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selnor said:
Damstr8 said:
selnor said:
I will also just point out that no game that has ever reached AAA status and amazing sales has ever been hyped up to the massive.

Look at the original

Half Life

Halo

GTA

Gran Turismo

Far Cry

Mario Kart

Gears of War..... etc etc...

Look at big hyped games

LBP

KZ

Too Human

Daikatana

Etc...etc....

These games never reached amazing sales, you cant create a groundbreaking sales selling monster with hype. These monster sellers just appear, they happen. Same with films. Look at The Matrix, they released that 4 months apart from Episode 1 Phantom Menace. The Producers didnt epect alot in sales at all.

I thought Assassins creed did pretty well.

 

Yeah it did didnt it. My point though is well, it's fine to hype a sequel to a monster selling original. The thing is you know when a series is massive, because it is hardly hyped by the devs or Publisher at all. Merely the announcement of a sequel to a killer original is enough to get the fans hyping all on their own. This was not the case with KZ2. I remember when KZ2 got announced. There was hardly any noise from fans, it was all Devs and Publishers going look how good it looks etc etc.

Think back to the Halo 3 announcement. Before Bungie or M$ had a chance to hype it the Halo community had already pretty much figured the story out. It was hyped all on it's own. Thats the difference.

I feel many fanboys are hurting themselves, because when the sales dont get anywhere near games like Halo 3, Gears Of War 2, Mario Kart and the like they will wonder why. It will probably be a good game, but pinning so much hope on a sequel from the same devs that made a poor original that got 70 on metacritic is unheard of. But I am slightly worried that they have put all their effort into graphics and not gameplay.

 

 

you know about KZ2 gameplay how???

 

people who were in the beta loved the gameplay and it seems so does many reviewers( http://n4g.com/PS3/games/g-24194/tt/metareviews.aspx ),,,Sometimes you just have to accept that you were wrong that the game will flop critically just like KZ1 in most of your KZ2 posts