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Most misleading game trailers of all time

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The first Halo Infinite traielr at least had the decency to clarify itself as a demo (even if it turned out another developer worked on it using the assets on ue4 iirc while 343 was doing…whatever they were actually doing)

Halo 5’s Hunt the Truth however was some of the most disrespectfully deceitful shit that they ever put out.
 
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tommib

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From what I understand, fromsoft ran up against the limitations of what the ps360 was capable of hard during this games development. Ultimately, the highly advertised next gen lighting had to be quietly cut because the target platforms were not actually capable of supporting it.
I actually don’t think it was a tech issue. The original game was supposed to function on the player’s ability to light all the torches in the levels. Rooms were all super dark and the main gameplay loop was making the player have to fight with a torch in hand and carry it to the next “fireplace” to lighten up the rooms.

This made the game unplayable in terms of difficulty so they upped the gamma. You can still see how the dark levels are all designed for lanterns and torches but now you just don’t need them.

Those are my 2 cents.
 
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kruis

Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
All time is obvious. Motostorm, KZ2, Halo 2, Watch Dogs, Uncharted 4, Rainbow Six, Division etc.

The fact that we are getting these misleading trailers in the 2020s is even more aggravating. It's like these publishers think we are fools and wont notice the downgrades.

Horizon's supposedly capture on Playstation 5 trailer looks nothing like the final game. Especially the final shot where she goes through this lush forest.
Horizon's second gameplay trailer released mere months before the final game didnt even have the mission in the final game.

Such hyperbole... HFW's visuals didn't change that much from the first reveal trailer to the released version.

 
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SLB1904

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Horizon's supposedly capture on Playstation 5 trailer looks nothing like the final game. Especially the final shot where she goes through this lush forest.
Horizon's second gameplay trailer released mere months before the final game didnt even have the mission in the final game.
What drugs are you taking? Horizon got upgraded. Aloy model got upgraded in the final version, the the vegetation got physics.
Yeah the mission is different for obvious reasons, to show the player the gameplay mechanics in the game.

But is expected from you full of shit. Even if you were remotely right that doesn't hold a candle what op means
 

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Fuck Hunt the Truth was good...Keegan Michael Key is still in Space Jail and we're doing nothing about it damn it!
The audio logs were great, but it just irritates me how it amounts to nothing for the game itself. Nor did the trailers of chief vs locke. The idea of chief going rogue wouldve been so much better if 1: they didnt reveal why he went rogue WHEN HE GOES ROGUE. And 2: if there was more levity with trying to find him and why he decided to go rogue. (Bringing cortana back was the root of this issue if you ask me)

Even the fight between chief and locke felt underwhelming, when i was expecting these two super hero-like supersoldiers brawl, i was thinking something out of red vs blue, not two armor hotdogs hugging eachother.
 
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Jennings

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This commercial shows a smiling child playing ET for the Atari 2600.

There have been zero reported instances of any child ever smiling while playing this so called game. Fraud.

 
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rofif

Can’t Git Gud


Still hurts looking at this. I won't say anything else.

It wasn't misleading on purpose. The game just changed direction from xiii versus to xv.
They chewed too much.

This one is my pick:


Of course it is misleading on purpose and I loved that move !!! Shame it got leaked before release :(
But I admire they tried so hard to "shock and surprise" everyone
 
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Umbasaborne

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The audio logs were great, but it just irritates me how it amounts to nothing for the game itself. Nor did the trailers of chief vs locke. The idea of chief going rogue wouldve been so much better if 1: they didnt reveal why he went rogue WHEN HE GOES ROGUE. And 2: if there was more levity with trying to find him and why he decided to go rogue. (Bringing cortana back was the root of this issue if you ask me)

Even the fight between chief and locke felt underwhelming, when i was expecting these two super hero-like supersoldiers brawl, i was thinking something out of red vs blue, not two armor hotdogs hugging eachother.
I get the feeling that hunt the truth was made a time when halo 5’s story was meant to be very different than what it was. I dont know if its ever been proven, but i get the feeling that halo 5 went through massive last minute story changes
 

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I get the feeling that hunt the truth was made a time when halo 5’s story was meant to be very different than what it was. I dont know if its ever been proven, but i get the feeling that halo 5 went through massive last minute story changes
it doesnt help that they got the guy who wrote the story of spartan ops from halo 4 for 5’s campaign.

