Discuss amongst yourselves why you're the one who's not brainwashed, its just those other people that are.

i have never played Call of Duty, and well I think my posts speak for themselves.

I have been brainwashed before. The two big ones I recall were Brute Force on the OG Xbox and Rome 2 in recent times. Rome 2 probably had more to do with how awesome the Shogun expansions were.

Now Digital Anvil (if they still exist) and Sega/Creative assembly don't get pre-orders from me anymore. They will have to earn it back.

Bungie is not quite there yet, since I've probably spent close to 100 hours on their latest in less than a month and enjoyed 95+% of it. A better strike rate than almost anything I have put money on, even if I was caught out by the dodgey narrative.

(I worked out from the alpha/beta that we would be getting only a handful of zones with a few dozen short missions. Maybe if I had followed more hype I would have had the same crazy expectations everyone else had about content).

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I'm extremely susceptible to marketing and hype. I'm the kind of person who watches an infomercial and thinks it's an amazing idea. Luckily I'm also Scottish so I hate parting with money.

I blame it on the empathy my career path has cultured. I'm just so damn understanding of the world, that it can sell me anything.

Discuss amongst yourselves why you're the one who's not brainwashed, its just those other people that are.

Why wouldn't I be? They have clearly hyped me beyond all salvation.

In the case of Destiny, I was actually kinda skeptical. I wasn't as invested in the game's development as I was towards something like Halo or Mass Effect. Whether this was because I wanted to keep myself relatively in the dark about the game as to not spoil myself or because I just didn't really care is still up in the air for me. Maybe it was because Bungie didn't think that we cared to see any more ViDocs that we saw all throughout the development of their past three games.

Bungie never really sold the game for me until the beta got into my paws. Only then did I see the promise of Destiny that I could have otherwise seen beyond the veil for over a year. The gameplay was so enjoyable and I kept coming back for more. The story left me wanting more, but I simply concluded that of course Bungie would hold back a great deal of Destiny's story content. This was just a beta after all, rit? Right! I'm betting Activision kinda hoped for that to be the case for a great many people. So, with my fears stifled, I went out and pre-ordered both the white PlayStation 4 and a limited edition copy of the game. All that money on a fairly half-assed game marketed to consumers like it would be the messiah of video games.

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"We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out." Former Call of Duty director Dave Anthony.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-10-03-us-military-can-learn-from-game-marketing-says-ex-call-of-duty-director

Discuss amongst yourselves why you're the one who's not brainwashed, its just those other people that are.

I would, but that's clearly what you want me to do, you manipulator you... unless you're using reverse psychology... bah, can't win.

As far as hype or liking things or being permissive or overly optimistic, I'm not brainwashed. In gaming, like in everything, I believe it's very important to have low expectations. It sounds grim, but it's how life is, and it might sound like playing semantics, but low expectations don't mean low hopes. I have high hopes for a ton of things, but I try to keep low expectations. Destiny is a great example of both, actually-- it measured up to over half of my hopes but far from all of them, while it measured up to or exceeded almost all of my expectations (I still can't figure out what possessed them to build this UX monster they've made).

Does it really matter?

Someone can call me brainwashed for loving a game, and who's ultimately better off? Me. I have more forms of enjoyment than they do.

It isn't like a matter of morality. It's a game.

I fell for H1A and Halo 4. H5 Beta doesn't have me fooled, and I'll absolutely be waiting on getting Halo 5 (if at all). :)

Not me. Halo Wars, StarCraft II and ME3 burned me so hard. It's incredibly difficult for me to get excited about a game anymore. The AAA polish doesn't work, as don't the banners on gaming websites that I never visit. I'm not really tied to any one title, so "A sequel to your favorite game!" has zero draw.

One exception: another Bioshock game set in Rapture. You wouldn't even have to say "Would you kindly?"

I will profess a weakness for indie science fiction games. Something, anything to capture that old Homeworld feel, or remind me what it was like to play StarCraft the first time around. Even if it's just a retro-futuristic tower defense game, I'm interested.

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This guy's an idiot. And I don't dish out personal insults lightly.