Please show me where a large amount of PS3 owners that had low expectations for this game before the reviews started coming out.  Pretty much every PS3 fan had high expectations for this game because, as I said, it was one of those miraculous games that was supposed to make the PS3 sales sky rocket and the next gen domination would truly begin. 

Please show me a large amount of PS3 owners...

But, really, you're just avoiding the point again.  I don't care if the game is good or bad.  I care if people who like flying games thinks it's a bad representative of the genre, and I care if people who don't like those sort of games are spreading their opinion around as if that factor had no influence on them.  I'm interested far more in how people are coming to this conclusion, not which factors they take issue with.

 Then we would have a grand total of 3 posts.

I'm still talking because somebody DID play the game and DID tell this guy what he thought, but then he went anal, trying to get the exact right words out of the guy.  He said the game sucked, what more do you want?  Do you want him to say, "I was expecting this game to be bad, but not this bad" or "I was hoping this game would be fun"?  What does it matter?  The end product is what matters.  The guy in this thread that actually played the game said it sucked...but instead tells him "I don't need a review. I didn't ask for a review. I asked: Did you like it, do you normally like these kind of games, what were you expecting from this game, and how long did you play it? That's not a review. That's a survey."

If ChichiriMuyo would actually treat us like equals, like fellow human beings, we might actually care.

 I would think trolling is better defined in a thread such as this by an individual ignoring everything that is public knowledge about said game for the sake of defending that game against what they feel to be an attack on Sony/Ps3/the Hardcore movement.  

http://sonyprotectiongroup.com/
http://europs3forum.com/
http://thesixthaxis.com/
http://blog.us.playstation.com/
http://www.killzoneunit.com/kz/
http://www.ps3informer.com/
http://www.ps3blab.com/

Go bother people at any or all of those places, I'm sure they'll like you better. 

Well, I guess my question is, what kind of information or insight are you hoping to glean here that the many reviews out there (good, bad and mediocre) did not provide.

Could you figure out what you really want to know, because it seems like it keeps changing with peoples responses. In the first post there was no mention about "people who like flying games, and what the think of lair as it compares to other games in this genre"?!!?

Well, friedtofu, as I've said about a dozen times I'm hoping to figure out how people thought through the decision making process. I can read how bad the game is for hours, but what I can't read is whether the reviewer was upset about getting instead of anothe or if he spent a good deal of time on it or if he doesn't like flying games to begin with.

Whether or not someone likes the game itself irrelevant. Whether or not they like the genre is. The time it took to make the decision (which for some people is 0 playtime) is important. A number grade or complaints about specific issues in the game are not.

WEW, you need to read my opening post again.  It says, quite clearly (since I'm quoting): "If you thought it was bad, please indicate whether or not you went into the experience with high hopes or low hopes and whether or not you would enjoy this type of game if the experience would have been improved."  That's asking people if they like flying games.  The question hasn't changed since the first post, I'm just trying to put it in words that others can actually comprehend. 

I realize that most people are not reading the actual question and understanding it.  If it was clearly understood, people would have actually answerd it.  Re-wording what I've stated in an attempt to get people to answer the actual questions doesn't change them.