Most Overhyped Game Last Decade Was..

HBG: The definition of overhype is, "to promote or publicize to excess." Hype is something that can either help a video game sell or help to destroy it. Many games last decade were hyped up in some fashion, whether from controversy it received or the game's overall fanfare. When it comes down to it though, there is one game that fits the exact definition of "overhype."

[omgpoppanda]

this might just be one of your best posts kreyg. i couldnt agree with you more. halo 3 was so overhyped. and it turned out to be a crap game. i could only stand to play it for 5 minutes

[kneon]

There is still a year left in this decade (minus a few days) so maybe Halo Reach can surpass the hype of it's predecessors

[jammy_70]

GTA4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

[peeps]

"There is still a year left in this decade (minus a few days)"

nah we're in a new decade now lol

200-2009 = 10 years...

[Saaking]

MW2. NO doubt about it.

[Motion]

The Romans did not have a zero in their numbering system so their calendar began with January 1 in the year 1. The decade, therefore, did not end until midnight between December 31,10 and January 1, 11. The addition of a couple of millenia changes nothing so the first decade of the second millenium does not end until December 31, 2010/January 1, 2011.

Google it if you don't believe me.

[kneon]

Only programmers count starting at 0, and there weren't many around back then :) I found it quite funny how most of the world celebrated the new millennium a year off from when they should have and it seems we are doomed to make the same mistake every 10 years.

[No FanS Land]

don't forget we're in the third millenium ;)

Yeah he's right, the actual decade finishes dec 31 2010.

just like a century 1901-2000, the XXth century.
year 1-100 1st century A.D. (there is no factual year zero apparently)

so when people were partying like sh*t for 1999-2000, well they were all in fault.

on a side note: NIN's year zero album is one crazy album (I thought about it when I wrote the words)

on topic. I can't decide on the most overhyped game but Super smash bros brawl was pretty underwhelming compared to melee.

I think I found one: too human. 10 years in development and we get this????

[Perjoss]

Has to be Killzone 2, poor controls and average campaign. Nice graphics alone do not make a good game.

edit: if i get less than 20 disagrees i will be very disappointed :)

[Obama]

Perjoss, you must think halo ODST is a total failure then considering killzone 2 murdered ODST in reviews by a mile.

[Megaton]

It was easily Halo 3, by miles. Towards the end of September 2007 was the first time I ever stopped watching TV because something was being advertised so much. Every channel, every commercial break, Halo, Halo, Halo. It made me sick.

[znu]

woaaa

i liked halo 3 and modern warfare 2 :)
they're both really fun and i don't even have a 360 but whenever i go to a friends place im always like letss play halo =D
mw2 is also pretty awesome xD

[DelbertGrady]

Killzone 2 was hyped as hell for 4 years with it's fake E3 trailers and whatnot, then when it finally was released it was nothing more than a generic FPS with pretty graphics and godawful controls.

Unlike Killzone 2, Halo 3 delivered on all fronts. It got great reviews across the board and gathered a huge install base which still play the game a lot to this day which can be seen on the Live activity lists.

[Kreyg]

Just because the game was "overhyped" does not mean it was bad!

I really feel that gamers give the term overhyped a bad connotation to it.

The game was good, but just look at ALL of the hype and build up for it.

Good or Bad, the game was overhyped in the literal meaning of it.

Not this meaning gamers seem to have adopted for it, which is

Overhyped = Bad/Forgotten game

[Eamon]

Of course Halo 3 was the most overhyped game. Never seen such a big budget marketing campaign for a game before.

Doesn't mean it was bad. It was an amazing game. The only thing it lacked was "ground breaking" graphics. The reason why I say it lacked it is because everyone was expecting so much from that game.

[mastiffchild]

And yuet again people too lazy to learn anything different from the auto aim of Halo/COD start calliing the controls of KZ2 broken. Another day but same old tired nonsense on N4G. Plus ALL the hype about the game was to do with the target render and not "fake" anything if you remember who said what-and by beating that render in places and nearly meeting it in others just how did GG fail to meet that hype? MMM?

Fact is all of us who were in the beta had those controls, loved the fact they made the game feel different and less floaty than COD-it gave KZ2 it's own identity in a world of generic (so it amuses me no end to see it called generic by the same people hating the controls-just accept that you can't LIKE every games controls and if they aren't for you it doesn't mean they're broken! I thought SF2THDR controlled a bit better than SF4 but do I say SF4's controls are broken? No, they just aren't up my street and devs can't p[lease everyone and it's better this way than having every game play the damn same isn't it?)shooters aping COD's success.

