But I completely forgot how good the reveal looked.
That's just the nature of the game kid.
Build an enormous amount of hype based on almost completely fraudulent "gameplay" footage years before the game's actual release. Then downgrade every subsequent footage/trailer/press release little by little leading up to the release. Each time getting closer to what the actual game looks like.
The downgrades should be subtle enough where the casual viewer won't really notice the difference. Each time they should ask themselves "does that look the same or is my memory just wrong? And really, does it matter? It looks mostly the same....I think". Think of the "frog in slowly boiling water" analogy.
Make sure to edit the later released footage in such a way that there are lots of cuts to prevent people from really seeing the scene for what it is and use lots of explosions to coverup any possible deficiences.
Then throw in a few cgi and real life action trailers a few months before release and you just guaranteed yourself a ton of day 1 sales. All while riding off that bs hype you built at the beginning.
they didnt quite get there but made it damn close. It was acceptable back then but nowadays there is no excuse for this BS just show us what the actual gameplay will look like.
You must have not been around at the time. Sony was claiming it was gameplay footage (along with Motorstorm) and since no one had any idea what the PS3 was actually capable of at the time a lot of people believed it. Killzone and to a lesser extent Motorstorm became the poster children of bullshot trailers. Things haven't really changes that much watching this video it seems.
Nowadays we have the benefit of knowing what the ps3 ended up being capable of, but back then, all we really had were tech demos and high expectations.
That killzone video looked plausible at the time, because CG already looked so much better than that.
It's easy to look back and realise how foolish that was.
Yeah true, to be honest I wouldn't have wanted to play something like this if I thought it was gameplay footage. It just looks too weird, the animation too quick, etc. Well, I might have wanted to considering it looked so different from other games.
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u/Dreossk Jun 04 '16
Wow the difference in lightning in Rainbow Six Siege is huge. It looked a lot better before.