Lurker > DirtBasedSoap

yeah youre right i was being over technical

I used to have my hair slicked back real nice

Because isn't that a down-tuned guitar?

Anyway, The National Anthem by Radiohead

Any actually on CE?

There are plenty of ways to find excitement or joy in life without constantly getting tricked into "hype" by manipulative marketing-fueled Schrodinger's Cat boxes. Especially when the cat pops out dead 99% of the time.

If anything, hype is part of why the industry is so shit now. Because they know they can always trick a significant percentage of the customer base into buying (and pre-ordering!) hyped-up games based on the wisp of a dream, so they don't need to try as hard to make a worthwhile game when all they really have to do is invest in enough marketing and propaganda.

Gamers need to be more critical. Wait until after games are released, rather than pre-ordering or rushing to get them on launch day. Give it time for reviews to come out (and multiple patches to fix all the stuff that's inevitably broken), so you can know what a game is really like, rather than the lies you've been fed via faked screenshots, carefully manipulated footage, or deceptive corpo-speak. Seek out the games that are actually good, not the ones that are pretending to be good. Don't let companies take advantage of you.

Don't embrace hype, seek contentment. Even if that means you wind up playing 5-10 year old games.

If enough people stopped buying into the hype train, publishers would actually have to start fixing some of the problems and business practices we've spent the last 20 years complaining about. But since all we do is complain, and then buy the games anyway, why would they ever change?

The sad part is it's not even just gaming at this point. There's a reason why it was the RedLetterMedia guys who summed up the whole corporate mindset with the phrase "Don't ask questions, just consume product! Then get excited for next product!"

Mine was Halo 2 for sure, the trailers were so hype, the gameplay demo of I think New Mombasa. Played the game waiting for that moment and got a cliffhanger ending, man, wasn't excited for any new game for a very long time. Even still.

@DirtBasedSoap I got tix to see Modest Mouse and Built To Spill in a few weeks

Everyone responsible for Adobe should be in prison.

It was a fun franchise, once. Then they pushed Amy Hennig out and put Neil Cuckmann in charge, and it's all been downhill since.

Halo 3 and it isn't even close

oooooh ba na na

Delta and someone beat Dirt and me. :(

would still be in accordance with egg law