Which upcoming game do you think will be the most overhyped game of 2008?

Personally I doubt that Killzone 2 will be the Halo3/CoD4 killer. That's what they said last time!

I also expect the new FF and MSG4 to be over-hyped (Warning: Extreme case of fanboyism detected! :P)as these games along with blu-ray were the only things that fueled the sales of PS3, until they got some decent exclusives like Warhawk and Uncharted.

Share your opinions.

I put my money on Left 4 Dead being a big dissapointment. It's basically just Counter-Strike with zombies.

Haze is consistently in PS3 fanboy lists for exclusives that make the 360 redundant, but it overlooks the fact that it's not strictly a PS3 exclusive; it was cancelled for the other platforms. The developers probably didn't intend to keep it for Sony.
Also, much has been made of all it BRAND NEW! gameplay features, but it doesn't actually innovate that much. No load screens is a favourite feature... but we all saw how well that worked with the Orange Box. And don't forget Haze's revolutionary 4 player co-op (that Halo 3 did back in October).
The constant delays that have plagued this game don't give confidence that it'll be any good.

I find the a hard topic to answer because;
-We are barely into 2008, who knows what all will come out?
-Many of the games being overhyped right now have no promise of launching this year (Spore for example).
-Over-Rated and/or Over-Hyped means not deserving of their praise/admiration. We won't know if they live up to expectations until they are released.

If I took a guess, maybe Smash Bros Brawl and Halflife Episode 3...

Khell_Sennet:
I find the a hard topic to answer because;
-We are barely into 2008, who knows what all will come out?
-Many of the games being overhyped right now have no promise of launching this year (Spore for example).
-Over-Rated and/or Over-Hyped means not deserving of their praise/admiration. We won't know if they live up to expectations until they are released.

If I took a guess, maybe Smash Bros Brawl and Halflife Episode 3...

Take it back Halflife is the way forward. They are the only good games coming out at the moment and im sure HL2 E3 is going to live up to what people are saying

I'll play it safe for now and put forward Madden 09. (There is going to be yet another Madden next year, right? I don't care for sports games and haven't been following the franchise myself.)

-- Steve

I'll start by saying how much I like my PS3, it's great. But my picks are MGS and Killzone. Existing franchises that are being blown way out of proportion.

I'd say the new Grand Theft Auto will be way overhyped. OPS2:A (Official Playstation Magazine: Australia) hyped San Andreas up to epic proportions, even going so far as to mocking anyone that wrote in and talked it down. Consistently, they named it to be the best ever game of its year (2006, yes?) and until Unchartered and Assassin's Creed came out, it was constantly marked as 'Best Game EVAR' in all their various lists and relists.

I'd say the new GTA will be no different. It'll be hyped up to epic proportions and when it comes out, it'll just take the old game, add a new protagonist, a same-but-slightly-different plot and all the same types of missions. Oh, and they'll just bang on a bunch of assorted 'side games' to play, like paper delivery, or rubbish collecting, or mail delivery, or running the subway, or sweeping pavements.

Spore.
But it seems that the only thing it's not living up to in it's hype is it's release date. If it's delayed again the American Stock Market might crash (Dirty Thirties II: This time we don't have the Soviet Union to Blame! Written and Directed by George Lucas) and we'll never be able to get it.
I could've sworn that Maxis said the game would be released about six times now.

My guesses are Killzone 2, Haze and MGS. A game that deserves the hype, Sins of a Solar Empime. And I'm still waiting for Starcraft 2....

Khell_Sennet:
I find the a hard topic to answer because;
-We are barely into 2008, who knows what all will come out?
-Many of the games being overhyped right now have no promise of launching this year (Spore for example).
-Over-Rated and/or Over-Hyped means not deserving of their praise/admiration. We won't know if they live up to expectations until they are released.

If I took a guess, maybe Smash Bros Brawl and Halflife Episode 3...

I am going to have to agree with you on Brawl. It looks like a fun game, but from what I have heard, it doesn't add too much from what was established in Melee.

Anarchemitis:
Dirty Thirties II: This time we don't have the Soviet Union to Blame!

Wait...you guys blamed the Great Depression on the Communists too?

Star Wars: Force Unleashed.

i'm bracing for a steaming pile of franchised tech-demo shite. they're over-emphasizing the tech in the PR, and it's the first game to use all these new physics techs. chances are, it'll be more failure than success in making these systems fun and meaningful.

and that trailer showing you bringing down the star destroyer? i'll bet $50 that's not gonna be playable.

