Baxy-z takes a plunge into the world of money hats and over-rating, as they spell out the top eleven worst cases of hyperbole in video games and why. From Grand Theft Auto to Super Smash Bros., this comprehensive list from Baxy-z explains in detail the phenomena of hype and how it effects its victims: the gamers.
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3-GTA 4
2-MW2
1-Halo 3
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But the actual list was not so bad either. The only games that actually lived up to the hype were MGS4, Pokemon and Killzone 2
Killzone 2 was hyped from 2005, and it sold poorly. Talk about living up to the hype.
You can't deny that some PS3 games are over-hyped. Killzone 2 is the biggest of them. Everybody was saying that it was going to be the best FPS and that it would be a Halo-Killer.
Well. That is wrong.
I have two arguments that back up my statement.
1. It sold very poor for a game that was hyped up since 2005.
2. Look, almost nobody is playing multiplayer anymore. That is because everybody got bored of the game. What how many people do play it daily? 15.000-25.000 or something? That is little.
A game not selling well?
My definition of living up to the hype is when a game delivers, most games don't appeal to others, and most games are just to hard for others.
I had another argument for it also. Only 15.000 - 25.000 people play multiplayer daily nowadays. You think with 2+ million copies sold, more people would play it daily... but nooo.
So your statement remains invalid. I have facts. You may think that the game was awesome. But wouldn't many people play online if it was so awesome? No, because the multiplayer is boring and not interesting.
Yeah, yeah, try again bud.
actually killzone 2 sold pretrty well for an fps released on playstation platform (fps are never huge sellers on sony platforms) its sold what like 2million now, the marketing was very poor , also did it ever occur to you tha the people that hyped killzone 2 were the people that bought it?
also mgs4" lukewarm public reception" 1st of all anyone buying a mgs game is going to expect lengthy cutscenes is this a problem to the fans NO why? because its the end of one of the greatest video game franchise why should the story be underwhelming ,mgs 4 isnt trying to win over new fans because its the last game in the series so naturaly the story is going to appeal the mgs fans and excuse me but didnt mgs 4 win over 30 GOTY awards? MGS4 was a game to end an incredible story driven franchise and i could not have thought of a better way of ending it also isnt it the best selling game on the ps3? mgs4 lived up to ther hype if not surpassed it it was the reason i bought a ps3 and im happy because of it
Not everyone who buys games plays multiplayer.
And sales, and how many people play it daily is facts, that helps to tell if the game lived up to it's hype or not.
Sales = If people were interested, they would have bought it. That tells me that Killzone 2 failed to gain attention of the PS3 owners. And Modern Warfare 1+2 suceeded on that.
How many people play it daily = That tells us if the game is giving entertainment to those that bought it. 2 millions bought it. Only 15.000 - 25.000 play it online. That tells me that the game failed to entertain the audience, and was starting to get boring.
CMRB BELOW response:
15.000 - 25.000 people play online daily. You talk about how good the game is. SO WHY IS NOT PEOPLE PLAYING IT? Only 15.000 - 25.000 of 2 millions? If the game was good, then many people that bought the game would have been playing online. Maybe your the child here that can't understand that logic.
The mind of a child.
1. 2 million sold and counting is a very big number. Most games in their lifetime don't manage to sell 1 million.
2. Game hype is not about how well a game will sell. Have you ever hear any one say they are hyped about how many copies a game will sell?. No, its about how good the game will be.
Edit: LMAO!!!. Man stop it. You are showing your age with your posts.
1. PS3 gamers != x360 gamers. PS3 != x360. Simply you cant compare them and make stupid assumptions.
2. A game played on-line dosen't mean it's the overall most popular game duh!!. So what about the millions that are playing wii sports offline?. What about millions of those that are playing SP games?. Are they not popular games because they are not played on-line?.
Look child. You can't just compare apples to oranges because they are not the same. What if X consoles only has half the installbase of Y console?. Is it fair to compare games popularity sold on each?. What if X consoles gamers like FPS more than Y console gamers?. What if X console gamers are kids that play online most of the time while Y console owners are adults that have to work most of the time?. Think about it.
Seriously, stay in school.
to contrast i also got probably the most UNDER hyped masterpiece this gen:
valkyria chronicles =)
@ alien
your argument matches your display picture
a) over-hype =/= sales - this means, just because a game is over hyped, doesn't mean it won't sell well (Halo was so over hyped and was so lacking in relation to the hype, but it sold like hotcakes)
b) Have you played KZ2? It is a fantastically well put together game, extreemly entertaining, and VERY fun and challenging
maybe it was over hyped, but it did come very close to the hype in comparison to "other" games.
Don't be so butt hurt just because others have an opinion that shakes the foundations of your favotirism
if the xbox360 had exclusive like the ps3 halo3 would not sell that much.
Gears? Yeah, kinda overhyped. It had a lot of potential... and honestly met quite a bit of it. But Gears 2 just kinda sputtered off my radar.
