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Games that had amazing trailers/reveals but turned out to be mediocre/bad
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Yeah, I really liked Brutal Legend when I finally got around to it, but I knew what I was getting into by that point. If I bought it at launch based on promotional material, I know for a fact my reaction would've been much more bitter.
Nothing to me will ever top the hype of MGSV's E3 Red Band trailer only for the actual game to be disappointing.
So much this. I wanted heavy metal God of War, but that's not what we got.
Also, I felt like Sunset Overdrive's trailer painted a picture of one game and what we got was something else entirely.
Yeah the trailer basically had all the cutscenes from the game.
Another big title that completely fell on it's face is Cyberpunk 2077. Even ignoring the bugs, the game was no where near as close to what they claimed initially. Another big title is No Man Sky. Basically the lead lied to everyone about what the game is.
Initially, people felt pretty positive when Paper Mario 3DS got its 2011 trailer. "Finally, a return to the RPG roots!" Of course, it turned out to be anything but.
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Dead Island was honestly a solid game: it did not live up to the vision of the trailers but it was fun to play
We Happy Few is terrible to play but the trailer made it seems like a crazy Bioshock adventure. I still want to play the game that the trailer promised
We Happy Few is terrible to play but the trailer made it seems like a crazy Bioshock adventure. I still want to play the game that the trailer promised
Probably already been posted
multiple times throughout this topic and if it hasn't
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https://youtu.be/ASzOzrB-a9E
Fuck you DICE for killing a franchise I loved.
How they start off with a trailer that shows a spot on a map that no one goes to…Who the hell parachutes from there!? There's no objective! (I only play conquest so if there's objectives in that area in the other game mode(s?) *le shrug*
multiple times throughout this topic and if it hasn't
shambles
https://youtu.be/ASzOzrB-a9E
Fuck you DICE for killing a franchise I loved.
How they start off with a trailer that shows a spot on a map that no one goes to…Who the hell parachutes from there!? There's no objective! (I only play conquest so if there's objectives in that area in the other game mode(s?) *le shrug*
This is legitimately one of the best gaming trailers of all time and if it had been attached to a game that was in any way competently designed I feel like it would be considered right up there with "Mad World" or the Believe trailers. It is melancholy, spooky, action packed and shows all the things you would want from the game.
Unfortunately, the game is aliens: colonial marines.
I know what a shitshow the game turned out to be and I STILL want to play it after watching the trailer.
SFxT's trailers were so good.
SSFIV, MvC3 and SFxT all had pretty fantastic trailers, honestly, though SFxT is the only one that qualifies for this thread.
Because it's not gameplay. They showed off the small bits of unpolished gameplay they had after six years of production on the original and also target render footage of FFXV. But the trailer came out early enough in the PS4/XB1's life cycle that people honestly thought some of that was realtime footage
TimeShift had some neat trailers, including a live-action one, that really sold me on the time control aspect, as well as the alternate reality dystopia vibe it had going for it.
Strangely, the live-action trailer had almost nothing to do with the game, other than showing how OP'd the protagonist was. Regardless, I was nearly as excited for it as some of the other big shooters of 2007, such as Crysis, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, and BioShock. Imagine my disappointment when I first played it and realized you couldn't pull off even a third of the stuff that's shown in the trailers. It was almost pointless to even give players a suit that could manipulate time when it offered such little utility in combat. Crysis did a much better job of adapting the choreography shown in its trailers to the actual gameplay.
Strangely, the live-action trailer had almost nothing to do with the game, other than showing how OP'd the protagonist was. Regardless, I was nearly as excited for it as some of the other big shooters of 2007, such as Crysis, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, and BioShock. Imagine my disappointment when I first played it and realized you couldn't pull off even a third of the stuff that's shown in the trailers. It was almost pointless to even give players a suit that could manipulate time when it offered such little utility in combat. Crysis did a much better job of adapting the choreography shown in its trailers to the actual gameplay.
Surprised it took as long as it did to mention this. This is THE most misleading trailer I've ever seen in my life.
It is a good game. If you ignore the shitty story.
Conquest is top Fire Emblem and one of the best games in the genre.
For me it would be The Blair Witch game that came out in the last few years. I think it was debuted at the 2019 Xbox E3 show. I thought it was going to be fun and spooky but to me the game was low quality
Yeah, OG Destiny is what caused me to not let myself get overhyped for almost anything anymore. I bought the special white PS4, the matching headset, and the collector's edition of the game and proceeded to beat the story in one sitting. I remember playing the beta and telling myself "There's definitely going to be more to this in the full game" and there wasn't. But yeah, it got much better after I'd been hurt lol.
Oh yeah, that's a good one. Jin & Xiao Yu vs M. Bison & Juri was hype as fuck.
It's amazing how much of this was scrapped and how much was turned into the movie, the anime and the manga. Almost nothing here is in the game itself, but it's in all the transmedia.
