An entire site devoted to trailers/gameplay vids for games:
http://www.gametrailers.com/
My question is, who got the fucking idea in the first place to have trailers be nothing but cutscenes or rendered FMV? it tells us nothing about the gameplay, or how the game will actually look when we do play it, just that they dumped a buncha money into some nice shiney CGI thing for two-minute stretchs at a time.
for example, the trailer for Hellgate: London(a new post-apoc action RPG from the Diablo 2 crew):
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=1779
We see nothing but FMV of two sci-fi knights blowing the shit out of some demon zombies and zombie demons. Of course, since one of the knights is female and thus wearing some skin-tight metal-spandex thing, we get some nice gratuitous rendered ass shots, too.
The thing is, this tells me diddly shit about what the game actually looks like. Oh, it tells me that it will involve a burned-out hellish London, and probably metal tittays, but nothing for the feel of the game.
Remember all those TV ads when FF7 & FF8 first hit? nothing but cut-scenes?
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Friday, 3 June 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)
Have you seen Gamespot's new HD games trailers? They're awesome. And they actually give you a good idea of what the games look slike, rather than the usual ultracompresses crap.
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 3 June 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)
dammit, it's friday afternoon. talk more about video games!
― kf, Friday, 3 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)