I'm excited for it, probably the game I'm 3rd most looking forward to this year (behind Hogwarts and Cities Skylines 2).
The premise of this thread is really weird. "Spider-Man 2 is clearly a game people are aware of due to the number of views its trailers get, with the Story trailer being the least popular but still rivaling the views TOTK's trailers got at their peak, and also the previous games sold bucketloads and were a massive success, and I think there's a good chance this will be one of the most successful games of the year financially speaking - but nobody is excited for it".
You don't get those views or sales
without "hype", excitement, or interest - especially when Sony/Insomniac is just now starting to ramp up marketing. GAF might not be excited or interested in it, but clearly the general gaming community is.
I'm of the mindset though that I don't mind sequels not being all that different from previous games - all I'm asking for from Spider-Man 2 is to give me a new story with a few new abilities but overall maintain the gameplay of the first 2, and with improved graphics and that looks to be exactly what I'm getting. I don't want sequels to be a ship of Theseus situation where so much changed that they feel like entirely different games (which is how I feel about SS/BOTW/TOTK compared to pre-SS 3D Zeldas and GoW 2018/Ragnarok compared to the original games' formula; they have the same characters but don't feel like the same series to me). I
want more of the same, I don't need the boat to be rocked.
and the game looks totally derivative at best.
That's all I'm asking for!