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CGI trailers are annoying.
SkillCosby
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A game's CGI trailer is borderline fraudulent.
The game looks nothing like the CGI trailer.
The game plays nothing like the CGI trailer.
The number of consumers who fall for this false hype amazes me. It's like ordering a glass of 7-UP. However, instead of actually getting a glass of crystal-sugared goodness, you get a glass of carbonated water.
IF A GAME IS GOOD, PEOPLE WILL PLAY IT.
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Totally agree, they should stop spending time on Cgi trailers and use that time to improve the game.. I actually pref a good gameplay trailer instead of a cgi one.
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Yep, CGI even mage Hellgate, Star Trek Online and Aion look good, and they rank as the 3 biggest flops I've ever player in the last 12 years. The trouble is, they'll keep doing CGI teasers because so many munchkins start frothing at the mouth to buy the game as soon as they see some CGI.
I do like some of the CGI 'stories' that have been told. Especially the SW:ToR ones. However, I'm not one of those people who looks at an obviously CGI trailer and thinks, "That's what the game will be!"
I would definitely prefer that money spent on CGI be spent on the game. I certainly don't need CGI trailers. I bet that there is proof that having a CGI trailer makes a game sell X% more though. I bet the CGI trailers are as much for the investors and potential investors as they are for the customers.
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Many MMOs coming out now are IP-based. They aren't selling the game, they're selling the IP. These trailers are about enhancing the IP in the imagination of would-be-customers. I may not be a fan of this trend, but I don't see trailer as any more dishonest than the brand name attached to the game.
I'm not sure. I was always a huge fan of the CGI trailers blizzard did back in the day (even though they personally didn't make them iirc. They hired someone else to make them, but the point is still there). I would watch the Starcraft, diablo 2, and warcraft 3 cinematics specifically over and over agan just because they were so well done.
The cgi trailer helps bring in inital interest (for me anyways), after that I look up actual gameplay videos or the sort. So I don't base the game off the CGI, but it does help catch the eye sometimes, and I personally have nothing against CGI vids in game to help progress a story sometimes.
After what...almost 20 years of gaming with CG cinematics, people still can't tell the difference between a CG sequence and actual gameplay?
It's there to tell the story and give a lead-in to the game, that is all. Much as FF7 had great CG moments in between characters so polygonal you couldn't tell their heads from their asses, it serves as a story enhancer. Sure, the more impressive it is, the more people are hyped for the game itself, but people should be intelligent enough by now to realize their computers/consoles aren't at all powerful enough to handle a game that actual played the way a CG trailer looks. Nothing is. Not yet anyway. So when you see one, you should instantly know it won't actually look like that. Sort of like the 'hot chick' who's hiding the fact that her pear-shaped figure is actually more like an apple once the spanks come off.
I agree it would be nice to have these trailers spliced with some in-game footage so people have an idea of the game they'll be playing, but it's not as if those don't exist as well.
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I love them, they really pump me up. The DCU online CGI trailer is amazing. I won't buy a game just because of the trailer tho, Neither have I tried DCU.
I like it how Elder Scrolls:Skyrim did show actual ingame gameplay videos from first trailer to lastest 3 huge gameplay movies.
But sometimes its nice those CGI movies i collect them for years now and sometimes watch them.
I doub many think its actual ingame gameplay most know its for show.
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I've been smart enough ever since I started playing video games to tell the difference between CGI trailers and the game.
Just enjoy the trailers for what they are, nothing more. I like them. I go to the Blur Studios website from time to time just to see all of the nice trailers they have made.
Do you actually think they are using their Devs to make CGI trailers? There is no time lost from making CGI trailers because the people that make them are hired for that alone. That's like saying companies shouldn't do commercials but instead work on their product. That's what CGI trailers are, advertisements.
And the people who think the game is going to be anything like those trailers probably think that singing the State Farm Insurance theme is going to give them anything they want.
CGI trailers are great!
They've been costing idiots money since they were invented. Money that can then be spend to improve the game for those that actually made an informed decision in buying the game.
If you've ever bought a game purely because of a CGI trailer you're basically just paying everyone back for having to live with your stupidity. You're paying back the developers for every single retarded whine you ever posted on the forums. You're indirectly paying back the entire playerbase for every single time you acted like a jerk in-game.
If you get caught up in any hype there's nobody to blame but yourself. You know that until a game is actually released everything you see, from interviews to gameplay videos, is just advertisement. No developer is going to release a statement saying that they don't think the game is all that great. No developer is going to post a gameplay video where the player gets killed over and over and over again while he's completely alone because nobody else is playing.
Game companies aren't trying to tell you the cold hard truth about their games, they're the most biased party possible. That's what you have reviewers and critics for. Game companies are trying to get you as excited as humanly possible. That's the entire point of advertisement.
Game companies aren't to blame for retarded customers getting caught up in the hype. CGI trailers certainly aren't to blame for retarded customers getting caught up in the hype. Retarded customers are to blame for getting caught up in the hype.
I for one applaud CGI trailers and cheer for every customer who spends his money without knowing enough about the game. It's just a little bit of karma, just a little bit of stupidity-tax. Wasting $50 on a game is relatively harmless and with some luck the idiot who spend it will learn just a tiny little bit and after enough mistakes leave his idiocy behind.
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It doesn't matter.
Let's say it costs 1 million dollars to create a 2 min CGI trailer. I'd personally rather take that money and hire a few graphic artists to sit and make endless amounts of weapons & armor for several years straight...
I like CGI trailers. They are usually entertaining and pretty well done. The original Dawn of War and The Witcher were both pretty cool for their time.
That being said though, I don't know how anyone would buy a game based on a trailer or even get excited about a game because of one. I guess to me as a form of advertisement they fail. As a form of entertainment I enjoy them.