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Getting that show-closing trailer slot at the Game Awards really just completely torpedoed this game's chances. Absolutely took a mediocre to possibly okay game and turned everyone against it before it ever had a chance. I doubt they'll ever recover.
Can you explain? I don't follow these things
Highguard had submitted a trailer to be shown during the Game Awards, and the showrunner was so enamored with the game that he chose to give it the coveted last slot. That meant the awards show which had thus far had some really impressive announcements closed with a trailer for this firmly mid looking game, and people were pissed. It meant ending on a pretty low note compared to some of what had been seen.
Some people thought incorrectly that Highguard had bought this last slot, but overall it did a lot to turn sentiments against the game, a hurdle they've been trying to overcome ever since.
Oof that's unfortunate
Outside of performance, most responses are "it's alright" it's not blowing anyone's mind
Unless a game looks right up my alley, "mixed" and below is usually an automatic skip to the next thing in the discovery queue.
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 (TM) 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.