I think Wayno's first sentence sums it up for me. Whenever I'm interested in anything now and know I want to see or play it, I go on a blackout on information about it. There is no etiquette about spoilers any more, people on social media and on forums or boards want to be the first to say "oh I finished it and X was amazing / so powerful / so upsetting / etc.", and the majority of news outlets aren't any better with some deciding to spell it all out in titles just to try to stand out (whether that's in a negative sense to get attention, or a positive sense).
Places like Twitter (which I am loathe to continue using but can't help because I get so much news about movies and venues there that haven't moved properly or at all to Bluesky) will shove every possible post about it in your face if you express any interest in it. Two recent examples of pieces of media that I was interested in for a while and wanted to experience but blew up in popularity to an incredible extent were Sinners and particularly Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The former was helped by places like Variety doomposting about it trying to act like its opening was awful, alongside exceptional reception from pretty much everywhere else. The latter is a game from an incredibly small studio which I have been following since its reveal last year and that is now the best reviewed game of the year and has been called GOTY by a number of outlets.
I'm delighted for the reception of both of these of course, but particularly with the latter you can see so many people and sites that have no interest in it jumping on board to show they're in with the hot thing at the minute, and particularly in those cases they just don't give a real fuck so they'll happily shout from the rooftop about its best moments as they plough through it. I was lucky that I wanted to see Sinners in advance so I planned and made time for it within its first week (and it would have been on the first day had times worked out), so nobody got the chance to throw the reveals out around me. But my brother in law (who I saw it with) told me on release day that he had already been spoiled on one thing.
With Clair Obscur, I take so long to get through games that even something like this that Sandfall said wasn't going to be an ungainly large game and is around 35-40 hours to finish will take me a month at least to get through. By that stage everyone else has long finished with it and act like after a week or so is enough time for society to be done with it so I'll be lucky to avoid it. I can't enter any threads on it on a place like Resetera because even on a forum dedicated to gaming, people are far too loose with words and descriptions as if every new release should and can be finished within a week by everyone.
Places like Twitter (which I am loathe to continue using but can't help because I get so much news about movies and venues there that haven't moved properly or at all to Bluesky) will shove every possible post about it in your face if you express any interest in it. Two recent examples of pieces of media that I was interested in for a while and wanted to experience but blew up in popularity to an incredible extent were Sinners and particularly Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The former was helped by places like Variety doomposting about it trying to act like its opening was awful, alongside exceptional reception from pretty much everywhere else. The latter is a game from an incredibly small studio which I have been following since its reveal last year and that is now the best reviewed game of the year and has been called GOTY by a number of outlets.
I'm delighted for the reception of both of these of course, but particularly with the latter you can see so many people and sites that have no interest in it jumping on board to show they're in with the hot thing at the minute, and particularly in those cases they just don't give a real fuck so they'll happily shout from the rooftop about its best moments as they plough through it. I was lucky that I wanted to see Sinners in advance so I planned and made time for it within its first week (and it would have been on the first day had times worked out), so nobody got the chance to throw the reveals out around me. But my brother in law (who I saw it with) told me on release day that he had already been spoiled on one thing.
With Clair Obscur, I take so long to get through games that even something like this that Sandfall said wasn't going to be an ungainly large game and is around 35-40 hours to finish will take me a month at least to get through. By that stage everyone else has long finished with it and act like after a week or so is enough time for society to be done with it so I'll be lucky to avoid it. I can't enter any threads on it on a place like Resetera because even on a forum dedicated to gaming, people are far too loose with words and descriptions as if every new release should and can be finished within a week by everyone.
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