Halo 3 didn't get a tenth of the hate of Killzone 2.

@CGI
Well, unfortunately, I must disagree and posit the the amount of hate for this game is no more than many other high-profile exclusive.
But anyways, congratulations Guerrilla Games on an excellent game!

To be sure, it did receive plenty of fanboy hate. But that is to be expected, and the point of my mentioning other games' reception of hate was to counter the idea that KZ2 somehow received a disproportionate or unheralded amount, such that it would deserve the title of comeback boy and the like.

I've been saying for some time now I'm getting day one. I just want people to call a spade a spade.

@vagabone

not sure your david goliath analogy fits. goliath cn be the media+kz2 haters and doubters and fanboys vs david (kz2). from what i have generally seen, heard and read in the media , pretty much anything sony related has mostly been negative. using your analogy, i would say kz2 was david and the doubters and haters were goliath (media can make or break u irrespective of a companies size or budget, fanboys can spread bad rumours quicker then a bush fire). now that the game is here, the media has turned a new leafe and the doubters have moved onto if it will sell or not.

The reason for the hate towrds KZ2 on this site might be due to the dozens of KZ2 threads every week for a past few months. I mean a thread dedicated to every single site preview can get on the nerves. And arent there about 4-5 threads claiming the it looks better than Crysis?
What im trying to say here is that people should start praising(as well as bashing) only after they have played through the damn thing

Great, now Killzone 2 should get its own movie.

I beg to differ.... It wasn't hated, it was only disappointing that it came short for some. For me though it's a memorable game. Fun to play ever since launch. Now I wouldn't call that hating worst than what happened to KZ2 since the epic blunder of the trailer. Left and right you can see comments about bashing how that's epically impossible(which it really was). Skepticism made them say it's gonna be a damn disappointment.

Did Halo get the same thing? Nope... As far as I can remember it wasn't bashed like hell and never became a landmine topic like KZ2 infamous trailer.

To work on the David and Goliath analogy,

Killzone 2 is David, the Haters are Goliath.

Goliath loved David's older brother, but he became a druggie and a criminal. Goliath thought this would run in the family, and didn't think David could be any better, and so began to hate David. Over the years, Goliath gained power and many people fell prey to him. Despite the occasional good deed, most considered him a monster.

When some promise was shown, he dismissed it, said there was none. More was shown, still he refused to believe in David.

Then, people began to really like David, and this made Goliath furious. He began to attack David, abusing him verbally and physically.

However, David overcame all of this, with the strength of his fans behind him, and defeated Goliath.

Still a pretty good story.

hundreds is wrong and so is 4 years... is a similar budget of halo gigantic? because id assume it would be around there and not surprised by the amount so i wouldnt consider it gigantic