Poll of the Day > When did you learn getting hyped for stuff is just foolish?

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idk, although I recently realized that I generally don't get too excited for anything anymore. The fact that a lot of announced content never comes to fruition is definitely one factor. However, I think the biggest letdown involving a game might've been 2008's Legendary: The Box, which made a lot of insane promises and the stills looked great, but nothing worked as advertised. That whole first level was scripted interactions between NPCs (where it was supposed to have actual NPC vs NPC shit) where you could walk through the NPCs at times.

I still get hyped for stuff, I just got more picky with what I get hyped for

ParanoidObsessive posted...

There are plenty of ways to find excitement or joy in life without constantly getting tricked into "hype" by manipulative marketing-fueled Schrodinger's Cat boxes. Especially when the cat pops out dead 99% of the time.

If anything, hype is part of why the industry is so shit now. Because they know they can always trick a significant percentage of the customer base into buying (and pre-ordering!) hyped-up games based on the wisp of a dream, so they don't need to try as hard to make a worthwhile game when all they really have to do is invest in enough marketing and propaganda.

Gamers need to be more critical. Wait until after games are released, rather than pre-ordering or rushing to get them on launch day. Give it time for reviews to come out (and multiple patches to fix all the stuff that's inevitably broken), so you can know what a game is really like, rather than the lies you've been fed via faked screenshots, carefully manipulated footage, or deceptive corpo-speak. Seek out the games that are actually good, not the ones that are pretending to be good. Don't let companies take advantage of you.

Don't embrace hype, seek contentment. Even if that means you wind up playing 5-10 year old games.

If enough people stopped buying into the hype train, publishers would actually have to start fixing some of the problems and business practices we've spent the last 20 years complaining about. But since all we do is complain, and then buy the games anyway, why would they ever change?

The sad part is it's not even just gaming at this point. There's a reason why it was the RedLetterMedia guys who summed up the whole corporate mindset with the phrase "Don't ask questions, just consume product! Then get excited for next product!"

I wasnt talking exclusively about video games, more about life events. Sometimes games though.

MrMelodramatic posted...

Mostly this.

except Star Wars. Broke my heart one too many times

Congrats on being one of the few fans to break free lol

Skyward Sword was the breaking point for me. I was INCREDIBLY hyped for the game pre-release, but it ended up being one of the biggest turds in the Zelda franchise.

You can tolerate being let down that much only once.

Never. I like getting excited for things.

doshindude posted...

Skyward Sword was the breaking point for me. I was INCREDIBLY hyped for the game pre-release, but it ended up being one of the biggest turds in the Zelda franchise.

You can tolerate being let down that much only once.

It's funny how Skyward Sword and Skyrim both came out and ruined their respective series on the SAME DAY.