They always do it. It's ridiculous. They've been pimping the likes of FarCry 3, Hitman Absolution, ACIII and so on for months now. The onslaught of trailers is damn near relentless ... and it doesn't need to be that way. They released a bunch of trailers for Saints Row The Third, but really it was just that one ten minute chunk of gameplay that really got chins actually wagging - that footage stood out above the usual crop of trailers that merge together as one big blob of forgettable PR campaigning. Less videos, released in a grander fashion, would be preferable.
That said, I very much enjoyed the featurettes for Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire as it was coming forth - with those it was basically a six month campaign releasing featurettes every couple of weeks that covered game mechanics or features etc, and all rounded up nicely ... oddly enough, it never felt like a hard sell. Looking at ACIII or particularly FarCry 3, it very much feels like the hard sell. I want to play both games, but good lord I made my mind up about that ages ago - only I can decide when I'll buy it (and I always knew I was never pre-ordering them, nor buying them brand new, both are waiters in my view) - I don't need an avalanche of trailers clogging up my YouTube feed. I don't need to be introduced to every flippin' character in the game.
Let the gamer do some actual discovery when they play the game.
There's too many trailers these days. Prometheus was a prime example in the movie world. It's obscene how many trailers there were for that (they're all on the Blu-Ray, and watching them back to back, half of them looked identical!) ... I loved Prometheus, and loved that teaser trailer that first came out, but good lord, the relentless campaign for it was too much. Games are no different. I can understand the monetary concerns and the crowded marketplace, but there are other methods out there, and at the very least you don't have to be so goddamned blunt.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Clean
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