Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-25526422-20190519191551/@comment-29512888-20190531151117

I kind of feel the same way when E3 or Gamescom previews are revealed, in that I can't stop watching the previews even though I don't like them, although it usually takes me at least 3 or 4 watches to have a final opinion on each routine.

I remember I felt super excited when JD2016 was announced because JD2015 disappointed me a lot due to all those bugs and the overall reduction in quality compared to JD2014, so the starry graphics and the vibrant routines had me hooked since the beginning. I admit I was quite disappointed when those leaks later turned out to be fake, but my enjoyment of the game was still there and, to this day, it's one of my favorite titles in the series in spite of all the hate it gets.

On the other side of the spectrum, there was JD2017, which made me feel VERY skeptical at first: I liked JD2016 so much that I was sure the series would have ended there because Ubisoft could have never made something as good so, when I first watched the E3 reveals, I thought "This game is going to suck, no questions about it". Thankfully, it turned out to be much better than expected, but it's still a step-down from JD2016.

As for JD2018, I was quite satisfied with the E3 previews, but then the situation kind of went down and the whole game was just okay in the end (same for JD2019, except that the Gamescom reveals were a thousand times better than the E3 ones).