or that you don't come into a game with an opinion? most of evilbore's opinion of LBP is that it's not AAA and it won't sell, but they haven't played it (and i defend their right to state that opinion)
did people say it wasn't AAA? I can see people saying it won't sell but i didn't recall seeing people saying it's not a AAA game.
"is overrated" is pretty much the same as stating "is not AAA," and LBP has definitely been called overrated here.
i may have recklessly stated it in an 'absolute' manner
it's the absolute nature of statements i'm getting at.
i clarified that i wasn't stating an absolute opinion in that thread.
but in the end it's not too different from anyone else voicing their opinion over an unreleased game. halo 3 was only a couple days old at that time, and regardless, you'd have a pretty weak argument trying to say it's somehow TOTALLY different when it's an unreleased game vs a newly released game someone hadn't played yet.
(place holder) will have to reread a few times, not sure what your argument is. In middle of somethign at work.
i'm just saying that there's only two different kinds of opinions you can express over a game --
1. before you've played it, your interpretation of reviews, previews, impressions from others, footage you've watched, etc
2. after you've played it, your impressions from the actual experience
whether or not the game has come out is not really important. just whether you've played it or not, which will put the opinion into one of the two groups.
and again, i tried to make it clear that it was a non-final, before-playing it, tentative opinion.
puh-leeze. while playing the game is of course the best way to form an opinion, you can also look at gameplay demos and read impressions to get a decent idea of what a game will be like. i never played Haze, but I thought the stuff they showed pre-release looked fucking abysmal. now sometimes we'll have to eat crow, but i'd say the majority of the time you can get a pretty good idea of what a game is like without ever touching it.
in Haze's case, they had the weight of a good pedegree behind them, so there wasn't any particular reason to think it would be a bad game, early footage i thought didn't look too bad. The demo was run of the mill, the final game ... yeah. The difference in this case though is a statement like "Halo 3 isn't AAA" ... that's a whole new level.
if someone said "halo 3 isn't AAA" now, it wouldn't be a big deal. even on GAF, halo 3 appearing as GOTY gets tons of disagreements without a significant response to contest the disagreements. again, it was only a huge deal back then because halo 3 was popular.
