F-Freaking Zero is BACK!

[Jumpin]

Kakadu18 said:

Jumpin said:

General Directs are pointless these days. A few interesting trailers, but otherwise just a poor method of announcing games. This game is crazy fun. The fact loads of people reacted badly to a free F-Zero game that is arguably the best in the franchise is a failure of the Direct.

Directs are literally the most effective way to market games. They get massive viewership and create huge hype. Many games wouldn't get nearly as much attention if they were just announced with a random trailer. Why else would everyone copy this concept.

Basically every direct gets a whole bunch of first party announcements. This one had more remakes and remasters than original games from Nintendo, but that doesn't render the whole thing pointless and ineffective. The F-Zero 99 trailer just showed gameplay like any other trailer. A game that looks like this can't really be made much better looking in a trailer.

Many people reacting negatively to it is because it's not a fully new game, online only and they set themselves up for disappointment with the leak expecting a GX remaster or a fully new game.

This is on the other hand is a reimagening of the original. So they're salty.

I agree. But you’re confused. I’m not talking about all styles of Directs, merely these newer styles of General Directs. They’re sterile, bland, and don’t achieve any of the hype you’re claiming they should. If anything, they do much the opposite by making many cool games look uninteresting.

The Mario RPG trailer was fine, but this Direct likely did little to nothing to increase the hype of that game. Games like F-Zero 99, Hundred Heroes, and other really awesome games were either ignored or got negative attention - showing mediocre looking clips and not highlighting the strengths of those games is a poor way to market them. And explaining reasons why these games failed in the General Direct only explains that they shouldn’t have been in the General Direct in the first place, that other kinds of Direct or release strategies would have worked better.