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Originally Posted by Blaster86
For every article that was "hesitant" there were two calling this game the best game to ever be made off a trailer in 2014. And I disagree with IGN being hesitant. They lavished the game with praise and articles, as well as dedicating tons of videos to it. But it's not just these articles that create the hype. It's the developer themselves by suffering from Molyneuxitis, over promising and under delivering to the point the game is not the game we were promised or shown. And it is starting to happen more and more frequently.
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My personal strategy is to find a few people that I trust and weight them more heavily. Of the people I prefer to listen to, I don't think any of them were saying this was going to be a world beater. Excited to try, yes, but cautious.
Of course IGN would post article after article on it. People were rabid for it and that's how they generate revenue. They posted tons of info on GTAV too, but when it came time to discuss it on Beyond the general feeling was "same old GTA, I stopped playing after a couple hours".
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Originally Posted by Blaster86
I mean... it's literally the exact same thing that happened with No Man's Sky and you're just buying into it again. Lots of talk by the devs, lots of articles calling it the next great game and a pile of hype from E3 and the distributor. Sure it could be good... but it could be crap.
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I'd argue it's quite different. Horizon looks to be cut from an Uncharted/Far Cry 4 mould by a proven developer, and those outside the company who've played it really like it. Meanwhile the developers of Joe Danger decided to take on one of the most ambitious tasks in gaming, and many who played it were left confused. I don't mean to crap on Hello Games because despite people calling it boring I'm VERY impressed with what they've done, but c'mon... they were beyond unproven.
I just feel like you could have forecasted this from miles away.