If I had to guess i'd say your somehwat perverse joy over a game getting average review scores just so it doesn't challenge God of War.

Even if I did predict a game was going to get medicore review scores... happy really doesn't seem like the proper response... let alone so happy that a thread needs to be made.

I can't speak for him, but that's what gave me that impression.

I don't think you read what I said.

It's a matter of fact that if you take two identical products and put them in different packaging one can be considered way better then another.

In fact, you could take a wine that was better overall and one 80% of taste tests blind... but it in a worse bottle and a good 60-70% of people actually could think the inferior wine was better now in tastetests.

Put the better wine in the better bottle and it wins 90% of the time.  Point being... branding and packaging are so much more important then most people think.

This is why so many games and companies try and play the internet hype game.  A LARGE amount of the time how much you like or dislike a game could actually be based on hype or even just what kind of mood your in when you sit down to play it.

Happy ? I am actually quite disappointed because DI could have been a big, big game...It really could have been if it were more original..

So far this game is freaking awesome. Yes similar game mechanics and stolen ideas , but once you get into it, it becomes its own. It's a pretty solid game and I'm enjoying the different circles. It is worth the purchase in my view.

What would be your opinion if Sony released God of War 2 EX.  Which was a game roughtly the size of GOW2 which played just like GOW2 but had completly different levels and a completly different setting.

Wouldn't you consider that a big game?

Originality is overrated.  I like innovation as much as anybody... hell probably more then most people... however a good game is just a good game.  You shouldn't really bash a game for not being original unless the game and it's developers specifically state it's trying to be original OR it's a franchise that has just been beaten into the ground.

I expect more from you. Being a complete ripoff doesn't make it equal in quality.

God of War III is supposed to be longer. AND - In terms of size, if you mean SCALE then GoW3 is much much bigger than II.

Combat is basically the same, otherwise the fans wouldn't like it would it ? In addition, you can switch weapons on the fly, and the new weapons are much more different than the previous games. Also rideable creatures is a first in the series. Magic is supposed to be differently used and there are battle on moving titans. Also the Icaras ascenntion levels are completely new. Thats all that has been revealed upto now, by release I can probably list more. 

Obviously

Unfortunately, DI is just good, or average - when it could have been AMAZING !

Have you even played GoW ? If you played GoW and play the DI demo you will realize what exactly I mean. Its kinda pathetic actually. The devs just went out there with one ambition - create a game similar to GoW.. "I mean what could possibly go wrong..GoW is awesome, if we copy it our game is bound to be awesome too." Wrong Visceral. WRONG.

I have played GOW.  Haven't played DI though.

You didn't really read my question though.  My point wasn't about GOW3.  My point was is another GOW2 was released.  Would it really be any worse then the previous GOW2?

No, but that's basically the quotes that were written... and even inferior products can outshine superior ones with the right branding.

Most people would enjoy DI more if they called it GOW: Something and reskinned everyone to look like Greek characters... this is my point.

The quality of DI is irrelevant since all the negativity that was on it since it's announcement has made the game somewhat toxic to reviewers giving it a high score. 

Good/bad it was never going to get AAA scores due to it's branding and due to all the pre-negativity.

I suggest you play the DI demo, you'll see what I mean.