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When was the last time you actually followed the hype cycle for a game or pre-ordered a game?

the most hyped I allow myself to get for a game these days is putting it on my steam wishlist so I know when it comes out, but then I don't bother buying it until later anyway
last time I preordered a game was trauma team for the wii in may 2010, back when amazon would give you discounts for preordering

I WISH I DIDNT BUY HALO 4

I'm a Total War: Warhammer paypig and I usually play the free Lord every expansion before I decide whether to buy.
The wait for my free stuff is as enjoyable as playing

Hype cycles are literally for kids. Fun memories getting hyped for halo 3 and brawl but times have changed and so have I. The idea of getting worked up in anticipation of playing a game is ridiculous to me. Games aren't good enough, generally. But even something as promising a slam dunk as elden ring and Kirby air riders, while I'll definitely play, I can't get excited about their release. I'm not a kid waiting for recess.

I pre-ordered once upon a katamari

>>724800667 (OP)
>early 2000s beachcore games
ok but why is master chief there

>Pre-ordered Nuts & Bolts and even used the Rare forum
>Game comes out and i play it less than the Kazooie HD port

>>724800667 (OP)
Eldan Rangz, before that MGS V.
I don't think I've ever pre-ordered a game though.

>>724802156
There were beach parts of levels

>>724800667 (OP)
It was probably Brawl, or Smash 4 but to a much lesser extent. Waiting for [Japan Time] on the dojo website was a ton of fun, almost moreso than the game itself.

>>724800667 (OP)
Witcher 3

>>724800667 (OP)
Sonic Crossworlds and now Air Riders

>>724805413
I bought witcher 2 and hated it so much i ignored 3. I guess theyre still both better than 1 right?

>>724800667 (OP)
I've never preordered a game in my life, why the hell would you?
I was pushed by my peers to play a certain MMO game which was in fact really fun, that was about 20 years ago.

>>724800667 (OP)
Who's the blue haired boy

>>724805802
What did you hate about 2?

>>724805913
sonic

>>724805952
Sonic isn't a boy he has no dick

Bloodborne and I was already very cautious about it because Dark Souls 2 preorder burned me fucking hard.
I almost preordered STALKER 2 on 5 separate occassions when I had the money to and I'm glad I didn't. I still bought it recently and enjoyed it a lot after all the fixes they did but I wouldn't have had that experience or enjoyment if I had preordered it and I would've been souring my own enjoyment the entire time.

>>724805854
>I've never preordered a game in my life, why the hell would you?
If I know I'll enjoy a game and will play it day 1 anyway I don't see why not

>>724806187
>pay extra money to buy a game that you can just buy on release for less money

Spore, perhaps? I don't even pay attention to what's releasing these days, let alone preordering.

>>724800667 (OP)
Last time I pre-ordered was DXHR, 'salright
slightly related: I specifically did NOT follow the dev cycle for Pizza Tower and had to uncover an entire documentary's worth of shit McPig went through between SAGE and release, that was a fun bonus

Last one for me was Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. I preordered the game from Best Buy and then the game came out, but I didn't get my copy until a week later, with the game sitting on every shelf, including the Best Buy nearby. Preordered just to receive a late copy for a game that wasn't that good.

>>724806258
It's the same price to preorder as it is to buy on release

>>724800667 (OP)
Last time I preordered a game was just cause 4, it wasn't a bad game, it just got boring quick

>>724800667 (OP)
I bought dispatch to discuss it with anons in dispatch threads and hype returns weekly with episode releases

>>724800667 (OP)
I've been following the hype for EU5. It has paid off really well, the game looks so good. It comes out on Tuesday.

