[TLDR: i hate hype culture and have trained myself to not get hyped about anything, even when I really want to be hyped. But I feel happy for others when hype is born out of natural excitement and passion rather than a manufactured result of lying scumbags and propaganda.]<br><br>I don’t get why there’s so much hype over it, but I actively attempt to never get hyped even over my all time favorite series [Doom, Persona, Arkane Studios games, to name a few] because the more a game is hyped the more i doubt its quality. <br><br>That being said, in recent times there have been 3 notable exceptions where despite still not being hyped myself, i was able to see the hype as not being harmful. These exceptions are Cyberpunk, Red Dead Redemption 2, and God of War 4. First off any fanbase is filled with Toxicity, no exception. We just saw that with Kazushitski, God of War 4 has people who think it has the ultimate story in all of fiction or that its combat is completely flawless, and I swear Red Dead Redemption 2 has spawned ACTUAL cults.<br><br>...but that’s no different than any other fandom of such massively hyped games. RDR2 doesnt have this to the extent Cyberpunk and God of War 4 do, but when people were hyped about these games, it was because they love the game and want it to succeed, not people being excited based on promises, or more accurately propaganda, spread by corporate c*nts.<br><br>God of War 4 is the best example, because RDR2 fails on this last front: GoW4 didnt try to inflate its hype; the immense hype for it was simply people being genuinely excited for what seemed to be a great game with known talent behind it.