The thing nobody tells newcomers about launch week

Everyone gives you advice about spoilers and storage and preloads. Here is the one nobody says.

You will not enjoy the first two hours as much as you expect to. Not because the game is bad. Because you have been waiting three years and no opening sequence survives that. You will be checking it against something in your head rather than playing it.

That feeling goes away somewhere around hour four, when you stop watching the game and start being in it. If you know it is coming it does not bother you. If you do not, you spend the first evening quietly worried that you have been let down.

Every single big release does this and it has nothing to do with the game.