X360
Alan Wake: Up in the air. It could be the greatest thing since sliced bread, and it could be mediocre. Who knows.
Too Human: It's a Diablo clone. Diablo clones never live up to the hype. So, NO.
Fable 2: Peter Molyneux. LOL. NO.
Halo Wars: Will likely introduce intuitive RTS controls to console gamers, and it's Halo-branded, so they obviously have high hopes behind it. I'll have to say YES.
Gears of War 2: Likely the exact same thing as last time. NO.
Ninja Gaiden 2: Ninja Gaiden 1, in all its various forms, kicked ass. So did Ninja Gaiden DS. YES.
Infinite Undiscovery: I don't even know what this is, so it can't be hyped much.
PS3
Metal Gear Solid 4: The hype for this is so huge that there's no chance it can live up to it all. But that's not to say that it won't be a good, or even excellent, game. NO.
LittleBigPlanet: A gimmicky game with pretty graphics that people will forget about a year after its release. NO.
Killzone 2: Uh... right. NO.
Resistance 2: If Insomniac's behind it, then it has to be good. They've never disappointed on a single game yet. YES.
Valkyria Chronicles: Just like every other next-gen JRPG thus far, JRPG fanboys will eat it up; everyone else won't care because it's basically a prettier version of a last-gen game. NO.
White Knight Story: Ditto. NO.
FFXIII: Really a toss-up. I don't have much faith in Square to innovate at all and actually make the underlying game good, but they could pull off something interesting.
WII
Uh... wait, there's no hyped Wii games. Nevermind.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