>>724800667 (OP)
pikmin 4, i waited 10 years for a reboot disguised as a sequel and i was blinded by nostalgia and starvation, though normally i dont really feed into hype all that much, usually i can tell from the get go whether i'd really like something or not, and since i dont normally wanna buy {something i wont consistently come back to for fun once the novelty wears off} i rarely make regretful decisions, i just didnt think pikmin, the series defined by its replayability, would be an open world trend chaser thats so panned out and hollow itd be obnoxious to try to actually go for a "high score"
miyamoto really does seem to care more about whether a game will be "popular" than something passionate, and pikmin 4 really awakened me to that. he even outwardly said he would assert himself more in the dev cycle of pikmin 4 than the others and the result was such a far cry from what i loved from the series

i am thinking to buy the early access to eternity egg, it looks really fun from all the gameplay ive seen, trying to figure out what was happening on screen made me super immersed into the controlset of the game before i even played a single frame of it, so im really looking forward to it

>>724806453
i did follow the dev cycle! its hard to put into words how interesting it is because its usually seemingly mundane things that only really matter once you immerse yourself in it like the HUD changing from a disembodied head to a TV or gameplay switching from collectathon-ish to a "solo racing game" kinda deal

>>724800667 (OP)
My last ever pre-order was for Arkham Knight on PC.
I really enjoyed the previous Batman games and this looked like more of the same so I figured it was a pretty safe bet. But the PC port ended up being so broken and bad that they unpublished the entire game within a week so I got a refund.
Haven't put in a single pre-order since.

>>724805854
Back then you used to actually get a bonus or discount for pre-ordering physical games, sometimes digital too which still happens but almost never worth it.

When best buy used to have the gamers club program you were saving a lot of money and we cant have that these days.

>>724800667 (OP)
i dont think ive ever pre ordered anything in my life

>>724800667 (OP)
diablo 3
i have since learned my lesson

>followed hype
Silksong, but I didn't watch the trailer
>preorder
Brink...

Last game I was hyped enough to follow the development of it was black desert online

>>724810608
>The only thing Brink is remembered for is an edgy sniper hat in TF2

last game i pre-ordered was red dead 2
or ctr: nitro-fueled, whichever came last

>>724800667 (OP)
Fire Emblem Awakening.

>>724800667 (OP)
KCD2
I canceled it thankfully

>>724800667 (OP)
2021

>>724800667 (OP)
Silksong. It was worth it.

>>724800667 (OP)
shootmania or something, last game i was excited for,

>>724812443
>Steelbook(R)
>(R)
Wait what the fuck? Was that a brand the entire time?

>>724800667 (OP)
diablo 3

Arkham Knight was the last AAA game I pre-ordered and it was the last AAA game that was good, the general quality of games fell off a cliff after that, not that it wasn't already going downhill.

The new Zeno Clash game
I was not disappointed

>>724800667 (OP)
No man's sky

>>724800667 (OP)
I am tentative about Kenshi 2 but that's about it.

>>724817401
>UE5
It was over before it started

Dragon's Dogma 2... I had a good enough time on my first and second playthrough but holy shit that game is lacking in general content.

>>724800667 (OP)
dragon's dogma 2

>>724817438
Very rarely, UE5 can be utilised well.
Very, very fucking rarely.
But if the tranny is holding Chris by the reigns then it won't matter if the engine is utilised well because the Holy Nation can't be mega-based nor can we have proper slavery and racism that was cut from the first game.

>>724800667 (OP)
I am in a hype cycle right now

>>724800667 (OP)
To tell the truth, it was Kingdom hearts 2. It was the first game I ever pre-ordered and bought with my own money

>>724800667 (OP)
KH3
Felt very eh when it first released but warmed up to it when the pc version and the mods that followed it came out

The old republic...

>>724800667 (OP)
>hype cycle
battlefield 6 but once i played the beta i stopped caring
>pre-ordered
fallout 4. good times

>>724800667 (OP)
Spore
>But I liked Spore
You're too young to remember the years of hype and broken promises if you think this. I don't mean that as an insult, it was just meant to be so much more. I have never bought into the hype for a game since.

