How is it your faith in trailers lately?

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Trailers in entertainment are absolutely worthless, and only one more malignant tumor in the cancer of hype culture. I actively avoid watching them these days, and whenever I have to sit in front of one (usually in the cinema) I just shut my eyes and ears. If it's a company and franchise know I can have some extent of trust in (2K and Borderlands for example), I can let it slide. But after Gametrailers shut down I rarely even come across game trailers these days, so it doesn't really bother me.

What does bother me is people getting excited, preordering and declaring [insert game here] to be the second coming of Christ just on basis of the trailer. Fuck, sometimes they don't even need the trailer. Some guy here was seriously asking people a couple of months ago if they thought Prey 2 was going to be the next great evolution of the FPS based on nothing but press releases and screenshots. Idiots.

 

[happyninja42]

I don't have much faith in trailers, but I will develop interest and hype from some of them. I usually try to just the feel of the game from the trailer. What is the mood they are aiming for in their presentation? If it's something that looks like it might be fun, I'll keep an eye on it for later. But I generally don't buy any games simply based on the trailer, I wait for some legit reviews and some gameplay footage as well.

If the company has a record of making quality games that I like, I might be more willing to get a game on faith than other times. Like with Mankind Divided. Eidos Montreal got enough good credit with me for Human Revolution that I was willing to trust them for Mankind Divided.

 

[Dalisclock]

While some trailers are awesome("Ash Seeketh Embers" for DSIII comes to mind), I try to check myself by posing the following questions:

-Does this look like actual game footage?
-Does the game footage match the narration?
-Is the game footage obviously pulled from all over the place, using camera angles most people will never see?

That's not counting footage/narration that somehow never actually appears in game. There was a trailer for COD:MW2 where the villian is giving a little speech about his motivations, contrasted with footage of soldiers being killed in what looked like a hopeless war. While the footage could be found in game(ironically, soldiers you ended up killing), the entire speech never showed up outside the trailer, which is too bad because it would have added something to his character, other then "Wah! People killed my asshole mentor! I'm angry now!"

So yeah, I've learned that trailers pretty much always lie. There may be truth in them but almost always give a false impression of the game.

 

[sageoftruth]

It has certainly gone down for me. Many years ago, I would have gotten hyped about a trailer. A few years ago, I would have been interested in a trailer, provided it showed actual gameplay footage. Now, I just don't trust them at all.

 

[pookie101]

hm the last trailer i saw for a game would be the nuka-world dlc for fallout 4 and now im playing it.. its pretty much as the trailer described

 

[Xprimentyl]

I look at trailers anymore simply as an acknowledgement of games? imminent existence; I don?t look to them as an indication of objective quality or a standard to which the finish products should be held. If what I learn of a game?s intents or concepts from an early trailer intrigue me, then I pretty much avoid further trailers, alphas/betas, E3?s notoriously misleading ?actual gameplay footage? or anything that might put any presuppositions in my mind as I prefer the finished product be as new to me as possible. I find it easier to forgive/harder to find shortcomings and simply judge a new title for what it is and not ?what I expected it to be.? Makes gaming life a WHOLE lot easier when you?re just looking to have fun versus having promises fulfilled.

 

[MrFalconfly]

Erm... faith doesn't really come into it. I watch trailers for their own sake. I really appreciate a well edited, well paced trailer.

If I actually want to find out about a game I type "[title] gameplay" into Youtube.

Pretty much this. There's avenues of looking up gameplay outside pre-released trailers. And I can certainly enjoy trailers in their own right, especially ones from Blizzard.

I'm in that camp too.

Although it does get slightly annoying when you get back to the trailer and end up thinking "you know, if you'd just made that game, instead of the game you did, I might've just bought it".

 

[Mcgeezaks]

I know when a trailer is supposed to represent the actual game and when it's not. So my ''faith'' in the trailers is the same as its always been.