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Quotes: Hype Back Lash We'll finally get a cure for cancer and
VD, The icecaps will stop melting instantly, No more famine-
ridden places, No more flies on children's faces, When Bungie
finally gives us Halo 3., "The Halo 3 Hoedown"  "I just hope 3D
Realms understands that if this doesn't turn out to be history's
greatest contribution to human culture and the cure for at least
one type of cancer then I and every other reviewer on earth are
going to saw its bollocks off."  I went out, and in Paul's
Church-yard I bought the play of "Henry the Fourth", and so went
to the new Theatre [...] and saw it acted; but my expectation
being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it
would. Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 31, 1660  "Sometimes a
game gets a little ahead of itself. All of a sudden, what you've
got in the box in no way lives up to the reputation that
preceded it. It happens all the time: a title will coast to the
market on a wave of