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They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Elevator7009@lemmy.zip to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Feel free to replace "friends" with "anyone you know in real life" or even online groups you trust or are close with.

"They":

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don't run the place.

EDIT: The "not" in the title is optional; I'm asking about both successful and failed recommendations.

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[–] mohab@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got one! The very first Assassin's Creed when it came out!

My childhood friend would NOT shut up about it! He would talk over and over again about the lore, show me extended cutscenes, videos, sent me lore theories, it was a whole thing!

Years later I finally get to play it and holy shit, what a disappointment… the entire game is just the same 3 missions over and over again… like no effort into hiding anything… literally the same 3 missions copied and pasted ad nauseum with different enemy names. I'm still shocked he sat through all of this bullshit to get to the awesome lore he went on and on about for weeks.

Bonus story with the same friend: we were talking about Devil May Cry and he said "I wish I could find another game like it…" and I noticed he said "game" and not "games" or "franchise" so I asked "Did you play the sequels? DMC3 is incredible!" and he goes "What sequels? I'm sure it's only one game…" and I swear I screamed at the realization he's talking about the reboot DmC: Devil May Cry and had no clue the original franchise even exists 😂 That was right after DMC5 came out too, which's wild.

I recommended starting with DMC5 because the story isn't great anyway and DMC1 or even DMC3 may feel a little dated. He ignored my advice because he wanted to experience the story from the beginning, picked up the HD collection, hated both DMC1 and DMC3 because they felt too stiff, and never touched the franchise again.

[–] rhel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree, but the main problem is the “years later” part of your experience. Assassin's Creed had many gameplay innovations with (for the time) amazing graphics that shaped certain game mechanics for years to come, but gaming has evolved...

That's why many of these former “innovations” have lost their shine and sometimes even became annoying (e.g. climbing a tower to unlock parts of the map).

[–] mohab@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"years later" does not matter in my case because it wasn't that many years later—l probably played it only 3 or 4 years after release, and I don't play western action RPGs or stealth games. I think the first Assassin's Creed is the only Ubisoft game I played, for example, and it surely did not influence any of the games I actually play: Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101, Hellsinker, or Guilty Gear.

Pretty sure I would've had a problem with it on release because it's shitty repetitive design.

[–] Devmapall@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep it absolutely was a problem on release.

I enjoyed playing ac1 back then but it was very repetitive.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Time was cheap back then.