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JWeinCom on 01 December 2012
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Max King of the Wild said:
JWeinCom said:
Max King of the Wild said:
JWeinCom said:
Jay520 said:

 

 

Kind of going in circles here.  All I'll say is that I think that the game's had much more buzz than the average new IP and should have performed better than average IF the game actually looked worth playing to gamers.  If you disagree that's fine.

Thats just absolutly wrong. There have been tons of new IPs which recieved ridiculously more buzz than this game. LAIR, Uncharted, Assassins Creed, Little BIG Planet, Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Music (I kid), Wii Fit (I don't kid), Zombie U, Gears of War, Left 4 Dead, Demon's Souls, BioShock, Red Dead Redemption, LA Noir, Madworld, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssy, Portal, Dead Space, Too Human, HAZE, Rage, Crysis, Ninja Blade, Epic Mickey, No More Heros, That Wii FPS that flopped that started with a C... and this is off the top of my head

All those games recieved tons more hype than this game and some of the ones I listed recieved barely any such as Demons Souls until the game released

And as ay linked in the other thread this game was at the very bottom of VGC novembers most wanted

Eh... I didn't say it was the most hyped game ever, just above average.  Of the list you have, most of those are correct, but I don't think Madworld, No More Heroes, or the Conduit belong there.  Lost Odyssey doesn't belong their either, or Haze.   Those were only hyped among Wii fans craving third parties.

But you're just pointing out really hyped games, most of which were really good.  You're not comparing it to average games.

Thank you it was the conduit.  Lost Oyssey belongs there because 360 fans hyped it to the extreme being the only JRPG on consoles at the time along with Blue Dragon but I didn't list that because it recieved a lot less. Madworld and Conduit? Are you crazy? those recieved extreme hype. The backlash Nintendo fans got when those sold well below expectations was immense. They got hyped because of the mature content and Conduit especially for impressive graphics on the Wii. No More Heros got a cult following after release as such games like Demons Souls and Valkyrie Chronicles. But make no mistake people followed all games and tried to hype them. They just didn't catch on till after their launches.

And HAZE... Oh... My... God... that game was titled the Halo killer by one crazy man(I think it was crazymann...) But it recieved more hype than PABR. It looked promising at first but the hype died real fast as more and more came out on it.

I think we're talking about different things here.  You're talking about things like hype among the hardcore gaming community where Madworld and the Conduit were indeed big deals.  I'm talking about things like media coverage, media event presence (E3, Gamescom, and events like EVO and Comiccon), commercials, marketing, playable store demos, betas, etc.  PSASBR never caught on among hardcore gaming segments, but it was well represented in the media and in other ways.