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Why is it a problem?

You get people excited and thought the game will be worth every penny and more and you end up selling the crappy game to people that trust you to point them to some good games.

Take, for example, this game called Army Corps of Hell for PSV, http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-vita/army-corps-of-hell

It has a meta score of 57. That's way before an average game score of 80/100.

 

I remember seeing this game (among others) being praise numerous times on VGC alone, way before PSV was released. It was even called some sort of killer app by some members.

 

This problem seem to affect all platforms but the majority are on Sony platforms.

When you sell bad games to people, they'll end up hating the console because you sell them bad experiences. You end up dooming the console that you love. The cycle goes and you ended up dooming yourself.

So, please, stop dooming yourself. You know who you are.

 

There's also the problem of anti-hype, but that calls for another thread for another time.



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8/10 is not average

We play games not "apps" especially not "killer ones"!



PS One/2/p/3slim/Vita owner. I survived the Apocalyps3/Collaps3 and all I got was this lousy signature.


Xbox One: What are you doing Dave?

Galaki said:

I remember seeing this game (among others) being praise numerous times on VGC alone, way before PSV was released. It was even called some sort of killer app by some members.

Citation needed.



badgenome said:
Galaki said:

I remember seeing this game (among others) being praise numerous times on VGC alone, way before PSV was released. It was even called some sort of killer app by some members.

Citation needed.

Never change dude, never change.



PS One/2/p/3slim/Vita owner. I survived the Apocalyps3/Collaps3 and all I got was this lousy signature.


Xbox One: What are you doing Dave?

yea, I really don't like too much pre-emptive hype either

the last time I was extremely hyped for a game (Oblivion for PC), I got burned as the game turned out to be not my cup of tee



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badgenome said:
Galaki said:

I remember seeing this game (among others) being praise numerous times on VGC alone, way before PSV was released. It was even called some sort of killer app by some members.

Citation needed.


look in your ass :D



Its a good thing that this problem is locialized "within a certain group of fans across all three consoles, some more then others". One should take steps to hype games realistically and not call AAA quality blindly.

If the game is destined to be great, like Halo 4, then hype away I say!



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

sales2099 said:
Its a good thing that this problem is mostly localized within the PS3 fan community. 360 and Wii gamers hype their games realistically.

If the game is destined to be great, like Halo 4, then hype away I say!


Really? Was there a need for that?



PS One/2/p/3slim/Vita owner. I survived the Apocalyps3/Collaps3 and all I got was this lousy signature.


Xbox One: What are you doing Dave?

Ajescent said:
sales2099 said:
Its a good thing that this problem is mostly localized within the PS3 fan community. 360 and Wii gamers hype their games realistically.

If the game is destined to be great, like Halo 4, then hype away I say!


Really? Was there a need for that?

The OP kinda reinforced my allready established viewpoint. But ok ill edit it.

EDIT: I should have said "Sony fan" as this is a Vita game. But I digress.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

badgenome said:
Galaki said:

I remember seeing this game (among others) being praise numerous times on VGC alone, way before PSV was released. It was even called some sort of killer app by some members.

Citation needed.


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4837425

right in the middle of the post



 

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