Death Stranding (PS4) The Game Awards 2016 trailer

[MTZehvor]

Intrinsic said:

MTZehvor said:

Welp, I'll say this: You have a lot more faith in a single game developer than I do. I can't say there's a single person that is so good at developing games that I would be hyped regardless of what the announcement was like and what footage was revealed.

Hmmm  so if you hear that miyamoto is creating a new IP and then you end up seeing the exact same trailer here with death stranding you wouldn't get excited/hyped?

Somehow I find that very hard to believe. 

Believe it or not, certain devs have got a certain gift. They make games that somehow capture an essence you simply won't find in any clone of that game style. Kohima is one such dev, as is miyamoto and Udea. 

Considering Miyamoto was largely responsible for Star Fox Zero and Skyward Sword, he could release a gameplay trailer for a series I really liked and I'd still be skeptical of it.

But to answer the question, let's take a developer I'm quite fond of, Retro Studios, and visit the same scenario. If Retro were to release a trailer for a new IP, with no gameplay footage and no indication of what kind of game it will be, and then, six months later, released another trailer that still doesn't answer either of those questions, I would have the exact same doubts. Certain devs do have gifts, I won't deny that, but that does not make them infallible or eliminate the possibility of mistakes. And the longer we go with no indication of gameplay premesis, type, or plot, the more concerned I become that the developers themselves are unsure of those things too.