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[TheHall]

I think this topic went a lot better than intended.

We could have had the same discussion under the flag "Why Hype Needs to DIE" but i prefer this approach myself.

 

[Dr. Black Jack]

I love hyping myself up and making an event out of a game's launch. When I was growing up my small town didn't have any kind of video game retail; if I was lucky we'd drive an hour away to the nearest Target and get a value game years after release. When I started working/driving I'd drive myself the same hour to GameStop/Target to preorder and pick up games. It was literally an event that I had to plan for.

When I finally moved to a metropolitan area with plenty of game stores it was AWESOME. It's been almost ten years and I still fucking love going to a store and browsing around/preordering. It's like a forbidden fruit that I now have almost unlimited access to.

The other part of my love of hype is that there wasn't any growing up. A game would get a few mentions in a magazine and maybe a commercial...that was it. When "games journalism" started taking off in the mid 2000s it was great. It's even better today with all of the press events, Nintendo Directs and game announcements ready to be viewed at the touch of a button. Of course there's a bunch of corporate doublespeak and sleaze with some games but for the most part I eat up every announcement and hype myself up.

tl;dr I'm a small town bumpkin that's in awe of all this futuristic info-spewin'.

 

[ShinMaruku]

I think this topic went a lot better than intended.

We could have had the same discussion under the flag "Why Hype Needs to DIE" but i prefer this approach myself.

In this case the ends justified the means. That said I wonder when the underlieing issues that cause most of the negativity will be adressed. How do people want them addressed. It can't be under the blanket "The market will address it" People were never rational actors, that idea was madness those years ago and it is still madness now.

 

[hotnheavyload]

Hype is fine if it's founded in honesty.

Consumer hype, particularly on forums, tends to promote the echochamber to the point where it can be too much.

 

[ShinMaruku]

Hype is fine if it's founded in honesty.

Consumer hype, particularly on forums, tends to promote the echochamber to the point where it can be too much.

And that is why it should not be allowed to take root if helped.

 

[Vlade]

Man, you have no idea how much i was hyped for that game. It was like a dream come true. Haven't touched the game in a month and it totally soured me on the whole franchise .

you will love again, and you will find that the love itself has value, but you may also find your love rewarded.

 

[MrBadger]

TURN THAT FROWN UPSIDE DOWN, GLOOMY GUS!

EVERYTHING IS GREAT AND WONDERFUL AND PERFECT AND EVERYONE WHO DOESN'T AGREE WITH MY CORPORATE BOOTLICKING IS JUST A SPOILSPORT!







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Got to stay happy

 

[Ramenman]

I think hype is great.

This is why I enjoy e3 time as much as I do, there's some giddy excitement up in the air, that might not even materialize into actually good games, but I don't really give a fuck. As OP said, it's like Christmas time, opening the presents will last 2 minutes tops but it's the whole build up.

I want to watch those conferences, I want to be surprised by games I didn't know existed (which is also why pre-e3 leaks annoy me greatly), I want to see crazy reveals that make my heart beat. I want to see a diverse portfolio of stuff I might not care about in the end.

When ubisoft revealed Watch Dogs at E3 on stage, I was so crazy, like OMG WHAT THEY ACTUALLY HAD A SURPRISE OMG WHAT IS IT, plus the fact that they don't really tell you what the game is and you basically discover it as you watch, it's so well put together, just plain scripted of course, but such a joy to discover. Then I went on to not really being that interested. I did enjoy the game when I got around to playing it, but it had nothing to do with the initial surprise and hype generated by the reveal. And I don't even consider that a bad thing.

Also, I was almost shaking in excitement when FFXIII was revealed to be coming for 360 at that other E3. I never cared for FF, and didn't care more for it after this, but I just never thought this could happen, and I loved being so surprised along with the rest of the videogames enthusiasts watching around the world.

 

[Snuggles]

Hype is what I live for. If you don't fap to gifs are u really even living???

 

[Corgi]

Quite curious what things people get hyped for these days. Worked with people in marketing and sales so I can easily see the trappings, but you'd think your average gaffer would have noticed the huge letdowns of quite a few games of this gen and how quite often many of the PR hype bulletpoints end up false or underwhelming in the final product and end up being a bit hesitant for most game marketing these days.


now that I think about it, I'm pretty much only hyped for games AFTER release if the impressions and reviews are great.

 

[Dr. Black Jack]

Quite curious what things people get hyped for these days. Worked with people in marketing and sales so I can easily see the trappings, but you'd think your average gaffer would have noticed the huge letdowns of quite a few games of this gen and how quite often many of the PR hype bulletpoints end up false or underwhelming in the final product and end up being a bit hesitant for most game marketing these days.


now that I think about it, I'm pretty much only hyped for games AFTER release if the impressions and reviews are great.

In no paricular order:

Nintendo Directs, which have yet to let me down

E3 for the bombshells

Bloodborne, Battlefront, UC4 and Halo 5 based on my experience with their respective franchises and what I've seen so far

Splatoon, because it looks amazing

The FFXV demo, because it looks ike the first decent one since XII

 

[Storm Kyleis]

Let the hype flow.

Big gaming events and game releases wouldn't be the same without pages and pages of hype and speculation.