The industry needs more blockbuster game releases like Halo 3.

Its pretty exciting to see a video game get the same kind of media and advertising space as a blockbuster movie. This is the kind of attention the industry needs.

Discuss.

Its pretty exciting to see a video game get the same kind of media and advertising space as a blockbuster movie. This is the kind of attention the industry needs.

Discuss.

Bread_or_Decide

I completely agree. Even though I don't care for Sony one bit, I'd really love to see them put a lot of effort into getting Killzone2's name out there to the casual market. MS is doing this right in hitting up the mainstream and come October and November, I'm sure we'll be seeing the onslaught of advertising for Mass Effect. :)

Agreed though it's hard to name another game that has such a wide audience and has the main stream media enthused as well.SecretPolice

The first Halo was big. But their are plenty of other games that do just as well. It was Microsoft that pushed Halo 2 as an EVENT. They put money into the advertising and let the world know Halo was coming.

Games like Gears, Bioshock, Mario Galaxy, and yes even MGS4 can be in the media's eye but it takes money to put it there.

Agreed though it's hard to name another game that has such a wide audience and has the main stream media enthused as well.SecretPolice

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]Agreed though it's hard to name another game that has such a wide audience and has the main stream media enthused as well.musicalmac

easily going to be the biggest launch of a game ever.

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]Agreed though it's hard to name another game that has such a wide audience and has the main stream media enthused as well.Bread_or_Decide

The first Halo was big. But their are plenty of other games that do just as well. It was Microsoft that pushed Halo 2 as an EVENT. They put money into the advertising and let the world know Halo was coming.

Games like Gears, Bioshock, Mario Galaxy, and yes even MGS4 can be in the media's eye but it takes money to put it there.

Wiifit will be bigger than Halo.BION1CK

:lol: great post. next it will be the zapper. oh the innovation

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[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]Agreed though it's hard to name another game that has such a wide audience and has the main stream media enthused as well.too_much_eslim

The first Halo was big. But their are plenty of other games that do just as well. It was Microsoft that pushed Halo 2 as an EVENT. They put money into the advertising and let the world know Halo was coming.

Games like Gears, Bioshock, Mario Galaxy, and yes even MGS4 can be in the media's eye but it takes money to put it there.

I believe GEars2 will be just as big as Halo 2

Yea, I agree.

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]Agreed though it's hard to name another game that has such a wide audience and has the main stream media enthused as well.Bread_or_Decide

The first Halo was big. But their are plenty of other games that do just as well. It was Microsoft that pushed Halo 2 as an EVENT. They put money into the advertising and let the world know Halo was coming.

Games like Gears, Bioshock, Mario Galaxy, and yes even MGS4 can be in the media's eye but it takes money to put it there.

So the curse has turned into something of a blessing which saw Halo b/c of the spot light put on it to rise up through all the other stuff to become so well known to even non-gamers and the main stream media.

Wiifit will be bigger than Halo.BION1CK

[QUOTE="BION1CK"]Wiifit will be bigger than Halo.AfterShafter

:roll: again with such claims. only a stupid industry would put all their efforts into one genre of entertainment. when halo sold well we didn't see all other genre's disappear did we?

[QUOTE="AfterShafter"][QUOTE="BION1CK"]Wiifit will be bigger than Halo.Ontain

:roll: again with such claims. only a stupid industry would put all their efforts into one genre of entertainment. when halo sold well we didn't see all other genre's disappear did we?

Its pretty exciting to see a video game get the same kind of media and advertising space as a blockbuster movie. This is the kind of attention the industry needs.

Discuss.

Bread_or_Decide

Disagree. The industry needs more small, sleeper hits like Ico, Tony Hawk, etc. once were. These massive games, while exciting, drain a lot of money and resources from companies. I would rather Eidos spend less money making a new Fear Effect instead of wasting time and money on more Tomb Raider rehashes. I would rather see Ubisoft NOT have a new Splinter Cell every single year and instead take a chance on Beyond Good and Evil 2.

Keep in mind that the Hollywood drive to focus more and more on blockbusters ends up hurting them more than helping as most of these movies flop, the companies lose money, and smaller movies that encourage innovation and true entertainment value get burried because they'd rather that money went to a shallow FX filled blockbuster.

The vast majority of people want quality and replayability and substance over flash. While these aren't always exlusive traits, the movies/games that "have it all" are more the exception than the rule.