A useful critique (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 10:18 (2 days ago) @ squidnh3
edited by Cody Miller, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 10:22

They were already begging us to stay to the end right of the bat!

What an interesting observation, and I do think it is somewhat revealing.

However, I don't think we should totally overanalyze this as so many people are doing. It was just a bad reveal. The game could be amazing. Or it could not. We just don't know.

When the trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) dropped, even after altering Sonic's design it looked really bad. Cut to me and my friends in a theater full of grown ass adults laughing our asses off and having a great time.

It's as if people want this to fail. How about we let the game fail or succeed on its own merits, rather than on a failed presentation?

If anything, this is a lesson to developers on the waste that is spending all this money building a studio, filming these events, and producing these livestreams. Just make a killer trailer / 'gameplay' demo and let the game speak for itself.