Didn't play it, but bandwagon effect can be very strong. I feel like the initial impressions were tainted by recent info of Naughty Dog being exploitative and game writer Neil Druckmann was publicly making an ass of himself (which i dont know the details of, but the little i know sounds pretty bad lol), so people maybe player the game sorta already not wanting to like it and heavily influenced the discourse surrounding the game from there and well, I dont exactly blame people for this since i know how it is when the creators of something are shitty and it leaves a bad taste in you.
Again i can't personally say anything about the game, but however good or bad the game might actually be, i think the discourse around it is not very "pure" in the sense that people are engaging with it just for the sake of sharing an unbiased opinion.
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Didn't play it, but bandwagon effect can be very strong. I feel like the initial impressions were tainted by recent info of Naughty Dog being exploitative and game writer Neil Druckmann was publicly making an ass of himself (which i dont know the details of, but the little i know sounds pretty bad lol), so people maybe player the game sorta already not wanting to like it and heavily influenced the discourse surrounding the game from there and well, I dont exactly blame people for this since i know how it is when the creators of something are shitty and it leaves a bad taste in you.
Again i can't personally say anything about the game, but however good or bad the game might actually be, i think the discourse around it is not very "pure" in the sense that people are engaging with it just for the sake of sharing an unbiased opinion.