Trailers: The Secret World: Everything is True

[The Hungry Samurai]

Honestly I don't know what just happened, but I think afterwards I needed a cigarette and I knew the developer wasn't going to call me in the morning. The visuals were nice but without a little context the text came off serious to the point of being silly. I do want to know more though, so I guess mission accomplished.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Ok... well that seemed to tell me so much and yet I know nothing more...

That in itself must be a conspiarcy.

Looking forward to this so Ragnar can damn well move on and finish The Longest Journey: Dreamfall.

 

[JSW]

And Ragnar Tornquist of The Longest Journey fame is working on the story? That's enough to have me interested right there.

It's also Ragnar Tornquist of Dreamfall "fame". That's enought to keep me very apprehensive.

Plus it's a MMORPG, and whenever I have the time for one of those I don't have the money for a subscription, and whenever I have the money I don't have the time.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Wow. That trailer is a perfect Conspiracy Kitchen Sink [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConspiracyKitchenSink].

 

[attackshark]

way to not tell us anything about the game.

 

[vioray]

it's from the guy who wrote The Longest Journey and Dreamfall
it incorporates HP Lovecraft, urban myths, ancient legends and conspiracy theories
they had me before they even started releasing gameplay information

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

USE LESS CAPS.

Everything, all conspiracy and myths are true eh? What about when they contradict one-another?

 

[Pilkingtube]

That trailer confused me a little.. I was getting it until about 40 potential trailerhooks/subtitles appeared in sequence. Were they just trying loads and seeing what people like, or did they hire too many writers and decided to get their money's worth? :S

 

[Art Axiv]

Fading text.. doesn't.. let.. me.. concentrate! argh! Too much!

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

That trailer confused me a little.. I was getting it until about 40 potential trailerhooks/subtitles appeared in sequence. Were they just trying loads and seeing what people like, or did they hire too many writers and decided to get their money's worth? :S

Well I suppose the trailer (or teaser, rather) makes more sense if you've been keeping tabs on the game. =)

 

[Pilkingtube]

That trailer confused me a little.. I was getting it until about 40 potential trailerhooks/subtitles appeared in sequence. Were they just trying loads and seeing what people like, or did they hire too many writers and decided to get their money's worth? :S

Well I suppose the trailer (or teaser, rather) makes more sense if you've been keeping tabs on the game. =)

So.. it's a trailer, but not a trailer designed to advertise the game to people?
What's the point in an advert that targets people already interested in the product, surely it should be aimed at a new audience? :S

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

*shrug* I don't see too much wrong in creating a teaser that continues on from a previous trailer. Besides, it seems to be having success, judging from the amount of posts here where people (sometimes reluctantly) admit that it's gotten them to be more curious about the game and look into it. So... mission accomplished?

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

USE LESS CAPS.

Everything, all conspiracy and myths are true eh? What about when they contradict one-another?

GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.

FNORD

There is a fun game I have at my friend's expense, for those who believe in conspiracy theories or just plain wacky things. Sit down, get out what they believe, go through it piece by piece until it starts to fall apart. Weigh it, ask for more clarification, more information (it won't be there). Continue until it just seems plainly ridiculous and spurious. Laugh. It is not reductio ad absurdum, you let them speak until they seem absurd. My favourite was the anarchist friend who thought the Masonic do-gooders were really up to great projects of EEEEEVILL, that they worshipped Satan and dark magic. The rub? The guy is supposedly secular, not fundamentalist Christian, so even if they did worship un-Christian powers, how would that make them evil, or take away from their charity and good acts which they are openly engaged in? He'd sucked the cock of hearsay, and what came out of his mouth was not pretty.

 

[Vrach]

That's not a trailer, that's landscape and text.

^This. That's possibly the worst trailer I've seen to date.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

If you pre-order the game, you'll get a tinfoil hat in TF2! (not really)

 

[Living Contradiction]

Hooray. EA has finally made a trailer that isn't intentionally offensive. Granted, there's all of fifteen seconds of imagery in it and bugger all as far as gameplay goes, but hey, small steps, right? Can't expect one of the world's largest publishers to go around demonstrating how a game will play in a trailer.

Oh wait. Yes, we can. EA, please turn off your fail. You seem to have left it running.

 

[SweEscaspist]

Well, at least the music in the end of the wasn't bad. It was really good actually.

 

[Jamous]

Is this going to be an MMO, or just an RPG? I really hope it's not MMOs, I can't stand them. And it looks so epic!

 

[k-ossuburb]

This felt like I was watching Oprah and she was handing out cliches.

"You get a cliche, and you get a cliche! And you get a cliche! Everybody gets a cliche!"

Also... the bees are returning?