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Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@paxnimbus.com>	Date: 5/16/00 11:06 a.m.
In Response To: Hype Hurts (Xian) Tons of scripting, more proof that this is > indeed realtime, some story/content/art revealed, some > situations to fuel the imagination and speculation... how can > Bungie be faulted for such a demonstration?! Umm... people are stupid? The solo campaign isn't even developed yet. Knowing that, a journalist-- no matter how subjective-- is on shaky ground dumping on something for not displaying gameplay that isn't created. If they feel that a game so early in development is getting an unfair amount of "hype"-- well, they could just... not write articles about it, couldn't they? Not contribute to the problem, so to speak? Of course, that won't happen, because their own publications won't be able to capitalize on the "unfair" hype. > It's not gameplay. At least not the pure and raw sense that > Quake fans are used to. Quake had gameplay? ;-) Even worse to those with high > expectations, much of the information could be deemed > unimportant or redundant (ie, "We KNOW it's realtime" > "Story? Who cares? Cortana what?" Well, I suppose if you're looking for little more than a polygon-pushing twitchfest in an environment of uniform grey-green (Quake) or brown-grey (Quake2) then I suppose the hype would seem a bit out of scale. > While I don't think there's an excuse for a journalist allowing > his expectations to taint his work or for his crude writing > style... I can see how someone could be led to such a score. > Again, hardly objective even against his own scale... but it > doesn't automatically mean he's a jerk, idiot, out to kill Halo, > or whatever. I'm sure he has more things to be concerned with > than specifically targeting Halo. I disagree. I think some *do* go out of there way to leverage the hype around a game getting a lot of attention by executing a simplistic maneuver: Dump on the game for getting too much hype. Then they'll dump on it for being late (and since things never ship when the fans want it to, that's the definition of "late"). Then they'll dump on it for not meeting expectations.

Message Index

Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Wirehead	5/16/00 6:01 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Forensic	5/16/00 6:17 a.m.
Amen. n/t	Zaff	5/16/00 8:15 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Case	5/16/00 7:33 p.m.
thats a logical score.	*mxyzptlk	5/16/00 8:45 a.m.
after reading the rest of the article....	*mxyzptlk	5/16/00 9:02 a.m.
Oooo... sarky pants...	Dfin'	5/16/00 8:49 a.m.
What a weak retort... -nt	Johnny Rotten	5/16/00 4:05 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Luke	5/16/00 7:00 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Redox	5/16/00 10:06 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Psyrixx	5/16/00 8:52 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Cannibal Harry =PN=	5/16/00 9:08 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Myndreach [OSC]	5/16/00 9:17 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Demandred	5/16/00 9:56 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Edgecrusher	5/16/00 1:52 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Cow Mutilator	5/16/00 10:00 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Hiro..	5/16/00 10:13 a.m.
Oni (nt)	David Oosha	5/16/00 11:14 a.m.
Hype Hurts	Xian	5/16/00 10:33 a.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Narcogen	5/16/00 11:06 a.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Xian	5/16/00 11:44 a.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Mark Levin	5/16/00 12:01 p.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Xian	5/16/00 12:40 p.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	{BZ}SINginius	5/16/00 1:13 p.m.
Maybe.	Xian	5/16/00 1:30 p.m.
Wrong.	Nemesis	5/16/00 2:37 p.m.
Period? Hardly.	Xian	5/16/00 2:52 p.m.
Actually you may be wrong here.	CyberBob =PN=	5/16/00 3:42 p.m.
Re: Period? Hardly.	Nemesis	5/16/00 11:02 p.m.
Re: YOU filled out their words	Nemesis	5/16/00 11:23 p.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Mark Levin	5/16/00 1:48 p.m.
Realistic representation	Xian	5/16/00 2:13 p.m.
Re: Realistic representation	Mark Levin	5/16/00 3:03 p.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Demandred	5/16/00 5:17 p.m.
Xian : Do you WANT this game?	mad.max =PN=	5/16/00 1:46 p.m.
Re: Xian : Do you WANT this game?	Xian	5/16/00 2:24 p.m.
You snipped my book analogy	mad.max =PN=	5/16/00 3:59 p.m.
Re: You snipped my book analogy	Louis Wu	5/16/00 11:49 p.m.
Press and Gameplay	CyberBob =PN=	5/16/00 1:48 p.m.
Re: Press and Gameplay	Xian	5/16/00 2:47 p.m.
Solely gameplay.	CyberBob =PN=	5/16/00 2:58 p.m.
Re: Press and Gameplay	Dan Rudolph	5/16/00 5:47 p.m.
Re: Press and Gameplay	Shadowfax	5/16/00 5:22 p.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Nemesis	5/16/00 2:31 p.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Xian	5/16/00 3:00 p.m.
Re: Hyp(ocrit)es Hurt	Nemesis	5/16/00 11:18 p.m.
Things LOOK pretty fun ALREADY	Troy Lawlor	5/16/00 6:59 p.m.
Tribes2 score should have been lower	Ragnarok	5/16/00 1:24 p.m.
Re: Tribes2 score should have been lower	Demandred	5/16/00 1:26 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Dfin'	5/16/00 11:31 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Mark Levin	5/16/00 11:51 a.m.
Lemme clear this up...	Xian	5/16/00 12:29 p.m.
Hey Matt... how about some answers?	Dfin'	5/17/00 3:22 a.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Johnny Rotten	5/16/00 1:59 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Moose-Factory	5/16/00 2:14 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Johnny Rotten	5/16/00 4:03 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Moose-Factory	5/16/00 4:20 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Dead Glory	5/16/00 4:40 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Demandred	5/16/00 5:26 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Johnny Rotten	5/16/00 6:50 p.m.
we haven't seen much indoor yet though...	eric	5/16/00 8:37 p.m.
Indoor environments...	Moose-Factory	5/16/00 10:23 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	Troy Lawlor	5/16/00 6:48 p.m.
Re: Shugashack gives Halo 6.4	eric	5/16/00 3:15 p.m.