I think when the marketing used phrases like;
"..welcome to the next generation of open world adventure .." - 19 November 2020 trailer (near the end)
That sort of stuff gets people hyped. Obviously it was a bit more than just one line of text, but that's an example. So much was said and shown, yet a lot did not make it into the game, and not all of it was mentioned pre-release.
An example I saw in the Crowbcat video was this quote;
" .. your never going to be in a situation where you're like "I need to get in there, I need to get in there!". Then you go and you're like "arg! I cant get in there!" because the city is so big it's overwhelmingly huge" - Patrick K Mills
Now I'm not sure if Crowbcat took that a little out of context, but if Mr Mills was referring to the general open world experience, then its fair to so that we cant get into a lot of places.
And referring back to the first quote, I'm not too sure how this game is a next generation of open world adventure? I'm not really sure what it supposedly does better than any other game. Maybe the music, as that's on point, but .. ?
I don't think we as the consumers overhyped it per se, but more like, we aligned our expectations with what was shown, talked about, and hinted at. For me personally, I was rather disappointed.
"..welcome to the next generation of open world adventure .." - 19 November 2020 trailer (near the end)
That sort of stuff gets people hyped. Obviously it was a bit more than just one line of text, but that's an example. So much was said and shown, yet a lot did not make it into the game, and not all of it was mentioned pre-release.
An example I saw in the Crowbcat video was this quote;
" .. your never going to be in a situation where you're like "I need to get in there, I need to get in there!". Then you go and you're like "arg! I cant get in there!" because the city is so big it's overwhelmingly huge" - Patrick K Mills
Now I'm not sure if Crowbcat took that a little out of context, but if Mr Mills was referring to the general open world experience, then its fair to so that we cant get into a lot of places.
And referring back to the first quote, I'm not too sure how this game is a next generation of open world adventure? I'm not really sure what it supposedly does better than any other game. Maybe the music, as that's on point, but .. ?
I don't think we as the consumers overhyped it per se, but more like, we aligned our expectations with what was shown, talked about, and hinted at. For me personally, I was rather disappointed.