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Say the new Batman game is announced... Via CGI trailer
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Arkham Knight and Origins were announced with CGI trailers. Can't rememeber about the other two games but it seems like a safe bet.
I'd only really mind if it leaves things vague - like if all we see are Court of Owls people running around and it's not entirely clear if we're playing as them (god I hope not) or as Batman.
Usually in cases like that though we get a press release, unless it's very much a teaser.
Usually in cases like that though we get a press release, unless it's very much a teaser.
It's not the development team that makes the CGI trailer, so it's the only logical conclusion when the game is in first stages of development.
I feel to opposite. I only give it a pass if it is a famous franchise. They feel more useless for new IPs you know nothing about, while something like Warcraft 4 could honestly only need to show a logo.
So? Just don't announce the game until it's near enough to release to where they can show the game. I don't think games really need to have trailers years in advance. Movies don't do that, not sure why games do
Are we expecting the gameplay to not look like the dozen other games? I don't get what the big difference is in this case. It's just going to look like one of those games.
Any differences will come from tone and atmosphere, which a CG trailer can convey just as easily (if not better) than seeing batman leap over a guy to punch another guy.
Any differences will come from tone and atmosphere, which a CG trailer can convey just as easily (if not better) than seeing batman leap over a guy to punch another guy.
Hold up. Timeout. Tomb Raider can get away with CGI trailers since the fans are more interested in what the setting is and CGI is an impressive way to announce it. Most games don't get away with it though.
Within an established franchise, I'm more interested in where the story is going. So if the CGI team is tasked with making a trailer so the development team can keep at it, that's a non-issue for me. We know it's gonna look like a Rocksteady Batman game, just let me know what Batman's up against.
I don't mind cgi trailers when they give an exact date for gameplay or we see gameplay right after like at conference or similar. But cgi trailer then seeing something like 2022 pisses me the the hell off. Or we pretty much only see cgi trailers for a game like elder scrolls online, I get the game looks like garbage to a mass audience but at least do both.
If the first thing we get from WB Montreal after six years of silence is a CG teaser, then yeah, I'd be disappointed.
I honestly don't care. CGI trailer is fine if you want to pitch the games story, atmosphere and/or theme. The Witcher 3 "killing monsters" cgi trailer is probably my favorite trailer from Witcher 3 for example. It wasn't the reveal trailer but still.
I want to know what their plan is for a new Batman is and a cgi trailer would totally enough for that, since I don't expect the gameplay to be drastically different.
I want to know what their plan is for a new Batman is and a cgi trailer would totally enough for that, since I don't expect the gameplay to be drastically different.
Movies have their existence known through press releases. There's a Batman movie due for 2021 that we first learned about in 2017.
I see CGI trailers can be an entertaining way to make those same announcements. A situation like MK11, where it's six months before release, is a little strange though.
I would personally expect something closer to the Eldren Ring trailer with random CGI characters or backgrounds. Not too much.
I guess, but there are times -- this past e3, for example -- where it's just one CG trailer after another, never any gameplay, and I can't help but feel let down. That's not what we play games for
I honestly liked the Batman CGI trailers. The one for Arkham Knight is amazing, but I also really like this (short) TV spot for Arkham Origins:
They have a good track record so who cares. If the game isn't coming out any time soon, gameplay is worthless.
I hate CG trailers. If they're not going to tell you anything about at all about what the game is actually like, they may as well not have announced it.
As long as it's not a whole conference full of it EA did once. But anyways I expect it to be CGI but we get some screenshots next month.
I'm not interested in watching CG game trailers anymore. You can get me just as excited with a tweet reading "[developer] is working on a new game in [franchise]".
I wouldn't mind if it was being built from the ground up for next gen and wasn't coming til 2021
but given that rocksteady hasn't released a game since 2015, I'm expecting an announcement this year, crossgen release next year. so given how close we probably are from launch, we'll probably see some gameplay.
but given that rocksteady hasn't released a game since 2015, I'm expecting an announcement this year, crossgen release next year. so given how close we probably are from launch, we'll probably see some gameplay.
