Rumor has it some game is coming out this week. Something about Links and Peaches and furries, or links to fuzzy peaches, I don't know, I haven't really been paying attention. Anyway, everybody seems to be pretty excited about it, so we thought we'd take a look at videogame hype this week.
Hype, more often than not, results in massive disappointment. Remember how awesome the Power Glove was going to be? How the Virtual Boy was going to change everything? That's not to say this will be the case with whatever it is you kids are so excited about this week, but it sure is funny to talk about the hype that surounded some of the stuff that came out when we were younger.
Remember some? Hit the comments.
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3:51 PM on 03.09.2008
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Nah. A good example though would be many was hyped about the Game Gear. It wasn't a bad system, but the games..ugh.
Or the game boy pocket? what a piece of crap. touted for being so small and all that but it ate AAA batteries like a game gear.
And Daikatana. Someone had to say it.
Granted, Dreamcast is an awesome system, but..... Blue Stinger?
and for retrohype, just pick any EGM, Gamepro and Nintendo Power and watch the previews of games like starfox 2, the U.s Realease of Satella view, The Super mega SEGA CHANNEL!!!!!
ah good times
PS3.. "will replace your computer" .. was that Harrison or master Ken who said that quote.
Games.. oh man...Halo 3 comes to mind instantly...no amount of burger king cups and being sold in 7-11 etc could make this game be great (mind you it is better than average, but couldn't get that hype).
Metal Gear Solid 4... wow, the hype train on this one, I don't even care about the series, but some of the fans make me sad "IT HAS THE BEST STORYLINE OF ANY GAME"...riiiight.
*goes back to any rpg*
I'll call the hype on the N64 though. Especially here in Europe, everywhere else had it and barely a week went by without hearing more on it.
For Dyson:
brawl –noun
1. a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
2. a bubbling or roaring noise; a clamor.
3. Slang. a large, noisy party.
–verb (used without object)
4. to quarrel angrily and noisily; wrangle.
5. to make a bubbling or roaring noise, as water flowing over a rocky bed.
[Origin: 1350–1400; (v.) ME brawlen, brallen to raise a clamor, quarrel, boast; of uncert. orig.; (n.) ME braule, brall, deriv. of the n.]
—Related forms
brawler, noun
brawly, adjective
bought an xbox for it. read all the interviews and previews.
liked it for an hour, then i realized everything i was told about the game was a lie.
i was crushed and distrusted everything gaming related prior to playing a game after fable.
HOW IT WAS SUPOSED TO BE GOOD
BUT WASNT
AND HYPED AS BEING ABLE TO REPLICATE YOUR EVERY MOVEMENT IN THE HEAT OF A SWORDFIGHT BUT ONLY HAD 3 HORRIBLE ANIMATIONS WHICH IT WOULD ROUND OFF TO WHATEVER YOU DID ,AND HALF THE TME IT WOULDNT RESPOND :(
OH YEAH AND THAT FAKE SCREENSHOT WHICH MADE IT LOOK LIKE IT DIDNT SUCK AND COULD BE ON 360 EVEN THOUGH IT HAD PS2 GRAPHICS
The hype and pushed release dates holding out for the Wii kind of ruined that game for me.
"Ok Spring 2004... Nope December 2004 for xmas... Nope November 2005... Umm Maybe we'll just hold onto it for the Wii and release on both systems." GIVE ME MY GAME, that's how I felt!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_M2
It was supposed to be the most amazing videogame console ever (or so they said), and I think it came really close to release, but they canned it. The M2's flagship title, D2 (what a shitty flagship) was eventually ported to Dreamcast. I remember reading advertisements in magazines and "sneak peek cutting edge" features that showed screenshots of the M2 in action, and it was kind of impressive, but there was very little content released about it and I wasn't really surprised when it never came out... didn't care anyway, the Sega Katana was where the party at.
