Top Ten Most Anticipated Titles of 2008:

sonarus - 622 days 10 hours ago

lol what kind of weak list is this. These guys need to grow some ballz and tell us the real anticipated games. No if's no butts. Making a list that makes everyone happy is lame

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Horny Melon - 622 days 10 hours ago

unless you have a incredibly high traffic site as people will only vote for things they can play on the platform(s) they own. Another problem with polling games is you have too many options. There's over 200 releases this year what person is going to read more than the top 20 of a poll that size? Instead I narrowed it down by what innovations are being brought to the table by this years releases and new/ or rebooted IPs. Then I took a trip over to Google trends and averaged the number of searches for about 30 games coming out this year by the shortest time info (other than rumors) about a given game has been on the net. Sorry I wasn't scientific or anything.

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sonarus - 622 days 9 hours ago

lol that is actually pretty impressive. sorry i was so hard on you. Just thought you were trying to cater to everyone which is lame.

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Horny Melon - 622 days 9 hours ago

Oddly enough I figured..."hey it's a top ten list I should be able to bang it out in an hour." It was the longest article I ever wrote. Took me 4 hours everything included. I'm sure there are flaws in my method, but it's video games. I'm not trying to split atoms.

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games4fun - 622 days 8 hours ago

people are going to complain for two reasons: they wont read your disclaimer and think that big titles should be in there even though they are sequeals and for a second reason that they dont like the games you've put on the list people can be very biased

sidenote: the way you made that list is actually quite reasonable imo at least part of it was impartial when you looked up most hits on a search engine

i think that the list is ok but i would have liked to see prototype somewhere in there its a great game where you are an infected villian. or misunderstood (your just trying to survive why should you have to die to save others moral dilemna?) and there is a very long gameplay video for it on gametrailers and this sandbox type game has innovative story at least.

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Horny Melon - 622 days 8 hours ago

I was wracking my brain all day at work trying to think of how I could do a legitimate top ten with such a new blog. there's really no way you could do 100% unbiased, totally the truth, not playing with the numbers poll before a game is out for sale. So with the resources at hand I did the best I could. If you want a 100% poll on games that have already been released go to www.VGcharts.com or look at NPD's nfor sales figures....those are the real polls.

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Horny Melon - 622 days 8 hours ago

solid info on GoW2 yet, other than it's coming out. Surprisingly even though I did include just cause two for the same reason as mercenaries two it ranked outside the top ten. The disclaimer explains all. Dead space ranked higher than just cause 2

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sonarus - 622 days 7 hours ago

he isn't doing sequels that don't offer anything innovative. so no just cause 2 and no Gears. But his method is quite impressive.

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Horny Melon - 622 days 7 hours ago

was a weak link. It ranked high in google searches though. It's also has an online element, the steering wheel and possible pedals are pretty cool, and you can race with your Mii's. Nintendo is giving it it's own channel so they must have something cool planned for it.

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MK_Red - 622 days 7 hours ago

I understand but then, the list was supposed to exclude likes of MGS4 and GTA4 that are sure big sellers and Mario Kart is a popular sequel and is the same as Wii Fit in Nintendo's marketing.

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harry190 - 622 days 10 hours ago

you are being a little hard on them.

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Horny Melon - 622 days 9 hours ago

Nothing is concrete about Gears of War 2. GTA IV and MGS were left off the list due to a few things, not a new IP, Not a rebooted old IP, no innovative features, space constraints. Those two titles while hot, fall into the bigger,faster,stronger category. All was explained in the disclaimer.

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Horny Melon - 622 days 7 hours ago

information. In fact dates are the least solid thing in video games.

Of course I'm here promoting my own blog. It's not a crime. It's the kind of thing N4G wants. They want original content, that's why they are so hardcore about what to post and what not to post. I've been coming here mainly as an observer for almost a year now. I keep my blog submissions separate so that I can easily engage in conversation with those that frequent my site.

MGS4, GTA IV, K2 have revamped their features and graphics which is good in comparison to past sequels but is in no way innovative across the genre as a whole. Nor are they an old reboots. Ghostbuster hasn't had a game out since the Genesis, that is old. Killzone was also considered a crap game it doesn't even compare to the popularity of Fallout.

Halo Wars did not rank in the top ten, is not a new or reboot and also has no feature listing, so how can it be innovative? There is no feature list for GoW2 either.

I'm sorry your favorite games didn't make the list.

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Horny Melon - 622 days 6 hours ago

You've chosen to attack rather than hold a discussion.

Please point to a potentially genre changing Gears of War 2 feature.

"John Carmack stated you don't see people inventing new types of basketball."

John Carmack also hasn't produced a critically acclaimed title since Quake.

"Here is a hint in your young gaming life."

This assumption couldn't be more wrong.

"Developers feel the need to do something oblique to the standard and in doing so forget to do something right"

If John Carmack truely believed this he wouldn't scour research papers for new developments in graphic rendering. He also wouldn't be working on his pet rendering technic. Not to mention that John Carmacks attempts to compete in the middleware market with companies like Epic have met with failure. Also see above comment on John Carmack.

You sure are attacking me like a fan.

I cannot assume it doesn't have good features, just like I can't assume it does. I can only make logical choices with the evidence in front of me. What wild assumption did I make? That GoW2 has great features even though I can find no listing on any popular site with credibility.

In all the articles I read about Halo (approx: 10) I found not one innovative feature. Nothing that is genre changing or has the potential to do so. Now maybe you have researched Halo wars to the nth degree. I spent two hours on 30 games on top of what I already knew. Like I mentioned before I'm blogging about videogames, not splitting atoms.

"The article does fail when so many people are slapping it and all of your posts in the thread are spent trying to plug the holes and defend it."

I'm holding a conversation with people, that has stopped do to my newness. There are 21 posts here not many negative. The article has been viewed 1,137 times as of 2:33am PST. Complaints are very far in the minority. You are the only one being aggressively negative.

Most complaints are about what's not included not the process of how I've come to my conclusions.

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