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pichu_pichu on 16 August 2008

and game informer usually grades above the Average game score


Not with EBA



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JaggedSac on 16 August 2008

It will flop right into my 360's disc drive.



greenmedic88 on 16 August 2008

Original post link follows. Are you always so quick to dismiss something on the basis of how a news article poster chooses to word sources?

http://forums.xbox.com/21863268/ShowPost.aspx

The demo was downloaded over 900k times according to MS. Doesn't translate to 900k sales, but it does indicate more than a fair amount of interest in the title.

Personally, I could care less whether the report is legit or not, but see no reason why someone would cook up a 362 page report on sales figures and projections in the interest of having more people to play with on XBL.

Finished the demo and didn't have any major issues with it (other than no standard 3D camera controls), but it was hardly something I felt compelled to keep playing.

Until Gears 2 comes out, I don't think I'll be buying any new games for the 360.



VBI on 16 August 2008

The most recent magazine reviews I've read about it all seem to think the controls are un-necessarily clunky and wierd, and that the game is a bit bloated. I just think the controls from the demo will put a lot of people off.



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mrstickball on 16 August 2008

We will have to wait and see...

TH could be one of the many games that sees mediocre scoring, and great sales.
Either way, this one is only getting a rent from me.



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AceRock on 16 August 2008

Well it hasn't exactly had a chance to flot quite yet...



AceRock owns one PS3, one PS Vita, and one PS4.

misterd on 16 August 2008

Since when is a GI review the arbiter of what makes a flop? Last I checked, it was sales, not reviews, that determines whether a game is a flop.



KatinJin on 16 August 2008

Actually I have a feeling the sales will be quite good in fact medicore score or not.



mrstickball on 16 August 2008

Guys...

I'm going to be posting the XBLA numbers for Fable 2 Pub Games. I think some may be pleasantly surprised :)



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KatinJin on 16 August 2008
axumblade said:
greenmedic88 said:
Pre-orders are supposedly in the 1 million territory currently. That's a pretty fair indicator that the game should be a commercial hit.

Anyone who's played the demo should have their own opinion whether the game should be good or bad. There's no better "review" than a good demo after all.

http://xboxoz360gamer.com/2008/08/03/too-human-rumour-report-shows-1-million-preorders/

“According to sales reports from Gamestop, EB Games, and Microsoft Co., there were an estimated 1.4 million preorders placed in the contiguous U.S. during the one-year period leading up to E3, 2008. After the release of the game’s demo a reported 370,000 additional games were preordered, in addition to 495,000 cancellations.

During the E3 conferences and in the week after, a mere 45,000 preorders were cancelled while 350,000 more were made. There were only a reported 8,000 cancellations during the year prior to the demo’s release.”

"An anonymous gamestop manager" sounds about as credible as "my friend said that Too Human sold a million copies."

I'm not saying it couldn't happen with a game like Fable 2 or Gears of War 2 but not so much too human.

Also, the Haze demo was pretty good too but the game turned out to be crap. A good demo doesn't necessarily mean that a game will be amazing.

If very well could be a good game, but I don't see it doing nearly as well as they make it seem it will.

Also, there's only about 10 other threads talking about Too Human flopping/receiving bad scores, why create your own post on the matter?

Sorry but the Haze demo was complete and utter failure. Yes, I played it.