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Is It Just Me Or Does Microsoft And Others Need To Stop Using So Many CG Trailers?
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I agree with this viewpoint. If it's not a sequel or a revival, keep it away.
Or at the very least, try to do something that kind of presents things similarly to the gameplay.
Im sure there's more than enough data to show that more people prefer CG reveals to nothing at all. Especially when you can glean info from CG trailers about the game and the direction it's going.
CG Trailers are perfectly fine for Teaser and Announcement Trailers. They've tended to move to Gameplay once they actually have stuff to show, but like they have to announce a title years before hand and you dont want that early version to be the first impression people see.
So CG is perfectly fine to start with
So CG is perfectly fine to start with
I mean, I don't have a problem with CGI trailers (dependent on a few other factors at least). My first post in this thread is hoping Blizzard never stops producing them lol.
The "announce the game six months to a year before its currently scheduled release date" seems to work fine for Bethesda and Capcom; more companies should do that, then they won't have to show 12fps in-game footage.
An all-cgi trailer is rough, and there was too many at this award show. Cut together a mix of gameplay and cinematics or don't bother.
It's worst when they're presented as animated shorts and just never get to the fucking point. This was Ark II for me during the VGAs.
1.) no its not just you, if you have to ask if its just you, the answer will be no 100 percent of the time
2.) i dislike them...and it makes it hard for me to feel excited about microsofts games when all they have to show are cg, or in engine trailers that set a visual bar that the final product cant reach on target hardware
3.) they exist because its a way for companies to
Announce a game without having to take the time to cut gameplay footage for it or develop a time consuming verticle slice
4.) they are a necessary evil
2.) i dislike them...and it makes it hard for me to feel excited about microsofts games when all they have to show are cg, or in engine trailers that set a visual bar that the final product cant reach on target hardware
3.) they exist because its a way for companies to
Announce a game without having to take the time to cut gameplay footage for it or develop a time consuming verticle slice
4.) they are a necessary evil
Yup I hate them. I said it during the awards, but I especially hate the ones in which it does not even show what any gameplay or anything will be like. The perfect dark one, the mass effect one. Useless. Especially in mass effects case, if the game was already announced. We knew a new one was coming, so the trailer was pointless IMO
This place is sometimes strange. Not long ago, there were calls for Microsoft to show people what they were working on, to set the tone about what they were going to put out even if some of those games were going to be some ways off. They did just that.
I am not the greatest fan of CG stuff, and it would be great for them to go back to what they used to do with Gears or Forza.......show up to E3 and play the game in front of people. That said, this approach also works just fine. We know what a good number of their studios are working on and they can pretty much now show games in ac
Personally, I wanted Perfect Dark, and we are getting one. I wanted to see a James Bond game, and we are getting one; neither has any gameplay to show and that is just fine. I am a fan of God of War and all we got was a freaking logo, and it does not make me less excited for the title.
I am not the greatest fan of CG stuff, and it would be great for them to go back to what they used to do with Gears or Forza.......show up to E3 and play the game in front of people. That said, this approach also works just fine. We know what a good number of their studios are working on and they can pretty much now show games in ac
Some just put up a logo and people get hyped. Weird world we live in.
Personally, I wanted Perfect Dark, and we are getting one. I wanted to see a James Bond game, and we are getting one; neither has any gameplay to show and that is just fine. I am a fan of God of War and all we got was a freaking logo, and it does not make me less excited for the title.
CG trailers have literately mean nothing. And yeah Microsoft has a bad habit of showing cg trailers and not even having a real game behind them smh.
Pretty much. This tired topic gets trotted out so much. People generally like CG trailers and they work to build hype and anticipation, and revealing gameplay early provides little payoff.
If you're going to make a flippant comment like that, at least be correct.
God of War 2018 was revealed with a big gameplay demo. Days Gone was revealed with a gameplay demo (in the same E3 conference). Horizon Zero Dawn was revealed with a huge gameplay demo.
And games like Spider-Man were introduced with a meaty trailer that was much more than the basic CG trailers of games like Perfect Dark, Fable, Avowed, etc.
I really don't care... a well made gameplay trailer of cgi trailer gets me hyped either way.. and that PD trailer was amazing...and let's not forget covid is a thing right now.
Why are people behaving like Microsoft has not done this before?
CG trailers are as good as a title for me.
I can't play CG, it doesn't exist. Show me a game.
I don't think MS is really the standars bearer for this though.
I can't play CG, it doesn't exist. Show me a game.
I don't think MS is really the standars bearer for this though.
