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GAF Votes FOTY 2011 Thread Fail Of The Year
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I think the reason people (me included) hate DA2 so much (compared to your average shit game) is that it wasn't just a shit game. It was a shit game and the only game released in its genre this year.
The biggest Fail of the Year was Brendan McNamara/Team Bondi. Start off with a story driven game with a terrible story, one dimensional characters and about 2/5 of the game that was bullshit. Then allegations of McNamara working the team ridiculously hard and removing people's name off the credits of LA Noire if they quit during development. And then the inevitable shutdown and liquidation of Team Bondi, which can almost solely be blamed on McNamara. Not a good chapter for the Aussie game industry.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
Gotta agree here. Failed Syfy series "brand branch-outs" combined with an utter failure of a sequel to understand at all what anyone liked about the first one... followed up by the announcement that the whole IP was being shelved.
PSN hack is very high-profile, but so far no signs of actual theft related, unlike XBox Live FIFA phishing. Plus that games as apology has got to be taken into account and lessens the fail.
PS3 Skyrim is shameful, but it will be fixed and more or less forgotten, and they still sold a metric fuckton of them. Not quite a fail.
Ditto Dragon Age 2. Very many sold, many people hold the conflicting opinion it is alright. And Mass Effect 1 had like 3 dozen bases with all the same floorplan too. Not quite a fail.
But Red Faction: Armageddon? Couldn't have failed HARDER.
Uno Venova
Banned
Going with Skyrim on PS3.
Dark Stalkers
Member
I completely forgot about EA banning people from SP games.
Hellshadow
Member
Duke Nukem Forever
electroplankton
Banned
PSN hack.
Like the red ring of death some years ago, video gamers didn't get angry as they would have had to do.
Like the red ring of death some years ago, video gamers didn't get angry as they would have had to do.
Ivan A Nguyen
Member
Nintendo Next Gen
The 3DS and Wii U have both had disastrous showings. CEOs taking voluntary pay cuts, drops in stock prices, and the drop off in current gen software might be seen as the first nail in Nintendo's coffin.
The 3DS and Wii U have both had disastrous showings. CEOs taking voluntary pay cuts, drops in stock prices, and the drop off in current gen software might be seen as the first nail in Nintendo's coffin.
Rodney McKay
Member
Add the fact that it killed the series for the time being and you've got all the makings of a massive fail.
LordPhoque
Banned
PSN outage.
Was I the only sucker who bought Homefront or Brink?
I bought both, man
I'll never live it down
Discotheque
Banned
Fail of the year: YOU!
yes I'm going the Time magazine route here. Fuck y'all who didn't buy games like Shadows of the Damned and Bulletstorm thus telling the developers their games were worthless.
yes I'm going the Time magazine route here. Fuck y'all who didn't buy games like Shadows of the Damned and Bulletstorm thus telling the developers their games were worthless.
Live Free or Die
Banned
Lol @ people saying PSN outage. really?
3DS for me.
3DS for me.
PSN outage.
goin' for that triple
I mean, shitty things happened, but I can't think of anything bigger than that.
but then you'd be asking me to tell Cave and Platinum and G.Rev and Ark System Works and ByKing and so on that their games are worthless!
goin' for that triple
I mean, shitty things happened, but I can't think of anything bigger than that.
but then you'd be asking me to tell Cave and Platinum and G.Rev and Ark System Works and ByKing and so on that their games are worthless!
I don't see how it's not a failure.
Mama Robotnik
Member
By what measure is it not a devastating failure of epic scale the likes of which the industry has never seen before or since?
It made the mainstream. Nothing else even remotely compares to Sony's absolute clusterfuck of a year.
Kilgore Trout
Member
Psn outage and the subsequent "no lawsuit clause" in the EULA
Rahxephon91
Banned
Not me man. I was behind those games.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
I know it ain't a popular opinion here, but, um... it wasn't that good. Repetitive graphics, horrible texture pop-in, annoying sound effects (that GOAT! that BABY!), and a script that was honestly pretty stupid in its attempts at humor.
Maybe this title belongs as biggest fail... if Red Faction: Armageddon hadn't come out this year and killed a whole potential franchise.
dinosaur_hunter2
Member
PSN outage.
Yes, really. The legal backlash was so out-of-line on Sony's part. They totally lost control
Windom Earle
Banned
LA Noire.
Not only was it a successful hacking of servers of one of the largest multinational comglomerates, which should never happen. But how it was handled is a part of that "failure" too.
Anton Sugar
Member
Death of GSC and STALKER 2
Not really a fail per se, but I need to vent.
and PC gaming lol
Not really a fail per se, but I need to vent.
That shit was all over the internet. Never has gaming news reached every single website.
(... except that stupid arrow-to-the-knee joke)
StoppedInTracks
Member
I dunno guys I got SIX FREE games out of the PSN hack so it cannot be fail.
Skyrim PS3 gets my vore.
Skyrim PS3 gets my vore.
Aw man, where do we even begin. This has been a pretty hilarious year from psn getting hacked, to funding hacking terrorists, to climbing the ever slippery slopes of shit-mountain, to the Fifa hack n denials, to bullet-time 0fps Skyrim for dat triple and beyond.
Let us reminisce.
Let us reminisce.
Neuromancer
Member
Oh there were so many this year. But the #1 is:
PSN outage
PSN outage
Yes, really. Losing the entire online infrastructure for damn near a month, the amazingly incompetent way sony handled the whole situation...nothing comes close this year.
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