Killzone? Definitely overhyped. Aside from the things the multiplayer did amazingly right, it got so many fundamental things wrong, like thinking people wanted "weighted" controls. And they didn't. Look a the mountain of complaints. They even patched in a "high-precision" mode.
Halo? Not that overhyped. Even the author gave props where due: the multiplayer. But I could totally grant that Halo is a bunch of decent set-pieces tied together with a second string writing effort.
Smash Bros? Pokemon? COD:MW? Those are awesome pictures.
"unlike halo3 kz2 is not the only High quality game on the system
if the xbox360 had exclusive like the ps3 halo3 would not sell that much."
Exactly. PS Brand is known for being very diverse unlike the "ShooterBox."
MS was saved by Halo, and now survives on it and Gears. What are the other top sellers on the 360?
Sony has... Well to many. At least one game per genre. And even some for genres that don't even exist, yet. To expect them to all sell 8-10 million each is, well... LOL
By Aliens logic then we would all have to believe that farmville is best game in the world.
It's played online everyday by millions.
Come on man, Quality does not equal sales.
Both Killzone 2 and MGS 4 lived up to the hype.
Now this is a fact.
"SO WHY IS NOT PEOPLE PLAYING IT?"
That just sums you up. Yur so smert u shuld bee a schihentest.
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Hyped or not, i loved GTA4 and Halo 3, i enjoyed MW2 as well. I dont have to think they are the best ever, but i did enjoy them and the fact that they were hyped makes no difference, i just dont care anymore.
"the campaign as anything but mediocre; the hyperbole behind this one was without doubt its worst enemy"
agreed...
Popular games are usually the most hyped and vice versa.
In a related note, go play Culdcept Saga. It was my unsung hero of 2008.
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I said something about Alan Wake being a 8.5 type game that's being forced hyped as a 10 type game and they went bananas.
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1. Grand Theft Auto 4
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
4. Halo 3
5. Wii Sports
6. Pokémon
7. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
8. Fable II
9. Killzone 2
10. Blue Dragon
11. Gears of War 2
I disagree with 3 being on the list but the rest is fine, GTA4 was a overhyped POS
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I pity the fool that don't think this list is right!!!*LMAO* Mr. T is something that only happens like once in a million years...classic 80's pop phenomenon!!!
Give me an effin break. The only people who were "lukewarm" about MGS4 were people who couldn't play it.
Gameplay was decent. Graphics were amazing. Cutscenes looked stunning.
Terrible writing and horrid story absolutely killed it for me, though.
1. Jot down ten things people like.
2. Make headline using the words "Overrated" or "Overhyped"
3. Submit to N4G
i stopped right at the last level (teh boat =D) because i got side tracked, but i do have the same critisism as many:
the cut scenes aaare a bit over whelming. However, i never stopped enjoying the game, and i appreciate the game for what it is:
easily one of the most stunningly designed video games ever. Kojima-san is a genius and I absolutly LOVE this game
and the story...well lets say it takes a certain level of "thinking" in order to appreciate, even understand the very deep and well written story.
As said before: if you don't get it, you won't like it. If you do get it, you'll love it.
And then he starts throwing in monkeys and dudes taking craps in the middle of the street and I think, "Nah."
At best, Kojima is a smart man's Michael Bay. He has some good ideas, but at heart, he likes making stories about chicks with big boobs, fart jokes and giant robots killing things. The tons of melodramatic monologues about nano machines and stuff really can't disguise that.
I was ice-cold on that piece of sh!t multiplayer, though.
While I don't think your points are outlandish, and do have some merit, all of your problems could have been avoided by pressing the fudgin SKIP button.
It was definitely a little melodramatic and some scenes lingered for a while, but I still thought it was a great game. I don't think I've ever played a game that ended so completely.
I liken it to the end of lord of the rings. It had the same lingering-ness to it, but at the end you felt the story was totally complete. That's all Kojima was going for, and he didn't sacrifice gameplay in any way (also the SKIP feature...). Nanomachines is actually a pretty believable (in a sci-fi kind of way, meaning it makes sense without making sense, if that makes sense...) answer to all the crazy sh!t that happened throughout all of his games.
You're right, I don't get it.
I totally get why people like MGS 4. It's got ninjas, robots, explosions, fart jokes, boobs...all that good stuff. What I don't get is why people think it has a brilliant story.
This series has always been a little stupid, but fun (remember the bad guy in the first game thinking his recessive genes made him weak?)
But MGS 4 went full-retard.
Hahahaha that part made me laugh so hard at the end of MGS1. It's like the extent of their knowledge of Mendelian genetics was learned in a middle school science class.
What about old-school over hyped games?
Lukewarm reception?
I understand stealth doesn't appeal to everybody, but it shouldn't be faulted when it does it the best. I would score it a 94. Which happens to be it's metacritic.
when a game live up to the hype does it sell well?
when a game live up to the hype, is it because the game was that damn good?
kz2, and Mgs4 is the only one i didn't agree on.
