Got to the party late but have to comment on something from page 1

chasmatic12 said:

That might all be true (I never heard the TP one), but none of those games were hyped to be the second coming of Christ. (Third, rather. LPB was the second coming.)

Some fanboys truly believe that Killzone will end the 360. Visit n4g.com and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I think this goes to show one very important fact though. Mainstream gamers are not the same as the "Hardcore" internet dwelling gamers. Nobody here has even played the game but are calling "BS" because internet dwellers take hype into consideration when reviewing something and Killzone is definately at least a 9 without even playing it based on hype alone. They fully expect the game to get 90% or above just based on marketing and the industry buzz.

But for a mainstream gamer, you give them a stack of games and they are just going to say which one they like best. They don't know what's going on on the interwebs, they work at a softcore porn magazine. given SFIV, KZ2 and 50 cent blood on the sand they are saying from the perspective of the guy at the office that doesn't know shit about videogames other than he plays them on occasion, that he liked 50 cent better.

And that blows teh hardcorz MIND. Because without even having played these games they can say objectively with absolute certainty that he is wrong. TEH HARDCORZ is not the MAINSTREAM. And the mainstream is what buys 90% of videogame software.