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themanwithnoname on 20 May 2010
dirkd2323 said:
I bought RDR and Alan Wake on the 18th, I love RDR, I have to say I am very Disappointed with Alan Wake, It gets so boaring burning the darkness off of these guys then shooting them, so repedative, and way to much story telling, I was hoping for a much better game, I mean 6 years in development, WOW, and Graphics were Average also. I really don't expect high sales for this game.


If your complaint is "way too much story telling," I really have to wonder why you bought this game in the first place. It was always clear that this would be a story driven game.



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Garnett on 20 May 2010
GodOfWar_3ever said:
Garnett said:
pezus said:
Garnett said:
libellule said:
Who is surprised here ?

This game was overhyped on the whole internet because it was supposed to be the "BEST GAME EVA", the BEST GFX EVA, the best survival horror game that is so good that you DO NOT HAVE the right to call it a survival horror game (thx you Remedy for this last point)

also, the game has no online multiplayer which seems to be more and more important for gamers today ...

It is released close to RDR which is getting high praising

AND the pre-orders where showing us since numerous weeks that game will not have amazing sales.

Conclusion : plz port the game to PC and I will buy it. Thx you Remedy.

Were not talking about the following gamese

  • Uncharted 1/2
  • LBP
  • R2 (Remember that guy who said Its the best looking game of 2008? LOL!)
  • MGS4
  • Selnor
  • Westley Yin-Poole (He said Crysis 2 on 360 was better than PC crysis LOL!!!)
  • GT5
  • GoW3
  • Gears 3

 

 

But this game is incredible, The graphics are mind blowing.

Since when were these "overhyped" ?

There was that stupid "HUGE" Bullshit going around when LBP was gonna come out, it was supposed to move millions of playstations and sell a million first day.

 

GT5 is supposed to be the saving god of the PS3 for some reason, people are hyping it up like it was just announced.

 

UC1/2 is the best game ever cus its only on the PS3 and the graphics are amazing and anyone who gives it less than a 100 are Xbots.

GoW3 has amazing graphics and can only be done on the PS3 and blah blah blah. We get it the game is good no need to over hype everything.

Dude, how is this even relevant here ? its way off-topic.

These games were hyped, yes..because they are amazing games...

UC2, GoW 3, LBP all are 90+ on meta and overall fan reaction has been extremely positive, unlike games like GTA IV which received a lot of meh reactions from fans.

Why exactly is GoW 3 over-hyped ? It delivered on everything it promised imo, you haven't even played ANY GoW game and you label it over-hyped... Why ? And what position are you in to say that it is..

If my memory serves me correctly, you are the same guy who said Uncharted 2's graphics were average and the textures were bad. You also said Dante's Inferno had a better story than GoW despite not playing GoW.

You continuously say these type of things which you aren't in any position to say and get away with it....

On topic though,

Games like Alan Wake, inFamous and all which were pretty hyped and didn't get the review scores as fans expected are still awesome enough for some, but not so for others.

AW sales are mildly disappointing, yes. ioi expects about 150k from America first week...so around 250k Worldwide isn't bad and it will eventually get to a million...or even more if it has insane legs. Which is brilliant for a horror/thriller title that isn't Resident Evil.

1. no one said that AW is suppoed to be the best game ever with the best graphics, unlike those games above in the read. AW had little to NO hype on the internet.

2. GoW3 is a good game im sure, but people are acting like its a new Mario 64. GoW3 is the least hyped game among that list.

3. I said UC2 had average graphics, it was just colorful and yes DI actually has a Hero that isnt always pissed off and some big brute idiot.

4. Im in no position to say my opinion? Gee Wiz most of the people on this site say their opinion like its fact. I guess since im a 360 fan im wrong for that.

 

AW will do fine in the long run, like a stripper it will have long legs.



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C_Hollomon on 20 May 2010

Since Alan Wake don't have online, the sales will be poor. 2 of my friends already downloaded it and they say it's not worth $60 since it was short to them and has no online.

360 is all about online. That's why shooters sell good on it. You can't play Alan Wake with yours friends. Red Dead took the sales away from it. It should have beed released last month or in July. Would have been better on the PS3 too.

Edit: Also there's not much marketing for it so that make the sales low too.  I hope it'll sale good though.  It looks like a good game.



Chrizum on 20 May 2010

Alan Wake is a new IP. 88k isn't bad for this game.



Icestyng on 20 May 2010
Chrizum said:
Alan Wake is a new IP. 88k isn't bad for this game.

I thought 88k was just for one day, like people were saying!



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GodOfWar_3ever on 20 May 2010
Garnett said:
GodOfWar_3ever said:
Garnett said:
pezus said:
Garnett said:
libellule said:
Who is surprised here ?

This game was overhyped on the whole internet because it was supposed to be the "BEST GAME EVA", the BEST GFX EVA, the best survival horror game that is so good that you DO NOT HAVE the right to call it a survival horror game (thx you Remedy for this last point)

also, the game has no online multiplayer which seems to be more and more important for gamers today ...

It is released close to RDR which is getting high praising

AND the pre-orders where showing us since numerous weeks that game will not have amazing sales.

Conclusion : plz port the game to PC and I will buy it. Thx you Remedy.