Those controls, for me, were weighty and added to the feeling of attrition fighting inch by inch through Helghan's home defences. Fine, if you couldn't get on with them it just means the hgame isnb't your cup of warm brown, no? But don't say it's broken because it isn't the damn same as the ones you happen to like-for me it also gave the game a longer and more satisfying learning curve as opposed to the pick up and play immediacy of many, many other FPS around these days. If only more devs had the bravery to make completely their own games like GG did then maybe the FPS world wouldn't feel so goddamn anaemic and samey. Why should we expect every game to be the same in control terms? More relevantly, why on earth would we want that?

Honestly, GG should NEVER have made the patch for the people who complained as these guys were always going to jump ship when the next installment of the game they like best landed in MW2 this autumn anyway-it was a total waste of time and lost a little of what made KZ2 so very special to so many of us. We need to accept that people have different tastes and different aims for the games they make other than aping what's already successful. If every dev ever felt that way we'd only ever play Mario clones so if you find a game doesn't suit you don't cry about it being "broken" unless it clearly is as a world where everything's the same would be a way less exciting and interesting one. Why homogenise gameplay?

[edgeofblade]

Big surprise. The hate train goes on.

Dead god, you stupid people. Because YOU don't like a game, that doesn't mean it was a "crap game". The vendetta against Halo puzzles me to no end. Are you rebelling against Microsoft and their money, against racist homophobic children, against US-made games, or against twitchy FPS shooters? Or are you rebelling against the game itself? I'm not sure even YOU know anymore.

There are MANY more people who will disagree with the allegation it was overhyped. Halo 3 met the hype very well. The mass of features in the game is incredible and in most games still unmatched. Halo 3 is still one of the most played games on Xbox Live. It sold extremely well and continues to be one of the go-to games for the 360.

No. The problem is with you and your irrational vendetta. No matter how many people vote with their wallets, no matter how many publications give it 95+ scores, no matter how much it's played over other games... your personal opinion always wins over and by extension, everyone has to agree with YOU?

No, it is NOT your great commission from on high to counter the Halo 3 hype train. Especially this late in the game. Slow news day or something?

@mastiffchild: You are wrong. Very.

"High Precision" should not be an option to turn on, or a patched feature. You have to be delusional to think that.

[vhero]

I agree whole heartedly with this article before I even clicked the link or read the mini description I thought Halo 3 and low and behold it was Halo 3. To be fair without the hype though it would be just another FPS.

[Kornholic]

Killzone 2 is generic and has awful controls only in your dreams, Soda Popinsky. It wouldn't really hurt playing the actual game and then making comments about it.

Halo and generic are basically synonyms and I have never experienced such sluggish controls in any other game. Oh and Halo 3 isn't even pretty.

[mikeslemonade]

Most overhyped games:
1. Fallout 3
2. Halo 3
3. GTA4
4. RE4
5. FFX

[AssassinHD]

That depends on how you look at it. A base 10 counting system does indeed begin at 0, but the Gregorian calendar (the one you are using) defines the counting origin as 1, so according to the Gregorian calendar the turn of the millennium did not actually occur until 2001. If you consider that the turn of the millennium is also the turn of the first decade, then 2011 would be the last year.

[gaffyh]

Halo 3 was the most overhyped game of the decade. I know a lot of people say Killzone 2, but actually, if you compare both games, Halo 3 was overhyped like hell.

Halo 3 was still a good game, though the campaign was kinda average, it was still fun. The main downside was the graphics. On the other hand, Killzone 2 had great graphics, a very good campaign, and a decent online mode. Also Killzone 2 was hyped as a graphical powerhouse, which it delivered.

Everyone, including me, doubted that the game would look anything like the TARGET render during E3 2005. But it looks even better than that render! Of course you'd only know that if you played the game, which I suspect most of the people in this thread haven't.

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

For the fools above me who so obviously didn't read the article, what the author meant was that combined, the marketing campaign, hype from gamers, and hype from the company was greater than any other game that came out.

HURR DURR, Halo 3 had the most overhyped campaign ever, no where did the author say the game was bad though.

[AssassinHD]

I meant to type 2010 as the last year of the decade, not 2011. According to the Gregorian calendar 2011 would be the first year of the next decade.

