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Two games keep surfacing more than any other, Starfield, which landed a singular nomination for Best RPG, and Hogwarts Legacy, which got exactly zero nominations acros...

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[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (17 children)

It's kinda crazy how quickly people just... stopped talking about Starfield after release. Like, even if it ended up being bad or disappointing, people would've at least still been talking about it in that capacity.

Starfield was one of the most hyped releases in years, at least since Cyberpunk, yet when it finally released, it seems like the entire gaming world played it for a few days, collectively decided, "eh, this is alright I guess," then moved on. I don't think I've ever seen the mood towards a game shift so rapidly from massive hype to complete indifference...

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I think discussion around it just became toxic, you can't really say anything about Starfield without a bunch of people hijacking the conversation to talk about how much they hate it.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Maybe I just don't look at the right parts of the internet to end up seeing it, but I haven't even really seen anyone talking about hating it.

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure how, you got lucky.

Lemmy was filled with posts linking to clickbait articles from PcGamer bashing the game.

YouTube just flooded my feed with videos about how Starfield was the worst game ever made, modern gaming was dying or something of the sort after watching a couple positive reviews.

Even in comment sections, whenever I mentioned some nitpic I had about the game, I'd get answers bashing the game as if I had said it was terrible.

It was pretty much everywhere for a month and a half to the point I just decided to stop trying to find discussions on it.

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