Developers showcasing cinematic trailers at E3 are false advertising.
E3. The place where people showcase upcoming games and consoles. A place where developers manipulate consumers to buy products.
The Cinematic trailers
Look I understand that the gaming market is oversaturated and that developers use everything at their disposal to promote a game in this industry, but it doesn't justify the use of cinematic trailers.
It is false advertising. It tricks consumers into buying the product thinking that the game would be exactly like the trailer. It makes me sick. Why make a cinematic trailer look so good when you in fact know the game would look like a pixelated game from the '90's when compared against each other?
I feel like the world has run out of ideas. Every year we see the same games with different names getting released and this might be a huge contributor to the cinematic trailer phenomenal.
Gameplay should be what sells the game, not an animated movie.
Consumers rush to the stores after seeing the cinematic trailers at E3,spending hundreds of dollars on the newly released game only to proceed home where they will wait 5 hours for an Update to finish before being knocked out by a huge fist of disappointment.
The developers are sneaky though. They will put this little fineprint text at the bottom proclaiming that the trailer is not actual game footage. But that raises the question again, why make use of an animated movie instead of real game play?
For me I would much rather enjoy seeing actual footage of the game or maybe a couple minutes of the gameplay on which I can judge if it deserves my money.
Nowadays if I see a cinematic trailer for a game, I immediately lose interest.
That being said cinematic trailers and in-game cutscenes are totally different (in my opinion)
There is a big difference between cutscenes and cinematic trailers. I am totally fine with the cutscenes in games. They look way better than the actual gameplay but it adds a realness to the story.
You might argue that the trailers also adds to the realness of the story and the game and that they are exactly like the cutscenes. The problem is not the adding realness to the game, the problem is that trailers create a false hype over a game which leads to disappointment.
Cutscenes are necessary in some games and it is okay because they do not give the user a false sense of this amazing game. All they do is tell a quick story and then you continue with the Real Game
Let me know how you feel about this in the comment section below.
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I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with showing cutscenes for story driven games, Fallout, Skyrim, GTA single player, etc. but it should be labeled as such. Trying to pass cutscenes off as gameplay is just an ugly practice.
I totally agree. Label it as such and let the consumer know that it is not actual gameplay
I could not agree more. Nothing is worse than sitting through all the not actual gameplay footage showcasing a game just to find out that it can't even hold a flame to its 5 minute CGI movie.
And although I am pro- cutscene as well I don't think it should be listed like it is in commercials as actual gameplay footage. Because you aren't playing it, you're simply watching. Cut scenes are fine, but they aren't gameplay, they are cut scenes.
I enjoyed your post, great read.
Thank you . Great to know there are people out there feeling the same way about these things.
My wife gives me such a crap look as we watch TV or a stream and the ad comes up, says actually gameplay footage, and I'm like "Where's the menu?! or the HUD?! Or is this just some cutscene I'll be forced to watch within my first three minutes of gameplay?"
Then I look at her for vindication. "That is not gameplay footage, I don't care what they say." I get a blank stare.
The best one is the Magic the Gathering ads with all these CGI monsters attacking each other. Just to be an ass I yell "Actual gameplay footage!" and the wife just shakes her head and hands me the baby.
And then I tell the baby all about real gameplay footage, and how I miss it.
haha funny stuff. Allow us to skip cutscenes if we wanted.
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I think video games are an evolution of cinema. I'm more of a strategy game person thought. I'm totally addicted to Paradox's games right now especially Stellaris.
I am more into Battlefield and Assassin's Creed type games
I love Assassin's creed, but they only made a very small number for MacOS so I only played like 2 of them.
AC Origins looks good. Have you considered a console?
I have never had a console lol. My parents wouldn't let me 30 years ago, so I focused on PC games :-)
PS4 Pro or Xbox One X is what I am planning to get as soon as I get the money
I work in the film industry so buying a console would be cash I'd normally put directly into graphics cards. I'm excited to see if my ethereum mining rig with six cards renders the crap out of the files I work with.
First thing I have to say is that graphics alone dont make a game good so if a game does not look as good as the cg trailer that not necessarily a bad thing. Another thing is that cg trailers can be used very effectively to tell a story and introduces a game. Take the evil within 2's trailer that just came out. It gives a sense of the tone of the game and it shows off some of the cool weird shit while at the same time giving us story. I personally like when they have cg trailers and game play trailers revealed at the same time, again like the evil within 2. I think that if you think that a game will look as good as the cg trailer you are fooling yourself, because it is also on the gamer to do some research and see if the game is for them. just buying something blindly is not a good idea.