>>719750524
I, for one, believe the whole world really started to suck when Michael Jackson died in 2009.
Coincidentally, 2009 is also when cancers in gaming started to metastasize.
>Resident Evil 5 was basically Gears of War but in Africa and with a horror theme
>Modern Warfare 2 came out and everyone ate it up, causing every other dev to chase that CoD gravy train
>Assassin's Creed 2 came out and set in stone the tropes of Ubisoft games (i.e. Ubisoft towers, open world with bugger all to do, etc)
>Halo 3: ODST was upgraded to full-on big release status instead of the humble little expansion pack it was meant to be
>Uncharted 2 came out and its success pretty much made Sony turn all of their releases going forward into the much-maligned movie game