>>724821819
NTA but I was pretty young when spore came out, and I wasn't on the internet until much later, I got the game at walmart with zero knowledge of the controversy and I thought it was kind of cool but really mechanically shallow, it felt like a chinese bootleg of 5 different games put together even to a 10 year old kid.

>>724819887
I got the collectors edition for KH3 and it took me a good 3 weeks just to finish it because i was so let down.

>>724800667 (OP)
Dragon's Dogma 2
don't think I'll ever do it again

>>724821819
When EA acquired them they basically forced Maxis to shit it out even though all of the ideas they'd had planned were only partially-coded, which caused them to throw out huge parts of the stuff they'd been promising in interviews an demonstrations. The original vision of the game was meant to have 10x the content and that's a conservative number, it was a completely groundbreaking vision for the time. What we got is still alright but yeah, it totally killed all future hype for me vidya-wise.

>>724800667 (OP)
Brutal Disappointment

>>724822805
It was so close to being good. All they had to do was let them finish it and draw and quarter the person who thought it was a good idea to put in the RTS segments.

>>724800667 (OP)
Dragon's Dogma 2.

>>724800667 (OP)
Aethermancer

>>724802156
>game released in 2001
>most famous level is set on an island, surrounded by a beach

ff7 remake

>>724800667 (OP)
Fallout 4 burnt my fingers so bad never preordered ever again

I was trying to think back to a game I legitimately was hyped for releasing. There's been games I've taken a day or two off work to play, games I look forward to, but it's been at least a decade or more since I remember following press releases and such on a game in anticipation of it dropping.

I remember FFXI was probably the first time I was actually involved in hype, I'd buy magazines to read the previews on it, I'd pour through the internet to find information on it, and me and my friends in school would plan what classes we'd play and what we'd do. I'm not sure if I waited in anticipation of a game like that again, although there have been numerous that I'm interested in playing on release.

Brink

This year, Death Stranding 2 and Ghost of Yotei.

I mean it was an easy choice, I liked Death Stranding 1 which I played right before the second game came out.
I liked Ghost of Tsushima, so it was a no brainer to get Yotei.

Liked both of these games too, it was nice having some actual exclusives to play on my PS5 this year.
Beautiful game too. One of the best looking games I've played in years since the Horizon games.

>>724800667 (OP)
Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
Only have to get burnt once to learn

>>724800667 (OP)
Master Chief, mind telling me why you're on that beach?

>>724800667 (OP)
one step from eden and the sequel duelists of eden
turned out pretty well despite me hating pretty much everything that's come out in the past decade. really fun games, spent hundreds of hours in each, just REALLY wish I had bought the plushies they made because I dont think it's popular enough to get resellers. overall it was time and money well spent!
before that? I pre ordered borderlands 3 like a big fucking retard, i didnt really look into what the creators behind the series were. just played two and the presequel and naively assumed it was gonna be fun. biggest piece of shit I've ever played.
I cant really recall following hype cycles for recent games because they tend to disappoint me quickly and I forget about them or it's something I've seen on the thumbnail of a video I dont watch or a thread I dont click on. I think I was following elden ring for all of five minutes until I saw the gameplay and realized it wasn't improving on ds3's in ny meaningful way.
in the past I pre ordered several games, all of them I genuinely liked so BL3 was my first and biggest burn. I was thinking of pre ordering the sonic racing game after playing the demo but decided not to. glad I did, racing games aren't my thing and I'm sure I would've gotten bored of it quickly.
I'm definitely looking into code vein two though, only thing that's about to come out that doesn't look terrible.
>>724817401
I'm sorry to hear that anon, I've seen what the devs are doing from what they post and none of it inspires hope
>>724821819
this and fable desu desu~
>>724823290
didnt follow fallout 4's hype cycle whatsoever, just knew I liked f3 and nv so I picked it up when the first discounts happened. returned it within two days, fucking weird since I rarely do that with games that aren't pure shit. It was okay but so boring that I felt compelled to get rid of it.

