coonana

" @coonana said:

" @Icemael said:

" @coonana said:

"According to you it was not hyped, but the idea of a Zelda/GoW hybrid is big hype and the game did not mesh those two concepts well.  I saw many people hyping it as AAA. "

Then you must have been hanging at some obscure-ass sites. Everywhere I went, the consensus was "meh". Some -- including myself -- were excited for it, but not many. "

No more like Gamespot, IGN, Gametrailers, and all the big sites. "

Funny, because I was at Gamespot and Gametrailers. I don't know what it was like at IGN, but aside from a vocal minority, nobody at Gamespot and Gametrailers was hyped for it, and even amongst that vocal minority, very few were hyping it as "AAA". "

" @coonana said:

"According to you it was not hyped, but the idea of a Zelda/GoW hybrid is big hype and the game did not mesh those two concepts well.  I saw many people hyping it as AAA. "

Then you must have been hanging at some obscure-ass sites. Everywhere I went, the consensus was "meh". Some -- including myself -- were excited for it, but not many. "

" @coonana said:

" @Icemael said:

" @coonana said:

"I mean Darksiders was a disappointment because it was hyped to be much better. The game has some qualities none of which are original. "

Darksiders was not hyped. There were some people looking forward to it, but nobody -- at least not from what I saw -- expected it to be a masterpiece. If anything, it was underhyped; most people didn't expect it to be as good as it was."

Maybe if you looked beyond these little forums you would know what I mean."

Pre-release, I visited the Darksiders boards at several other sites. I watched every single interview and gameplay video, and read comments at most of them. And you know what? The game wasn't hyped.
 
I don't know where the hell you got that idea(did you hang exclusively at the Darksiders official site forums or something?), but it's wrong. Interest in the game didn't flourish until after the reviews were published. "

" @coonana said:

" Out of the three next gen consoles they cover, it seems like on a personal level they prefer the other systems more. Just based off of the amount of coverage they give to Wii compared to say 360/PS3 and their personal opinions in podcasts.  Does it bother you that possibly your favorite system is lower priority? "

You're assuming the Wii is my favorite system, when it is far far from it. I'm sure even among the community the wii is the least favorite console. "

" @coonana said:

"I mean Darksiders was a disappointment because it was hyped to be much better. The game has some qualities none of which are original. "

What the hell? Look: 
 

1. Darksiders was not hyped. There were some people looking forward to it, but nobody -- at least not from what I saw -- expected it to be a masterpiece. If anything, it was underhyped; most people didn't expect it to be as good as it was.
2. Games don't have to be original to be good. Was Dead Space original? Was Uncharted 2 original? Were Shadow Complex or Street Fighter IV original? I think I've made my point.

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" @coonana said:

I mean Darksiders was a disappointment because it was hyped to be much better. The game has some qualities none of which are original. "

I don't think a game needs to be original to be good..  Look at something like Banjo-Kazooie, it's a straight up clone of Mario 64, yet is widely hailed as one of the best platform games of all time. What about the rest of Nintendos franchises?  They're pretty much all recycled over and over again..  Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver are about to be released, the long awaited remakes of Gold and Silver, and they bring nothing new to the table what so ever.  Will that stop them getting glowing reviews and selling millions in the first day?  The point was that Darksiders, aside from a few negative reviews, was very well recieved and sold very well. I also don't remember any hype about the game at all, I didn't even know it existed until shortly before it came out, and even then it was marketed as a God of War style hack and slash, rather than a huge Zelda style adventure game with challenging dungeons.  Original?  No.  But by no means "disappointing." "

Never said it was favoritism....but it is something.

" @coonana said:

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" @coonana said:

" With Darksiders, Dante's Inferno, and White Chronicles all getting bad to meh reviews. "

No. "

What is wrong with my statements?  All those games are either alright or bad. As Barrok said, Darksiders being the best of the three disappointing games. "

Not sure what Darksiders reviews you've been reading, some people have disliked it, but generally it's been getting very good reviews.  It's sitting at 83% on Metacritic, that's hardly disappointing.  Aside from ME2, it's my favourite game released this year.  About time we saw more Zelda style games on the PS3/360.  And I think the upcoming demo that gives you the entire first dungeon to play through may dispell the stereotype of many people thinking it's simply a God of War clone. The other two, yes, but even they still have their fans. "

" Darksiders got great reviews... I didnt want to post in this topic because to each its own and all that, but if youre going to start attacking the ACTUAL current gen system games (thats right, I said it), I'm going to have to remind you that while the Wii has some amazing games, it also has a metric ton of shovelware, and thats why most people dont like it. And dont even give me the "so why does it sell so much" argument...you KNOW why it sells so much.  The above poster nailed it, all the big releases in 2 months this year were for ps3 and 360, the Wii had 2 games worth talking about, Tatsunoko and No More Heroes, both covered in giantbomb "