I'll never understand people who dont care about getting spoiled. My brain is just not wired that way. I despise spoilers and I'm avoiding the other thread like the plague.
I'm one of those in the studies where they talk about how spoilers enhance the experience. True, I do love the genuine surprises, and hearing things prior without specifics can actually make it worse. For John Carpenter's The Thing, I finally watched it the first time the other night. Never seen anything outside of one shot of The Thing
and Kurt Russel using
No biggies. But all the praise around it made it something more than what I was watching, which was still a fantastic movie in its own right. Maybe actually knowing more about the film's specifics prior would have tempered those expectations.
On the flip-side, heard great things of Big Hero 6, accidentally spied a shot of the climatic scene while in the MCX (electronic stores, stop showing off recent films) of
that wasn't enough to entirely throw the scene, and had otherwise only seen the trailers. I came away genuinely surprised by the film and better than or aligned with what was being said.
The way I am...experiencing things myself either having it in front of me as intended or going through it through actions is very different than hearing about it or seeing it in a lesser capacity. It's like me watching someone fire an M4 or M249 in comparison to I being the one firing those weapons. You get some of the experience (the noise, seeing the effect) in the former, but not the whole thing or even those bits at their fullest when you're the one handling those weapons.
But yeah, it's very different for many people.
Are you guys playing this on a headset? I am thinking of picking up the Playstation Gold headset in addition when I grab the game. But I am unsure if it would be worth it.
I'm probably going to, given that the tv's speakers won't be able to handle it. Hell, it couldn't handle properly playing all the sounds from Fast 5 on cable.