Why Are Gamers So Easily Hyped Up?

[Mr.Playstation]

Twilord said:

Mr.Playstation said:

I'm saying that gamers just get hyped up for almost nothing.

Look at Yooka and Laylee: It looks like your everyday  latformer made in 1999 ( not necessarily bad ) the reason people are getting hyped is because of rare. Conclusion= Hype for nothing

Look at Splatoon. It's definitely hyped as the Nintendo's  story.on FPS shooters. So far it's even had fans dissapointed ( lacklustre trailers and so on ). Conclusion= Hyped because if Nintendo

Look at Uncharted 4. Hyped because of it's graphics and story, both of which may not be delivered. Conclusion= Hyped because of Naughty Dog and an E3 Trailer.

This thread is also there ( to a lesser extent ) to say that unless gamers stop this excess hype, then pre-orders will get more common and hype cash-in will get more common. So yes Hype at the end of the day is also bad.

My friend git a Wii U for Splatoon purely because of the E3 demo and it was beloved by the masses at Evo. They showed off the heart of the mechanics by having full multiplayer rounds, but with content.

 

Yooka-Laylee is the spiritual successor to one of the definitive 90s platformers, the fact it looks like a good one after 3 months of dev time and a low budget just goes to show its potential. Also people have wanted a new good Banjo-Kazooie for years and this game has the talent needed for one. Supply and demand.

 

One question, had a group of old Naughty Dog fellows gotten there first and offered 'Bash Merkat' would you really be surprised by it making alot? Then add to the mix Banjo Kazooie being a better game (nothing against Crash, the mechanics just reflect on it being born of an earlier time in 3D, doesn't mean a new one couldn't be awesome I am just saying Banjo holds up better by modern standards).

I wouldn't,  only since people allow nostalgia to take over their wallets. Except for the last crash bandiccot game, the rest were quite sub-par. If people actually go and play Banjo back instead of relying on their memories of how it was in their childhood, they'll notice that it's not as good as they remembered. The hype for Yooka and Laylie is because of nostalgia, no other reason, really. The characters so far aren't really that deep and a platformed with no characters is a horrible one IMO.

 

I too have experience the effect called nostalgia goggles. If I go back to when I went from playing to a PS1 to when I started playing on a PS2. I remember most games back then looking stunning, looking like their in HD and having no jaggies. This is far from the case of how actually PS2 games play.