10 Video Games You Regretted Playing

10. Lifeline

Lifeline was a game of such novel conception it was bound to fail. Innovative to a fault, it was one of the first major games to embrace voice-command functionality. And embrace it, Lifeline certainly did. Known as Operator's Side in Japan, this 2003 Konami release came out on the PS2. Did you even know the PS2 had voice control features? If you did it was probably because of this game.

Set on a space station you played as a fellow stuck in a security office, acting as the handler for a waitress-turned-reluctant-commando. The game starts off with enough fun to keep you entertained for a while. Getting our heroine, Rio, to tell you jokes, compete to see who can name the most states, or bark like a dog are all great fun. But then you have to actually play the game.

Controlling Rio entirely by voice command, in 2003, was just a ridiculous pipe dream, especially in a survival horror setting. Rio talks back, fails to understand your commands, and wastes ammo like it grows on space trees. And if you need her to target a specific weak point on a monster? "Now's not the time to sit down."

No Rio, now isn't the time. But it's a good thing I'm already sitting down.