| kutasek said: The bigger hype is there for the game, you're gonna see more hate towards it. |
Also known as Halo-syndrome (nah not really, but it should though). Boy did no. 3 get more hype/hate than it deserved.
On-Topic: I'll definitely buy LBP. My only reservation would be the physics engine falling flat on it's face, but it seems unlikely that'll happen.
I think the reason why this game gets as much "anti-hype" (though I haven't noticed too much of it myself) is because usually when games become this ambitious they fail at delivering and people who had been flying the flag get kicked in the cahones for their faith. It kind of sucks that games will be pre-judged because of other games burning hopeful players previously, but that's what happens.
Also, I think there's a lot of over-estimating LBP going on in OP, because no one really knows how the final product will turn out and how user content will turn out. For instance, I will not spend too much time on LBP if building a nice extravagant level is excessively long to do nor is there a guarantee that people won't gimp the physics system immediately after launch.
AND I don't think MS and Nintendo are particularly concerned. Nintendo's already have boomblox (another physics based game) and well if MS were really concerned they'd bring out a similar product.
