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blackstar on 25 February 2009
starcraft said:
blackstar said:
wow, a complete victory against starcraft and it's good but I'm sad that sony can't do good marketing :(

Well.  I guess it was always going to be difficult to argue about the internet at large when the one single gaming site I frequent is VGChartz :S

Oh well.  I won based on MY internet

 

 

same here



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blackstar on 25 February 2009
blazinhead89 said:
starcraft said:
blackstar said:
wow, a complete victory against starcraft and it's good but I'm sad that sony can't do good marketing :(

Well.  I guess it was always going to be difficult to argue about the internet at large when the one single gaming site I frequent is VGChartz :S

Oh well.  I won based on MY internet

 

 

When are you getting your PS3 Starcraft?

 

starcraft getting a ps3 ? a joke and not a funny one he-he



richardhutnik on 25 February 2009
starcraft said:
I'm sorry, but better advertising does not for a moment equal more hype.

Halo 3 was a blip on the internet radar compared to the hype titan that has been Killzone 2.

Halo's an established franchise, and the XBox fans knew Microsoft would market it for them.  I believe with Killzone 2, you have Sony fans who are concerned Sony would drop the ball, so they stepped in.

Halo 3 set new heights in marketing for a videogame.  Killzone 2 is approaching the record for hype for a game by the fans of a system on the Internet.  Will be interesting to see if sales clock in higher level than the Snakes on a Plane/Ron Paul level.  If they don't, then consider it the "Ron Paul Effect", or "Objects on the Internet are actually smaller than they appear".  Well, more midnight madness launch parties for KZ2 are a sign that it is possible thet "Ron Paul Effect" won't be in affect here.

 



Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Euphoria14 said:
starcraft said:
blackstar said:
wow, a complete victory against starcraft and it's good but I'm sad that sony can't do good marketing :(

Well.  I guess it was always going to be difficult to argue about the internet at large when the one single gaming site I frequent is VGChartz :S

Oh well.  I won based on MY internet

 

 

^ This here people is how Starcraft expresses humbleness.

 

Anyone know if there is any plant-life in the game? Not that I care, I would just like to know because that is one of the "arguments" I have heard.

Yeah, yeah, you pretend you're mentioning plants en passant, but actually you want to grow the first sprout you find up to a big tree and become the first notorious KZ2 gardener! 

 

I just want to help the Helghast so they can have a prettier world to live in.

 



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Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009
richardhutnik said:
starcraft said:
I'm sorry, but better advertising does not for a moment equal more hype.

Halo 3 was a blip on the internet radar compared to the hype titan that has been Killzone 2.

Halo's an established franchise, and the XBox fans knew Microsoft would market it for them.  I believe with Killzone 2, you have Sony fans who are concerned Sony would drop the ball, so they stepped in.

Halo 3 set new heights in marketing for a videogame.  Killzone 2 is approaching the record for hype for a game by the fans of a system on the Internet.  Will be interesting to see if sales clock in higher level than the Snakes on a Plane/Ron Paul level.  If they don't, then consider it the "Ron Paul Effect", or "Objects on the Internet are actually smaller than they appear".  Well, more midnight madness launch parties for KZ2 are a sign that it is possible thet "Ron Paul Effect" won't be in affect here.

 

 

Close to approaching the record for hype for a game by the fans of a system on the internet?

Dude, did you just completely ignore the 3rd page of this thread? It hasn't even come close to Halo 3 yet.

blackstar said:

 

red = killzone 2

blue = halo 3

I win , what do I get?

 

http://www.google.com/trends?q=halo+3%2C+Killzone+2

Dallinor said:

Yahoo results:

Halo 3= 296 million

Killzone 2 =98 million

Google results:

Halo 3= 33 million results.

Killzone 2: 13 million results.

Live Search results:

Halo 3 = 22 million

Killzone 2= 757,000

GT video results:

Halo 3: 22 million views.

Killzone 2: 14 million views.

Youtube results:

Halo 3: 276,000 videos

Killzone 2: 28,000 videos

Metacafe results:

Halo 3: 1001 videos.

Killzone 2: 48 videos.

Google search trends.

 

Vgchartz results:

Halo 3 : 13,300 results.

Killzone 2: 19,400 results.

lul



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Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009

Whoa!!!

I quoted my sig? How?!

 

Edit - Fix'd it.



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Skeeuk on 25 February 2009
blackstar said:

 

red = killzone 2

blue = halo 3

I win , what do I get?

 

http://www.google.com/trends?q=halo+3%2C+Killzone+2

i will paypal you 10$ for that

 



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Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009

@Skeeuk

Blackstar isn't here right now. You can send to me. I will make sure he gets it.



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forevercloud3000 on 25 February 2009

MakingMusic is probably playing Killzone 2 as we speak! I saw him playing last night. Said he had been playing for 8hrs+! >:(

Killzone 2 8hrs+, CONFIRMED!!!!(although he did say a very small portion of that was Multiplayer)

It saddens me I won't even be able to get it on release. I'm broke :(



      

      

      

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dbot on 25 February 2009
Euphoria14 said:

Here you go to those asking about the plant life thing.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=59585

Part of the comparison.

I don't mean to discredit Guerilla Games, but they took the easy route. Killzone 2 looks this good because it is easier to make this type of game look good. It is a game with very little organic and natural figures. I bet they have at least one in there, but for the most part, the game has no trees. The game also lacks vegetation and features very little landscape. Why is this important? Simple, organic content is very hard to make look good and takes a lot of power. Trees in particular require a lot of power to render properly. Lets take a look at these pictures: 

Note: I included links to 720P pictures. I didn't include them in here because VGChartz seems to cut them off. I also didn't resize them because resizing pictures introduces artificial AA which benefits 1 of these games more than the other.

Killzone 2: http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/949/949161/killzone-2-20090129014059684.jpg

Gears 2 : http://www.gamershell.com/static/screenshots/12987/356480_full.jpg

I remember this thread.  Here's my take on it.

Killzone 2 looks better than GeoW2 because K2 implemented a deferred rendering engine, has 300 + unique light sources (compared to most games utilizing 4), better character models, and better character animations.

I guess you could say GG also took the "easy way out" because they didn't include crappy looking trees like Epic did.  I just hope we don't spend 90% of the game in a cave or inside some alien animal. 

 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.