| The_vagabond7 said: Ok, Alan wake is made by a good developer, good, a real answer! Alan wake has good credentials, so it gets hyped. Fragile, or Kings story? Not a word. They both are backed by great developers that made great games. Ah screw it, this still isn't going anywhere. I don't want people to just agree with me, I want meaningful contributions instead of "wiii boys are jealous! THIRD PARTY GAMES ON WII SUCK!!!!". But that is too much to ask. |
Fragile is made by tri-Crescendo who've made Eternal Sonata. Vgchartz reports it having 130,000 sales in NA and no European release. It didn't garner much hype either nor did it pan out big in sales. It was on the Xbox 360, which was not the most natural fit for a japanese RPG at the time. This is a big part of why Fragile has and will have very little hype.
King's Story is an odd one. It has an allstar cast of talent but many of the games that talent is attributed to are not very hyped titles themselves. Chulip, Wish Room and Harvest Moon don't garner a lot of hype, and this game looks a lot more like Harvest Moon and Chulip than it does Final Fantasy XII and Dragon Quest VIII where the rest of the talent derives from. Not to mention it's made by one developer that has a track record of unhyped titles. Cing Inc. made Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk: Room 215 for DS with minimal hype. Town Factory, where all the big names come from, haven't made any games yet. This is their first. The publisher is Marvelous Interactive, which is most famous for Harvest Moon, which the never hype up much at all.
Alan Wake is developed by Remedy, the same developers of Max Payne. Max Payne was a multiplatform title, spanning the PC, 360, and PS2. On Ps2 and Xbox alone it sold 4 million copies(Vgchartz doesn't have PC sales data). It was also critically acclaimed with it's original release on the PC.
You should be able to see the difference here. Anyone saying the Wii's third party titles are going to suck don't know anymore than those saying they will rock. It's all speculation at this point. The reason they aren't hyped however, is that most of these titles have cult status written all over them. Titles like Ikaruga and Rez never got much hype, but they're still great titles. In a perfect world, these kinds of titles would garner as much hype as they deserve, but it doesn't work that way. The stuff coming out for the Wii is too offbeat to be hyped by publishers. They're going to put that advertisiing muscle behind the games they spent the most money on because they need to make sure that doesn't become a profit loss. What do you think got more hype, Transformers or No Country For Old Men? Now tell me which is the better movie.
As far as why it doesn't get hyped on the internet in forums and websites, that's a tricky question. I love a good niche title as much as the next guy. In fact, one of my most hyped titles is Bangai-O Spirits for the DS. Even I have trouble getting excited for most of the Wii's third party line-up though. A niche title can usually stand out in a crowd of regularity, but when the niche titles are the norm, they have a harder time finding an identity. The odd titles on the Wii are the action games and first-person shooter types you see all day on PS3 and 360, and you'll notice it's the truth when you recall how much attention No More Heroes and Medal of Honor Heroes 2 got.
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