Shadow Generations.

>>724800667 (OP)
Dragon's Dogma 2. Big mistake.
At least EDF 6 delivered, though.

I've given up on videogames that aren't made by Nintendo
Everything else is just not for me, I just don't care about indy shit or UE5 slop or twitch/discord trends

>>724800667 (OP)
Dragons Dogma 2

other games, spammed forums and owned the libs for woke games, awaiting the Steam chart performance to gloat over their flops. Assassins Creed Shadows, Avowed, Outer Worlds 2 etc.

>>724800667 (OP)
I can't believe this is the first year in a while since I've been genuinely excited for multiple games. But to answer: Kirby Air Riders, to the point that everything else got sidelined and I might even wait for Christmas to get Metroid.
>>724827098
DD2 and Monkey Ball Banana Mania have both permanently cemented Capcom and Sega into my "Never fucking buy day one ever again" list respectively. Not even Sonic is enough for it anymore.

>>724810723
>get edgy hat years ago, either in store or in a trade because I thought it looked so cool
>didn't see the gold paint so I buy the brightest yellow I can find to make it look gold so It looks cool
>years later realize a bright yellow hoodie is probably why I'm such an easy headshot
I still wear it because it's still cool.

>>724826723
This shit is so funny because it would be easier not to take the time to make any of this and put it in the game.

>Wind Waker
for what it did to the Zelda franchise, and how Aonuma was given the entire fucking series afterwards, I can now say that in 2025 it was a fucking mistake of a game.
I may never get what I liked about Zelda back again-- A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask-- what a lost fucking identity.

>>724830815
P.S.
I don't give a fuck if it was your first Zelda game and "got you into the series".

>>724830815
>wind waker
What exactly is wrong with wind waker beyond the cel shaded aesthetic? The biggest game flaw I hear about it is the triforce hunt part being tedious.

>>724800667 (OP)
The games I look forward to don't do preorders, so its mostly just me wishlisting it and patiently waiting.

>>724830815
Wind Waker was good, and it wasn't even the last good Zelda game.
You can't blame it for people fucking up the formula later.

>>724800667 (OP)
kingdom come deliverance 2

>>724830961
>>724831270
I'll post only a little bit of what I'm mad about because the point of what I'm getting at can just be seen in the differences between designs before Aonuma and after his ascension, when we're balls fucking deep into it in 2025
Before Wind Waker, that lizalfos in my previous post was what Zelda looked like.
I don't like agreeing with Miyamoto, but learning that even he at the last fucking minute was like
>ne chotto yahari can't we just make it a realistic Zeruda game style?
makes me simmer and fucking boil
Wind Waker, Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, what fucking disasters for this series's enemies and atmosphere.

>>724831778
I agree with you, but Wind Waker had a good style in a vacuum, just because they went cartoony and more appealing to their main audience (very small children), doesn't mean it's because of wind-waker.
Did you play TP? It came out afterwards and had a completely different artstyle. Not nearly as dark or dreadful as OOT or MM, but different.
I have no issue with Zelda games having different tones or styles, though I agree that the modern ones are stock-standard safe, sterilized slop.

>>724831778
Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask were made for gamers
BOTW and TOTK were made to be maximally marketable to the widest possible audience.
Adding blood or edgy characters or scary looking areas might effect sales, that's the bottom line.

>>724832019
>Wind Waker had a good style in a vacuum, just because they went cartoony and more appealing to their main audience (very small children), doesn't mean it's because of wind-waker.
That's the entire fucking problem.
Yeah, man. I played TP. I also know why they made TP-- They made it because they were fucking scared they lost their North American audiences, and they were fucking right to be. Miyamoto brought out TP to thunderous applause, and when the fucking dev team was getting ready to capitalize and made TP 2, Miyamoto said the famous fucking words
>Why
>Are you making twairaighto princessu 2
>when we areeady have twairaighto princessu?
>Now turn that shit into Link's Crossbow Training
and then we get Skyward Sword, and then we get Breath of the Wild, and then we get Breath of the Wild 2, and when the fuck am I going to get my """Second""" twilight princess when I want Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask--
like do you see the fucking issue here? I'm supposed to be a fan.