Not exactly the water cooler talk they expected
 

SlimySnake

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Such hyperbole... HFW's visuals didn't change that much from the first reveal trailer to the released version.


thats not the reveal trailer genius. This is.



What drugs are you taking? Horizon got upgraded. Aloy model got upgraded in the final version, the the vegetation got physics.
Yeah the mission is different for obvious reasons, to show the player the gameplay mechanics in the game.

But is expected from you full of shit. Even if you were remotely right that doesn't hold a candle what op means
lmao. an entire fucking mission is not in the final game and thats not misleading? Jesus you are sad.

And upgraded? Use your eyes. Which part of the game looks as good as this?

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Umbasaborne

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it doesnt help that they got the guy who wrote the story of spartan ops from halo 4 for 5’s campaign.

Not exactly the water cooler talk they expected
Which is a shame because i loved halo 4’s story and writing, the character moments between chief and cortana were the best in the series
 
Eh? That trailer tells you nothing other than yeah we are making a zombie game. Maybe that's why nobody post it. I mean 8f you follow games since forever cgi trailer are mostly nothing burger
I think it's one of those cases where you had to be there to see how gaming media were hyping up the game's tone so much due to this trailer and they truly thought they were in for an experience similar to the first Last of Us game. I'd have to look back and find who said it, but it was the trailer where someone even said 'this made me more emotional in 3 minutes than Walking Dead ever has' and that was back when Walking Dead was considered good TV.
 
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The worst offenders are always CG trailers. This practice shouldn't exist anymore but some publishers still insist on it and even waste money on something that is totally unnecessary.

MS seems to be unwisely leaning heavily into it based on their last announcements like Avowed, Contraband, Fable, Perfect Dark and State of Decay 3 (pretty much all their recent games were revealed this way). It's a shame because Halo Infinite CG trailer was absolutely misleading already and set the game up to massively disappoint once they showed gameplay or even in-engine footage.

To me a CG trailers just mean you got nothing to show for and the game is in such and early stage (or bad state) that you had to contract another company to make a CG trailer for you.
 
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SLB1904

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thats not the reveal trailer genius. This is.




lmao. an entire fucking mission is not in the final game and thats not misleading? Jesus you are sad.

And upgraded? Use your eyes. Which part of the game looks as good as this?

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why arent you posting gameplay shots? do you play as a pelican or a fish in the game?
why arent you comapring scenes that are both in the game and in the trailer.
im pretty sure you have mental issues, i dont even know whty i engage with you










this area in particular shits all over every area was shown before. you would know if you play the game instead of being a misereble on gaf
 

bitbydeath

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Fair enough.

But the premise is "most misleading trailers of all time".
That one is hardly one of "all time", can't compare to some others posted here, that's my point.
Motorstorm is another graphics one and has rightfully been posted here too. Misleading isn’t just gameplay.
 

SLB1904

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I think it's one of those cases where you had to be there to see how gaming media were hyping up the game's tone so much due to this trailer and they truly thought they were in for an experience similar to the first Last of Us game. I'd have to look back and find who said it, but it was the trailer where someone even said 'this made me more emotional in 3 minutes than Walking Dead ever has' and that was back when Walking Dead was considered good TV.
yeah i guess i get what you mean, but even back in the day loads of people were saying the trailer is great but needed to see gameplay

I was so angry when I read that Raiden was the protagonist that I still haven't played mgs2. I even bought the re-release on ps3.
i went blind in mgs 2, so all the marketing campaign didnt affect, in fact i didn't even know the game was out, i bought the game from a crackhead, funny thing, when i was playing with raiden and the soldier aka solid snake, showed up, me and my cousin look at each and we were like ''that's obviously snake lol''
 
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why arent you posting gameplay shots? do you play as a pelican or a fish in the game?
why arent you comapring scenes that are both in the game and in the trailer.
im pretty sure you have mental issues, i dont even know whty i engage with you










this area in particular shits all over every area was shown before. you would know if you play the game instead of being a misereble on gaf

Sony has been doing a pretty good job of not overpromising and showing games running on the actual hardware instead of CGs. Uncharted 4 was probably the last time they messed up because they made it look like it was going to run at 60fps but the game ended up being 30fps (the game itself ended up looking absolutely stunning, but they set themselves up).

