I did not do the work, Tom is on it and John worked on the V/O with him. I am not sure to its level of detail or depth - but since it is a trailer, it invariably can only be skin deep! I say "bog-standard "since I think our trailer analysis will be similar to what we have done in the past, not my work necessarily, but other trailer work we have done before. It is not like this will be done in any different way that makes it more or less exciting!
Oh! I did not read it as criticism so no worries.
I agree it is a matter of taste as to what one might find interesting, but there is only so much "preaching to the choir" we can perform at times regarding content before it gets tiresome or tedious if you get what I mean. I think DF walks a fine line regarding how we talk about a game at times. A lot of people want us to look at the b-roll and trailer for this game for example, yet at the same time, it is just b-roll and a trailer so it only offers up a comparatively small amount of reliable information before the game comes out. We have this trouble all the time with trailers - people who have a vested interest in a platform or game series want us to look at them, but we sometimes have limited things to say. Or at least limited postive things to say. For example, when I watch a game trailer I look for artefacts or real time rendering limitations and think about those things, that is how I narrow down what techniques are on display, through their imperfections. Do people really want to watch a trailer analysis video that points at the flaws of rendering in their favourite video game? Or do they want to see something which aligns to their hype quotient and is just talking about "how good it looks"?
It is hard - here I was spending this morning watching the b-roll and looking at the official screenshots but the things that stuck out to me were the artefacts or imperfections.
Yeah thanks, you read what I wrote much better than I probably wrote it. hah.
Like you say, a trailer analysis video is very much so standard content and ephemeral. How a game is technically made, warts and all, and a look behind the curtains is actually really rare as I see it. The lack of reception is disappointing.
