L.A. Noire
I didn't know I wanted L.A. Noire until exactly 8 1/2 hours before it came out. A couple weeks before that, I was subjected to the same 30-second ad for it (the DLC from Gamestop to be exact) for every video of Catherine I was trying to watch. After watching this ad for the fifth time, Alex and I both swore a blood oath we'd never buy it. Not just because forcing your users to sit through the same 30 second ad for each and every 3 minute clip is the worst way to advertise, but also because the facial textures were hideous.
I should rephrase that - the textures are not hideous. How they lay on the overly flat facial skeleton is. In addition, "His head is way too big for his body," Alex commented, "He looks like an alien baby." And it was true. It was painfully obvious that a lot of love and caring went into this, but that same love wasn't put into connecting it realistically to a body, or keeping the proportions right.
