I think you'll find that most trailer music is composed by external companies and rarely has anything to do with the development team or the in-game musical composers. Since trailers are often available long before the game is finished I doubt the in-game soundtrack is even fully realised by the time you see the trailer anyway.Pebkio said:Dear Bethesda, publisher of Dishonored (and I'm sure a few other things):
You really needed to have considered the music you used for your advertisement for Dishonored. I watch a fair bit of online videos, and even go watch the archives of old series, like There Will be Brawl (created by Zach Grafton and presented by the professionals at The Escapist Magazine), and I have to say, you made a really really bad choice in music.
Now, I thought your game looked cool; like a first-person Assassin's Creed. I was, for lack of a better word, interested in what you had to offer. But, after watching it for the 20th time in an hour and a half, I have to say I hate your game your little dog too. Y'see now, I have to go build a ship and then flip it upside down at sunset just to escape "these dull drums". I'm not going to buy your game no matter how cool you make it look, because like Pavlov's lab assistant, I go into a painful seizure every time I hear that riff "nyeeer bom bim bom bim bom bim bom bim bom bim bom bim bom bim nyeeerSCRAAAAAATCH". Over and over... over and over...
In other words: Your music's bad and you should feel bad.
Some trailers really do very little as an overall representation of the game. Especially when you look at the recent OverStrike/Fuse issue.