Games and consoles never live up to our lofty expectations. In our collective gaming vocabulary, we typically pick out actual products to highlight these shortcomings. Doing so, we sully that original product, pegging it with all shorts of external negative connotations. Thus, instead of picking on the usual suspects, I propose picking on someone else. I propose Axl Rose.

For those living under a rock during the late 80's or early 90's, Axl Rose was the lead singer of a rock band called Guns N Roses. Recently, he's found vox work in GTA: San Andreas and was the inspiration for a Guilty Gear character. His band released a series of smash hit records, but lost the plot thanks to heroin and supermodels. Axl fired everybody that didn't quite GNR and has been working on the band's newest album, Chinese Democracy, for donkey's yonks. Recently, Rose told Rolling Stone, "we're working on thirty-two songs, and twenty-six are nearly done." Continuing, the controlling singer said, "People will hear music this year."

It doesn't matter when people hear this album, because people are going to let down. Chinese Democracy is a product of excess, indulged and bankrolled by a huge corporation. Same goes for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Duke Nukem Forever and the PS3 or any other titles, games, whatever. Granted, they could very well turn water into Kool-Aid, but will never meet the expectations and neither will Chinese Democracy. But, it's better than waiting for nothing.

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