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Hatred

There have been several gaming titles/genres/trends over the years which the hosts have displayed an exaggerated sense of "hatred" towards (often playing up their dislike for the cameras in order to make for humorous television). These include:

• Card battle games such as Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Games based on anime series (particularly Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and Fullmetal Alchemist)
• "Ungodly boob physics", where female video-game characters are rendered with impossibly large breasts that bounce and sway unnaturally and independently from the rest of their bodies (this phenomenon is particularly prevalent in Japanese dating simulation games like Sexy Beach 2)
• Game series which continue to produce titles despite a lack of quality and/or innovation (such as Dynasty Warriors, Mega Man, Leisure Suit Larry, and Tony Hawk)
• The proliferation of WWII first-person shooter games on the market (during their review of Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege, Morgan remarked "That's it! No more World War II games! According to my contract, I only have to review 75 World War II games per year, and I already hit my quota in March!")
• Video games based on existing IPs (like current movies or TV shows), since they are usually rushed to the market to cash in on the latest craze and end up being painful to actually play (such as the Charlie's Angels or Da Vinci Code video games)
• 3D water levels in games, since the show's writers feel that game developers almost never capture the feeling of swimming in an enjoyable manner ("Instead of making us awkwardly pilot our character through zero-gravity space, why don't you just come to our house and punch us in the face? It's exactly the same amount of fun!")
• Escort missions, where the player is forced to keep an NPC character (who has its own health meter) from dying; this often proves difficult when the NPC's A.I. is so insufficient that they continuously place themselves in harm's way (leaving the player with little or no chance to save them)
• Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue (Morgan has often called this the worst game ever made)
• Jonny Moseley and the ridiculous comments made in his video game Jonny Moseley Mad Trix (including the classic line "What if it snowed in San Francisco?")
• Dane Cook and his brand of comedy
• Uwe Boll and his film adaptions of video games
• Shovelware for the Nintendo Wii, like All Star Cheer Squad and "Crappy Minigame Collection No. 272"
• Developers who feel the need to take a perfectly acceptable single-player game and tack on a multiplayer mode
• Sixaxis controls in PS3 games
• 3D Castlevania games
• Level grinding in role-playing games