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Boo Hiss Awards - 2006
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still believe in boo-hissing. It's a lost art really. Our Boo Hiss awards
are for those products, businesses and people who deserve to be Boo Hissed
for letting us down.
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The PS3 Launch
Back in 2000, Sony botched the PS2 launch pretty badly. People stood
in lines overnight to get them, pre-orders weren't filled and many
of the systems were sold on eBay by scalpers cashing in on the frenzy.
Fast forward six years later and it's the exact same story all over
again, except this time the price is insane! Sony you should have
known better. Your customers deserve far better treatment. Boo
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Nintendo Wii
We like the console, honest, but we're not crazy about the insanely
short battery life of the Wii-motes, the fact that the online servers
are slow or completely over-taxed resulting in error codes, the
downloadable updates that konk out the systems or the fact that
the Virtual Console games mostly blow chunks. Get it together!
You've had 5 years to plan this and get it right, quit doing your
homework the night before its due! Boo Hiss!
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Bully Kiss
We love the game Bully, but we were a little freaked when it was
discovered that you could actually make out with a dude. Huh? Rockstar
are you guys trying to give Jack Thompson a heart attack? Like Seinfeld
we're going to adopt the "Not that there's anything wrong with
that" line, but it's really not appropriate or necessary as
far as we're concerned. Boo Hiss!
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EA's Micro-Tran$action$
Want extras without having to unlock them the old-fashioned way? How
about paying for them via a micro-transaction? Each micro-transaction
will cost you around $3 - $4. We see this is a dangerous precedent
which, if supported by impatient or untalented gamers, will send the
wrong message to game publishers. Could paying for cheats become the
norm in a few short years? Boo Hiss! |
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E3 - No More
E3 as we have known it for the past 11 years is no more. Instead of
a loud, obnoxious parade of lunacy starring the game industry and
tens of thousands of overweight fanboys, it will now become what it
should have been all along - an intimate, professional affair where
business can be conducted without women in bikinis and free t-shirts.
Why are we Boo Hissing this change if it sounds like we're actually
for it? Because it should have been done years ago! Boo Hiss! |
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Games Under Construction
Remember when PC games were the products that needed patching after
release? Not anymore! Console games are now getting the same treatment
- Call of Duty 3, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Call of Duty 2...and
the list will continue to grow. If we buy a game we should at least
expect that it will work. Some of us will be able to download the
patch easily, but the majority of gamers don't even know how to
hook their systems up to the net to do this - even if the service
is free. Boo Hiss!
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Sonic The Hedgehog
Nice going Sega! You've had at least 7 years to correct the original
design flaws in your Sonic the Hedgehog games and you continuously
ignore them, as if they didn't exist or worse yet, pretend as if
they're part of the gameplay! Clipping through the scenery because
you're going too fast or falling to your doom because the camera
spazzed out wasn't fun in Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast back
in 1999. What makes you think it's acceptable in 2006? This is no
way to treat a world-reknowned mascot! Boo Hiss!
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