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Stop Talking Down to Gamers with Generic Trailers

Last week, the Cyberpunk 2077 teaser trailer came out with a reasonably good reception. It depicted a scantily clad young woman in what seems to be a red light district, who has gone insane from her synthetic use. Police are firing their guns in slow motions, and a cool looking mysterious policeman comes in for the kill on the young woman. Then cut to the young woman now being a part of the police squad. This trailer had it all. Sexiness, violence, bedazzling surroundings, and a badass looking dude to save the day. However I had a different opinion although this does not mean this is the opinion of Capsule Computers as a whole.

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discordman4149d ago

This is just how it is these days, trailers gonna trail.

ManDemon4149d ago

Almost the same could be said about teaser trailers for movies. Did it catch your eye? Are you talking about it? They won.

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ScubbaSteve4149d ago

It did catch my eye, but it did so back at e3 when it was just some guy from CDPR saying they were making a cyberpunk game. To be fair tho, Michal Platkow-Gilewski is pretty darn smexy.

Seriously tho, that trailer seemed to be more of a throw back to the 5th element than any planned sexism.

militissanctus4149d ago

Definitely striking. The blades coming out of the arms - it was borderline disturbing.

showtimefolks4149d ago

i just wish that more of them actually talk about how the game is gonna be like and don't play with our emotions. Look at Dead Island trailer it shows the concept of what happens when shit gets real but when you are playing the game its just a generic story no emotions what so ever

the first gears of war had a awesome trailer with song mad world but the game was no emotional roller coaster yet it was another TPS with macho man big muscles story of how i am gonna blow your head off and set shit on fire

and some of these trailers are not cheap, it could cost millions to make a great trailer

iWishTifaWasReal4149d ago

i remember when the trailer for Dead Island first came out, people were going crazy about it. but when the game came out, it wasn't that great and got average reviews.

It really was just the soundtrack of the trailer that made trailer epic.

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ZacE4149d ago

Loved the trailer. She was made female just because its a more striking and effectual image.

AznGaara4149d ago

Exactly, how would the trailer be received if it was a half naked male with cybernetic claws coming from his arms instead of a female? People would probably go "oh another Deus Ex game."

Its not all about the breast, heck they're pretty covered up. You have to look at this from a logical and artistic view too. Why is the woman so exposed? So the viewer can see the bullets hitting skin and not hurting her. Why is the woman wearing such tight white clothing? Maybe it was to better contrast the dark blood within a night scene. etc. etc.

koga884149d ago (Edited 4149d ago )

I didn't see anything wrong with the Cyberpunk trailer. It was as that ZacE guy said, striking and posed a better image than a boring generic guy getting shot up. Along those same lines I didn't have an issue with Hitman: Absolution's nun trailer either. People are getting way to PC nowadays.

It's not like she's stripping or posing or anything. She's sitting in a red-light district, probably living/working there due to her cybernetic implant addiction, after going on an insane murder spree from having too many cybernetic implants and losing her mind. Would it have been better if it was a female cop shooting at her?

anime_swag_pro4149d ago

No. It wouldn't. Authoritarian policemen shooting people in the back of the head is kind of a hot topic to even put in there. At least in the united states right now, where cops do in fact shoot people with little restraint.

Point being not the gender politics that everyone seems to have read too much into, but rather the quality of the trailers we are given. They have no context to the game when you see what they are really about. it's just a way to get the lowest form of gamer to buy it while the rest of us actually look for content.

Yes. the trailer did look cool. I did recognize that. And no one seems to realize that i'm point out that the trailer looked cool, but didn't show what the game was or the quality of the game.

CrzyFooL4149d ago

This article gave me a migraine. OW.

-Falaut-4149d ago

I've been gaming for 24 years, and that is one of the best trailers I've seen. Plus, I'm usually one to see through PR/Marketing bullshit.

This is just a good trailer, get off your high horse.

