So each of us has chosen our top 5 games of the year, but we decided to choose some other awards as well. Today is our biggest disappointment. A title or moment we were looking forward to that let us down and find it hard to defend at the end of the day. We've all been there.

Feel free to agree/disagree/wish death upon our choices in the comments.

Spore - nominated by Kevin

Few games in the history of the industry have ever had as much hype as Will Wright's Spore. Some might say that it's impossible for the game to ever have had a chance to live up to it and most of them would be right. I don't know how it started out in the initial design process but what we ended up with is a sum that is made up of five stripped-down games that have little to no appeal. I tried to stick with it until the "Space" stage but I thought the boredom might have killed me.

The Ending of Metal Gear Solid 4 - nominated by Dan

I'm going to try and be as spoiler free as possible here, but my biggest disappointment of '08 was the ending to MGS4. There was the typical Kojima over the top build up and awesome final act that led to an ending that leaves the feeling I'd imagine eating a ton of dog shit would leave. Imagine this, you save all your money all year to buy this awesome industrial firework. You launch it, and it sails into the sky... your anticipation growing. At the apex of it's arc as it's about to burst into millions of colors and sounds, the fuse goes out and it sails back to Earth. Except the fall before it hits the ground takes about 90 minutes. You know in your heart as you watch hoping for it to ignite that it's not going to, but you watch it the whole time anyway... just in case. Thud. This game was so awesome otherwise, leading right up the final cinematic.

Alien Crush Returns - nominated by Jim

The original Alien Crush is one of the titles that I hold solely responsible for my love of simulated pinball. That's why it broke my heart when Alien Crush Returns turned out to be a piss-poor reimagining of the original. The ball physics were off, the tables were generic -- everything was sub-par when compared to the original title. Considering Alien Crush is nearly 20 years old, that's really saying something.

Too Human – nominated by Ryan

I thought Dyack might actually pull it off. He didn't. Choppy cut scenes, uneven difficulty, and that angel of death that kills half a minute of your time every time you die made Too Human one of the biggest let downs of the year, hands down. Who ever though a sci-fi epic about a Norse god with a glowing face could suck so hard?

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