Moggy wrote:The PS2 era was probably the last time that was really possible as well. I had the internet back then, but it was still a slow and clunky place and so it wasn’t possible to watch lots of gameplay videos and I barely ever looked up any gaming news. A review of E3 in a magazine, potentially a month or two after E3 finished, was the best way to find out about upcoming games and you wouldn’t have really seen the game in motion until you actually played it.
I don’t think it’s worse now just because we have all of the news and information, but that shock and surprise at an amazing game has gone forever.
This is why I try to go in to games as blind as possible, I don't read reviews, look at screenshots or watch trailers. If by word of mouth I hear a game is great, I'll usually take a punt. I really don't need some 18 year old utoober sitting in a car seat screaming over the top of a game's best bits to sell me on something.
The day I got given fallout 3 not knowing it existed was incredible, oh the weeks and weeks lost to that game, all fresh and new.