How true.

Also, sh*tty games.

As you all know, I play plenty of shitty games (final two previews just went up), and I do get the chance to play good games once in a while (MGS4, Soul Nomad, etc.). The thing that I seem to hate more than anything is when I've wanted to play a game, and finally pick it up, only to discover it's a lot more disappointing than what I was hoping for.

I popped in The Simpsons game after fully enjoying the demo. What I find is that the game is extremely linear to the point that it leads you by the nose, and doesn't really present a challenge. The only time I came close to dying was when I left the game unpaused to go help my mom with something.

While I wasn't expecting this game to be something magical, I at least expected to have a decent amount of fun with it. But no, the game quickly felt like a chore, and all the cool Simpsons references weren't even enough to stave off the boredom I have playing through the game. And I'm only 15% through. This, for me, is torture. Not Escape from Bug Island; not Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2. When you take a game that I actually garner an interest in and turn it into something less than desirable, then you've made a truly bad game.