OXM's Edwin writes: "Everybody knows that online reaction and review scores don't necessarily correspond to game sales, but when you're hitting F5 half your life, it can be easy to forget.
There's a whole ecosystem of wallet-armed brains beyond the spiky fortifications of gaming proper, brains that often base their judgements on marketing materials and brand recognition alone. Don't believe us? Glance down this list of games that should have sold bugger-all, yet somehow didn't."
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So that's not always the case.
It's the same thing with movies. Many times you have pretty bad movies with terrible reviews and they're at the top of the box office.
Of course regarding transformers, that game actually was crap.
If it's popular, you can bet the internet will hate it, regardless of the actual quality of said product.
GTA4 was boring to me. It felt like a shore to finish it. I didnt like the story, characters and the dark look of the city. Everything felt depressing in a franchise where to me was about mindless fun, The Radio's stations were crap but i was already expecting it since today music is crap anyway. Taking variety and RPG elements from previous installments didnt help either.
Bioware is making more and more streamlined games. Their games arent as complex and deep has some of their older franchises. Its naive to think that every Bioware fan is happy about it. DA2 was horrible and ME3 has been debated to hell and there is no point in keep arguing about it.
GT is in my opinion a great game but it had MANY flaws at launch. Since then PD has been working to improve their game and they stand as one of my most respected devs in the industry. Still the flaws were there and people had every right to have a negative view towards them and criticize them.
As soon as Blizzard announced that we had always to be online i knew that i wouldnt waste my time or money with D3.
I never played a single CoD game so naturally i wont comment on it.
Now i dare you to tell me that i shouldnt feel this way about these games.
I dont prefer it but its a very good game. You dont get repeat sales by Marketing you Idiots!
The series to me has never been bad or anything less that good (although I don't even play the multiplayer but I still know what the story is there) but it's really showing it's age now and that's what most people will hate if for. The developers don't deserve all the money they are getting for such little work in comparison to developers like rockstar.
I mean take for example that most multiplayer shooters will ship with about 8 multiplayer maps, COD always gives you 16 by default. Most games have crappy/tacked-on co-op modes as well, but in COD they're fully fleshed out with a huge amount of content and missions. It's things like this that bring me back to COD, because in my opinion at least, they give you so much content and hours of fun for the money that it's hard to pass on.
homefront is the main reason THQ is is trouble, they put too much into one game than invested heavily into advertisement only to come out and not sell 10 plus million
i am not into fitness or exercise games but i should be lol. I think if anything gaming has evolved a bit where you can get in shape while playing so not bad. Not sure why anyone would hate on that
Resident evil 5 was a good game but its not resident evil by any means. Watch from everything i have read about RE6 its not looking good. Capcom is trying to please all sides and they will fail at it. Let me ask you a simple thing when this gen began capcom had a lot of talented devs working for them guess what now most of them have either started their ow studios or came to a western publisher. That's what happens when sequels are all a company want to do. There would not a a dead rising game if it wasn't for one of their guys hiding the development till it was 50% done so capcom had to push it out the door.
after THQ capcom is next in line and i don't buy their games new i rather give my money to gamestop buying used than to these greedy bastards with all their on disk dlc
star wars force unleashed was a good game but nothing amazing but since its SW you know it was gonna sell
call of duty is a good series and they make good games no one can deny that its just we have seen it all time for something new and fresh. But sad thing is core gamers make such a small % of the gaming community that we can hate it all we want as long as noobs/casuals keep buying it nothing is gonna stop it. But just like guitar hero the day is coming sooner rather than later when activision won't be able to sell COD as well
tranformers games are ok to good but since its TF you know it will do well
It wasn't Homefront entirely, uDraw caused far more harm then Homefront.
didnt deserve the sales it made...the sales which came from brand name alone
me personally idgaf who makes it or how good the prequal was.
i look at gameplay vids or try demos out before i get a game.
i liked resident evil 5
i liked forced unleashed 1 and 2
i liked homefront
now cod is a half and half thing for me.
i like the campaign mode but im so tired of multiplayer.
just played a little over 30 mins of mw3 multiplayer.
Everybody seems to like Skyrim, Battlefield and Minecraft.
I don't know anything about minecraft so I can't judge it.
I don't think the "hate" for XIII is as widespread as some people(Ranma) would like for it to be, but as you said, it will likely never be considered legendary, like many of the other entries in the franchise.
First you say KZ3 had a FANTASTIC SP, and now MW2 was one of the best SP campaigns of this gen?
Clearly you are a reasonable person and your opinion should be trusted when discussing games. /s
I think that was the first properly bad Call of Duty since, forever.
I'd give it a 5.5/10
many people thought so too, yet it still sold millions
World At War wasn't "terrible" but it wasn't good either. The only thing that really hurt it was the fact Activision for some reason decided to let Treyarch stay with WWII when we all wanted modern warfare.
It was bought on name alone.
6 wouldn't have to do much to be better.
Not only do I own almost all of the games listed, but I own COD 2, 3, 4, MW2, MW3, WaW and Black Ops. I own more than a few of those titles on multiple consoles.
IDGAF what people write about a game on some forums, if I like a game or series, I will buy and support it.
6 Articles everybody hated, now there's an easy list.
You get people like for Battlefield "I've played Battelfield since the first one and BF3 sucks because of COD"
cool boss fights
i don't get it
people complain that the controls didnt suck and it didnt have awful voice acting and terrible fixed cameras like the old ones...lol
look, i love RE in general, I own them all, go back and play Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, Code veronica, the are so lame compared to 4 and 5 in both control and cheese ball dialog, they are great games for their time, but the are not great compared to 4 and 5
And Zumba....ugh, this is how crappy games keep getting put out.
Same with the Call Of Duty series. Online and on internet sites like this one people hate it. But all my friends and I enjoy it and we've spent countless hours having a good time on the Multiplayer and Co-ops. I've gotten used to the fact that this game is going no where and that one will be released per yet. It is what it is. I've only played COD4MW and after. But can't really say I've played a bad one. And now that they know they have such a monstrous franchise, they will do whatever it takes to keep gamers interested and make a overall better game year after year.
I had allot of fun playing those games and I'm sure the haters for those games are in the minority
The other stuff I agree with. Zumba; I know all these dancing games may get annoying, but if someone gets off the couch for at least a week, I'm always fine with that. Those fads are short lived, but again, it's better than sitting.
And I think CoD is slowing down the progress of humanity. Players who know nothing of substance and lack of caring for such, is what is ruining the video game industry. I could just hear Capcom saying, "Why make a great game, when the sheep will just buy CoD/Gears of War like games anyway? There's more of them, than hardcore fans. Let's cater to the masses to make more money!"