This thread is focused on the hyping.  I was trying to point out how it is a waste of time, and possible negative effects of hyping.  I was saying that, at the core, it is religious devotion in the area of videogames, usually driven by fanaticism towards a platform and console maker.  And there is little, if anything, that comes out good for it.  What people need to do to not get hurt by the hype is another issue.

This thread is about the negative affects of hype.  And you came out and said MORE is needed.  I was calling you on this.  You have a partisan console agenda in how you post.  You may like Halo, but you show this repeated trend for hyping about every single Microsoft IP, from Alan Wake to Forza.  You have a counterproductive agenda.  And yes, watch the buzz behind The Last of Us go on here to.  It will be more hype, justified or not.

Sjeez previews for plenty of games sound good even L.A.I.R./Haze previews were positive.  Thing is almost every sony exclusive gets hyped for just being a exclusive...  look how Forza horizon almost got no hype and even was predicted to be just an better than average game  (high 70's low 80's metacritic predicitions) and it end up way better than expected;...Now try to find that for a sony game :).

by hype,do we mean having a thread for a game,that seems kind of acceptable on a gaming site even exclusive ones,i mean the war ended a while a go,

did we have hype about Journey,that would have been worth it,i loved that game

i can't imagine people getting that excited by army corps or whatever this game was

Demon's Souls, next to no hype before it released because the first videos looked like a mess, and turned out to be amazing.  

That game had some followers from the start not that many I grant you that but I remember people following and laughing with some horrible animations.

There might be some common sense here after all.

Oh come now, you're telling me that people laughing at horrible animations is enough to call a game overhyped?  You may have a point that it happens less with Sony titles, but obviously there are still hidden gems and there are good reasons to think something might be awesome when the first few reviews say exactly that.  So what made you think that the Swan game was going to be a 7.8 meta after the first few reviews were 9's?  At that point I'd call your prediction more unlikely than someone saying it looked like another hidden gem.  

Not hype, you said "people's satisfaction" (i.e. their opinion on the game after they played it). I stand by my original reply, I do think sampling people's opinions is a good way of researching a game.

I agree with you, basing one's purchases off of hype alone isn't smart.

In the context of this thread and Richard's post, I thought it was clear that by "people's satisfaction," I meant hype. Fair enough though.