History Quotes / HypeBackLash

->''"I don't get it! {{THQ}}, much like the other three big publishers it was trying to compete with, had fostered this delusional that, somehow, spending millions of dollars on marketing for a bad game means that millions would be sold in retail. But holy shit!: Believe it or not, games are kinda [[CrackIsCheaper a little bit expensive.]] People don't buy them with the same kind of subconscious, casual whim that they buy junk food. Review scores, word-of-mouth, and the overall quality of a game is what's supposed to sell the product; not the tasteless, backfiring PR stunts or how many times you can squeeze in a game commercial in-between Cialis."''

->'''Gabriel:''' If I come up to you with something interesting and then rub it your fucking face, you're gonna say, 'Please Get that away from me.' And I get a little bit of that from ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' coverage.\\
'''Yahtzee:''' Did you know that there are ''five'' different Special Editions of ''Watch_Dogs'' that launched?\\
'''Gabriel:''' All right, now ''that's'' just fuckin' pissing me off.\\
'''Yahtzee:''' Well, yes, this is where it gets absurd. And this is what's making me suspicious because, as we all know -- especially in the film industry -- if something gets massive media coverage before it's released, it's because the producers kinda suspect that it's wank. And they're trying to get as many people to buy it as possible before word-of-mouth gets around.
-->--'''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq20fqqZTqw Let Drown Out]]''''' ''Brutal Doom''

->'''Gabriel:''' If I come up to you with something interesting and then rub it your fucking face, you're gonna say, 'Please Get that away from me.' And I get a little bit of that from ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' coverage. That, and people whose opinions on videos games I don't really trust are screaming about it on Facebook...\\

'''Gabriel:''' A'ight, now that's just fuckin' pissing me off.\\

->''"Sometimes a game gets a little ahead of itself. All of a sudden, what you've got in the box in no way lives up to the reputation that preceded it. It happens all the time: a title will coast to the market on a wave of hype, getting glory far beyond what was earned. As gamers, we'll stare limply at our monitors or TV screens and ask ourselves: "Everyone was excited about this!?""''

->"There was no way ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' would have lived up to its hype. Given that it spent so much time in DevelopmentHell, eventually it became a RunningGag about DevelopmentHell and VaporWare, so it reached the point where it became more fun to ''wait'' for ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' than actually ''playing'' the game. During the fifteen years it took for the game to reach our shelves, [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life}} we've]] [[Franchise/{{Halo}} had]] [[VideoGame/SystemShock other]] [[Franchise/BioShock games]] [[VideoGame/DeusEx jumping]] [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty in]] [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare to]] [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} fill]] [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent the]] void left by ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''."

->'''Gabriel:''' If I come up to you with something interesting and then rub it your fucking face, you're gonna say, 'Please Get that away from me.' And I get a little bit of that from ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' coverage. That, and people whose opinions on videos games I don't really trust are screaming about it on Facebook,\\

->''"Does Creator/PeterMolyneux have kids? That's a frightening thought. You can bet he really talked them up before coming out of the womb. 'This one's basically gonna be the greatest child in the world. The innovation going in this child, you just can't believe it! This child--get this--this child will ''eat'' things, and the matter it eats will be converted into matter that processes the body! It's never been seen before!'"''
-->--[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydBiQaXm8g Let's Drown Out]] ''Ghostbusters'' (Megadrive)

->''I went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of "[[HenryIV Henry the Fourth]]", and so went to the new Theatre [...] and saw it acted; but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would.''
-->-- ''Literature/DiaryOfSamuelPepys'', December 31, 1660

->"Sometimes a game gets a little ahead of itself. All of a sudden, what you've got in the box in no way lives up to the reputation that preceded it. It happens all the time: a title will coast to the market on a wave of hype, getting glory far beyond what was earned. As gamers, we'll stare limply at our monitors or TV screens and ask ourselves: "Everyone was excited about this!?""

->"If you caught this low-budget labor of love about a murderous simpleton named Karl Childers (mmm-hmm) just after its release, you probably thought it was a solid little piece of work worth rooting for. If you checked in after reading the four-star reviews or watching the Oscar ceremony in which the writer-director-star picked up the Best Original Screenplay award, you may be forgiven for thinking there's less here than meets the eye. So fast did the tables turn for Billy Bob that the backlash felt more like whiplash."
-->-- '''Ty Burr''', in his [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,288812,00.html review]] of ''Film/SlingBlade'' in Entertainment Weekly.

