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Dulfite on 23 November 2021
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mZuzek said:
Dulfite said:

Well, I'm kind of in the middle. I like seeing how a game plays, but I find stories to be the most important aspect of games, so seeing those emotional trailers are really important to me. Regardless, if the majority were like you then I'm sure their trailers would lean more into gameplay than cinematics. The fact that they so often focus on cinematics tells me that's what's more appealing towards most people, as they want to make as much money as possible.

The thing with cinematics is that it's far easier to make them immediately appealing than gameplay. In fact, even for gameplay trailers, it's very common for people to judge how good the game will turn out based solely on looks, even if they don't realize that's what they're judging. A good example of how CGI trailers can make a product way more appealing than it'd otherwise be is the Avengers game. I don't remember when exactly they announced that, I think it was at some Game Awards (?), but it was a cinematic-only trailer and even if it looked like a MCU knock-off, it at least looked like a potentially interesting story-driven experience. Which it wasn't.

Conversely, I agree with Trucks that cinematic trailers, generally, suck. A good example of that is Death Stranding. That game had years of trailers going on without anyone having the slightest clue what the gameplay would be like. It could be a trading card game for all we knew. It was totally bizarre, and even if it's not a game I'd have been interested in anyway, the truth is that whatever curiosity I initially had was completely dead by the time it was coming out because I didn't know what the game was.

And while on the topic of cinematics vs. gameplay, story-driven games, and Marvel games, I think something came out last month you could enjoy.

One downside of using time to focus on gameplay rather than cinematic is, especially with Non-Nintendo studios, they show off the game 2+ years before it's coming most of the time, so the gameplay we see is usually alpha builds and therefore not refined at all, so then we get trailers like Halo Infinite had at first and they get roasted. With cinematics you don't really have that problem.

Which game came out last month?