More proper game demonstrations please

[More Butter]

I'm not trying to take a poo on Inside Xbox today. Honestly i'm happy to see next gen games in any form but why can't we get footage prerecorded or live of people playing the game? I think back to my favorite event moments and its not trailers of "gameplay" with quick cuts and loads of cutscenes. I want to see a short recording of the game being played. I understand that there was gameplay in the Inside Xbox thing but I still don't have a great idea what the games will be like at all. I feel like these marketing people really misunderstand me..

 

[Dreazy]

This why i laugh when i see ppl celebrate "No More E3" like huh ? smh. But yea i dont know whey will understand showing gameplay demos is the way to go.

 

[Lepi]

The world is not as is usually is. Coronavirus is likely making things much more challenging, it is already hugely taxing to produce a gameplay demo to begin with let alone with the changes in workplaces the world over at the moment.

 

[Naga]

Yeah. I don't mind when it's clear it'll be the case, but when you say "gameplay preview" then show an in-engine (usually not real time) trailer, then have the presenter gush about "all that gameplay", it's frankly perplexing.
Either say cool trailers, or say you'll show gameplay. But don't show the former and say it's the latter.

 

[luminosity]

The world is not as is usually is. Coronavirus is likely making things much more challenging, it is already hugely taxing to produce a gameplay demo to begin with let alone with the changes in workplaces the world over at the moment.

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Boot up OBS and hook up a microphone...

 

[More Butter]

The world is not as is usually is. Coronavirus is likely making things much more challenging, it is already hugely taxing to produce a gameplay demo to begin with let alone with the changes in workplaces the world over at the moment.

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I understand if the game is still early in development but how hard is it to get a dev with a controller to pay through a small portion of game? Probably easier than editing together a trailer.

 

[Watership]

Youlre going to have to wait a bit longer. Also MS can't tell 3rd parties how to show their games, even if its their stream. That's never been the way its worked. They ask for material, and they get what the 3rd parties give them.

 

[signal]

You'll get them eventually.

 

[Renteka-Bond]

Ah, you mean the Assassin's Creed Bait and Switch. Yeah, I'm only tangentially interested in it, but all I could think of was how nothing of a trailer that was.

 

[TaySan]

I just wish companies would stop saying "gameplay" and instead say "in engine". That would help temper expectations.

 

[OnanieBomb]

Treehouse is still the gold standard

 

[Deleted member 29682]

There was the Baldur's Gate 3 alpha gameplay preview, but even here people called it unprofessional when the dev was frank about the limitations of the build.

People were actually complaining that the marketing was transparent.

 

[Man Called Aerodynamics]

Feel the same way. I'd just like to get a sense of what the game feels like to play. Even the trailers that did seem to show real gameplay would show like a series of split-second quick cuts that were over before they registered. And that Dirt trailer seemed hellbent on showing the cars racing from every possible camera angle except the one you'd see when you're actually playing it.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

hoping for more like this tbh

 

[TheDeep1974]

1 minute vertical slice of unedited gameplay footage is where it's at

 

[xem]

1. Yes id really like to have them but its probably not realistic due to the nature of final dev kit availability and dev time with said next-gen hardware and work from home all happening now.
2. I would rather have the game(s) played on a PC with similar hardware than some gameplay trailers.

 

[Oneself]

Just don't call it "gameplay" when you market it.

 

[Samiya]

This how it has always been for the industry.

 

[Sparks]

It's just incredibly early. I'm impressed they even had "in engine footage".

Showing your game played as is, is incredibly challenging in early production. Because it requires you to basically "FINISH" a part of your game.

 

[Bradford]

Probably easier than editing together a trailer.

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It's definitely not. Gameplay has to account for a million variables, and isn't tightly controlled. There likely aren't fully polished sections of the game even playable yet. A trailer is infinitely easier.

 

[Pyro]

I understand if the game is still early in development but how hard is it to get a dev with a controller to pay through a small portion of game? Probably easier than editing together a trailer.

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[More Butter]

It's definitely not. Gameplay has to account for a million variables, and isn't tightly controlled. There likely aren't fully polished sections of the game even playable yet. A trailer is infinitely easier.

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I'm ignorant as hell about development I guess..