IGN calls GT5 the 2nd biggest disappointment of the year

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Ajescent said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:

Funny, no Fallout: New Vegas there when IGN named it their most anticipated game of 2010 and it turned out to be a pile of crap.

Fallout NV is a great game that launched with bugs, and for my 2 cents, I would have predicted NV's score a LOT quicker than I would have guessed that GT5 was going to end up at 8.6 on metacritic.

New Vegas is a resounding success imho. Just launched with a few bugs.

But GT5 is (so far) bugless and more attractive than NV save for the overblown framerate drops but yet NV is forgiven more.

Are we now in a frame of mind where we forgive the quality of games as long as they get into your hands as quickly as possible? What happened to the idea of quality gaming?

Dissapointment implies failure to live up to expectations. Were New Vegas expectations half as high?

What I don't like is flaming one game to promote another. Is it a big deal that GT5 isn't AAA? Hell YES. It's a shocker. Everyone including myself expected this to be the end all AAAAE game of this generation and since it isn't even close to that expectation(review wise), it is a dissapointment to at least some extent. Sure it's good, but good does not meet the super-lofty expectations in this case. Just like Reach, just like FFXIII, and just like half the other big games this gen that flopped review wise.