The Dark Knight Rises.
Overdelivered on top of the hype behind the first 2 movies.
The second one was really hard to beat.
Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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#962I have 2 answers. 1. Coronavirus The hype I have a Chinese girlfriend, and when the coronavirus was breaking out in China, she was freaking out, buying masks and so forth. She was really hyping it as a big deal! Needless to say, it's been a big deal. 2. Election fraud The hype Before the election, the President was massively hyping mail-in ballot fraud. It didn't happen For those living in the world at large there re…
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What is your point of confusion?
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#963As far as video game examples go... The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. The trailers made them out to be the pinnacle of their respective franchises, and people's expectations for the two games was sky high. This plus all the changes made to the 3D Zelda and Mario formats meant there was a lot riding on these titles. But both delivered on that hype. They've both done extremely well in term…
Nintendo benefits from the Tesla/Apple/Jeep effect. Fanboys will be happy regardless. As time goes on BOTW is being realized as lackluster. Empty, bad graphics, same story, boring environment.
Counterpoint: BOTW single-handedly got me back on Nintendo systems. I was not a Nintendo fanboy before. I had a Wii back in the day, but it was mostly a gimmick, never substituted the PC as the "serious gaming platform" for me. BOTW is one of these rare games that was so attractive that I bought the entire console just to play it. I am aware of and recognize its flaws, but I have over 200 hours in this game, so obviously it can't be all that bad. Heck, I watched a BOTW speedrunner on Twitch just yesterday. The community around that game is still going strong.
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#964Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impres…
I just went down a rabbit hole of streaming for a couple of hours. I tried out Stadia, Moonlight, and GeForce Now. I want is a service that: * Lets me play my existing library of games (what I own on Steam, Origin, Battle.net) * Has League of Legends * Streams in 1440p 144fps I haven't found anything that does this.
> Streams in 1440p 144fps
144 fps is one frame every 7ms. Are there even any residential internet offers where you can get a ping that low to anything on the internet?
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#965Zelda Breath of the Wild exceeded my expectations completely. I played it years after it came out and was gobsmacked by how good it was. A strange mixture of pleasant, mildly challenging, big and awe inspiring world.
Ok, I guess I'll bite. To me, BotW feels more like a game engine and less like a game. My biggest issues: > Content sparsity. Like many open world games, most of Hyrule just feels dead to me. Towns aren't as populated and lively as OoT / WW / MM, the main reason being that there aren't as many overlapping storylines that have you return to the same location as you progress through the game. The game basically encoura…
> Most of the music in BoTW is quiet and subdued, unlike previous entries in the series. This is good for setting a certain tone, but it's less effective unless there's some flashier music to contrast with. To me, the lack of music made the game feel even emptier.
Hilariously, I had the opposite experience. BotW was the first Zelda game I played extensively (I have some memories from OoT and MM because a friend had an N64 back in the day, but never played it myself for anything more than 10 minutes).
After finishing BotW, I wanted to play the Link's Awakening remake. But I had to walk away from it after about an hour because the endless barrage of music was annoying me to no end. (I have since adjusted to it.) I'm currently playing Age of Calamity, where the soundtrack does not feel as obnoxious because there's actual action going on all the time. After that, I might be able to go back to Link's Awakening.
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> it's less effective unless there's some flashier music to contrast with
IMO there is tons of flashy music in this game. The cities' motifs, the champion's motifs, the castle music, the Divine Beast tracks, the fight tracks in general. I have hours-long playlists of all of that as my go-to background music for work.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#966Zelda Breath of the Wild exceeded my expectations completely. I played it years after it came out and was gobsmacked by how good it was. A strange mixture of pleasant, mildly challenging, big and awe inspiring world.
Nintendo Direct streams constitute a master class in building hype ;)
It was really sad to see the absence of Nintendo Directs this year. One can only hope they're saving up some big announcements for 2021.
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#967Retina displays. Not sure they were hyped (depends on the definition of hype of course), but I could never set my eyes on regular low DPI displays (e.g. 1080p at 27’’) again, ever, after working with one for a few days.
I agree, with one caveat - some old software just makes everything super-tiny. It's a little like when widescreen monitors came out and people were trying to figure out how to play their 4x3 games.
I was hit hard by this when I casually booted up Warcraft 3 in a fit of nostalgia and realized the only resolution options were 800x600 and 1024x768.
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#968I thought a little bit about this and I would say Apple Watch for me. When it first came out it was not perfect and there were lots of limitations to it but then Apple iterated on it with focus on Fitness based features and I finally ended up buying Series 5 version. I could definitely say the gamification (nudging you to close the rings and monthly challenges) has changed my habits and I am more active than ever bef…
Don't forget the "Half Life" series which still lives up to enormous hype, Gordon Freeman ;)
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#969COVID-19, back in December 2019 it was starting to get hot - but it really exploded at about March 2020 onward.
Looking forward to the sequel coming soon!
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Cannot agree more. The convention over configuration was brilliant - the implicit mappings made so much more sense. I could look at any given url and imply so much about what route/controller/view code was going to execute. The standardized code organization. ActiveRecord using the column names as data attributes. Was CoverMyMeds written in Rails?
Ironically this is exactly what I don't like so much about Rails. It's such a "batteries included" framework that if you want to do what Rails is good for, it's going to be super easy, but if you want to do something a little bit different a lot of times it feels like you have to almost break Rails to make it work. To some degree I think it's a matter of taste, but I would much rather start from a blank slate, with a…
It’s hard to know what cases you’re discussing without specifics?
A majority of online information based systems take input via forms and retrieve data from a database based on that input.
This is where Rails is the GOAT.