I noticed it with Starfield. The game was obviously objectively shit, but there were still tons of people defending it online. Dig a little deeper and you quickly discover that most of them were just Xbox fanboys who were mindlessly shilling for their first big “next gen exclusive” over Sony.
Now I’m seeing the same thing with Astrobot. It is, by all indications, a solid platformer with very nice graphics. Look around the internet a bit and you find people calling it the best game of the generation, which is completely unhinged. But I guess that’s what happens when the console exclusives have been utter dogshit for almost an entire hardware cycle.
Seriously, this has been the worst condole generation of all time. They let the old systems anchor development like 3+ years too long, and what few big games they’ve developed for new hardware have been either woke trash or live service trash.
PC indie gaming is the only place to be.
That's ironic because the PC indie scene is the biggest hivemind of hyping up mediocre games. So many walking simulators and generic platformers get hyped out the wazoo.
And yet most of the good games of the last 5+ years have been indies. There’s no barrier to entry, so of course it’s a sea of mediocrity. Thankfully you don’t have to play bad games.
The "overhyping" seems to be a problem with any sort of entertainment, be it games or media.
One of the upsides with that is normies are growing less and less trusting of media outlets and big name influencers when it comes to their recommendations.