[NickIni]

Halo 3 was marketed like it was the second coming, it wasn't, but it was, and still is a fairly decent and entertaining game.

GTA4 is it for me. For a game with such potential and a series with such recognition it did next to nothing to the gaming industry. Sure it was an OK game, but with all the high scores, the majority had moved on within a month. Similar things seem to be happening with FFXIII.

[Sangria]

Even in France (the no video game ad land), we had a taste of Master Chief, so it's pretty much legitimate (and not really new) that Halo 3 belongs to the most hyped games of the decade.

[Kreyg]

LoL, thank you very much for sharing that video with us

[JOLLY1]

I felt like there was just enough hype sauce. With it still being either #1 or #2 every month, it's no wonder so many people wanted to cover it. I can't think of another console game that is 5 years old that is still being played as much as Halo 2. It is just so good...

[pxpxp]

For me Halo 3 was a good game, i was expecting a lot more but it was good non the less. Halo: CE and Halo 2 were better IMO and their success is well deserved. Halo 3 felt like it borrowed from that success a bit too much. The marketing campaign was superb, the thing is that marketing is not what makes a game good. Like i said good game non the less, ODST is another story...

[chase167]

Campers on duty mw2

[sundar112]

I can only say the last decade was great and in no way it was overhyped.

[Kreyg]

the last decade had plenty of games and things that were overhyped.

[xDSJxPyro]

Could not agree more, I remember EVERYONE talking about it. Then when it came out, and smashed the sales record. While I was playing it, I heard the Price is Right losing horn.

[mal_tez92]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Stretchnutz]

This is why I don' really follow or listen all the hype.

[silentbrian]

I don't listen to hype anymore. I play what i want because i'm a gay fish.

[chidori666]

halo 3 and odst.. the 2 most horrible game so far in this gen..imo ;)

[xbox3flopteen]

+bubble

[RBdrift]

well deserved bubble

[taylork37]

wtf wrong spot

[4point7BillionLoss]

turned out to be just another generic shooter ....

[El Nino]

I dont think it was just the most overhyped game of the decade

just probably since console gaming started!

to have a marketing campaign that large and extravagent, it was always gonna be doomed, how can a game live up too that, it cant, no game could.

[Blitzkid]

The most overhyped game of the decade was: Daikatana

[edgeofblade]

For. Truth.

Released May 2000, so it qualifies.

Thank you for not going with the knee-jerk counter-culture and actually thinking about your response.

[kwyjibo]

Modern Warfare 2.

[STICKzophrenic]

504,403

That's how many unique users have played Halo 3 in the last 24 hours. That many gamers aren't still playing this game based on "hype".

[Kreyg]

The definition of overhype is, "to promote or publicize to excess."

where does it say that a it has to do bad? people like you make it seem like the term is bad, when in fact its not at all.

Did you even read the full article? It clearly says at the end that this helped Halo for the most part. Just because it's "overhyped" doesn't mean its bad dude. People like you give the word that negative connotation

[iceman06]

took the intention of the word "hype" and usage to mean that the game was not great. I believe that the author above was just stating that we were inundated with Halo from TV, Newspaper, Magazine, Fast Food. I have NEVER seen a game with as much "main stream" coverage as Halo 3...bar NONE...and I lived in Japan when SuperFamicom (Super NES) was using Mario to beat over everybody's head.

[Pistolero]

Well...the word has a negative connotation whether you like it or not...that is just another layer of the language...but anyway, to me overhyped means that something did not live up to its hype and Halo 3 most definitely lived up to its hype...its one of the few games from that year that I still play to this day...a lot. When a game continues to attract that many gamers...more than most recent games even...then it can in no way be considered overhyped.

[mfwahwah]

Halo 3 WAS over hyped. I couldn't go a single day with seeing the latest "WOAH MAN DUDE WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOT BUYING HALO 3 MERCHANDISE!?? GET YOUR ASS SOME ****ING HALO 3 MOUNTAIN DEW AND GAAAAAAME OOOOOOOON!!!!!"

God damn I hated watching TV during that time.

[edgeofblade]

You are blatantly, consciously, and maliciously confusing "hype" with "overhype".

Halo 3: hyped... but not overhyped. God forbid someone would actually advertise.

Now HERE is an example of overhype: "Halo Killer".

[GiantEnemyCrab]

The fact the author has to spend all his bubbles explaining his article just shows what a crappy one it is..

