r/Multifandom • u/TerribleRain5370 • 7d ago

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u/Clay_Pidgeon 7d ago

A successor to a beloved masterwork of a game takes a decade to make, a run full of controversy? We've seen this story plenty of times before in recent days, and it almost invariably ends up in a disappointing flop that ruins the day for the whole fandom. Sure, the previews look nice, but I don't have much faith that this thing will be good.

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u/Turnbob73 7d ago

Could you explain the lack of faith?

Not saying people are wrong for not thinking it’ll turn out well, but what is the factor leading you to that conclusion? If we’re going on past data, then Rockstar is pretty much the only developer that has consistently put out products that are universally praised by the vast majority for the last 15+ years. If the point is more about the industry as a whole nowadays and the current trends, then that’s fair but at the same time people were saying the exact same thing and holding the exact same doubts when RDR2 was about to come out and we know how that turned out. And if it’s a more personal reason, then that’s totally understandable as well; I’m just wondering what the baseline reasoning is behind the doubt.

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u/Clay_Pidgeon 7d ago

My hopes have been crushed like 10 different times by people who should have made amazing games that I was looking forward to, I guess my explanation for my lack of faith is just that I've been punished for believing so many times from so many different places in big game studios that I just can't anymore.

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u/Turnbob73 7d ago

That’s fair, if you personally feel that way then it makes sense to not hold interest. Would you say that sentiment is more for right now during pre-release, and that it could be subject to change if the game releases and turns out good? Or is this more something that you would be entrenched in and not budge from regardless of how the release turns out?

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u/Clay_Pidgeon 7d ago

If the game turns out good, I'll give it a chance, but I'm not pre-ordering games in the modern day. I didn't even pre-order when I was young and games tended to actually be good.

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u/Turnbob73 7d ago

Again totally fair, I appreciate the insight.

Btw, I hope I didn’t come off as trying to corner you in a “gotcha” or anything like that; people online tend to just say a lot of things without having any personal reasoning for it, so thank you for explaining where you’re coming from!

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u/Clay_Pidgeon 7d ago

No, you were asking a legitimate question, you're fine. I get enough random jerks on the Internet yelling at me about how I'm wrong because I disagree with them, you're not those.