Trailers

[johnman]

I just watched the trailer for Black Mesa Source again and I was struck by the quality of it. Its a better trailer than many made by offical developers. The other day I watched velvet assassins trailer and was bored but halfway and went and did somthing else. It was awful, and i dont remember seeing a trailer that was simply gameplay (none of that CGI crap) and got me really excited for an upcoming release in a long time.
Have developers forgotten how to make good trailers? They all seem to be Cg or focus on a very narrow aspect of gameplay.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

For films or TV a trailer is the same sort of thing as the product. For games they need people with skills that are not always used in making games. As an example, I think that the Bioshock trailer was good because Levine has experience working with film and they outsourced production of the trailer.