I say: gamescom 2022 already has a big winner – and one game is as good as dead

Gamescom 2022 started yesterday in Cologne and more than 35 games were newly introduced or they received new trailers. We look at MeinMMO to see who won the unofficial “battle for the trailer” and which game already looks hopeless. MeinMMO author Schuhmann describes his impression of the gamescom Opening Night Live.

Which games were featured? Altogether more than 36 trailers were shown in 2 hours last night, of which only one game, Dead Island 2, had two trailers of its own.

We have summarized the trailers for you in the live ticker.

Harry Potter has the biggest hype before the start of gamescom

Which game had the greatest anticipation ahead of time? If you asked around on social media before gamescom, most Twitter users were hot for “Hogwarts Legacy”, the game from the “Harry Potter” universe. For many Potter fans, this seems to be the game they’ve been waiting for – and Harry Potter is easily one of the biggest pop culture brands in the world, on par with Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.

A controversy about author JK Rowling’s alleged transphobia cannot dampen the anticipation.

3 games get a lot of applause in the hall

Which game then had the biggest reaction indoors? For the first time in several years, gamescom in Cologne has had a live audience that was able to react to the trailers. The last major trade fairs were purely virtual.

According to MeinMMO editor-in-chief Leya Jankowski, the biggest reaction in the hall was Dune: Awakening, a new survival MMO from Funcom, which had already developed Conan Exiles. Leya wrote to us that she was close to fainting after the announcement.

There were similarly positive reactions to Hogwarts Legacy, it was enough just to mention the title and the atmosphere in the audience was good.

The rather gory Callisto Protocol was also convincing in the hall.

The laughs on their side had games like Return to Monkey Island or the Goat Simulator 3.

This trailer got the Hall excited: Dune: Awakening

PS5 controller and Dune are the big winners of gamescom 2022

How’s the views? About 20 hours later, the trailer views for these 3 crowd favorites look like this:

• Dune: Awakening: 226,462 views – 4556 likes
• Hogwarts Legacy – 148,165 views – 6878 likes
• Callisto Protocol – 79,917 views – 2688 likes

The trailer for the new PlayStation controller ran out of competition:

• Dual Sense Edge Wireless Controller – 698,691 views – 28,329 likes.

So the PS5 controller is sure to be one of the big winners.

When it comes to views, we refer to the official trailers – game trailers often have many views via other channels as well.

Who won the games? If it’s after the video views on the trailer and the upvotes at reddit goes, “Dune: Awakening” has probably won the start of gamescom.

In the gaming-savvy audience, the SF brand “Dune” is even a bit hotter than in the Twitter public, where Harry Potter fans dominate.

Classic rock or metal make any trailer better

Who was my favorite? I, Schuhmann from MeinMMO, especially liked the trailer

• The Lords of the Fallen – it has 154,382 views and 1159 likes

It’s not because I liked the game that much or because I’m a Dark Souls fan, it’s just because I’m totally conditioned:

Because the game with the somewhat silly name, like every “Dark Fantasy” game, relies on a rock classic, Danzig – Mother.

The combination of action trailer and classic rock has convinced me since the first Destiny trailer, where Bungie showed how much they like Led Zeppelin.

For me one of the best hype trailers ever:

Unusual game walks on dangerous paths

So who’s the nominee for The Game is Dying? It’s a bit sad because it was met with applause in the hall as well and it wants to appeal to core gamers and enthusiasts, but I have to admit “Moonbreaker” has a bad chance of surviving in the long term.

The game wants to be a “turn-based strategist game” and replicate the tabletop experience of miniature games like Warhammer, you should even be able to paint miniatures.

• The Moonbreaker trailer has 38,000 views and 535 likes.

The game itself wants to be like a mixture of “Xcom and Hearthstone”, i.e. mix two successful games.

It seems to me more like a mix of “Atlas Reactor” and “Battleborn”, two bad flops. I even liked Battleborn, but that just didn’t work with its crazy visuals, where every character was kind of weird.

And Atlas Reactor was such a bad flop that it didn’t just die once, but 3 times.

Some people are already appearing in the comments on YouTube saying that instead of playing something like that, they would really rather go for the original.

The development team behind the game is known for blatant genre changes and surprises. With “Subanutica” they had a pacifist hit, but that Moonbreaker will be a success can already be doubted.

Also because “Mister Totenkuss personally” immediately took the game to his heart: The former MeinMMO editor Jürgen Horn said he liked the game, so he was already sure that it would die soon. Jürgen has a little curse going on:

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How have you experienced gamescom 2022 so far? Who are your winners and which game will hardly prevail – what do you think?