Best and Worst of 2005: Dubious Honors (Part 1)

Because they can't all be winners, we feel compelled to present to you the year's Dubious Honors, a not-so-proud GameSpot tradition since 1996. These are the games whose accomplishments are, let's say, different.

These certainly aren't the worst games of the year--on the contrary, some of the year's best games find their way into our Dubious Honors category. However, for one reason or another, all these games left something of a sour taste in our mouths, and we know we're not alone. So, won't you join us for a little rubbernecking?

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[OgrumMxO]

True...but needless advertisement is still needless advertisement...which Gamespot has in spades.

A billboard in MxO advertising Discovery channel? ok...well i have billboards in my city that has the same thing, so why should that be a complaint? Burnout? same thing.

A video game based website advertising shoes?!?....yeah.

[FMVGuy]

"A billboard in MxO advertising Discovery channel? ok...well i have billboards in my city that has the same thing,"

That's not the problem. If the game had fake advertisements, then they wouldn't complain.

"which Gamespot has in spades."

Which all sites use to stay afloat.

Like IGN or Something Awful.

[OgrumMxO]

Eh...product placement in MxO actually fits because it's supposed to be in the 'real' world...so naturally a city should have billboards.

But we'll ignore the product placement and advertisements on the Gamespot homepage....yeah.

[FMVGuy]

There's a difference between a website and games.

[usernamefromhell]

back when gamespot didn't suck...

[natetodamax]

Wow Ryan looks 100 pounds skinnier in this video

[daneboealt]

The house of the dead overkill would have been in here i for gamecube for swearing

[RazielCuts]

haha even in 2005 people were talking about 'dusting off' Nintendo consoles.

[Zecifer]

Wow Ryan looks so much better here, his weight has really got out of control.

[n8dogg87]

@weskeni20 The 360 came out really fast, and had pretty horrid launch titles. It didn't pick up until later.

[ambarkumar]

hahaha...great!!

[eriko23]

My GOD RYAAAAN! O_O

[weskeni20]

You guys dont feel it weird that They are Bashing the 360 and Now they Love it?

[oystein127]

wait hold the fuck on is that ryan

[dstebbin]

This is back when Gamespot was actually a RELIABLE critic.