Dude, Condemned was awesome. Such a visceral experience. I guess it just isn't for everyone. I love survival horrors I must admit, so I have somewhat of a predisposition. I played it on PC also, which might have changed things.
Grandia II and Suikoden IV were both kind of disappointments. Grandia II was bad enough that I will never play III. It was just worse in every way compared to the first one. Suikoden V is luckily looking to be a better game than IV was.
O yeah, biggest disappointment though was definitely Perfect Dark Zero. My friend raved about it, but I wasn't very pleased when I actually played it. I loved the first one too. Rare needs to get it together. It was a launch title, but so was Resistance, which I absolutely loved. Go go Insomniac.
Resistance vs. Gears is a toss-up for me. Gears loses miserably on story. I never got to play the multiplayer, so I will pass judgement on that. Single player was just plain fun though even if it was fairly short. Resistance isn't as revolutionary as Gears though. I would say it is a more "balanced" experience in all. The guns were pretty damn awesome, and I though multiplayer was very well-tuned.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
