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Originally Posted by goldmember  Debate time Warriors. What is troubling you about gaming?
Personally, I believe hype to create sales is destroying gaming. I am personally a huge Mortal Kombat fanboy but I can admit this series is what hurt gaming the most. MK in reality is very shallow fighter. It's a decent fighting game at best. Yet it still managed to create millions of dollars based solely on hype. Ever since then we've seen plenty of decent games get praise and sales due to hype. Anything Donkey Kong by Rare sold off of hype. Even Perfect Dark was marketed by hype.
Now look to what we have today. I love GTA but I am willing to admit it gets far more praise (and sales) than it deserves. Halo in my opinion is one of the worst things to happen to gaming in years because it is a good game at best yet it still manages to sell millions and get labeled as one of the greatest games ever. Use the Wii as an example. It's a piss poor system in some aspects (more negatives than positives with the wii). The games just aren't there and the ones that are there sell way too much. The Wii owes everything it has due to marketing and hype.
There are no right or wrong answers to this question, I just want to hear some opinions. Have fun. |
Oh really? and who decides which games are good enough or just medicore at best to not deserve the praise? Your opinion is still your opinion and is doing the samething as people who praises the games but just the opposite. I feel that evry good game that sells well is "over hyuped" because it is not to some peoples taste and therefore they attack it with that label. Opinions, opinions. Over hypeed games to one person, could be closely related sex, to another person, umm I mean umm, one mans crap is another mans treasure.
February 18th, 2008, 05:27 AM
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