Recently I've noticed an area of concern to me and hopefully the industry, that being "OverHyping". Overhyping puts an extremely high amount of undo pressure on a game. Pressure that developers are expected to live up to and if they don't the reviews of their products suffer severely.
Take for example Too Human, while I have not played this game, some scores have been extremely harsh. I'm taking the harsh scores you expect for the games you see in the bargain been at KayBee toys. Denis Dyack hyped up his 10 year development SOOOmuch that it was doomed. There was nothing anyone could do once he opened his mouth to hype it up to this level it just couldn't reach. Haze was the exact same thing, way WAY overhyped and an extremely bad ps2 game put on the ps3. But it's not only that, it's not only a dev talking a game up that causes this. Take LittleBigPlanet for example, none of the developers are out there hyping up the game, but you can bet your bottom dollar that every website and magazine out there is hyping it up more than it needs to be. While I am extremely interested in the game, I find myself ignoring the massive amounts of stories being posted. I don't need to see any more videos, I don't want to read anything about it, I just want to maintain the level of excitement I'm currently at with out going to far. I fear that this massive hype of LBP will kill its reviews and doom it.
The gaming market is at an all time high, and over-hyping games are every where. But what's the real reason. I think a bit of it has to do with media pushes for one console or the other and/or fanboys. From what I've seen it's not the multiplatform games that suffer from overhyping, its games exclusive to one console. The closest I could think of would be Call of Duty 4 which lived up to its expectations. But the rest seem to be exclusives, like Killzone 2, LBP, GeOW2, etc. Maybe if more games where not exclusive more games would live up to the hype and not leave us wanting more (not saying any unreleased games will leave us hanging).
But its not only the gaming industry that can suffer from this, but it seems less of an issue in other industries. The Dark Knight was hugely overhyped due to the tragic death of Heath Ledger, but it blew away any expectations people had for it. It seems for the movie industry the overhype comes with sequels, which seem to more often be watered down continuations of a movie to try and nickel and dime consumers who enjoy the predessor. (Which the gaming industry does WAY TOO MUCH)
Being a member of N4G, its extremely easy to fall in the court of an overhyped game with the huge amounts of stories that are posted daily. Its just takes alot of personal willpower to not fall into the overhype hype.
I guess there is no real point to this blog, because there really isnt a way to end overhyping, but it definitely has its effects on the industry.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Assassin's Creed and Grand Theft Auto IV were overhyped and neither of them lived up to the expectations.
Good Blog- i do agree about Haze, however i do not think that Little Big Planet will suffer from being overhyped. Most likely because it is very original and innovative and is from a largely unknown developer unlike Haze (Free Radical), Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft) and GTAIV (Rockstar).
This article was just approved on N4G:
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...
I personally disagree with it just wondering what your thoughts are about it.
People are definitely hyping Little Big Planet more than it needs to be. Yet I don't think we'll fall into the overhype hype like we did Haze and GTA4. It's just harder to hype this game. MM doesn't have the "mythical status" of FR. And unlike GTA4, LBP doesn't have a colossal predecessor to beat. I don't know the point of ur blog either, :p but it has made realize something. The strengthening of our willpower to resist overhyping is the outcome of all the past overhypes and letdowns.
superman 64 was not overhyped and still don't met the expectations XD
gears 2?? that's being immensely overhyped...well, i don't know right now, but if it's not as "bigger, better, and more badass" as he says, he'll be screwed.