Fine Halo is overhyped but it's still one of the top FPS's out there and still to this day there is nothing on console FPS that has the legs, fans and success this franchise has seen. There isn't a dev/platform holder out there who wouldn't love to have this game on their resume.

[STICKzophrenic]

"he definition of overhype is, "to promote or publicize to excess."

where does it say that a it has to do bad? people like you make it seem like the term is bad, when in fact its not at all.

Did you even read the full article? It clearly says at the end that this helped Halo for the most part. Just because it's "overhyped" doesn't mean its bad dude. People like you give the word that negative connotation"

...and I don't feel Halo 3 was "overhyped". Whatever hype it received, was because it deserved it. It's probably my favorite game this gen...or at least the game I've played the most.

@Pistolero

"Well...the word has a negative connotation whether you like it or not...that is just another layer of the language...but anyway, to me overhyped means that something did not live up to its hype and Halo 3 most definitely lived up to its hype...its one of the few games from that year that I still play to this day...a lot. When a game continues to attract that many gamers...more than most recent games even...then it can in no way be considered overhyped."

Thank you.

[peeps]

i don't even think Reach will get as much hype as Halo 3. Reason being that Halo 3 was the first 'next gen' halo and it was all about 'finishing the fight' i.e. ppl thinkin it would be a massive game with all the answers etc etc. turns out it was far from the last game in the series!

[tiamat5]

Never listen to hype.All the games that I have purchased on hype always are a disappointment and get sent back.

[thehitman]

Easily most overhyped game. Halo on soda bottles ?? I havent till this day seen anything more overhyped not even GTA and I think GTA did a better job than Halo living up to the hype. 99% of my friends said halo was over hyped after the first NIGHT. All said they story was pretty garbage except for like the very ending. If it wasnt for the fact that so many people bought it in anticipation for it being a very good game it would have gotten much more flack by the gaming media. But I guess you cant go wrong w/ 8-10mil guarantee sells by everyone who owns a 360.

[SoX FireBlade]

Halo 3 FTW :D

[The Maxx]

Here is my list of Greatest Halo games.

Halo 1
Halo 3
ODST
Halo Wars
Halo 2

Now i love the Halo Franchise cause of its story and gameplay. As you can see, i have Halo 3 as my second favorite Halo game within the franchise. Was Halo 3 HYPED. YES. Was it over hyped...i don't think so. I think it got the HYPE that it deserved. IT's still played by hundreds of thousands of people all around the world at any given time. Just put the game in and you will see. It has sold 10+ million copies in 3 years.

Now how can a game that was "over hyped" 3 years ago still manage to sell so many copies after so much time has passed since it's last commercial? I can understand if several months leading up and past the release of Halo 3 caused the game so sell a few million, but the commercials stopped, as well as the hype. But years later the game has sold Millions since it's first year. I'm sorry but after the games first year, the Hype is gone.

I guess what i am saying is that sure the game was hyped in the beginning, but it clearly wasn't over hyped as millions of copies of the game sold long after the hype had evaporated. The game has sold Millions due to 2 reasons: Halo fans had to have the 3 installment in the franchise and 2nd. It's a great game.

[DARK WITNESS]

well said... and bubbles to you man.

[Kreyg]

The first line of the article says the definition of overhype is, "to promote or publicize to excess." It never states once that the hype, or overhyping of halo 3 was bad for it.

Gamers such as yourself make it a bad thing, when in fact it's not!

[The Maxx]

I'm sorry, but then what is the accepted level of "Hype" so that we have a clear picture of what "Over Hyping" then spills over too? Are then Disney movies over hyped because marketing puts character pictures on happy meal boxes for kids? What is over hyping? Is there a Hype meter? Or if market/advertising goes past "x" amount of $$$ then it's considered "Over hyping"? What is the author using as a measurement to come to the OPINION that Halo 3 was over hyped?

Was it because more money was put into advertising than what was put into other games like LBP, KZ2, Resistance 1&2...etc? Seems a little odd that now there are restrictions on how much you can market your product without it be considered "OVER HYPING".

Over Hyping is a term used when a game fails to be as good as it was "hyped" out to me. Ie. HAZE. This is Halo. Halo 2 set records in sales. When Halo 3 was announced, the degree of Hyping was right on par for such a Highly anticipated game. If the same Hype was used for a game like HAZE then i could agree with the term " Over hyping". But for a franchise that has a huge following and has set sales records in the past, than "hyping" to the next level for the next title is expected.

