HappySqurriel on 26 January 2009
| makingmusic476 said: I think the problem with many people is that they interpret "I'm really excited about this game!" as "This game will change gaming forever and sell over 10 million!" If you scroll through my posting history, you'll see that I've probably hyped this game more than anybody else on this forum, yet the entire time all I've said was that this game plays great, looks really great, and has an addicting multiplayer experience. It's just fun. It won't reinvent the wheel. It won't become the best game ever. It won't do anything like that. But it'll be an awesome game. And then people come in, bitching about overhype and whatnot, saying people will only be disappointed in the end. Yeah, you might be disappointed, only because you interpreted the excitement in an unrealistic way, most likely only so you could later use it as ammo against fans of a console you don't particularly like. |
No, I think the problem is that far too many people try to quantify their excitement about a game and/or compare the game (favourably) to an already released game ... When people talk about how games were overhyped and people expected them to be 95%+ games that would sell more than 5 Million copies it is because there are/were several posters who were hyping the game and claiming that it was a 95%+ game that would sell more than 5 Million copies.
Certainly, there are a lot of posters with more moderate predictions about games but they're not the ones guilty of overhyping a game.
