Famicom Dojo Podcast: Don’t Believe the Hype

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Apr.11, 2012

Hype is great… until your game comes out. Quite different from development hell, these are games that come out, but when they do they don’t quite live up to the promises made by the marketing department — and sometimes the developers themselves. Sean and Vinnk discuss the raft of hate against the Mass Effect 3 ending, the lack of ending for the Shenmue series, Peter Molyneux’s retirement from Lionhead Studios, and more. Suffice to say, it’s been an interesting year for the hype machine and its consequences.

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Tags: AM2, Bioware, Daikatana, EA, John Romero, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3, Sega, Shenmue

VomitHatSteve

I think I can empathize with people who won’t start ME1 because of the ending of 3. I tend to be a completionist, and I’m into epics. I don’t want to start on a series unless I know I can finish it. Knowing that I’m going to hate the ending would temper the experience for me.

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

Believing and knowing are two different things. I’m about to finish ME3, and I’ll let you know if I hate it or not. 😉

Crade Lit

even if you hate it doesn’t mean I will. 🙂
Funny, for me, the game is already over when the ending starts to play.. I’ve always seen them as more epilogues than climaxes.. And who cares if the epilogue isn’t great?

http://www.facebook.com/jacknife451 William Talley

I haven’t beat it either, and I’ve been playing it for at least an hour every day since I got it last March.
Zachlindblad

I loved Free Radical design while they were still around, Timesplitters2 is still one of the best split-screen shooters around. Then Future Perfect came out, and ….ehh. For me it was worse than just being horrible, it was just ok, and ignored the tongue and cheek spirit. Then came second sight, which was at least something new, then came the hype train that was HAZE. Oh boy HAZE. I preordered that game full price, with a free calendar, and I still have never played through the entire thing. Couldn’t understand how, with Sony publicizing the hell out of HAZE, they could drop the ball so hard.

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