I feel I'm the only one annoyed by this.
Warhammer Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic. These are games which have pretty cool trailers, trailers featuring epic battles; they're honestly very exciting. Yet these games are simply examples of samey grind-tastic I-wanna-be-World-of-Warcraft completely and utterly standard MMORPGs. The trailers don't communicate this, the trailers seem to be showing the games as Lord-of-the-Rings-ian epics. In many ways the trailers are better than the games.
(A pause to acknowledge that I can't actually make these claims legitimately about The Old Republic but let's just say I'm pretty sure that I'm right.)
A trailer should be used to gain interest for a game, that's a given, it's an advertisement. But I feel that it gets to the stage where a trailer has actually nothing at all to say about the game. Instead it sells these entertaining epic scenes that certainly gain our attention but show or tell us nothing about the game. Show me a flashy laser show and I'll be interested sure but if it has little to do with what you're trying to sell me than I'll call bullshit on you.
Movie trailers show footage from a movie so you can decide whether you want to see it or not. Sure it is cut together to make the movie as interesting as possible, I can accept that.
Then you've got game trailers showing footage of something that is most certainly not the game. There's something about that which seems a bit off to me.
We all know that the scene depicted in the trailer of The Old Republic is nothng like the game, it's not like people are going to buy the game expecting this kind of stuff, (well let's give the idiocy of the Human Race some credit, there probably will be a few who do,) so what's the harm?
Well basically I fall back on "Don't show me a Lexus and sell me a Toyota" argument. Shouldn't a trailer actually showcase the game rather than an irrelevant bit of cinema that's designed to make us think "cool"? Look at the live-action trailer for Halo ODST. It had sweet fuck-all to do with the game and I read comments like "wow, I'm so getting this now", "that looks awesome can't wait 'till it comes out" etc. etc.
So people are swayed by this. They see the trailer for Warhammer Online or The Old Republic or Halo ODST and think "that's the game and it looks awesome so I'm going to get it". Doesn't that amount to a certain bit of false advertisement?
Like I said I feel like I'm the only one who gets annoyed by this - maybe I am.
Warhammer Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic. These are games which have pretty cool trailers, trailers featuring epic battles; they're honestly very exciting. Yet these games are simply examples of samey grind-tastic I-wanna-be-World-of-Warcraft completely and utterly standard MMORPGs. The trailers don't communicate this, the trailers seem to be showing the games as Lord-of-the-Rings-ian epics. In many ways the trailers are better than the games.
(A pause to acknowledge that I can't actually make these claims legitimately about The Old Republic but let's just say I'm pretty sure that I'm right.)
A trailer should be used to gain interest for a game, that's a given, it's an advertisement. But I feel that it gets to the stage where a trailer has actually nothing at all to say about the game. Instead it sells these entertaining epic scenes that certainly gain our attention but show or tell us nothing about the game. Show me a flashy laser show and I'll be interested sure but if it has little to do with what you're trying to sell me than I'll call bullshit on you.
Movie trailers show footage from a movie so you can decide whether you want to see it or not. Sure it is cut together to make the movie as interesting as possible, I can accept that.
Then you've got game trailers showing footage of something that is most certainly not the game. There's something about that which seems a bit off to me.
We all know that the scene depicted in the trailer of The Old Republic is nothng like the game, it's not like people are going to buy the game expecting this kind of stuff, (well let's give the idiocy of the Human Race some credit, there probably will be a few who do,) so what's the harm?
Well basically I fall back on "Don't show me a Lexus and sell me a Toyota" argument. Shouldn't a trailer actually showcase the game rather than an irrelevant bit of cinema that's designed to make us think "cool"? Look at the live-action trailer for Halo ODST. It had sweet fuck-all to do with the game and I read comments like "wow, I'm so getting this now", "that looks awesome can't wait 'till it comes out" etc. etc.
So people are swayed by this. They see the trailer for Warhammer Online or The Old Republic or Halo ODST and think "that's the game and it looks awesome so I'm going to get it". Doesn't that amount to a certain bit of false advertisement?
Like I said I feel like I'm the only one who gets annoyed by this - maybe I am.