This. Soo much potentials.
Great cast, cool environment and setting, interesting story, top graphic, but the gameplay............yikes.
The game need a second chance.
This is some revisionist history stuff, the whole base game WAS full of that humor, which is partly why players grew bored of it. The game having that awful "humor" is what almost killed it until they killed Cayde off a year later.
It's at best running decently most of the time, but it's not good, let alone "very". It's still pretty barebones as a game, and a far, far cry from its reveal trailers. It will never be the game they showed off.
Cyberpunk 2077. People freaked out so much over the trailers and gameplay videos up to the launch, but I never saw whatever others did to be so excited for the game up to its disastrous launch. Luckily, I was cool with skipping the game and avoided that whole mess.
I mean we're both right, I didn't laugh once during Destiny 2 which is where my revisionist history is coming from.
Heh, you made me dig out my E3 2014 archive of the game which had these as BMP shots (auto-converted to PNG during upload):
BMP originals in their zip file if you want them:
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Bioshock Infinite was going to be my pick, but has already been mentioned. Man, what a cool first gameplay demo...
Was such a letdown when I finally played the game. After it ended I just felt disappointed. Luckily the Burial at Sea DLC was super cool.
It's not though. BotW turned into something different than what the initial trailer made me think.
Still frustrates me that I don't enjoy it anywhere as much as so many other people do. I love Zelda games, too :(
Was such a letdown when I finally played the game. After it ended I just felt disappointed. Luckily the Burial at Sea DLC was super cool.
It's not though. BotW turned into something different than what the initial trailer made me think.
Still frustrates me that I don't enjoy it anywhere as much as so many other people do. I love Zelda games, too :(
ubisoft have possibly the best marketing team in the planet.
they also have lots of mediocre and bad games
I, as someone who bought Black Flag 3 times, have to give an honorable mention to the first assassin's creed.
Also, honorable mention to Playstation All Star Battle Royale.
the "lets just release the intro" was awesome
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Specially the Michael Playstation Ad that was kinda an ad for PsAsBR but wasn't but had a trailer that was.
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they also have lots of mediocre and bad games
I, as someone who bought Black Flag 3 times, have to give an honorable mention to the first assassin's creed.
Also, honorable mention to Playstation All Star Battle Royale.
the "lets just release the intro" was awesome
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Specially the Michael Playstation Ad that was kinda an ad for PsAsBR but wasn't but had a trailer that was.
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Just for me personally, nothing can top this. I must've watched this 50 times.
The first couple days after launch were so dejecting.
FUCK.
If Alpha Lupi ARG and Music of the Spheres counts (for Destiny 1), then I'd pick that. There weren't really any trailers at this point. Just music snippets, deep-Bungie lore dumps, concept art, and minimal vidoc hints.
Not that I hated Destiny (I had like 2K+ hours across the franchise), but the tone and concept I gathered from those things were never realized in the game we ended up getting. Not even close. (Here's hoping Starfield scratches that itch because it's the only marketing lead up that's met Bungie's for D1 that I've seen since that matches the tone and scope that I dreamt of and I hope they stick that landing)
Probably Elder Scrolls Online and Star Wars The Old Republic come close. Don't hate MMOs. Don't like those ones, though. :-/
Not that I hated Destiny (I had like 2K+ hours across the franchise), but the tone and concept I gathered from those things were never realized in the game we ended up getting. Not even close. (Here's hoping Starfield scratches that itch because it's the only marketing lead up that's met Bungie's for D1 that I've seen since that matches the tone and scope that I dreamt of and I hope they stick that landing)
Probably Elder Scrolls Online and Star Wars The Old Republic come close. Don't hate MMOs. Don't like those ones, though. :-/
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Just watched it - that Dead Island trailer is cracking good. Ive never seen even a second of the gameplay... Im guessing its nothing like that?
The tone of the released game is very different from the ad, which portrays something more…somber and tragic I suppose.
Dead Island the game is a coop-focused FPS with RPG mechanics, the storytelling is very simple, while there are some notes and environmental storytelling, it is ultimately surface-level in depth. Oh, and it has a loooooot of jank.
Edit: For my own pick - I would go with Destiny. It was more than just any trailer in fairness, the hype leading up to launch made me expect something much greater in scope to the released game.
Aside from the game being not quite as pretty, everything in that trailer is basically in the game.
-the art style
-open grassy fields
-being chased by gaurdians
-the bow
-horse travel
-jumpijg from the horse while firing the bow.
I'm not really sure what you were expecting, but the trailer is pretty reflective of the final game.
To be fair, that was a case of executive meddling. IIRC guerilla created that as a kind of proof of concept for what they thought they could do with the hardware they were promised. It was just intended for internal use. It was meant for a pitch meeting. Then some higher up decided to make it public and then Jack tretton said it was in-game.
