>>531299226
>I can't stand the hype cycles surrounding some games and movies
Same. Treating every big current thing like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and rewarding mediocrity just because everything is slop now doesn't make me hopeful for the future. The standards for what is considered truly great have dropped across the board and if everything is great then nothing really is. Remake culture is part of the same problem honestly. I still can't get over the universally positive receptions to RE2R, RE4R and SH2R or the fact that objective garbage like RE3R continues to sell so well despite everyone complaining on social media that $60 games shouldn't be 5 hours long (which I don't have any issue with perrsonally as long as it's a quality experience which RE3R isn't) and SH2R and RE4R both overstay their welcome by hours and hours and RE2R is outright missing two campaigns