Halo 3 has to a candidate. GTA I'm not so sure about. I mean, I don't think they've really promised anything other than the usual stuff : )

Yea GTA never has promised anything more than what GTA has always been save for it being bigger.

Dectilon:
Halo 3 has to a candidate. GTA I'm not so sure about. I mean, I don't think they've really promised anything other than the usual stuff : )

Halo 3 was out in Sept 2007 though

Duke Nukem Forever

stevesan:
Star Wars: Force Unleashed.

i'm bracing for a steaming pile of franchised tech-demo shite. they're over-emphasizing the tech in the PR, and it's the first game to use all these new physics techs. chances are, it'll be more failure than success in making these systems fun and meaningful.

and that trailer showing you bringing down the star destroyer? i'll bet $50 that's not gonna be playable.

I'm pretty sure you won't be bringing down a star destroyer, and if you do, chances are it'll be a button mashing or matching system... i think thats designed just to show you how powerful the dude is. I mean i know yoda did the whole size matters not thing, so why do jedi struggle more with big objects over little ones?

but yeah the whole ai trying to keep themselves alive thing is bound to be a glitch fest... but sadly its a game with a lightsaber... so no doubt i'll be getting it...

IMHO, Crysis. Or was that last year? Oh well, my point being, graphics alone do not a perfect game make ... that is, if you can even see the "pur-tea" graphics. I haven't felt the need to rush out and by anything based on how good it looks since, well, ever. Is it fun? Sure, but is it the end all be all to PC Gaming? Hardly.

In fact, I don't even know why they bother hyping games anymore, its almost always a let down... oh yeah, increased revenue, that's why. Greedy bastards, why can't they (you know the mysterious they, like Men in Black) just make a good game and then make another game that we will all hype for them free of charge because they made a good game before? You know, like we do for Blizzard and Valve and what not...

I don't tend to pay too much attention to hype. The last time I did that (Fable) I ended up with... Well, you know what I got. Someone up there made the point about Duke Nukem Forever, except that that's so under-hyped that it'll take some serious marketing to bring it to acceptable hype levels. My vote would be for Final Fantasy XIII, if we knew anything about it at all.

Haze and Killzone 2 definately.

FarCry 2, Force Unleashed and Spore can all be game of the year or overhyped of the year.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 definately, i cannot fathom what people se in games like that.

JakubK666:

I also expect the new FF and MSG4 to be over-hyped (Warning: Extreme case of fanboyism detected! :P)as these games along with blu-ray were the only things that fueled the sales of PS3, until they got some decent exclusives like Warhawk and Uncharted.

Share your opinions.

Trying to start a ps3 fanboy fight?

I never got into MGS because I am not patient enough to wait for the money shot. I expect people who liked the prequels of the game will enjoy it, hype be damned. Those of us who get all bent out of shape when PR people do their jobs will post impotently about how annoying it is to be promised a game that ends world hunger, and actually just is a game about hiding in cardboard boxes. In the end it comes down to something Public Enemy said best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjH7X-jAY4

Video game hype is a weird thing these days. It seems like too much hype actually hurting gamers perceptions of how good the game is. Take for instance bioshock, which got general acclaim, but led to a lot of negative nitpicky reviews. Imagine in what light games like Deus Ex would be held to today. I am not sure if that's due to the ever growing popularity of independent reviewers (bloggers) who can afford to be sensationalist, or if it's something about else about the era of games we are in. Games perhaps aren't evolving as quickly as our interest in something new.

Edit: I keep getting PE, and NWA confused. Edited for general stupidity.

Anton P. Nym:
I'll play it safe for now and put forward Madden 09. (There is going to be yet another Madden next year, right? I don't care for sports games and haven't been following the franchise myself.)

-- Steve

I'm gonna go out on a limb and agree with you. Odds are they won't solve fundamental problems with the game such as it being easier to throw a bomb 50 yards down field than to spot a man 5 yards away from the QB. And any fundamental problems they do solve will be replaced by equally perplexing ones. About the only change I think we'll see will be the horrible soundtrack they insist on blaring at you.

Anton P. Nym:
madden

For a game to be overhyped people have to give a damn about it first.