Hype is a let down
Expectations are nigh met
It drinks yo milkshake
(tell me if I should keep doung these because I would love to keep them comming and hear them on the show and i just want to know your opinion)
Also, what were your most hyped games? How much hype did you feel after comming out of The Wizard? For that matter, what are your thoughts on that movie which was entirely based on hype? What game in your opinion were the biggest let downs after being hyped? How much hype did you guys get into when you were kids? Finally, Topher, are you so grouchy now because of some let down hype when you were a small child.
Any game(aside from Conker) that was suppose to be "dirty" and "mature" Such as BMXXX.. Hoooo boy did that game blow.. But BOOBIES!!!
Also, I think when we were younger.. NES and SNES days, I think it was easier for hype to fool us, just show some footage of a game and say how awesome it is in the right way, and I would have believed it.
Thankfully, as I've grown older, I've gotten smarter and not let hype for games such as Lair get to me.
When do you think you first started spotting BS in hype?
And what hype did you fall for?
OR, what hype did you fall for, and feel so stupid for doing so, you tried to make people think the game was good.. "No no! Battle Toads is AWESOME!" (side not.. not a horrible game.. I know.. Just far too hard)
Questions for answer giving:
1) When the RFGO! game gets released you guys get an unlimited budget with which to hype it. What is the biggest/craziest bit of marketing that you can come up with?
2) When a game gets massive hype do you guys feel that said hype can be detrimental to the enjoyment of the game?
3) Any game that got uber massive hype that you guys felt actually deserved it and lived up to it?
I said hype a lot :P
If that isn't hype, I don't know what is.
Of course, this trivial bullshit stopped when we all ended up at my house playing Street Fighter 2. For the whole weekend. Non-stop.
Anyone have those times when they were a kid that they were just completely immersed and/or blown away by the fun they were having on that brand new console? Mmmm...new console smell...
Milkshake drinking is like dolphin loving: there can never be too much of it, and it's always a positive thing.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention BLAST PROCESSING!
I remember getting into arguments with other kids about whether it actually did/meant anything or not. Hell, one kid I knew sold his SNES to get a Genesis because he was worried that the SNES would become "obsolete" due to its primitive technology :P
Also,
That kid is named Nat, by the way.
When they released the GBA port, they changed it to "96 EXITS"
Then there's the extremely long Ultra/N64 hype train. Judging by a few websites, they announced the console in '93, while it wasn't released in Europe until '97. Plus there's the whole "Dream Team" shite.
I ask because I'm playing brawl right now and I'm a little bit dissapointed.
Also, what role does underhype have in games? Talk about some of the great games that weren't hyped: Crackdown and MLB Power Pros come to mind this generation.
But when we all where little we had nintendo power and egm covers and previews, we looked at thoose for MONTHS and stare at them for forever!
Hype has always been there and always will be around, just because we love games and we want to play than all ASAP.
Quastion for this week, has there been game(s) where you were realy exited about and DID meet expectations?
And has there ever been a game that you thought "MAH that game is probably not so good" but when you played it, it went over you expectations.
ps: no problem chad that you opend my gift before the show maby I hope you still like it though! It as no problem, but for everyone that does not know what it is take a pic and post it on your blog ;)
Anyway, hype is 99% the reason why I stopped reading previews, it's both a bad thing and a good thing I'm my eye, 'cause i like being hyped. when Starcraft 2 was announced my head went through the roof, even though i saw it coming a mile away what with it being announced in South Korea of all places, because I wanted to have head through ceiling.
What ever I'll get to the point.
Do you like being hyped or are you too afraid of being over-hyped? Or do you think that hype in general is just stupid?
Do any of you have games that you would have liked better if not for the hype? And is it possible for a great game to fall to just good due to the negative effects of a hype train or does a game reach a certain threshold where it becomes impervious to hype penalties?
For me, it was Metal Gear Solid for the Playstation. There was a quick clip on some random demo disc that was sent to me and from that, I was completely hooked on finding any and every last tidbit about the game. Once it came out I beat it the same day and immediately started playing the game again.
