I wanted it

This is a game like Alpha Protocol that, for some reason, just hasn't caught on with internet buzz. They both should be REALLY good games, but people just won't be all that into them when they release and they will go on to fit that Psychonauts/Beyond Good and Evil/Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath category.

So why is that? Why aren't these games receiving enough 'hype'?

@ Darth Tigris

Simple. They are not exclusive. Only exclusive games get hyped now and days. With the exception of Modern Warfare 2

Yup. It needs to be exclusive to get hyped.

it is just my prediction it is gonna bomb. It doesn't have a brand name, and Capcom have not been having good luck lately. It'll probably do better than Bionic Commando but that's not saying much.

I should mention that Capcom has Dark Void at 2 million expected sales. They expected Bionic Commando to sell 1.5 million, and Dead Rising wii to sell 500k but both won't be close.

Resident Evil 5, Ghostbusters, Prototype . . . there are many games that aren't exclusive that get a lot of internet hype.  And by internet hype I'm talking threads on message boards, stories on blogs and articles on gaming sites.

For the record, SALES of the games I mentioned haven't been huge (with the exception of RE5), but they hype was large.

Prototype is a special case. It was hyped by alot of Microsoft fans because they could not play inFamous. It was mostly, "this game is so much better than inFamous."

Ghostbusters is another special case. Twesterm was a developer for it , so alot of users on this site were hyping it just to impress him.

Resident Evil 5 is another exception

You have to look at games like Red Faction Geurilla. The pre-quel was hyped to high heavens as a Halo killer. But since it is now multi-platform there was no where near as much hype.

there is also the case of the Developers. Alot of people get hyped just by the name of the devs. Bioware,Bethesda,Rockstar, and a few more that I can't think of.

  There is also the new IP. Games sometimes just do not get hyped because they are a new IP(like Dark Void and Alpha Protocol)

Wait what?! Twesterm worked on Ghostbuster? For what company is he working?

He is a level designer for Terminal Reality