E3. The place where people showcase upcoming games and consoles. A place where developers manipulate consumers to buy products.
The Cinematic trailers
Look I understand that the gaming market is oversaturated and that developers use everything at their disposal to promote a game in this industry, but it doesn't justify the use of cinematic trailers.
It is false advertising. It tricks consumers into buying the product thinking that the game would be exactly like the trailer. It makes me sick. Why make a cinematic trailer look so good when you in fact know the game would look like a pixelated game from the '90's when compared against each other?
I feel like the world has run out of ideas. Every year we see the same games with different names getting released and this might be a huge contributor to the cinematic trailer phenomenal.
Gameplay should be what sells the game, not an animated movie.
Consumers rush to the stores after seeing the cinematic trailers at E3,spending hundreds of dollars on the newly released game only to proceed home where they will wait 5 hours for an Update to finish before being knocked out by a huge fist of disappointment.
The developers are sneaky though. They will put this little fineprint text at the bottom proclaiming that the trailer is not actual game footage. But that raises the question again, why make use of an animated movie instead of real game play?
For me I would much rather enjoy seeing actual footage of the game or maybe a couple minutes of the gameplay on which I can judge if it deserves my money.
Nowadays if I see a cinematic trailer for a game, I immediately lose interest.
That being said cinematic trailers and in-game cutscenes are totally different (in my opinion)
There is a big difference between cutscenes and cinematic trailers. I am totally fine with the cutscenes in games. They look way better than the actual gameplay but it adds a realness to the story.
You might argue that the trailers also adds to the realness of the story and the game and that they are exactly like the cutscenes. The problem is not the adding realness to the game, the problem is that trailers create a false hype over a game which leads to disappointment.
Cutscenes are necessary in some games and it is okay because they do not give the user a false sense of this amazing game. All they do is tell a quick story and then you continue with the Real Game
Let me know how you feel about this in the comment section below.
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