God of War Ragnarok was announced with a logo and gamers praised Sony for it. These are obvious double standards. I'm fine with CGI trailers early in development like with the case of Perfect Dark. It let's us know what games to keep an eye on in the future.
God of War announced a 2021 release date, you need to have something. I think a CG teaser used to announced a game existence is fine ideally it would show you something about what the game will be like Avowed's trailer did. The problem with Xbox's summer show is they had a lot of CG trailers that showed games we knew were coming and Perfect Dark fits into that category. It's not their fault their games like Fable and Perfect Dark have been known secrets for awhile but seeing CG and a logo without a release date when we all know that's what they were working on isn't that exciting.
There's an obvious solution here: Don't show the game until it's ready.
You are conveniently leaving out all the CG reveals for Sony and the gameplay reveals for MS. Nice job. Seems like you aren't correct
+1 here too.
it's gotten to the point where I will literally fast forward a trailer with CG unless it's some sort of direct sequel well I'm waiting for, e.g, final fantasy 7 remake.
I feel like we need real life version of HBO's Entourage star Ari Gold to explain to these folks HOW to make an effective trailer that will actually build hype
A GC Trailer ist fine, as long as I also see some Gameplay (and not that Ubisoft kinda Gameplay, real one)
What was Sony's last CG announcement? They particularly highlighted that every game presenting the PS5 was running on that system. The only exception was FF16 and the God of War title announcement.
I'd honestly rather just a logo reveal or something tbh. A CG trailer literally tells you nothing, just that the game is years off. I'm much preferring what Nintendo seem to be doing more of, with revealing games like a month or two before release.
Cause gamers get real upset when a game doesn't look finished when it's not finished and making a game look finished before it isn't finished is incredibly difficult and can also screw with the development pace.
And it's nice having an outside studio work on a cool trailer, helps solidify a vision for the team and investors.
And it's nice having an outside studio work on a cool trailer, helps solidify a vision for the team and investors.
The alternative is showing gameplay that's unpolished which I know people on this forum would take great pleasure in ripping into as if it's the finished product.
Or, they can put together a vertical slice, which will inevitably have changes in the final game, to which the internet, Era most definitely included, would rip into and cry downgrade, lies and deception.
Putting together actually good looking game demo's when said game is nowhere near finished or the team is currently crazy busy trying to hit milestones is difficult, especially during a pandemic.
It's just not always viable, especially if a team wants their gameplay reveal to be high quality and representative of what they hope to ship. Get over it.
Or, they can put together a vertical slice, which will inevitably have changes in the final game, to which the internet, Era most definitely included, would rip into and cry downgrade, lies and deception.
Putting together actually good looking game demo's when said game is nowhere near finished or the team is currently crazy busy trying to hit milestones is difficult, especially during a pandemic.
It's just not always viable, especially if a team wants their gameplay reveal to be high quality and representative of what they hope to ship. Get over it.
There would be no reveals until a few months out then because people are brutal and getting worse.
Oh yeahhh definitely, should've just put up a splash screen of the title instead. You all go crazy for them.
It's kind of a standard marketing practice to save gameplay until closer to release so that the excitement does't peak too early. As others have said gameplay is probably not finalized too. Granted CG trailers say little more than "we are making this thing", but sometimes that's all there is to say anyway.
Don't mind them for tone and theme setting purposes but the hyperbolic "this looks absolutely amazing!" comments they always get are pretty stupid because the actual game you'll eventually be playing won't look like that.
Haven't read the Perfect Dark thread but I'd like to assume most of the excitement is seeing the franchise come back over the CGI trailer "looking absolutely amazing omg seriously" though.
Haven't read the Perfect Dark thread but I'd like to assume most of the excitement is seeing the franchise come back over the CGI trailer "looking absolutely amazing omg seriously" though.
This. This isn't just a MS problem, but a huge MS game was announced via CG so let's remind everyone how much CG is shit.
I got confirmation that this Initiative is bringing back Joana. I dont care if the shit was revealed via smoke signals. I'm hyped.
Ghost, TLOU2, FF7R, Uncharted 4, Detroit, Death Stranding, Demons Soul and Horizon FW were all revealed with cinematics that showed no gameplay. Ragnarock didn't even have footage.
A lot of developers need to master the CG/gameplay trailer mix well that fighting games do. For example, Smash Bros tonight did it amazingly well. They gave CG, gave gameplay, trailer wasn't even long but it did it's job. Same way whenever a Tekken trailer drops, MK, SF, everyone does it well so yeah, they need to get on board with it.
These CG trailers are cool teasers but that ain't enough for most people these days.
These CG trailers are cool teasers but that ain't enough for most people these days.