| reggin_bolas said: I'm soliciting opinions opinions on this but I'm also going to present my own analysis for why Destiny is the most over-hyped game to date. To qualify, I've taken into consideration two critical factors: 1. Metacritic 2. Budget Using ONLY the above two I can only find two contenders. Star Wars MMO (SWTOR) and Destiny.
SWTOR had a rumored 200 million dollar budget and currently sits at 85 on metacritic. In contrast, Destiny had an estimated 500 million dollar budget and is currently sitting at 76/77 metacritic for PS4 and XB1 respectively. I can draw no other conclusion than Destiny is the undisputed most overhyped game to date. It's budget is double that of SWTOR and scored almost 10 points lower on average. I'm not saying 76 is a bad score but is it honestly what people expected? I think most people assumed a high 80's to 90's given Bungie's pedigree. But if we factor in commercial success SWTOR is clearly the loser. It went F2P less than a year before launch and was arguably not the WoW-killer as many predicted. Destiny is to date a commercial success and we don't know if it has staying power with all the negative press. Another possible contender is Duke Nukem Forever which took 10 years to develop and received overall poor scores on metacritic (ranging presently from 49-54). Though it still didn't have the monster budget of the aforementioned games. What do you think? What can top Destiny in this "award" category?
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As many have already pointed out, your budget figures for Destiny are incorrect. Activision invested $500 million on a contract with Bungie for 10 years, and 4 games, it encompasses everything, not just the game themselves but also servers, marketing, DLC and so on. Even if they were applying it to just the games (which they are not, but hypothetically speaking), that's still just the cost of SWTOR per game and at 6.41m retail (so far in the charts), that's not a bad start.
Now, I'm sure there's merit to the critiques on Destiny from players and reviewers alike, the thing is, more people appear to be enjoying it by a fair margin, than those the vocal few who don't. A friend of mine loves the hell out of it, so to each their own. As far as hype goes, not sure. I think the hype for FFVII at this point, year in and year out, probably takes the cake. I also think certain installments of GTA (if not all) receive an equal or greater amount of hype than Destiny did, and it's probably fair to say there's at least one exclusive franchise on each platform (including PC) that receive equal levels of hype.