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CDPR say Witcher 4 will be different from Witcher 3: "We don't want to be stuck in the same spot"

The next Witcher game will still be an RPG but players can expect new things as CD Projekt Red want to push boundaries and discover new ways of storytelling.

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Terry_B17h ago

Each of the 3 existing Witcher games is pretty different from each other..

just_looken3h ago

They were different because they went from being a port studio with there last port being the god awful saints row 2 pc port to making the witcher one.

The first witcher was there first actual game with there own engine the 3rd one showed there years of experience/in house engine improvements.

This witcher game has very very few of the original people behind it and its using unreal engine like so many other games.

The big elephant in the room is that they are now proudly esg supports and go to a panel of esg reps to approve there games now.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

The is cdpr 2020's not the 2010's cdpr we used to know.

https://www.gamesradar.com/...

Take the blood/sex/nudity/adult humor/combat system/rpg mechanics/writing/story charecters/art/design and there passion/drive from the first 3 games throw it in the fucking trash there now you got what they have right now for the witcher 4.

New engine new writing team new everything even esg leadership so yeah "Witcher 4 will be different from Witcher 3"

Sonic18812h ago(Edited 2h ago)

This doesn't sound good without the original team

Kaii17h ago

My only issue with 3 was with the combat

bRuud835h ago

Combat was never the strongest part of the series.

just_looken3h ago

True but anyone that thinks witcher 3 2.0 combat is bad would never get past the first section of witcher one.

Profchaos5h ago

I felt 3 was ok took a long for it to click but I tried 2 and I found combat controls to be my biggest barrier to actually enjoying it was about 50 times clunkier than 3

thorstein3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

I thought the weakest point was the copious amount of dialog. Sometimes less is more. I remember clicking through just to get to the objective.

outsider16243h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Compared to W1, W3 feels like a masterpiece in combat..lol.

Nacho_Z1h ago

I loved it despite the combat so if they can get that right it'll be an incredible game. The other thing I wasn't fond of was being deluged with loot, quality over quantity for me.

sagapo1h ago

Can someone tell me what they didn’t like about the combat? Was it the pace or something? Because I didn’t have any problem with the combat once I realized it wasn’t a button mashing type of combat…
I honestly like to know.

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helicoptergirl17h ago

Bethesda seems like a studio that is "stuck in the same spot". Development wise. Glad CDPR are wary of that element in game design.

Hugodastrevas6h ago

This can either go very well or very badly. I hope the latter.

just_looken3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

That is on your mobile device they copied pokemon go few years back
https://www.thewitcher.com/...

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

It was such a flop they removed the videos and removed the link to that article but its still on there servers.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Director On 95% Positive Steam Rating: "Never Thought I'd See It"

Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way from being one of the worst games on the planet to being one of the best ones.

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DustMan13d ago

I shelved it after a few hours in game at launch, glad I didn't refund it. One of the few games I've actually completed in the last year, and after finishing the campaigns I wanted to just jump back in from the start. They pulled a No Mans Sky and finished one of the best FPS in the last few years.

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Games That Were Bad on Release, But Are Now Great

BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.

Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."

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Terry_B25d ago

Good list..hoped to see Street Fighter 5 there..and it is.

Vits25d ago (Edited 25d ago )

Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.

darthv7225d ago

Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.

I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.

Kaii25d ago

They consider FO 76 & ME Andromeda to be great now 🤭

anast25d ago

Every game in the last 2 decades...

INMATEofARKHAM25d ago

It's sad that this quick retort is more often than not true... The industry's acceptance of release and patch has gone too far.

gunnerforlife24d ago

Days gone! By the end of the game I couldn't drop it down! I went around so many hours killing zombies! It was addictive by the end.

S2Killinit24d ago

That game was just plain good game. It didnt improve, it was just good.

gunnerforlife24d ago

I don't know, I got it abit late, and struggled for a few days, and then all of a sudden it just got good!!

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