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Re: If I may...
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>Date: 10/8/05 12:35 a.m.

In Response To: If I may... (Anton P. Nym (aka Steve))

: Let me sum up my opinion on the trailers vs. gameplay issue for Halo 2 in one
: sentence: The problem isn't that Halo 2's gameplay is bad, it's that the
: trailers were too damned good .

: Now to unpack that a tad.

: The Halo 2 E3 trailers are the best pieces of promotional material I've ever
: seen. They're the best that my friends, most of whom don't own Xboxes,
: have seen too. To quote one upon first viewing; "I'm a PS2 guy, and I
: don't like first-person shooters, but that [SP demo] trailer has me
: pumped." Those trailers are masterpieces of short-fiction in their
: own rights; the timing is impeccable, the storylines tight, the dialog
: sharp, the acting superb, the animation astonishing, the cliff-hangers
: gut-clenching. They're "Mona Lisa"s in the marketing genre, and
: any ad-house would give them pride-of-place in their demo reels.

: It takes a heck of a product to top them. For some, the game didn't.

I agree completely.

But I'm greedy. I want the gameplay to hit that same note. I want the gameplay to pump me the same way those trailers did.

It may not be that the gameplay, while good, just isn't as good as the trailers.

It may simply be that the narrative experience of watching a good short film simply has a higher potential for creating that kind of emotional response than any well-crafted gameplay sequence.

Rampant For Over Six Years


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