Damn, I wish people would not over-hype these things. OK mock reviews are good / great and the top brass is all excited about it. But do we have any information on how those things have correlated in the past with actual real world reviews and sales?
Seems like internal hype can be filled with biases. I prefer the approach Naughty Dog took with TLOU coming up to release. They were full of fear that the game wouldn't play well with the audience being such a departure from the popcorn adventure of Uncharted and having a 14 year old girl being the focus of the story.
I really hope Horizon will be good and I think it will be. But if it comes out with a meta average in the low 80's, despite that still being great people will jump on it as a failure because the hype was saying it's the best game evah!
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
