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An interesting point was made that with some games coming out that will receive overwhelming attention (Halo 3 type attention that can be debated whether all that attention is deserved. Yes it can be debated.) and games that are just as good may be overlooked. It's not fair but it may happen. I'll let you talk about the specific games.

Here's the post that grabbed my attention and inspired the creation of this thread.




EDIT: I know some of you have been looking forward to these games mentioned in that post and there's nothing wrong with that at all. The point I'm making/asking is that is it right that the attention they'll get overshadow some equally good games?

The headliners have forever been headliners and will forever be headliners. MGS4, GTA, FXIII (which isn't gonna come out this year) are headliners. The fanboys will glorify them as gaming Messiahs and other games will be shunned. That's how it always is. The key for a non-headliner's (one that is as great as an actual headliner anyhow) survival is two things: 1) timing 2) ADVERTISEMENT. If a game's release date is handled with care it will come out on a day that is either a while before a headliner or a while after a headliner. And even if a game is God's gift to gamers, if there is little to no advertisement for it, then no one's gonna buy it. Look at Okami & Beyond Good & Evil for instance! They were both fantastic games! But I never saw advertisement for either except in gaming magazines. And that's not where they're needed. If an ad for a game is in a magazine, chances are it's useless there because if a person reads a gaming magazine, then they're gonna read the reviews! An add needs to be either a commercial or a display in a store.

Sweetie, headliners don't need ads. They have fanboys (both extreme-irritating ones who need to be locked in a corner, and the intelligent ones who are fans but aren't drama queens-a breed dying out I'm afriad). A lot of fanboys.

EDIT: And yes they do need to learn to ------- advertise! Why is it that crappy games always get the most marketing?

The only thing close to an MGS4 ad I've seen is a 5-second clip on those wierd $399 Ps3 commercials.

My Whole ******** School is hooked on Kingdom Hearts 2 and Super Mario Galaxy.

And Of Course, Halo 3.

I can find some Team Fortress 2 players, and a Couple of People who played Bioshock, but then again, those people watch Spike TV.

That's an interesting point. DMC4 looks so good that it actually has me interested in the series again. But no one seems to care, and I think you may be right. It's multiplatform, so it has now become "that game I'll get to when I'm done with Uncharted/Mass Effect/MGS/Supreme Commander."

You can bet if DMC4 were exclusive to either console, it would be getting ALOT more attention from gamers. Fanboys would constantly point to it as a selling point for their console of choice, and to show support would probably end up buying it. Now it's just sort of a game that's out there for anyone to play and doesn't showcase the capabilities of either system.

The new Tales of Symphonia game. Seriously that's the game that I want next year. It looks to be a good game, no matter if the story is corny and cheesy. I think it would be over looked because it's an RPG game and hell it might be one disc long. But I think the new ToS game will have a new battle system. *Fanboy squees*

But in reality DMC4 will get lost somewhere. I don't see it selling well on the 360 than the PS3. 360 owners don't seem like the Sudo-Anime looking gamers type.