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makingmusic476 on 07 January 2010
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starcraft said:
CGI-Quality said:
starcraft said:
Pretty much.

It's just a generic shooter that isn't quite as good as Gears or Resistance but has marginally better graphics and was given more hype than the latter games combined.

In your opinion.

OT: I get that the game won't be for everyone, but this isn't any different from any other game out there: including Gears of War and Resistance, which I know people who hated both of those as well.

Take Modern Warfare 2. Good game, sure. Is it all that it's cracked up to be, not in my opinion. That's basically how this works, some are going to love it, others will not.

Of course my opinion.  But I think it is a fairly commonly held opinion that Killzone 2 didn't live up to it's expectations in terms of either sales or hype.  It certainly wasn't a bad game.  But it defined generic.

It wasn't helped by it's circumstances though.  It came out in an environment where we had a brilliant Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 on the market, and a just released Gears 2 and Resistance 2.  Add in it being the most hyped Sony game of the generation to that point, and many people were bound to be let down.

I don't believe the same happened with Modern Warfare 2.  General feeling is that it is as brilliant, or better, than the first.  Most complaints I hear are about restrictions on the PC version.

I'd say most people were fairly pleased with Killzone 2, arguably mroeso than with Modern Warfare 2 in terms of critical reception amongst the hardcore gaming community.  You have sites like GameSpot and IGN that gave it shooter of the year over Modern Warfare 2, and sites like Gamesreactor that gave it overall Game of the Year.  The game also leads Modern Warfare 2 heavily in neogaf's game of the year voting thread.  In other words, the largest gaming forum on the web seems to prefer Killzone 2 between the two.

Granted, mainstream gamer's may disagree, but mainstream gamers thought GTAIV was the best game of 2008, going by sales. 

In neither sales, quality or groundbreaking innovation is Killzone 2 widly held to have met expectations, as they were always too high.

It seems quite a few people think it's a better game than Modern Warfare 2, which would be hard to do if it failed to meet expectations in quality, and if you go back and read Killzone 2's reviews, you'll see numerous comments like...

It took a long time for Killzone 2 to finally come out, but after diving head first into the game, there's no doubt in my mind that it lives up to the hype and is a must-play for FPS fans.

...from Gamepro, or...

With its unparalleled graphics, incredibly well-paced single-player campaign and in-depth multiplayer offerings, Killzone 2 has established its place among top-tier console shooters. Expectations on Killzone 2 had reached ridiculous proportions; here's one of those cases where the game actually lived up to them.

...from 1UP.

Just because you didn't like the game doesn't mean that most people weren't pleased with what it had to offer, or that most people didn't feel it lived up to the hype placed on the game's shoulders.

In the end, Killzone 2 has a metacritic in the 90s, and is going toe-to-toe with MW2 for shooter of the year awards.  It was released in a year that included names like Call of Duty, Halo, Left4Dead, and FEAR, yet it still holds very high acclaim amongst journalists and gamers alike.  Killzone has shown that it deserves to be mentioned with the best, alongside the likes of Halo, Gears, and Call of Duty.  You can try to marginalize this all you want, by claiming "many people" agree with you, or by trying to appear unbiased by claiming Resistance of all games is better, but it doesn't change that fact that Killzone 2 ended up being a good game.

But then, you've been against the game from the very beginning.  Predicting it would average in the 7s, claiming it would be as bad as the first, entering into the "Fable 2 vs Killzone 2: Metacritic" bet with me, and even now that it has been out for a year, with numerous people admitting that they think it's a great game, you insist it's overhyped.  You insist it isn't very good.   You need to get over it.