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From all the articles I can make the explanation far more brief: Geoff played the game early and was impressed and then encouraged the devs to make a trailer. Apparently it was a rush job to make the deadline for the show and they didn’t show the gameplay loop which is always a bad idea. This flopped of course but was magnified because gamers ™ had been working themselves into an irrational frothing mass over Half Life 3 hopium self generated hype. Geoff fanned those flames on Shitter so that’s partly his fault.
I think if the game is actually good it’ll bounce back easily on its own merits. But if it doesn’t I bet there be a lot of denial and finger pointing to avoid facing the fact they made a mid game.
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I don’t know why they hyped this up so much at the game awards
From all the articles I can make the explanation far more brief: Geoff played the game early and was impressed and then encouraged the devs to make a trailer. Apparently it was a rush job to make the deadline for the show and they didn’t show the gameplay loop which is always a bad idea. This flopped of course but was magnified because gamers ™ had been working themselves into an irrational frothing mass over Half Life 3 hopium self generated hype. Geoff fanned those flames on Shitter so that’s partly his fault.
I think if the game is actually good it’ll bounce back easily on its own merits. But if it doesn’t I bet there be a lot of denial and finger pointing to avoid facing the fact they made a mid game.