Were not talking about the following gamese

  • Uncharted 1/2
  • LBP
  • R2 (Remember that guy who said Its the best looking game of 2008? LOL!)
  • MGS4
  • Selnor
  • Westley Yin-Poole (He said Crysis 2 on 360 was better than PC crysis LOL!!!)
  • GT5
  • GoW3
  • Gears 3

 

 

But this game is incredible, The graphics are mind blowing.

Since when were these "overhyped" ?

There was that stupid "HUGE" Bullshit going around when LBP was gonna come out, it was supposed to move millions of playstations and sell a million first day.

 

GT5 is supposed to be the saving god of the PS3 for some reason, people are hyping it up like it was just announced.

 

UC1/2 is the best game ever cus its only on the PS3 and the graphics are amazing and anyone who gives it less than a 100 are Xbots.

GoW3 has amazing graphics and can only be done on the PS3 and blah blah blah. We get it the game is good no need to over hype everything.

Dude, how is this even relevant here ? its way off-topic.

These games were hyped, yes..because they are amazing games...

UC2, GoW 3, LBP all are 90+ on meta and overall fan reaction has been extremely positive, unlike games like GTA IV which received a lot of meh reactions from fans.

Why exactly is GoW 3 over-hyped ? It delivered on everything it promised imo, you haven't even played ANY GoW game and you label it over-hyped... Why ? And what position are you in to say that it is..

If my memory serves me correctly, you are the same guy who said Uncharted 2's graphics were average and the textures were bad. You also said Dante's Inferno had a better story than GoW despite not playing GoW.

You continuously say these type of things which you aren't in any position to say and get away with it....

On topic though,

Games like Alan Wake, inFamous and all which were pretty hyped and didn't get the review scores as fans expected are still awesome enough for some, but not so for others.

AW sales are mildly disappointing, yes. ioi expects about 150k from America first week...so around 250k Worldwide isn't bad and it will eventually get to a million...or even more if it has insane legs. Which is brilliant for a horror/thriller title that isn't Resident Evil.

1. no one said that AW is suppoed to be the best game ever with the best graphics, unlike those games above in the read. AW had little to NO hype on the internet.

2. GoW3 is a good game im sure, but people are acting like its a new Mario 64. GoW3 is the least hyped game among that list.

3. I said UC2 had average graphics, it was just colorful and yes DI actually has a Hero that isnt always pissed off and some big brute idiot.

4. Im in no position to say my opinion? Gee Wiz most of the people on this site say their opinion like its fact. I guess since im a 360 fan im wrong for that.

 

AW will do fine in the long run, like a stripper it will have long legs.

That is just false.

True...but you have no idea about what happens in God of War. In the surface, Kratos is a big bad brute that is always pissed off...but main character =/= story

You can say your opinion..but when that opinion is expressed when you haven't played the game in question (GoW 3) then what you say cannot be taken seriously as,

(a) You don't know what the hell the game is about or how good/bad it is

(b) Therefore you clearly cannot judge whether the game deserved/lived up to the hype it got. Hence, you are in no position to say that.

This is way off topic btw..

I believe that too...guess we have something in common



Chrizum on 20 May 2010
Icestyng said:
Chrizum said:
Alan Wake is a new IP. 88k isn't bad for this game.

I thought 88k was just for one day, like people were saying!

2 days, just like every other game ever released in Others.



MonstaMack on 20 May 2010
C_Hollomon said:

Since Alan Wake don't have online, the sales will be poor. 2 of my friends already downloaded it and they say it's not worth $60 since it was short to them and has no online.

360 is all about online. That's why shooters sell good on it. You can't play Alan Wake with yours friends. Red Dead took the sales away from it. It should have beed released last month or in July. Would have been better on the PS3 too.

Edit: Also there's not much marketing for it so that make the sales low too.  I hope it'll sale good though.  It looks like a good game.

I suggest if your "hoping" for anything is to hope your friends and other people who don't buy new, do so to support this game. I mean seriously, your friends downloaded and don't feel It's worth $60? Well of course they don't! They didn't pay anything for it.



It's just that simple.

themanwithnoname on 20 May 2010
CGI-Quality said:
starcraft said:
Dallinor said:
Remedy need the game to make a profit, their studio's future is resting on it.

I'm surprised by it's low debut, I thought it would at least sell 150k+ in others first week. Both SC and AW have been commercially and critically a bit of a letdown in my mind, and I think Mod Nation Racers may be next.

Not that every game needs to get perfect scores, or that metacritic is the ultimate yardstick of quality, but scores in the low 80's for exclusives a long time in the works from studios with a strong pedigree is dissapointing.

It would be an awful shame for Remedy to get into financial problems, so hopefully the game will have legs.

Splinter Cell Conviction is on track to be the highest selling Splinter Cell on an Xbox product.

At the same time, I can see you're point critically, a lot of people (in the case of Alan Wake, myself included) expected them to be AAA.

I wouldn't worry about the game losing money.  It was in production for a long time yes, but with an EXTREMELY small development team.  This isn't Killzone 2.

Killzone 2 had a large team, nothing wrong with that.

You just took that one sentence completely out of context. Remedy is not as big as Guerilla, thus they wouldn't have to sell as many copies to make a profit is all he's saying. He didn't say anything was "wrong" with Killzone 2.



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Goddbless on 20 May 2010

I think this thread is a little premature. How can we really have this discussion off of 2 days of sales in a single region?



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