[QUOTE="young80s"]Except IGN HAD to know that The Conduit didn't deliver and decided to reward them based on the effort and the "Hardcore" direction as viewed by them. They sold their impartiality for the faint hope that HVS would start a trend in developers for the Wii. Thats wrong no matter how you look at it. Also whether or not GS or other sites do similar things for HD games if irrelevant in regards to whether its the right thing to do or not. That being said I think the major HD games usually deliver when the game sites rant about how its going to be a major game. Sepewrath
Here's where you go wrong, its called preference. Perhaps they actually liked the game, you know its possible for someone to like a game even if you don't. And I seriously doubt that HVS got preferential treatment, because what do they have to offer, The scoop on their next movie game? They are a tiny developer who was working with Sega, there was nothing to be gained there by pushing a product they felt was sub par. And the hype campaign by the media for games like GTA IV and MW2 which did not deliver for many people is not irrelevant. And its much more likely that those games on the HD console are receiving this unfair push that your so against.
So unless your against all of it, you would be quite the hypocrite to be against it in this one situation. It all comes back to that preference thing, maybe they hyped MW2 because they were generally excited for it, its believable right? Maybe IGN hyped The Conduit because they were generally excited for it, but I guess that's not possible because you didn't like it, right? Sorry the real world doesn't work that way. I though GTA IV was one of the worst games I ever played, but clearly alot other liked it. If you feel frustrated or betrayed because you got run over by the hype train, well let it be a life lesson, to not make choices by group mentality. But clearly its a lesson not learned by many.
Regardless of whether you liked it, it had many problems that as a professional game site IGN had to have known would reduce the final product. GTA IV and MW 2 come from developers who have earned their stripes but the reason why I said it was irrelevant is because even if these games were receiving unfair treatment, it wouldn't make it the right thing to do as an unbiased site. Tri-enforcer said he didn't see what IGN did wrong and then turned around and brought up the treatment of other games in different sites as if it was unfair to the Wii. Your argument about me kinda is my point about why its irrelevant. You also seemed to miss that the reason given for the score it got, (this is by HVS fans) is that IGN was pushing an agenda because of the "Hardcore" effort that The Conduit appeared to be. They also bought in very early on making it difficult for them to shoot it down like most other sites did. They gave it a much higher score than most other sites and also happened to be the main medium that the advertising had come from that didn't happen with GTA IV and MW 2. And don't get all preachy about life lessons, there are always some people who get waaaay hyped for things and people who try to tell them that they should keep their hopes down. It happens in all fields but one that would be relevant to the Wii boards would be E3 conferences. The difference is this time the people on the hype train have gotten blindly defensive about and have started saying things like "You can't judge a developer by his past accomplishments" which is ridiculous cause you can and most will. This just means that the developer needs to prove itself. 
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