Kratos is too angry to think things out to that level.

It's a third person action game that appeals to the CoD kind of crowd. Lots of angry yelling and ripping things' heads off and interpreting these classic myths as Michael Bay fever dreams on copious amounts of Red Bull and Monster, and it requires no subtlety in the gameplay (press X a lot to do things). They can also re-hash it routinely with slight changes and have each one declared a modern masterpiece or something.

Oh, and there's lots of titties which convinces "gamerz" that it's "mature."

Strangely though, Duke Nukem Forever hits all those points as well, but is panned in reviews for being "old" and the titties are dismissed as "misogynistic" and "sexist"

Indeed garcet, that's, as usual with the vg media, their way of showing what a bunch of hacks and lap dogs they are of the big studios and big franchises. Showing that "reviews" are just marketing tools for promoting certain games, and nothing more.

if you can't tell the difference between the new duke nukem game and any god of war game, then you don't play video games.

Well, he did gouge out Poseidon's eyes, chopped off Hermes's legs, literally ripped off Helios' head and pounded Hercules' head into ground beef.

I think by the time they got to Zeus, the developers kinda ran out of ways for Kratos to fuck shit up.

The beating-the-shit-out-of-Zeus scene is beyond self-parody.
Just a screen completely covered in blood except for a trophy notification and a little image of the button the game is telling you to press over and over to win.

You know, I played and enjoyed both Manhunt games, but watching God of War cutscenes honestly just makes me feel sad and repulsed.

Yeah, it totally does. God of War was a fun game, the sequels only made it stupid.

GoW on God difficulty was a blast. Never played the sequels. Good thing, it would seem.

I remember how my interest in God of War died the instant I saw the ending to the 2nd one. It takes a lot of balls to end your game with a shameless sequel hook, and not the good kind of balls.

I hate that in all games 'ballsy' enough to try it, even got annoyed with Mass Effect 2 over it.

Anyway, the worst one I can think of is Prey, a game in development for so long some of the very first Penny Arcade strips were making fun of how long it was taking, before it's eventual Xbox 360 release. Despite it's 12-or-so year development cycle, they didn't have the decency to give it a real ending. If they think I'm waiting another 12 years for another shitty game they're nuts.

It's almost every single bad habit of modern games all rolled into one:

-Constant use of cutscenes, and the game always forces you to watch them
-Terrible story that takes itself way too serious
-Annoying QTE that just throw random buttons at the player
-Long ass boss battles, where skill is not rewarded, but repetition, repeating the same attacks over and over
-Tedious combat system, you end up repeating the same one or two effective moves over and over

All it needs to be complete is a cover system and deep throated endorsement of fascist military/police actions.

Can't wait to see it as a linked tag.

Triple Ass title

QTE-cutscene-duckandshoot-sandbox-hacknslash-crapfest

Is the shortest i could think of

Skrimp?

Hollywood gaming syndrome?

Fail.