’t even play his own games.

Most over-hyped game

Modern Warfare 2

News about Modern Warfare 2 have been coming out since…the release of the first Modern Warfare game back in 2007. Then, a couple months before the game came out there was news literally everywhere. “OMG GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE”, “Modern Warfare 2 wants you to be a terrorist”, and all of that bullshit. We all knew that the game was getting hyped to death and when the end product came out, I think a lot of people were disappointed. I really liked the single-player, I think it could have been longer and added more, and the online was solid, with new maps, weapons, and additions from it’s predecessor. But essentially it’s the same. It’s a great game in the end, but lets face it, there is not another game that got this hyped up this year.

Shameless rip-off

Xbox Avatars

Microsoft released the Xbox Avatars when the NXE update hit Xbox 360’s. With the popularity of the Wii and it’s addition of Mii’s, there’s no doubt that somebody would copy them, and that somebody happened to be Microsoft. Of course, you can customize all of their gear and whatnot by spending your money and having it affect you in no way whatsoever, but lets face it, I don’ think the avatars would ever have come out if the Wii wasn’t a success or wasn’t incorporated into it.

Sidekick to have by your side

Sheva Alomar – Resident Evil 5

I’m not a huge fan of the Resident Evil series. I’ve played the first two and the fourth one and had some fun, but when playing Resident Evil 5, I noticed that besides what I thought were clunky controls, you’re little sidekick Sheva Alomar is fucking worthless. When I say worthless, I literally mean you can’t even use her as a shield when you shoot at zombies. I don’t think artificial intelligence was included with her when the game came out. That’s how bad it is.

Boycott/Bitchy group of people that get too much attention

Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott group

When Left 4 Dead 2 was announced, a lot of people thought that there were many broken promises from Valve about the continued support and additions to the existing game. With Survival Mode, “Death Toll” and “Dead Air” for versus mode, the “Crash Course” campaign, and other minor updates here and there, they didn’t think all of that was enough. Everyone payed attention to them for a while, but after they found out that they were wrong and they were tired of getting made fun of and couldn’t come up with enough excuses to make them right, they disbanded. Oh well, we’ll miss them. not.

Game that featured Italian accents

The Godfather II

I am a fan of the classic Godfather film, but when it came to the game, the Italian accents didn’t make up for what kind of terrible game came out of this. With terrible graphics for the consoles it came out on, brain-dead AI, everything felt unfinished about the game.

And the worst of the year goes to….

The PSPgo

There was really no question whatsoever to who this award would go to. And it’s the PSPgo. This $250, kind of sleek device is download-only, but the only problem is the price, and how Sony went about selling it to stores and customers. I mean, it’s not even worth it. They did a terrible job pricing with the PS3 now at $300, I mean who wouldn’t spend the extra $50 and get the full blu-ray playing console? Yeah, nobody (the sales show). There were a lot of cool things that the PSPgo could have brought to the table, but Sony failed to do so making the PSPgo the shittiest thing to come out in 2009. Congratulations and stuff.