My earlier comment about the game selling millions after the HYPE had died down is accurate as millions were still selling even after the HYPE because IT'S A GREAT GAME and great games sell. Thus HALO 3 was not over hyped because the game was worth the hype since millions of Halo 3 games still sold years after the HYPE. The "HYPE" is not what has sold the game to 10+ million, it was the GAME that sold the game to 10+ million. The degree of "HYPE" was just to announce the game.

[solidt12]

Halo 3 for sure. Halo mountain dew. Halo toys. Halo at 7 11. Halo was all over tv and the Internet like it's the best game to ever launch. Old dudes at the golf course even knew what halo was.

[Alcon Caper]

Halo 3 was a good game, though. Hype was deserved.

[sGIBMBR]

I agree, Halo 3 is awesome...

+10 million sold
2nd most played game on XBL and its been out for nearly 3 years
+1 million played it on XBL within the last 24 hours

Sure, Halo 3 sucks doesn't it :S

Half people played Halo3 yesterday, than bought Killzone 2 PERIOD!!!

[bennyace]

It was well marketed (Sony should take notes!). A game that gets a 94% average on Metacritic is not overhyped. A game like, let's say, Heavenly Sword (because it came out the same year) that gets a 79% on Metacritic is overhyped.

[dkgshiz]

I say
1.GTA 4
2.Halo 3
3.MW2
4.Assassins Creed

Thats my take on it.

[Kreyg]

GTA IV was hyped up a lot, but I do feel no game has been hyped to the level of Halo 3

[jesushmacy]

I think with the toys and stuff it made the hype go to the wrong people, and now makes up the 12 year olds that plague xbox live

[Relientk77]

Halo 3 obviously if there was any doubt

I actually liked the Halo 3 mountain dew game fuel, me and my friends bought and drank that alot

[Kreyg]

I think it's funny that some people over in the gamer zone jumped on the fanboy wagon, misunderstood, or just didn't even read the whole article.

I clearly state that despite its being LITERALLY "overhyped" it still did/does great.

Just because gamers feel the term overhyped is a bad thing, doesn't mean it is.

In Halo 3's case it works out, but you can't deny that it was WAY overhyped..IN the literal sense/meaning of the word.

[N4BmpS]

Agree wasn't there like 30 million bucks spent just to promote it everywhere. For awhile I wanted to play it, then I heard ignorant talk, you know the Fanboy jabber.

[jalen247]

Take your pick...GTA 4, Halo 3, COD: MW 2

[ReBurn]

I was thinking that Lair was a good candidate, at least amongst the fanboys. "Just wait until Lair comes out! It's going to kill the competition!!1!" Heh, I get a chuckle just thinking about it.

[taylork37]

wasn't Lair supposed to be the Halo Killer?

That game was godawful.

[saimcheeda]

GTA IV
Killzone 2

Overhyped

Modernwarfare 2
Halo 3

[taylork37]

Halo 3 was a good game though. It got good reviews and there are hundreds of thousands of people playing online everyday. Any game that can say that is a great game. I think that the general "survival of the fittest" nature of gamers does not allow for bad games to survive for very long. Halo has more than survived.

Halo 3 might have been hyped too much, but in no way was it a bad game.

[BeaArthur]

MGS4 for me. I had never played one but bought into the whole "masterpiece" hype, but man was that a let down. There were more cut scenes than gameplay. The first two acts were awesome but after that the game takes a severe downturn.

[ReBurn]

I had the same experience that you did. MGS4 was my first Metal Gear Solid game and I was less than impressed. All of the BS "Power of Blu-ray, 50GB game!" stuff made it seem like this was going to be the gold standard of console games for some time to come. But really it was more of a movie with stealth action sequences between scenes, which was kind of a letdown. That game looks and plays beautifully, but I guess it wasn't my kind of game. Way overhyped if you ask me.

A game that I did love was massively overhyped, too. And that was LittleBigPlanet. The game allows for all kinds people to express their creativity with the level builder. But in the end it showed that 99% of the people playing it have no creativity. And the included levels were fairly substandard platformer stuff. A great overall package, though.

[BeaArthur]

I could tell right off the bat that LBP was not going to be my thing. I would actually say (in regards to this article) that Halo 3 was the most over exposed game of the decade but not the most over hyped. But you and I are 100% in agreement on MGS4.

[kraze07]

GTA 4. Nuff said.

