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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by starky »

benrbray wrote: post #301
holografix wrote: post #89

Zelda 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…

The main problem I had with BotW is that it doesn't have proper dungeons, it just isn't a Legend of Zelda game to me if it doesn't have dungeons. The divine beasts are the closest thing to it, but having them as optional and not driving the story forward just doesn't scratch the itch.

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Post by cercatrova »

zests wrote: post #160

Chess is an amazing game. It has personality and if you know a bit about the game it has infinite depth. Players have playing style. There is a rich history going back hundreds of years.

Was chess hyped though? The question was not, which things are good and stood the test of time, it's what lived up to hype, and for me it doesn't seem like chess was really ever hyped all that much.

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Post by throw0101a »

meowzero wrote: post #334

The Last of Us 2. A lot of people were anticipating the game. And I'm surprised how many people hated it. Maybe to them, it didn't live up to the hype. But it lived up to the hype for me. I just finished the game and loved it. Functional Programming. I've been doing FP for almost 10 years. I've drank the kool aid. Give me those monads and referential transparency.

> And I'm surprised how many people hated it.

Probably because of the 'second half'.

A lot of people were invested in the Ellie and Joel stuff, and weren't really interested in other characters, so for a lot of folks it was a matter of slogging through story line(s) that had no appeal to them.

All for seemingly making the moral lesson of 'revenge can be costly' and 'forgiveness makes you a better person'.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by st1x7 »

CapmCrackaWaka wrote: post #328

Oof, seeing Reddit karma farming style posts upvoted on hacker news is... disappointing. I hope we do not see more of these in the future.

It's okay, the answers are different from reddit's answers and people are a bit more relaxed around the holidays so chatting about random stuff feels appropriate for a bit.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by nostrademons »

The WWW.

It was a huge bubble when it came out, and then the dot-com crash came and a lot of people were like "Oh, it was a fad, it's over now." But it wasn't. The Web ended up changing society far more than was predicted in 1995 and remaking both the economy and likely soon the political environment.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by skohan »

IkmoIkmo wrote: post #71

I'm loving my Apple Watch. I wasn't entirely sure yet what to think of the watch as a form factor, given that a phone can do everything it can and more. But there's three interesting aspects that have really added value for me. 1) is health data, in a way a computer or phone just can't do. It tracks things like heartrate that a phone + heartrate strap is too convoluted for, for non-athletes. Plus it's all-day and qui…

Same - I resisted getting one for a long time, in general because I like to live minimally, but I finally caved in because I was interested in tracking biometrics, and it seems like the best option in terms of simplicity/performance for now.

I thought I might only wear it when I was training, but it turns out having information on my heart rate all day long is super interesting, and I'm really happy I have it.

Also I have turned off most of the notifications, but having the ones I want on my wrist without taking out my phone is actually super nice.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by TehShrike »

The original iPod.

I was a teen listening to tons of music on MP3 CD players and cheap MP3 players with 64-128MB of flash memory. The 5GB iPod cost about four weeks pay, was so far ahead of any other option. I could almost fit my entire music library onto it!

I was a staunch PC+Windows supporter who thought Apple was dumb. The iPod was the only Apple product I owned, but it was obviously the best music player. There was no competition in my mind.

Unnecessary nostalgia: the original iPod was Firewire only, so I had to buy a PCI card to be able to plug it in to my PC. The first iPod came out before iTunes was ported to Windows, so the official solution for Windows users was MusicMatch Jukebox with a shitty iPod plugin. Eventually I discovered EphPod, an excellent third-party software, which I used for the life of my iPod.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by sinstein »

bhauer wrote: post #299

This thread is clarifying to me. I now have more anecdotal data to back up my anecdotal feeling that I don't agree with most people on HN on matters such as this. The highest voted answers are things I feel are overhyped. Harry Potter, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Apple Watch, Ruby on Rails, Hamilton. I'm not saying these things are bad , but the hype level far exceeds the delivered value, in my opinion. I had to scroll d…

Are you saying you have used/experienced these things and have not seen the value of them? Or that the hype is so much that it feels unrealistic?
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