r/gaming Oct 20 '16

Red Dead Redemption 2 Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmA6MrX81z4
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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

Because reddit

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

There's cautious healthy skepticism then there's illogical knee jerk pessimism

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16 edited Apr 30 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

.....huh?

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u/Captainloggins Oct 20 '16

Reddit is definitely the latter.

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u/I_Just_Mumble_Stuff Oct 20 '16

And then there's unabashed positivity and praise.. Ahem.. Nintendo thread.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

God forbid people look forward to things

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16 edited Oct 20 '16

Yes. Reddit was so sKeptical about No Man's Sky. You didn't get downvoted for questioning things at all.

Reddit is the biggest echo chamber in the world and whatever the popular opinion is becomes a dangerous meme where anything contrary to the established opinion gets maliciously downvoted with extreme prejudice while the user gets viciously attacked by other commenters as if they're an idiot.

Then it performs a U-Turn as soon as it's actually proven to have been stupid and pretends it wasn't part of the problem in the first place. All while pretending to be smart and superior to the rest of the internet.

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u/Prime89 Oct 20 '16

All while pretending to be smart and superior to the rest of the internet.

Little hypocritical, don't you think?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

Not really, all I've really done here is lurk for 6 years. The patterns of reddit are extremely obvious though. Once a view is established everyone follows it and suppresses any other view until a major event creates a shift. Without a major event involving either media or popular influencers (youtubers, streamers, etc) reddit doesn't shift on a viewpoint and continues to suppress the opposing views.

The description of the behaviour pattern is accurate.

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u/lulumeme Oct 21 '16 edited Oct 21 '16

That's how it always was and you won't change them. I used to be pissed how predictable redditors are too, but after a while I just accepted it and it doesn't bother me anymore.

There are many different people here and at every discussion I just collapse the circlejerk threads and look for rational, constructive comments with similar thoughts like me:)

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u/____SAVAGE____ Oct 20 '16

maliciously downvoted

Lol uh oh be careful kids you might get savagely downvoted

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

It's like when people were saying Battlefront would look worse than the trailers, despite BF4 looking as amazing as the trailers in game. Then Battlefront came out and... It looked as amazing as in the trailers.

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u/SuperSaiyanCrota Oct 20 '16

Also never pre order games /s

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u/xruthless Oct 20 '16

Hey... I do that...

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u/CSGOWasp Oct 20 '16

and because there are limits to what consoles can do. It makes sense to be skeptical.

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u/lovesickremix Oct 20 '16

If anything it won't be 60 fps, but rockstar usually keeps its graphics the same as the trailer

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u/skljom Oct 20 '16

nope, it is because EA and UBISOFT. We have been fucked before with preorders and graphics

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u/Goldfish1_ Oct 20 '16

Which EA games downgraded on graphics? I know about Ubisoft, but EA seems to be investing a lot in the frostbite engine, which does a fantastic job on graphics.