->''"Does PeterMolyneux have kids? That's a frightening thought. You can bet he really talked them up before coming out of the womb. 'This one's basically gonna be the greatest child in the world. The innovation going in this child, you just can't believe it! This child--get this--this child will ''eat'' things, and the matter it eats will be converted into matter that processes the body! It's never been seen before!'"''

-> ''"I just hope 3D Realms understands that if this doesn't turn out to be history's greatest contribution to human culture and the cure for at least one type of cancer then I and every other reviewer on earth are going to saw its bollocks off."''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''

->''"I probably wouldn't have had such a problem with it all if it wasn't for the fact that {{Nintendo}} advertised this thing like it was the SecondComing of Music/MichaelJackson..."''

->"There was no way ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' would have lived up to its hype. Given that it spent so much time in DevelopmentHell, eventually it became a RunningGag about DevelopmentHell and VaporWare, so it reached the point where it became more fun to ''wait'' for ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' than actually ''playing'' the game. During the fifteen years it took for the game to reach our shelves, [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life}} we've]] [[Franchise/{{Halo}} had]] [[VideoGame/SystemShock other]] [[VideoGame/BioShock games]] [[VideoGame/DeusEx jumping]] [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty in]] [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare to]] [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} fill]] [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent the]] void left by ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''."

-->-- '''Ty Burr''', in his [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20208578,00.html review]] of ''Film/SlingBlade'' in Entertainment Weekly.

-->-- '''[=GameSpy=]''', [[http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/september03/25overrated/ 25 Most Overrated Games Of All Time]]

->"There was no way ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' would have lived up to its hype. Given that it spent so much time in DevelopmentHell, eventually it became a RunningGag about DevelopmentHell and VaporWare, so it reached the point where it became more fun to ''wait'' for ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' than actually ''playing'' the game. During the fifteen years it took for the game to reach our shelves, [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life}} we've]] [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} had]] [[VideoGame/SystemShock other]] [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock}} games]] [[VideoGame/DeusEx jumping]] [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty in]] [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare to]] [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} fill]] [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent the]] void left by ''VideoGame/DukeNukem''."

->''"I probably wouldn't have had such a problem with it all if it wasn't for the fact that {{Nintendo}} advertised this thing like it was the SecondComing of Music/MichaelJackson..."''

->"There was no way ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' would have lived up to its hype. Given that it spent so much time in DevelopmentHell, eventually it became a RunningGag about DevelopmentHell and VaporWare, so it reached the point where it became more fun to ''wait'' for ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' than actually ''playing'' the game. During the fifteen years it took for the game to reach our shelves, [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life}} we've]] [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} had]] [[VideoGame/SystemShock other]] [[VideoGame/{{Bioshock}} games]] [[VideoGame/DeusEx jumping]] [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty in]] [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare to]] [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} fill]] [[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent the]] void left by ''DukeNukem''."

-->-- '''WebOriginal/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''

->"There was no way ''DukeNukemForever'' would have lived up to its hype. Given that it spent so much time in DevelopmentHell, eventually it became a RunningGag about DevelopmentHell and VaporWare, so it reached the point where it became more fun to ''wait'' for ''DukeNukemForever'' than actually ''playing'' the game. During the fifteen years it took for the game to reach our shelves, [[HalfLife we've]] [[{{Halo}} had]] [[SystemShock other]] [[{{Bioshock}} games]] [[DeusEx jumping]] [[CallOfDuty in]] [[CallOfDutyModernWarfare to]] [[{{STALKER}} fill]] [[AmnesiaDarkDescent the]] void left by ''DukeNukem''."

->''When Bungie finally gives us {{Halo}} 3.''
-->--'''[=SarcasticGamer=].com,''' ''"The {{Halo}} 3 Hoedown"''

-->-- '''ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''

-->-- ''Diary of SamuelPepys'', December 31, 1660

-->-- '''ZeroPunctuation''' on ''DukeNukemForever''