Vote Now For Your Biggest Disappointment of 2009!
By John Kershaw on Monday, December 28th 2009
Update: The full list of winners is here!
Voting is now open for the People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment. The nominees were chosen based on your votes, so you only have yourself to blame.
Voting will stay open until some time on the 30th and the winners will be announced on the site and on a special NGCast (get your thoughts on the show; leave us a voicemail!) on the 31st, along with the winners of all the other awards up for grabs.
After much deliberation, the short-list of the other awards (the winners of which will be voted on by NG staff over the next few days) is as follows;
Most Over-Hyped Game
Modern Warfare 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Scribblenauts
Halo 3: ODST
Assassin’s Creed 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off
Xbox Avatars
Tony Hawk: Ride
Street Fighter 4 costumes
Modern Warfare 2 Limited Edition
DJ Hero
Biggest PR-Backfire
Dante’s Inferno / Molest women
Modern Warfare 2 / F.A.G.S.
PSPgo as an ‘œaspirational product’
David Jaffe not talking about games for a year
Brownest Game
Killzone 2
Dragon Age: Origins
50 Cent Blood in the Sand
Wolfenstein
Resident Evil 5
Biggest Broken Promise
Left 4 Dead 1 support
Ghostbusters
BioShock 2 being released this year
Left 4 Dead 2 boycott group
Duke Nukem Forever
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award
Bobby Kotick
Infinity Ward
Evony
Australian government
PSPgo
Thing That Was Shit
Spike VGAs
Germany
PSPgo
Left 4 Dead 2 being banned
Wii Motion Plus
DSi LL
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game
FarmVille
Evony
Mario and Sonic at the Summer/Winter Olympic Games
Sorority Life
Wii Sports
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground
Videogame journalism is dead
Modern Warfare 2 / No Russian
Natal
The PSPgo and how awful it is
The Left 4 Dead 2 boycott
Infinity Ward’s epic fail
YouTube
iTunes
Tumblr
Friend Feed
Oh dear Xenu: The game turned out to be parts real time strategy, the one and only genre I really despise. There was nothing about such game elements during the very cool and stylish demo and without reading any further reviews I picked it up and sold it away a few days later. I marked out Lemmy having a guest appearence, I loved the soundtrack but real time strategy’s one of the worst things a game can include. At least Tim Schafer got some of my money to hopefully support a project better suited to my tastes.
Oh, I forgot to mention it buy my post was about Brutal Legend. Talk about missing the point of the post, huh?
I dont see Evony losing this one!
@CoamIthra: Evony didn’t disappoint me, because I didn’t expect anything and didn’t even try it.
@aequidens: Oh sorry, I didn’t see it was in different categories, yeah, that’s probably going to win most annoying casual and maybe “doing it wrong” as well.
Xbox Avatars came out in 2008. Lol at the “Brownest Game” category.
@Playing Mantis: The “Avatars” nomination covers the props and pets which I think came out this year, as well as all the clothes.
How is Ghostbusters a broken promise? Everything else in that category I understand, but Ghostbusters is a real thing…
MW2. I’d explain why, but I’m afraid Infinity Ward would rip off my words and plagiarize them as a quote in MW3: STAYING FROSTY WHILE OSCAR MIKING A FOOTMOBILE, along with everything else they plagiarized in MW2.