What is hype?
Is all the news surrounding a game that isn't negative hype? Can you ever talk about a game in a non-negative way without hyping it?
even better, I've got one :-)
Sega Saturn was pretty hyped up.
yeah I've got that one too...
the Matrix-game comes to mind as a huge let-down due to the shoddy controls... the whole concept of being a part of a movie ( those who've played will know what I mean ) was brilliant especially since it's one of my favourite trilogies of all times!
One of the games that I followed ever since it was announces was Return To Castle Wolfenstein, and I had seriously mixed feelings about it... the SP was great until the zombies started showing up but the MP was absolutely incredible! I've played virtually no other games online or on LANs for 2 years straight :-)
I never felt a lot for HALO in the beginning, I figured a mouse and keyboard were the only way to play FPSs and I did understand the hype one bit... but I got it for free with my XBOX and decided to give it a go, since then I've played more FPS on consoles then on PC's... couch beats deskchair everytime!
A game that I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate is HALO3, HOWEVER it totally did not live up to the hype simply because the hype had outgrown the game on a massive scale, I mean I even joined into that whole SOTA-ARG that was started around it, wasted like 2 months on the fora trying to figure out all kinds of weird stuff...
A game that was thoroughly hyped and that lived up to it was UT2K3 I loved that game... 2K4 was even slightly better but didn't really improve THAT much I thought...
I like hypes about games, but a lot of times they just get way bigger then the game could ever be... All the better when a game totally lives up to its hype, like with BioShock, Forza2, GRAW2, COD4 etc etc :-)
N-Gage
(Side Talking version)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q6kd9GBf2mA
(Not side-talking but the disclaimer at the end made me laugh a lot.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2ht_W2oqms
How about the Gizmondo?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3up29nHp_og
How about the Konix MultiSystem (For our friend on the other side of the pond in Europe)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RgkOLfcRWYA
Or the famous vaperware (thanks to Penny Arcade), The Phantom system?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z6KIHqLQri0
But the PS3 still goes into my book as the most over-hyped system. I think the money quote which turned me against the next gen Sony system was Kazai's comment on the cost, which was something like "People are going to want it, so they're going to save up there money, and buy it because it's a must have...".
That 3D chip was also hyped: how it cost a gazillion dollars to manufacture, how it's ability to render 10 polygons per second would change the face of gaming...
But most of those FX Chip titles ended up being crap.
also, Goldeneye. Not all is evil in hypeland
the moment i saw the sega cd/32x, i wanted them, but yeah it was a giant waste of money and a pile of horse shit.
and i hate to say it, the hype over the ORIGINAL arcade mortal combat game, sure it has blood, but the game fucking sucks...
For me, it was HALO. People pushed that game on me like it was the second coming of Christ, but it felt just like a bland version of Quake 2. I remember being roped into it at a party and proclaiming it the worst game I've ever played.
Unrelated note: Retroforce needs more retro PC gaming! It's all consoles. Short of the occasional Day of the Tentacle/Monkey Island reference, it seems that retro pc gamers are an ever rarer breed.
Hmmm, idea for a show/segment meybeh?
The Sega Activator.
Eternal Champions (yeah, that one) was designed to work with that piece of crap. I was one fucking sad fat kid when I got the thing up and running. Speaking of Eternal Champions, I recall that game getting a massive amount of hype and then sucking horribly.
Topher, pimp that Hori pad, yo!
Dyson, action was had, it was good. :)
Chad, we'll have to play Bomberman Live some other time, thanks for the message though.
Colette, please talk about the hype over some of those LJN licensed games (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.) for the NES that we love to hate. Also, have a safe trip to Spain.
Most hilariously fail overhype of all time. Also, Welkstar, your icon gave me heart palpitations of joy.
2.Name 5 games that were super hyped up but then crashed and burned.
3. Name 5 things (not necessarily games) that you bought in to the hype and were disappointed.
4. Name 5 things that should have been super hyped but were not.