I think they mostly learned their lesson from what happened with those PS3 games. Not relying on CGs actually helps them promote their games better, because reveals that contain something that is closer to gameplay are a lot more interesting and impressive.

It's way too easy to overpromise or misguide people with CG trailers. Showing games running on PC in early stage of development is also another problem but a lesser one (TW3 and Watchdogs got in trouble for that and in the end even the PC didn't look like that).
 
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SlimySnake

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why arent you posting gameplay shots? do you play as a pelican or a fish in the game?
why arent you comapring scenes that are both in the game and in the trailer.
im pretty sure you have mental issues, i dont even know whty i engage with yo

this area in particular shits all over every area was shown before. you would know if you play the game instead of being a misereble on gaf
You have literally lost your marbles. You are in a thread where everyone is posting CG fucking trailers of Killzone 2 and Motorstorm and you are asking me to compare GAMEPLAY shots while ignoring the original reveal trailer that had no gameplay? Isnt that the whole fucking premise of this thread? MISLEADING reveals?

Why are you even in this thread? Why even get triggered my remarks which clearly stated that the game was downgraded from its ORIGINAL reveal which we all know didnt have gameplay. Learn to read. Get an IQ test done while you are at it.

Game looked better in the original reveal trailer that was supposedly captured on Playstation. Period. It's a factual statement that you indirectly confirmed by saying but but gameplay looks better.

And I have almost 100 hours in Horizon FW. The difference between you and me is that I am not blind.
 

SLB1904

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edit: wrong trailer fixed
this one hurts

You have literally lost your marbles. You are in a thread where everyone is posting CG fucking trailers of Killzone 2 and Motorstorm and you are asking me to compare GAMEPLAY shots while ignoring the original reveal trailer that had no gameplay? Isnt that the whole fucking premise of this thread? MISLEADING reveals?

Why are you even in this thread? Why even get triggered my remarks which clearly stated that the game was downgraded from its ORIGINAL reveal which we all know didnt have gameplay. Learn to read. Get an IQ test done while you are at it.

Game looked better in the original reveal trailer that was supposedly captured on Playstation. Period. It's a factual statement that you indirectly confirmed by saying but but gameplay looks better.

And I have almost 100 hours in Horizon FW. The difference between you and me is that I am not blind.
if you dont know what misleading means watch the trailer above

edit: also people are posting motorstorm and killzone because sony claim to be gameplay, which obviously isnt.
 
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TheAssist

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Eh? That trailer tells you nothing other than yeah we are making a zombie game. Maybe that's why nobody post it. I mean 8f you follow games since forever cgi trailer are mostly nothing burger

I was watching the reactions to the trailer back than and people where hyped about the potential of having an emotional story in a zombie game since TV shows at the time were more focused on the human drama. So people were thinkin this was also more about the human element similar to what the last of us ended up doing. But turned out to be just another zombie shooter with forgettable characters and story.
 
I would love to have a MGS2 remaster where you play as Snake, not Raiden replaced as Snake but Snake having his own missions during the MGS2 events.
I was so angry when I read that Raiden was the protagonist that I still haven't played mgs2. I even bought the re-release on ps3.

More than 20 years later and you guys are still hang up on that? Why does a protagonist switch bother you guys that much? Snake is still in the game.
 
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Gonna give the award to Kojima on that one...

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Between MGS2's entire marketing campaign hiding the fact you played as Raiden on a sunny Big Shell Oilrig after featuring pretty much 95% of the Solid Snake gameplay experience in the Demo, hiding the antagonist, the plot and pretty much everything including bosses, settings and themes.

To the stunt he pulled with MGSV where it was supposed to be a game about Big Boss's fall into darkness and creation of Outer Heaven , with trailers showing him working with Skullface, Shooting kids in mines, torturing everyone, burning entire village of people in africa, shooting his own men, strangling Chico in cold blood, then you get the game and it's all about Vocal Cord parasites, he's not working with Skullface at all, he never shoots kids, the only reason he shoots his troops is because they are infected and ... It's not even a game about Big Boss, but a random brainwashed medic in a story that doesn't really fill in the gaps that were supposed to be filled.

Ex:

I still want to play THAT GAME !
 
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