True and I guess they do have games that have "proven" the franchise although I disagree with many of the reviews.  Resistance and GoW should have both gotten 7s and 8s on their reviews but of course no hardcore reviewer in their right mind would ever give stereotypical shooters a bad score unless it's Haze haha.  So I guess that warrants more trust in the sequels being good than an unproven developer releasing a game but still I think we've all see enough from the Conduit to know it's a decent shooter.  Haven't seen anything to warrant it as a great one but we know it's going to be decent.

If a disenting opinion from the opossite side of the fence is enough to make something not overhyped then nothing is actually overhyped.

I didn't claim it made it not overhyped. I pointed out that fanboy gushing isn't overhyping to begin with.

When this game gets some actual marketing, then we'll see if this is actually overhyped.

Same with Killzone 2, and Little Big Planet. We get some trailers and shots from the developers for all three games, but most of the percieved overhype is people here not shutting up about them.

Whats Conduit?


Anyways, I'll agree with you its overhyped including LBP and Killzone 2.

With all the talk of overhype today I've been surprised at how many different definitions for overhyped there are.  There's overhyping of Sales, Quality.  And then difference come from what actually is overhyping....if it's from a forum or if it's from the media.

I don't disagree with your definition.....just musing.

BTW, for all the praise MoH Heroes 2 got for the controls, and all the gaming press who got to play the demos of this game report that the controls are improved, then we don't have much reason to assume the game will be anything less than decent and playable.

See? Now it applies to LBP too =p

I have a weird feeling The Conduit will get an 8.2 (IGN)...


And Little Big Planet will get a 10 (everywhere).

What I meant was that a bunch of fanboys on a few forums isn't widespread enough to count as actual hype. A few may be sick of it from that, but uless they weren't going to buy the game anyway, that's not enough to hurt the game's sales.

So it may be overhyping for the scale of this board, I'll give that, but that comment that it looked like a 360 game is just fanboy ranting, not hype. If they say it's a guaranteed 5 million seller, or telling everyone to buy the game, that would be hyping it.

So it's the annoying insistance that every Wii owner should buy this that makes it overhyped to the scale of this message board. Which may not be enough to hurt the game, so I still don't say the thread title is right.

So now there's actual hype and fake hype I assume?

Okkkkay.