pezus said:
I know this is me replying to an old comment of yours, so that is understandable You say: "Their is successes in the game industry that is a spinoff, prequel, and not numbered sequels." Translation (my response): There are exceptions to the rule that prequels, spinoffs and not numbered sequels generally do worse than mainline games. You say: "Gears and God of War is just not as good as the previous installments and people know this" My reply: "So people know this before actually playing [them]? Makes sense" |
Oh ok. Well Gears and God of War have a lot of hardcore fans who do follow gaming moderately well. Now with Ascension they can get away with it since it has Kratos on the cover. Judgement on the other hand has Baird on the cover and that turns a lot of people off. It is pretty easy to figure that out even if you dont follo0w gaming news. Plus gears has a lot of multiplayer fans and multiplayer games relies a lot on word of mouth. Well word of mouth has been pretty lackluaster.
Ascension has been hurt mainly because it just wasnt as good as previous installments. I'd say that Ascension will do better through the long run. I think both games has sold well and I've stood by that. But ive also stated since seeing Gears J that it would not do near as well as the previous installments. I was wrong about Ascension because I predicted an 87 metacritic.
I do believe that fans who knows games well from forums etc are heavily in the minority, but I don't think word of mouth is great for either one of these games. Kratos being on the cover of ascension does help a little bit though fo God of War.
