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kitler53 on 20 October 2010
Legend11 said:
Doobie_wop said:
Legend11 said:
Shonen said:

Hum.... this is smelling a  big fat FAIL for me , when u don wanna people reviewing something its cuz it sucks... 

 

-Tomb Rainder Underworld

-FF 14 

---Kinectis ?


You forgot Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Uncharted 2

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/uncharted-2-among-thieves-review

http://gameinformer.com/games/uncharted_2_among_thieves/b/ps3/archive/2009/10/12/review.aspx

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3176267&p=37

Mass Effect 2

http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1062898p1.html

Mario Galaxy 2

http://www.next-gen.biz/features/review-super-mario-galaxy-2

http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/109/1091239p1.html

 

Your wrong. It's usually done with games that have problems. 

I was right but you obviously missed the point with your eagerness to try to prove me wrong (better luck next time).  All three of those games had embargoes that were lifted.

http://dailygamesnews.com/2010/05/super-mario-galaxy-2-review-embargo.html

Those of you waiting to find out just how awesome Super Mario Galaxy 2 is gonna be can find out on Monday as the review embargo is lifted at 6am BST. All initial previews have been positive and it's due for release in Europe on June 11th.

http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/96548-mass-effect-2-reviews.html

The review embargo has officially been lifted for those websites that received early copies of Mass Effect 2 (not GameBanshee), so it comes as no surprise that a couple of critiques are already online.

http://www.lazygamer.net/uncharted-2-reviews-from-around-the-world/

Uncharted 2 review embargo lifts...

i'm not going to look into everything..but for uncharted (the game that interests me)

Your article about the review embargo lifting was written on Sept 30th, 2009. 

Uncharted 2 release on Oct 13, 2009 in America; Oct 16, 2009 in Europe.

so the embargo lifted about 2 weeks before release making that one at least not the same thing.


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leatherhat on 20 October 2010
kibebr said:

I think Microsoft is RIGHT!!!!

Take a look at the past:  Introduced a marketing video about Knectic 3 years before it launch, just to get attention of the market and keep some momentum...

Knectic got everybody attentions, and deserve it, it´s really innovative.

What´s happening now: people start to think and put things together, understand Knectic limitations, etc..etc.. so the hype must be secure at least until cristhmas...

I believe knectic 1.0 is very limited to some type of movements, so, you will handle many games with same gestures, LOL..

go Microsft, keep rich and growing, you brought LIVE and gamers got better online services, now you bring Knectic and make toher companies MOVE. :)

MS is doing great job innovating on gamming, I respect a lot that!

Oh Billy



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Time for hype

Mr Khan on 20 October 2010
Silver-Tiger said:
Mr Khan said:
libellule said:
ultraslick said:

Lets assume for a moment that Microsoft is infact doing this because they know reviews will be sub-par, and that Kinect is essentially.. crap.

With the amount of money they are throwing behind the advertising, I dont think any of that will matter.

Casuals will buy this $150 camera this holiday because marketing will almost force them to do so. By Jan or Feb of next year, MS will announce some future hardocre titles for Kinect and will price drop most likely which wll keep the sales trickleing in until the next box launches with a more refined Kinect 2.0.

But outside of America, people have brains that tell them when a product is flawed, so if this little conspiracy is true, I would expect to see Kinect sales, (and 360 sales) heavily reliant on North America.

Even if u are a little harsch on american and that Kinect is not that crappy ... I do agree with your post

Casuals aren't stupid. They're not going to be "forced" into buying anything just because they see it on the TV.

Just Dance says hi.

People weren't lured into buying Just Dance like following some will-o-the-wisp into a swamp. It was much like Carnival Games, a game that delivered exactly what it promised.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

nickvasko on 20 October 2010
Ping_ii said:

LuLz!

Don't worry ophra and bieber  review  is the only review  the casuals needs to know. =D =D =D


LOL thats a good one



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Doobie_wop on 20 October 2010
Legend11 said:
Doobie_wop said:
Legend11 said:
Shonen said:

Hum.... this is smelling a  big fat FAIL for me , when u don wanna people reviewing something its cuz it sucks... 

 

-Tomb Rainder Underworld

-FF 14 

---Kinectis ?


You forgot Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Uncharted 2

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/uncharted-2-among-thieves-review

http://gameinformer.com/games/uncharted_2_among_thieves/b/ps3/archive/2009/10/12/review.aspx

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3176267&p=37

Mass Effect 2

http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1062898p1.html

Mario Galaxy 2

http://www.next-gen.biz/features/review-super-mario-galaxy-2

http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/109/1091239p1.html

 

Your wrong. It's usually done with games that have problems. 