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I had never played Melee but I heard it was amazing. I was nothing but dissapointed when I played Brawl. Fun for an hour but it is extremely repetetive
And by the way: I liked Fable and KZ etc but I just dont believe they were as fantastic as everyone pegged them to be.
Now I know I'll get attacked by all the PS3 fanboys who are still bitter about missing out on 30 hours of the GTA IV experience with The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. Don't worry though, guys. 360 owners may get $20 exclusive downloads for the grestest game of the gen that each have higher presentation values and more gameplay than most full games, but you guys get some great exclusive DLC, too! Umm.... Hmm... The Joker! ...LOL
ROFLMMFAO omg sooo funny you are my sides are splitting lets not forget that Sony received a full R* north exclusive which was funded by your precious $50 million DLC that all you 360 owners bought because of all those "M$ GTAV DLC sold 10 million copy's" thread pouring because we all know that Sales is all that matter to you Muppet's.
Wow baxy-z.com pretty desperate for hits these days eh.
FFVII is waay overrated
I loved FFVII, one of the best JRPGs I've ever played. I wouldn't say it's overrated, maybe not for everyones taste but definitely not overrated.
I'm sorry all you FFVII fans but FF7 is not as good as everybody says but I still enjoyed it. Now FF8, that's where it's at :p I loved it's story, so many twists, and absolutely loved the characters. Also add FF12 to the list of overrated POS, that story was crap.
The only FF games I've ever enjoyed are FFVI,FFVII and FFX.
Horses for courses and all that.
It's not even the best final fantasy game.
Why didn't they just make 10 more over hyped?
Son, educate yourself before you make a fool out of yourself again on here. Over 1.4 million sold day one. Drove up PS3 sells 4003% at a time when the PS3 was still $499 and $599. Set the freakin bar for every other dev company on the planet. Put the PS3 in the spot light at a time when it looked like hard times head. This game was the start that turned the PS3 around. It's still the king of the PS3.
"Hey I'm dedicated to this title, all opinions crumble before me!"
Sorry man. I'm just telling you how I feel when I read that. My eyes just couldn't pull away from the image after sentence to sentence.
It wouldn't matter if I had Ronald McDonald as a avatar. Knowing the facts and just printing up BS in a story are two different things. But hey, if I wanted attention too. Then I would type up some BS like that and post up it as well huh?
born in 1991? Son, the game just might be over your head? You were 7 years old when I was playing MGS. With MGS4 getting so many prefect scores that it did. The mature rest of the world saw it right. Just like many have seen in UC2. Another just great great well put together game from start to finish.
Whoo de phucking doo. Although I guess I shouldn't expect much for commenting in the open zone.
Btw, just talking :) I understand there are all ages and intelligence levels, years of experience on here.
oh and nice edit. I post on the open zone often times when the gamer zone is just flooded with flame battles. It's not so busy over here at times.
Everyone has a a different opinion of what this list should be, and no one cares what everyone else's opinion is.
I enjoyed it alot and it sold very well,had DLC spinoffs that did/do well. I wouldnt put it on my personal overhype list.
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Its popular and reviews ive read put it above MW. Guess its worth the money to those that want it. No hype there.
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
See MW2
4. Halo 3
Over 2 years old and still demands a higher price tag on the shelves than 2 month old games in some cases. Didnt like it myself very much.
New nothing of the story and had no broadband untill very recently which put it at a disadvantage to me.
5. Wii Sports
Ehh..Its easy to pick up and fits the demographic of Wii buyers. Match made in heaven. No hype IMO.
6. Pokémon
I was too old to get into the Pokemon craze when it started years ago and have no regrets. Hype?? Nope. Complete indifference to whoever would enjoy a game like that?? Yes.
7. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
No comment. Never got into Metal gear games.
8. Fable II
Im actually planning on picking this up one of these days.
9. Killzone 2
No comment.Never played it.
10. Blue Dragon
No comment,Never played it.
11. Gears of War 2
I have the first one. Its OK,but I have other games I enjoyed more.Im not sure if I would like the UC games either. The best 3rd person game ive played this gen in Dead Rising followed closely by Dead Space (Games with "dead in the title oddly end up in my collection)...
Man, I got me a PS3, BUT....Halo 3, and Fable 2 were great. Also, Killzone 2, and MGS4 are not over rated either. The other games however....an argument can be made.
Games such as Haze, Too Human etc. deserve to not deserve the hype they got. They deserve to be on the list, not games that are good. MGS4, Gears, MW2, Killzone 2 etc., met the hype. They all turned out to be really great games and as according to the industry as a whole, it's a fact.
2. Uncharted 2
3. Metal Gear Solid
4. God of War
5. Resistance
6. MAG
7. LBP
8. Final Fantasy
9. Grand Turismo
10. Ratchet & Clank
11. Motor Storm
2.MGS4 was just an awesome game.
If I had to add one or two games,they would have to be ODST and UC2.
ODST was an ok game, but for as much hype that it got, you would think it was the best game of the year. UC2 is very good, but the amount of hype that game received was not equal to how good the game actually was.
MGS4 is the best game i have ever played in 20 years of gaming