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Originally Posted by The Z <snip>
Any games that you thought weren't as good as they were hyped to be? |
Yes there is - the newest was SW:KotOR
Oh, and FarCry.
But anyways, different people have different taste of what they like and dislike. And that is why one should always (I repeat - always) takes others recommendations with a grain of salt. Only use game reviews and friends suggestions as recommendations, instead of a sure-fire truth, unless you know that they usually suggest games that you like.
It is the same with movies - I have some friends that like the same movies as I do, and thus I listen to their recommendations a bit more, then friends I know have a taste in movies that I don't share.
But futhermore - I seem to feel that there is a state in the reviewing industry (if you can call it that), where a concensus state seems to have been reached. It seems very much to me that many reviewers have started giving out circa the same grades, good points and bad points. I doubt this is accidently. I couldn't say the reason for why this is so - maybe there is a "fear" amongst the reviewers that if they don't review the hyped games well - the public (read: rapid crowd of fans) will punish them by not buying their magazines and reading their reviews in the future, because they didn't grade the publics (again: rapid crowd of fans) game proberly.
But that is just a possibility to explain the state as I percive it.
Of couse it could just be that so many games belongs in the 85-95% percentile these days and all the hyped games belong in the 90%+ percentile.
I for one, have gotten "burned" by hype one time to many, and now I'll not buy a game withouth researching it intensive, and weiging in the oppionins of people I trust not to fall for the hype of the market. For instance, I'll not buy Doom 3 and Half-life 2 (if they ever get released) before somebody I know have tried them out (he saved me from Unreal 2).
Likewise, I'll not purchase SW:KotOR II before I've heard if it actually is a good improvement of the first one - or just more of the same.
And so on....