Games for Breakfast: Horizon Zero Dawn and Games Marketing

<p><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Georgia&semi; color&colon; &num;333333&semi;">Welcome to Games for Breakfast&comma; a new feature series here on BagoGames&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; Georgia&semi; color&colon; &num;333333&semi;">Games for Breakfast&comma; written by features editor Angelo De Bellis&comma; is a daily opinion piece of about 250-500 words—I gotta keep it brief—that engages topical game news&period; Every new post will go live at<span class&equals;"apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span>9am<span class&equals;"apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span>EST so that you can grab your cup of coffee and read a brief account of a particular gamer’s take on the latest goings-on in the industry&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>So today&&num;8217&semi;s Games for Breakfast post was going to be about some of my favorite features seen in the the <em>Horizon Zero Dawn<&sol;em> livestream that took place the other day&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s not happening&period; It seems that I&&num;8217&semi;m a baby when it comes to spoilers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yesterday evening I began watching a bit of the recorded stream on YouTube and had to immediately turn it off&&num;8211&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m just too excited for the game to indulge myself in in any story or feature spoilers&period; I wonder if you share the sentiment&colon; the less one knows about a game&comma; the more exciting and surprising the final product is&period; Now of course I&&num;8217&semi;m not saying that you should&&num;8217&semi;t read reviews to learn about what makes a particular adventure worth your money&comma; but if you know the game is going to be great&comma; and <em>Horizon Zero Dawn<&sol;em> seems to fit the bill&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s best not to know what to expect aside from some cursory details&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It really is a stunning affair&comma; considering that the developer&comma; Guerrilla Games&comma; made its name from the <em>Killzone<&sol;em> series of first-person shooters&period; Just from the few minutes of the livestream I learned that the game is absolutely stunning&comma; and I could pick out that there are going to be some complex RPG elements on offer&period; But I think that&&num;8217&semi;s going to be enough for me&period; How about for you&&num;8211&semi;do you like when highly anticipated titles don&&num;8217&semi;t receive much advertising&sol;detailing before launch&quest; Are there certain games that you wish we knew more about&comma; games like <em>The Legend of Zelda&colon; Breath of the Wild<&sol;em> or <em>Mass Effect&colon; Andromeda<&sol;em>&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;