Thread topic is flawed. The official hype at the time of review was AAE. SOME Cows hyped it AAAE, sure. Just like SOME sheep hyped Zelda AAAAE, some Lemmings hyped Forza, Halo Anniversary, and Gears AAAAE, and so on. That doesn't make those the official hype. At one point, I believe I2 may have hit AAAE in a hype poll, but the poll was suspected of much tampering, so was removed, well in advance of the game releasing, and voting changed to the way Uncharted, Resistance, etc have done it, by counting what people actually said. SO in the end, game was hyped AAE, and scored AE. The reason there is so much controversy about it is A) the hype was not very well documented, so people tend to go with what they remember it being, and people will always remember the vocal minority shouting AAAE the most. B) The same reviewer reviewed both games, and gave the second 1.5 lower than the first, despite the majority feeling like it was improved. C) Many people just plain disagree with his reasons in the written review.
Further, the outcry against Tom is also something that gets attributed to all cows, when I feel that, again, it's more of a vocal minority thing. Perhaps it is my own perception filter, but it seemed to me like the majority of cows accepted it, with the typical ammount of DC one expects when an exclusive flops. Some were pretty upset, but moved on. And a few others took it to the extreme with the anti-Mcshea brigade, continuing to this day. The ones who didn't get upset, or let it go have no reason to say anything, so they don't, which results in the minority who hold a grudge over it being the only voice heard, which gives the impression that that's what Cows think.
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