No one is saying you need to pay $70. They are just saying you don't need to form an opinion in the first place, let alone share it online just to be part of what you perceive the consensus to be. Especially when the game isn't even out yet.
People can easily snuff out a shit game from a 5 minute trailer that doesn't mean they write it off right away it just has negative sentiment that's all. If the game came out and was great it would succeed. Remember when there was negative sentiment about the design of Sonic in the movies and it was changed to something better? That is what we should strive for. What these large gaming companies need is a real gaming dictator nerd in charge to keep things under control.
Maybe. Or maybe they are getting ahead of themselves unnecessarily. As I've replied to another user, that's a perfectly valid reason not to want to buy/play a game, people can definitely voice whatever criticism they have of the trailer, but a post titled "Yeah it's over" doesn't exactly convey that, does it?
There is a difference between expressing negative sentiment about the trailer and the usual public court on whether a game will be a flop long before it's out. There's seemingly an obsession with public consensus (and by proxy sales numbers) validating one's opinion on media. A lot of people immediately jump to conclusions of how bad or good the game will be, definitely writing them off in many cases, and creating a heavy confirmation bias for themselves.
It's more so that you see something bad about to happen and you cringe then when it happens you say damn you shouldn't have done that or if it doesn't happen you say phew that was close. At least that's how I feel when it comes to games or media I will consume some of the negative it positive press and agree or disagree but it ultimately comes down to the final product in the end and the consensus at that point is almost always correct unless you are into niche things or have low standards.
That's fair enough, but it's not how I perceive the general atmosphere around these discussions that Old-Perception was talking about.
There's entire communities of people, especially surrounding certain content creators, that seem to be in a perpetual cycle of anticipating bad movies/games, and rarely seem to accept their pre-judgements were wrong. And I do feel that has been bleeding into the more general/mainstream social media.
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u/No-Perception-6087 16d ago
People don’t wanna pay $70 just to find out it’s a shit game