Anyways, I'm going with Killzone 2. The first one was okay, but it didn't make me splooge all over myself like all the fanboys hyping it up said it would, and I can't see number 2 (ya, ya, laugh it up) doing any better.

OVERHYPED GAMES WHICH WILL BE OVERRATED
killzone 2 : better graphics than crysis and and gaylo killer - isnt this what they promised last time.
halo wars : yeah sure RTS on a console
rainbow six vegas 2 : what was in the original that they decided to make a new one, the first ones (rainbow six, rogue spear) wwere waay better than this crap. u only have 3 commands to choose from and then fanboys label it BEST TACTICAL SHOOTER OF ALL TIME.

OVERHYPED GAMES WHICH WILL BE GOOD
Spore, left 4 dead, far cry 2, fallout 3 and minesweeper 2

Mario Kart Wii. Even with online play it will become boring in no time (although if they make a stage creator it may be a different story). The gameplay looks to be pretty much the same as before and no redeeming innovative additions to it. I mean at least SSBB tried to spice things up with final smashes.

I think MGS4 will live up to it and hopefully pull the PS3 out of the ditch and onto the market road, but I agree with everyone one else on Killzone 2, it'll be generic.

And as for the 360... I can't think of any exclusives that are really that hyped that will arrive this year (I doubt GOW2 will make it time for 2008).

Finally for PC I'd say Frontlines, come on people! it's 2142 with a different game mode and AI. Also Starcraft 2.

wellington:
I'll start by saying how much I like my PS3, it's great. But my picks are MGS and Killzone. Existing franchises that are being blown way out of proportion.

I'm not so sure that MGS will disappoint (although it WILL be FAR from the best thing ever), but I'm going to agree with you on Killzone. The first one was kind of disappointing, and I have a feeling that the devs are gonna mess it up again.

Edit: Looking at the above posts, I'm also gonna have to agree with Mario Kart Wii (if only because I'm quickly losing faith in the Wii's ability to use its control scheme properly in more than one game per year) and Halo Wars (because as much as I love the 360, RTS just doesn't work on it--for me, at least).

I'm going with Killzone 2 and Far Cry 2 as the most overhyped games ever.

Spore is hyped, but if it lives up to half the hype, it'll be a brilliant game. MGS4 is overhyped, but should still be pretty awesome. FF13 or whatever it is now is seriously overblown. It might be alright, but IMO every FF past 7 has gone down hill slowly. SSBB will just be grand. I'll love it. It is the end of the series though, since they're nowhere to go from there.

I get a feeling DN Forever is going to prove overhyped. Judged by its development team, I just don't see how it can rise to the level of its predecessor (which shared the title of best FPS with Quake for a time in the mid-90s) - since, in contemporary terms, it would have to be as good as Bio-Shock or Metroid Prime 3 to do so.

lol. It has to be Fable 2. Even though I've heard no hype around Fable 2 but I bet theres a truckload of it somewhere

Crysis by a mile. The PC magazines are more guilty of spreading the hype than the company itself. It's a barely average shooter and they treat it like god's gift just because it looks pretty. In the meantime, nobody with a life cares. I thought gaming magazines were over the whole "it looks good so therefore it must be a great game" thing but obviously not.

Fire Daemon:
lol. It has to be Fable 2. Even though I've heard no hype around Fable 2 but I bet theres a truckload of it somewhere

Man's best friend. Awesome fights using only one button. Those are the ones we've heard so far. Oh and the gumph about choices and good and evil. I'll still probably get it...*sigh*.

Fire Daemon:
lol. It has to be Fable 2. Even though I've heard no hype around Fable 2 but I bet theres a truckload of it somewhere

There's been very little hype, especially since Peter Molynieux is involved.

Metal Gear Solid 4. I'm really afraid of the fanboys right now, as you'd expect when PS3 and MGS fanboys are warped into one freak of nature. A superfreak. Superfreak, superfreak, she's superfreakae yaol.

I haven't seen anything good about Haze yet and somehow everyones droling over it. Did I miss something?
Never liked MGS or FF and the new ones don't look spectacular in my eyes. Overhyped to the point that they're the PS3's saviours.
Killzone 2. The first one was fun and enjoyable. This one looks alright, but still, people seem to be lashing themselves over it.
On the 360 however, we have Fable 2. It looks pretty decent and hopefully better then the first, but the hype is through the roof. Also i have to admit Too Human doesn't look like anything septacular. A God Of War with robots.