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How prey tell would they show the gameplay in a CG cinematic trailer without looking like a Left 4 Dead clone? This is just a lesson to always take CG trailers with a grain of salt. A game doesn't exist until we see gameplay.
Yeah, fine. Fair enough. But can someone please make the game the first trailer suggested we might get. I'll play Dead Island too, but I feel like I got blue balled here a little.
It sounds like he's speaking purely in terms of graphics and gameplay, but not at all about the narrative direction -- which was certainly the most misleading aspect of the trailer in question. Of course we understand that CGI cutscene trailers aren't representative of gameplay, but I think it's unfair to present your game's story as conveying something it almost certainly doesn't.
It has to be hard for a game to bring out graphic game play so early. The graphics are not done in most cases. I have no problem with CGI trailers.
As a rule, if I don't see a HUD it is not ingame.
I didn't think for a minute that this trailer was gameplay but it teased me good to look into this game.
As a rule, if I don't see a HUD it is not ingame.
I didn't think for a minute that this trailer was gameplay but it teased me good to look into this game.
The whole "controversy" is just silly. Not much more I personally have to say on the matter. It's like ordering a Taco Bell burrito and being upset that it doesn't look like what it looks like on the commercials. It might still be good but it is a known god damn fact that nothing Taco Bell serves looks ANYTHING like the ads.
Might be a bad analogy since Taco Bell blows flying monkey dung but
you get my point.
Might be a bad analogy since Taco Bell blows flying monkey dung but
you get my point.
Dunno about you but I'd love to play a game as a zombie girl who spits chunks of meat into people's necks to heal them.
There was 'controversy' over this...? How stupid. As others have said, CGI trailers = grain of salt.
How dare they make beautiful CGI trailers and release ingame footage BEFORE the game is released, in order to create interest to the game. Damn marketing!
yep. that's called advertising. i got no problem with it either, since i am aware of what advertising is.
Honestly, if I only had that overblown, artsy crap CGI trailer to go by, I'd have written off this game as being to full of itself.
CG trailers give a feeling of the game, the mood, the tone, not direct gameplay. I knew that watching it. That being said, I hope one day someone makes a game that evokes the kind of emotions that trailer did.
It's a CG trailer, did people actually expect anything different than a L4Dish game. That's like saying that people should have been pissed off every time they marketed a Final Fantasy game on the PS1 because the graphics ended up being nothing like the CGI. Maybe it's because of my age, but 'gamers' nowadays never fail to surprise me.
Incredibly frustrating PR talk from people either willfully out of touch or ignorantly so.
This was about narrative, that trailer made was want to play that family, that is the issue, we wanted to find out about their story, we did not want generic zombie game #409124
This was about narrative, that trailer made was want to play that family, that is the issue, we wanted to find out about their story, we did not want generic zombie game #409124
To be honest, as neat as a game based on that trailer would have been, I really like the direction the REAL game is going.
The CGI trailer was misleading, but it also got the attention of a large majority of people. The game may be different, but the trailer did a good job of getting the word out so I'm sure it will still sell well.
Doesn't matter to me though, whether the game ended up like it was shown in the first trailer or not I probably wasn't going to buy it. Sick of all these zombie games, lets start making some dinosaur games guys.
Doesn't matter to me though, whether the game ended up like it was shown in the first trailer or not I probably wasn't going to buy it. Sick of all these zombie games, lets start making some dinosaur games guys.
Any trailer that doesn't show gameplay is going to be a little different from the game, unless they just ripped it right from the game itself. And for god's sake, the game still has zombies at an island resort. It's not that misleading!
The people who are worked up about this can consider it a learning experience: Advertising exists to get your attention, and not necessarily to tell the truth.
The people who are worked up about this can consider it a learning experience: Advertising exists to get your attention, and not necessarily to tell the truth.
Marketing! Need to have a way to get people's attention first, and once you have it you continue to try and sell the product. I work at a fancy retail store and it's the same as putting out a pretty flyer to bring people in. Doesn't mean they'll like the product once they have it in their hands.
That trailer grabbed my attention and got me interested in the game. Can't say I'd be following it otherwise. I mean it's another zombie game..
That trailer grabbed my attention and got me interested in the game. Can't say I'd be following it otherwise. I mean it's another zombie game..
I was interested in what the trailer made me think the game would be, unfortunately the L4D knockoff it became is of no interest to me.
Trailer was a huge success. If they'd marketed it as a L4D clone there would be so much BAWWING from self-indulgent dipshits
I dunno...if you see a Left 4 Dead CG trailer it pretty much shows what you can expect from the game. Dead Islands CG trailer did not in any way show what the game was going to be like. It was very misleading. My interest went from extremely high to barely caring and I know the exact point I stopped giving a shit...it was when they announced "electrified machetes".
Wait did Epic need to apologize after their Gears of War, Mad World Trailer? Also the trailer was great and entertaining I'm glad it got made as a stand alone piece of entertainment. Yeah it set expectations to a narrative model but that was cleared up the second the screen cap of a musclebound straight jacket wearing zombie was shown. Still looks cool.
Fair enough. It was mindblowing piece of 3D art but it wasn't called gameplay trailer. I'm not surpised.
Fair enough. It was mindblowing piece of 3D art but it wasn't called gameplay trailer. I'm not surprised.
I'm not a fan of CG trailers, I prefer to see what I'm actually going to buy.
That said I've never seen a CG trailer misrepresent a game THIS badly, it looks like it's for a completely different product, something with a story that has some power.
It's basically lies on top of lies, people have a right to be peeved as the game (which does look interesting anyway) doesn't look like it's going to have a time rewinding mechanic or tear jerking story.
Well it got them some attention... so mission accomplished, even if the had to kill a little CG girl to do it.
That said I've never seen a CG trailer misrepresent a game THIS badly, it looks like it's for a completely different product, something with a story that has some power.
It's basically lies on top of lies, people have a right to be peeved as the game (which does look interesting anyway) doesn't look like it's going to have a time rewinding mechanic or tear jerking story.
Well it got them some attention... so mission accomplished, even if the had to kill a little CG girl to do it.
Basically, the cgi trailer sold the game by pretending that they would be advancing the medium in some way. They're not. It's blatantly obvious now, but for many, a sale has still been made on false pretenses.
When there's a big story about something the game does do that's great and worthwhile, I'll give a damn. Otherwise, zombie game of the week is what it is.
When there's a big story about something the game does do that's great and worthwhile, I'll give a damn. Otherwise, zombie game of the week is what it is.
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