>>724832192
You don't want them to make another OOT or MM, I promise you.
There's no universe where it could be good, they genuinely don't have the ability, technology, or talent to innovate in the way they did at that time. The only possible scenario that could come from them attempting to make a 'real' Zelda is a lot of pissed off 30 year olds and a lot of confused, bored children.

>>724832192
if i'm following this correctly, you've been saying that
>Miyamoto didn't like WW art style and made TP to appease the NA audience
>He denied making TP2 because they already made TP
>but he also decided to go back to making games like WW despite not liking and this would cause him to contradict his problem with making a game he already made
I don't understand the logic here. How is it WW fault if miyamoto didn't want to make the same thing and then went on to make something. wouldn't that mean it wasn't inspired by WW?
>Links crossbow training
The only thing I've heard about that was from the DYKG video where they mentioned that Miyamoto wanted to create a side game, and everyone suggested ideas that basically sounded like TP2, something he didn't ahve in mind. Basically he wanted to create a spinoff and not a mainline game. If that's true then there never was a TP2 as it was never on the table, and conversation is just misinterpreted.

>>724832192
The other guy is right. In a vacuum, WW had more in common with OoT and MM than it did with BotW. WW was an anime-influenced cartoon aimed towards the 8-12 demographic, like its predecessors, while BotW was made for normies. I don't even think BotW is that bad but its tonally very different from Zelda games of the 80s-2000s. Skyward Sword was the game that started the shift in that direction IMO.

>>724800667 (OP)
I bought into the hype for Halo Infinite, sadly. The beta seemed promising and it really looked like they were going in a good direction with things, even with the shortcomings in what should be day one features. I didn't pre-order it, but I did pick it up on the first week when people were saying it was good. Though it became clear very quickly that the game was going to suck ass. Once I beat the campaign I haven't touched it since and have negative interest in CE remake based on their recent gameplay videos. Before that though, I can't remember the last game I pre-ordered or got hype for... maybe Mass Effect 3? Which also burned me. Now I just have a collection of indie games on my steam wishlist that I keep tabs on and wait for a sale.

>>724832637
>Miyamoto didn't like WW art style and made TP to appease the NA audience
yes
>He denied making TP2 because they already made TP
yes, fuck Aonuma
>but he also decided to go back to making games like WW despite not liking and this would cause him to contradict his problem with making a game he already made
>I don't understand the logic here. How is it WW fault if miyamoto didn't want to make the same thing and then went on to make something. wouldn't that mean it wasn't inspired by WW?
The dominos fell. Aonuma makes WW, even fucking says something like
>I took a rot of riberties (lol), I wouldn't be surprised if dis is my rast Zeruda game
and then next thing I know it's been twenty fucking more years of the guy.
> The only thing I've heard about that was from the DYKG video where they mentioned that Miyamoto wanted to create a side game, and everyone suggested ideas that basically sounded like TP2, something he didn't ahve in mind. Basically he wanted to create a spinoff and not a mainline game. If that's true then there never was a TP2 as it was never on the table, and conversation is just misinterpreted.
Miyamoto: "I killed their ideas"
>>724832660
wind waker is the cough before the coof, Aonuma should have never been allowed above the dungeon designer seat

>>724800667 (OP)
Guildwars 2. Never again.

>>724800667 (OP)
Recently Silksong
Currently Underrail 2

>>724826723
That picture basically killed pokemon for me. I coped along with X and Y with "it's the move to 3d let them get used to it" then this abortion happened and the excuse was "people play phonegames". THEN WHY THE FUCK EVEN MAKE A GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE???