HAZE review (IGN).....4.5

[Loud_Hot_White_Box]

Dodece said:

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Dodece said:
I would not say I am terribly shocked by the score accorded to the title. I also would like to say the negative comments are merely a mark of a massive karma reversal. When system loyalists started hyping this title, and started to wield it like a mighty broad sword the backlash was inevitable. Obviously most of those who used this game as a propaganda piece, are going to adamantly deny that they did so. However I can see the appeal of rubbing faces in it as payback.

Basically this title was heaped with accolades, proclaimed AAA, and used to bulk any and all possible exclusive lists. We all say the lists with Haze prominently mentioned as a AAA exclusive title. With a few of the scores coming in the title has no hope of AAA status, and may be lucky to get average marks if bribery is used as a standard business tactic.

Posters aren't attacking the company or the game really. They are attacking their fellow arrogant posters who rubbed their nose in the game for the last six months, and I cannot see calling fowl on them now. This is the price of hubris, and you should take every lump it will be good for you. Trying to guilt someone, because deep down you are ashamed it a pretty vulgar tactic. You talk smack, and eventually you will get a smack down.

Anyway I saw the video a few weeks ago I game my opinion then. Looks like I was pretty close to the mark.

No. No, it wasn't, except that yeah it was obviously included on exclusive lists.

So the rest of your post has no legs to stand on, and your defense of whatever else is going on, fails.

Most of what I remember were predicitions of low-moderate initial sales and then good legs *if* it turned out to be decent and got decent reviews. Yeah, go on, rub noses...how pathetic the predictions were.

*rolls eyes*

 

What a shock an adamant denial. No Sony fan claimed this game was huge. No fan claimed it as a major exclusive. Speak for yourself, and not for others. The reason for the flaming is not, because the title was exclusive for the PS3. Both the other consoles have had lackluster exclusive titles that received equally poor ratings. Why were these titles not attacked. They were not attacked, because there wasn't a legion of fans raising them onto a pedestal. There were a few posters hopeful of this title or that, but never proclaimed these games even a fraction of what Sony fanboys were doing with Haze. Are we to the point where we need to thoroughly document what everyone said so as to bat down these ignorant arguments. Everyone knows it is true a great many Sony fanboys replayed the lair mistake again. Perhaps the only smart thing they did was pull back on the claims the closer the game came to launch.

I said "most of what I remember" and I do think that represents most of what was said. *I* get to determine the scope of what I'm claiming.

The fact that one or even *gasp* three people may have said Haze would be a huge system seller exclusive doesn't mean shit, therefore it doesn't matter that I can't prove that none did.  To ask me to prove it is to do what you are accusing me of: requesting documentation of past statements. 

I seriously didn't read any posts to the effect of "Haze is teh dominator" or whatever.  People probably said it would contribute along with GTAIV and MGS4 to an uptick in attractiveness of the console, which is REASONABLE to say and assume for ANY exclusive.

Face it, you made an overstated bullshit claim about fanboy predictions just so you could claim that the low review had some major anti-Sony significance.  When Ubisoft made the f***ing thing.

No matter; PS3 sales doubled year over year.  So Haze may not contribute to the ever-increasing momentum, meh.  It still remains to be heard whether the online multiplayer is fun anyway; IGN seems to not have even reported on that.