Why We Need More Gameplay Videos Than Trailers ?
So this week we’ve seen quite lot of trailers and gameplay videos coming from CES 2009 but I was wondering how helpful or not trailers and gameplay videos are to us end users?
To be honest trailers aren’t bad, they help build lot of hype to the title even if the end product turn out to be not good as advertise while gameplay videos just show you exactly how the end result is going to be.
So which category good for trailers and which is good for gameplay videos?
♦ Trailers are good for movies plain and simple and not so good for video games in my humble opinion because they are cut-scenes which always look good even for the worst game and they don’t tell us anything about the actual gameplay or how the battle system is.
♥ Gameplay videos in other hand are very good and useful for us end users as we know straight away how good the game is and if it’s something we will like although we don’t know much about story.
For us here we watch trailers but we love gameplay videos, if its movie related then fine but games related we only want gameplay videos.
If the game is truly good gameplay will add more hype than trailers but if it’s not so good well trailers will do it good while fooling us buyers.
We encourage developers to give us more gameplay videos instead of load of trailers with pre rendered videos which at the end don’t tell us how the game really is, at least if you must trailer, make a trailer which include few real gameplay please.
