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Originally Posted by merylsilverburg

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Which ones are you referring to?

Mostly Marc Echo's Getting Up and Black.

Both had extensive articles on how they were the next big thing. Getting Up was supposed to be the next great game that thought outside the box and be the "first true hip hop game made" while it was said that demos shown of Black had left the lucky few who got to see the previews "salivating and begging for more." And it wasn't just that. The same sources continue to repeat things like this about the same games prior to release even after repeated hands-on access to them.

Hype can be good in some instances, but previewers need to be more skeptical and do deeper detective work AND be more careful about what they are telling us.

Of course... if they didn't write interesting articles that hyped things up they wouldn't make as much money would they?

I could go on and on about this, but I won't.

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