A game that turned around for me... Oblivion. at first it felt clunky and needlessly complicated. and i say this after i played morrowind and liked it. however somewhere in the middle of sidequests i just went "you know, this is really good design and im having fun". Good thing i dont give up on games like most people[footnote]Statistically less than 20% of people finnish games[/footnote]
This. I never watch trailers or look for hype. i want reviews to be technical. i want to know what kind of gameplay, units, mechanics are there, not what somone raged about. i judge whether to play the game based on whether the mehanics/ect sound good to me and not some hype. the only game i was actually "Waiting for" for like last 2 years was Watch Dogs, and it wasnt the whole hype train and more like "yeah water physics sounds like it could be a very cool mechanic and i hope they do well with hacking". Though admittedly i do want THE FOREST to do well, because i love the concept of it and its simplified crafting gameplay (blueprints that stays on the screen as long as you want it is great okay). not hyped for it or anything, but Jims video on it feels to show similar to what i kind of expected of it, and its still in alpha so thats that.The_Scrivener said:Backlash culture is a plague. I find it loathesome that hype or even isolated individual expectation has an effect on someone's ability to evaluate something. I get that people are human and some bias is involved sometimes, but I don't see why the fanatical nature of HXC GAMER extreme opinion has to always color our ability to see a game as it is.