I was right but you obviously missed the point with your eagerness to try to prove me wrong (better luck next time).  All three of those games had embargoes that were lifted.

http://dailygamesnews.com/2010/05/super-mario-galaxy-2-review-embargo.html

Those of you waiting to find out just how awesome Super Mario Galaxy 2 is gonna be can find out on Monday as the review embargo is lifted at 6am BST. All initial previews have been positive and it's due for release in Europe on June 11th.

http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/96548-mass-effect-2-reviews.html

The review embargo has officially been lifted for those websites that received early copies of Mass Effect 2 (not GameBanshee), so it comes as no surprise that a couple of critiques are already online.

http://www.lazygamer.net/uncharted-2-reviews-from-around-the-world/

Uncharted 2 review embargo lifts...

The difference is that those are embargoes that had been lifted before the game was released, the reviewer got the game and as with Uncharted 2 and Mario Galaxy 2, they could have released a review two weeks in advance. The reviewers in the Kinect case don't even get to put out a review until the day of release or after. When that happens it means the game (Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions, Fallout New Vegas, Medal of Honor)  has  problems and the publisher usually doesn't want the bad rep to build before the game is released.



Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

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VGhippy on 20 October 2010
ithis said:


Details about these would be nice. Everyone praised that dance title, so if they are showing that and the raft game and the running in place game and the big tiger game only, and for about 10 minutes in  total per person, the flaws will surely be well hidden under the wow factor. Not exactly a tool to an informed decision.


I think because Kinect is so experience based it would be more informative to some to try it rather than just have it described to you. Of course a full review would be better but I can't see my mum or sister sitting down with a cup of tea to read a nice article on IGN about lag on Kinect, they would rather just hear about it from their friends or try it for themselves. The cores are still waiting for games so full reviews will be flooding the internet way before they even think of buying it ;)

The answer the above though, the Kinect roadshow is coming to Scotland on the 30th in Edinburgh and Glasgow on the 31st. I've read you are going to be able to get a 30second recording of yourself playing Kinect uploaded so you can put it on facebook and other social network sites which I am looking forward to doing.

Here's some more info: http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/gaming/2010/09/uk-kinect-tour-comes-to-scotland.html



ithis on 20 October 2010
VGhippy said:
ithis said:
 


Details about these would be nice. Everyone praised that dance title, so if they are showing that and the raft game and the running in place game and the big tiger game only, and for about 10 minutes in  total per person, the flaws will surely be well hidden under the wow factor. Not exactly a tool to an informed decision.


I think because Kinect is so experience based it would be more informative to some to try it rather than just have it described to you. Of course a full review would be better but I can't see my mum or sister sitting down with a cup of tea to read a nice article on IGN about lag on Kinect, they would rather just hear about it from their friends or try it for themselves. The cores are still waiting for games so full reviews will be flooding the internet way before they even think of buying it ;)

The answer the above though, the Kinect roadshow is coming to Scotland on the 30th in Edinburgh and Glasgow on the 31st. I've read you are going to be able to get a 30second recording of yourself playing Kinect uploaded so you can put it on facebook and other social network sites which I am looking forward to doing.

Here's some more info: http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/gaming/2010/09/uk-kinect-tour-comes-to-scotland.html

Good marketing.

Still I would like to see the list of games and how much you are allowed to play.



Seece on 20 October 2010
Legend11 said:

The gaming media is obviously going to rip apart most of the launch Kinect games so what Microsoft is doing isn't really surprising.  But some people are making a much bigger deal out of this than it is considering a lot of reviews get embargoed even reviews for AAA games that end up with good metacritic averages.

Yup, this is how I see it. The bad scores won't nessaccerily be reflection on the games quality, rather reviewers (and it's pretty obvious) hating these types of games. So Microsoft is saying? why even bother with the gaming press, fuck em!



 

Zlejedi on 20 October 2010
d21lewis said:

I don't know how Microsoft could enforce such a policy.  Isn't parody protected as freedom of speach?  Can't someone submit a review based on what has already been revealed?


Then it won't be review.

However they can't stop press from buying kinect in shop and publishing review then.

 

As for parody well what you say is theory, in practice no sane service will risk law conflict against big company with limitless resources to throw into law department.



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Squilliam on 20 October 2010

We've already seen the response overall from the same publications which have slammed Wii games, we have seen how what they say has had little bearing on the Wii market in general and we can see that Microsoft is targetting a similar group of people with some overlap. Why would they send Kinect to be reviewed by gaming publications? Its not the target market of Kinect.

 



Tease.