[Numark]

My vote would go first to Fable 1. Sorry, but that is the definition of an over hyped game. It was made out to be the ultimate RPG and one of the best games ever. My second vote would go to Killzone 2, and my third vote would go to Halo 3.

[BLADE_X8]

I disagree with the list of both Killzone 2 and Halo 3. In fact, if these games were combined...there would be no other shooter to match this creation. However, they are separate, and they both have a few flaws. neither are anywhere near the word "FLOP". Flops are games like: Lair, Tony Hawks: Ride, Haze, Too Human, 90% of Wii games (not made by Nintendo), and damn near ALL movie "Snatch & Grab" video games. (Only Batman: AA, and LOTR: Two Towers delivered., IMO) I like you comment, so I checked Agree by it.

[dkgshiz]

GTA 4 was more hyped then Halo 3. Plus they paid the reviewers. Like gamespot giving it a 10/10. Yeah.....

[devilhunterx]

Teh Haloz

[Sandhu Andreas]

The thing with GTA 4 is, is that Rockstar actually took the risk of sending the series in a more realistic direction and I praise them for that.
In an industry where people complain about no innovation or companies churning out slightly tweaked sequels such as Halo, how can people say GTA 4 was more hyped than Halo 3?
I'll admit the story wasn't too great, but on a technical feat it was impressive at the time. It also had a great multiplayer aspect and physics engine. Rockstar took the complaints on board and brought out TLaD and BoGT add-ons to please those that liked the previous GTA's over the 4th one.

And I agree with Halo 3 being the most overhyped game of the last decade. Halo Jesus ftl.

[BLADE_X8]

As a PS3 only gamer, I give props to Halo: Combat Evolved and of course...Halo 3. Yea, the series is getting dated, but Halo 3 had some great stuff. And although sales aren't everything, Halo 3 did hit for damn near 11 million copies sold! (Only Mario Kart Wii's 19.9 million, for a single console and no PC game, sold more...this generation.)

I don't hate Halo 3, Just feel like Killzone 2 is just "slightly" better than not only this game, but Modern Warfare 2 also. (I am not saying that Killzone 2 is better than COD4 and Halo: Combat Evolved, though.) Also, IMO...the Team Snipers (Even though I am not good at it) is a lot of fun! All in All, I would buy this game if it was on the PS3 system. (I just prefer not to buy a Xbox 360...failure rate, "Snatch & Grab" issues for me.)

I give Halo 3 a 9 out of 10. (Halo: Combat Evolved gets a perfect 10)

[Stevo35]

"Just because gamers feel the term overhyped is a bad thing, doesn't mean it is."

Aah, just because this writer says it is not bad does not mean blah blah blah. STFU

In my books it means there was a lot of press that made you think you had to buy it and after your did, you wanted your money back, you felt defiled in some way and should call the police. If 90% of all people say it has a meaning, and you are talking to those people, then thats what it means.

[Kreyg]

I in no way felt defiled or upset by Halo 3, I still play it to this day. Just because 90% of you FEEL something is one way doesn't mean it is.

I'm guessing you didnt do very well in school because you FELT things were the way you thought they were.

Just because 90% of people FEEL "overhyped" means bad, doesn't mean it really is. Maybe you should go back to english class and learn the language and what words really mean.

Sorry stevo, the world doesn't all think the way N4G.com does ;-)

[Stevo35]

You obviously did not read what I wrote so let me put it in plain "engrish" for you!
If your audience is all gamers. And most gamers feel a word has certain meaning. Then when you use that word, that IS what you are saying regardless of your intensions. If you don't know this, you should NOT be talking/writing/etc!
Lets break down the meaning you idiot(Kreyg): "To promote or publicize to excess". What is excess? "going beyond what is regarded as customary or proper". So this means they promoted it more than what would be regarded as proper. Why is it not proper? Because the game sucked in comparison to what you thought it was going be.
--STFU @Kreyg--

[NoneOfTheAbove]

Massive Action Game!

[ksquared]

Killzone 2 didnt have its own mountain dew. Plain and simple.

Both are great games, but for very different reasons.

[Kreyg]

"Finish The Fight"

That's what started all the hype and kept it going until release day.

When I wrote this didn't care if the game I picked failed or didn't fail.

All the people who say it has to be a game that failed and then say modern warfare 2 or WoW, you make no valid point. You say it has to fail and then you talk about wildly successful games.

To everyone, Thanks for reading and leaving your thoughts whether you agree or not.