>game has merchandise
ITT: vidya red flags
>Game needs a 2 hour tutorial
>game has a thread on Zig Forums
>game has extensive merch before the premiere
>game is released by ea
>game is made by all-star new development team
>game is claiming to be revolutionary
>game was made by a company that donates to blm and lgbt organizations
>game is from russia
>game has an anime artstyle
>discord link in the main menu
>Game has 250 awards before even being released
>story-driven
>open-world
>ambitious
>game features a celebrity ingame
I like how ambitious just means unfinished nowadays.
>Every development announcement is what they have removed from the game
>game has multi-cultural/gender dev team.
>game has no AI
>journalists/ resetera are hyped, particularly hyped before any gameplay is shown.
>Early access and funded by patreon.
>ANYTHING by EA.
>ANYTHING with a gacha.
>battlepass
>microtransactions that are bought using a special currency that's bought with real money to male conversion harder
>marketing budget is spent bribing streamers to play it
>a genre that was fotm a while ago
>The dev team is not functional enough in Japanese to order from a restaurant. Weeaboo power an acce
>game has character creation
>have options for more genders than just male/female
>gender doesn't actually matter at all in gameplay or story
>game is based on warhammer 40k
>PR face is actively feeding hype in interviews before any shown gameplay
>Zig Forums thinks it is good
>game is good
>game has e-celeb reference or mentions a well known """""community""""" member
>It's in first person
>There is an inventory weight limit
>Gets called a masterpiece before it comes out
>8 bit
>platformer
>indie
>excessive marketing
>game is revealed with only a single image of the game logo
>7 shill threads about it at any given time
>Zig Forums likes or is hyped about it
>game is developed for consoles too
>early access
>shazam is shitting on it
>game is being pushed to become a multi-media series when it's not even out yet
>LGBT representation as a part of marketing
>mobile "game"
>Realistic graphics
>You shoot things
>open world with minimap and objective markers
>game has a patreon page