{"id":73197,"date":"2015-03-16T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T05:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=73197"},"modified":"2015-03-16T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T05:03:46","slug":"biggest-fails-of-the-last-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/73197-biggest-fails-of-the-last-generation","title":{"rendered":"Biggest fails of the last generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video game generation is nothing without its triumphs and complete fails.<\/p>\n<p>We have those heavy hitters that changed the way we experienced a video game, and then we have those that\u00a0we wished would just go away.<\/p>\n<p>These were the games that I thought were complete fails &#8211; and no, there is no Duke Nukem Forever this time.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Lost Planet 2\/3<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/391jmN38GCU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lost Planet is kind of like Monster Hunter with guns, on another planet, with explosions. Unfortunately, both Lost Planet 2 and Lost Planet 3 failed to reach the audiences\u2019 expectations after the success of the original title.<\/p>\n<p>Bad controls, overly-difficult enemies, and a\u00a0bad game design meant this title\u00a0failed badly. Even after the failure of Lost Planet 2, Capcom made the exact same mistakes in Lost Planet 3.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Turning Point: Fall of Liberty<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6QrTEEzDBB0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Germans have infiltrated New York during World War II &#8211; it&#8217;s your job to push them back. Sounds like fun, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was the complete opposite of fun, it was repetitive and a complete waste of time and money.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Carson is the protagonist, a construction worker with no prior military experience who gets tangled up in the war and has to survive the Nazi takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Now this guy has no shooting experience, but is able to fight through the Nazis with ease. Yeah right.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Fable 3<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QAxoBTgytEQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the success of Fable 2, I really had high hopes for Lionhead Studios\u2019 next chapter in the Fable franchise. Unfortunately, Fable 3 missed the mark completely.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the traditional man-versus-evil mechanic that we all knew, Lionhead\u2019s \u201cgenius\u201d Peter Molyneux thought it was time to put you in charge and make you king.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in a quest system that saw you running around pleasing people the entire time. This, along with the game\u2019s very poor combat and progression system, brought it to ruin<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/apSQH08gTwU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Insomniac Games managed to take one of the greatest PlayStation franchises and rip it to pieces. Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One was one of the worst games I ever played on PS3.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it had the potential to be a great 4 player co-op experience, but in the end it all fell flat.<\/p>\n<p>The game was buggy, lacked a proper story, and felt like you were doing the same thing over and over again.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Lair<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BLdTn8Z1AM0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lair released just a few months into the PS3\u2019s lifecycle and had so much potential.<\/p>\n<p>The game made use of the Sixaxis of the DualShock 3, which sounded exciting, but the controls saw you flying around like Harrison Ford over a golf course.<\/p>\n<p>It was extremely hard to aim at anything, let alone figure out where in the sky you were.\u00a0The visuals were also lacking as everything was washed out and bland.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day the game was a fail.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us about the worst games of the last generation that you played, in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/73257-electronics-gaming-expo-for-cape-town.html\">Electronics &amp; Gaming Expo for Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/73227-why-even-call-of-duty-gamers-must-play-final-fantasy-xv.html\">Why even Call of Duty gamers must play Final Fantasy XV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/73179-your-guide-to-online-gamers.html\">Your guide to online gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These games failed hard during the last console cycle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":73323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[13379,21],"class_list":["post-73197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-gaming-fails","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73321,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73197\/revisions\/73321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}