Starwars changed the industry because it was the first movie with those effects.
Halo3 is just halo 2 with prettier graphics.
I wonder if there would be this much criticism of the Halo spectacle if it was a PS3 game?
| miasma23 said: Some of you guys don't seem to get it. What you are seeing is history. This game is the first real blockbluster for this industry. This game is doing for video games what Star Wars did for the movie industry. In movies, this kinda hype is common, in video games we are now getting it for the first time. Be happy, you love the industry, don't you? |
Good post.
The first real Blockbuster? FFVII outsold every version of Halo. Slapping the Halo name on everything from toothbrushes to 7-11's generates a lot of hype, but I think you are completely wrong if you say it is the first Blockbuster.
I think a better analogy is that FFVII is like a movie that swept the Academy awards and cleaned up at the box office. Halo is like a big-budget action movie that is a lot of hype with enough substance underneath to make it worthwhile and that will also clean up at the box office.
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I don't remember FFVII having this much coverage in the media, akuma587, and that's what miasma23 is talking about.
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| Dolla Dolla said: I don't remember FFVII having this much coverage in the media, akuma587, and that's what miasma23 is talking about. |
I totally agree, but I am just trying to make the point that there is a difference between the hype machine and actual sales. I am in no way saying that Halo probably won't sell at least 5 million copies, but that this level of success has been seen before and has been surpassed before.
I'll stick to my action movie vs. academy award sweeper analogy.
FFVII did receive a lot of hype, by the by, and Square didn't have to pay for a lot of it because the game impressed so many people simply on its own merit. Nowhere near the same level of coverage as Halo 3 of course, but probably the most for an RPG I have ever seen.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
Honestly, I really don't see why they are advertising this game so hardcore. Everyone and everyones brother already knows about it. Just release it already.
| Onimusha12 said: I wonder if there would be this much criticism of the Halo spectacle if it was a PS3 game? |
Well the original Halo was originally planned for PS2 and PC with R* publishing it and Bungie making it then MS came along and bought Bungie and the game was on Xbox and PC instead.
If Halo3 was on the PS3 you can bet it would be big but it wouldnt be this big because Sony wouldnt let R*'s(origianlly) game outshine their own.Â
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I thought it went to far with the drink but now MS has to stop with the advertisement same with all the other companies(Wal*Mart,BestBuy).Thank god we dont have this over here(UK),its not on the TV or is there any special lanes or is any shop(GAME,Virgin,HMV) advertiseing it to the extreme.
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Very little Halo marketing taking place in Europe at the moment. Apart from your standard in-store advertisements nothing else. This must be a American only phenomenon.
It's rumoured the MGS4 release will release with a soundtrack with a video that will be played on MTV.
And of course Sony is making the MGS movie.
So this type of broad advertisement may become the norm for huge franchises such as these.
akuma587 said:
I totally agree, but I am just trying to make the point that there is a difference between the hype machine and actual sales. I am in no way saying that Halo probably won't sell at least 5 million copies, but that this level of success has been seen before and has been surpassed before. I'll stick to my action movie vs. academy award sweeper analogy. FFVII did receive a lot of hype, by the by, and Square didn't have to pay for a lot of it because the game impressed so many people simply on its own merit. Nowhere near the same level of coverage as Halo 3 of course, but probably the most for an RPG I have ever seen. |
Exactly FFVII sold 3 million copies or so in less than 48 hours in Japan only, more than 9 million copies WW.
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