The expectation game is nasty. In the case of myself, I am vulnerable when it comes to this. When people hype up stuff as "all that... and a bag of chips" it sets the bar WAY too high for me, and I end up disappointed. Conversely, when people trash something mercilessly, the bar likely ends up being lower than it normally should be, and I have this weird paradox where I enjoy a bad game better than a pretty good, to good one. Expectations kicks in.
This paradox means that, I enjoyed Earth Defense Force 2017 (360) almost as much as MGS4. This in no theoretical universe should happen, but it did. Why? It is because of the expectation game. And, as much as a critic as I have been as MGS4, can recognize it as a quality game (definitely MUCH higher quality than EDF). Shoot, I would go as far as put them nearly on the same level of enjoyment actually. I think I got more hours out of EDF than I did MGS4. Oh, it was grind... TONS of grind.
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