This is a pretty common feeling for myself too. I'm seeing all the hyperbole recently regarding the new God of War, and my initial response was not "I really neeeeeeeeeed to play this game!!! NOW!", but "hmm... what if I play it and merely find it... alright?". There's a lot of weird, inherent pressure to agree with the hype, lest there be something wrong with you!kintaris wrote: ↑April 17th, 2018, 7:22 amIt's a shame. I get irrationally annoyed when I dislike a supposed "classic" this much because I suspect that there's a problem with my wiring more than anything. But in parallel to my goal of playing more game-of-all-time titles runs the balancing goal of not forcing myself to see something through just because I feel like I should.
But then that's been the draw of the podcast and the community: digging deeper, beneath the hype and marketing, and actually experiencing the games for what they are, and having genuine reactions and conversations spring out of that.