(Finally, 2 months and now I can finally post)
I'm talking about games that (for example) were sold like "The best FPS in years" but then turned out to be more like an adventure game with puzzles with sporadical shooting segments, or even promotions that sold a game factor like: X character or using X bombastic scenes in the trailers but ended up having that character only show up at the last moment and the bombastic scenes were only part of the GRAND FINALE after 50 hours of gameplay.
The first games that popped in my head with situations like these were these 2 titles:
Metal Gear Solid 2:
Almost everyone knows how infamous the publicity stunt for this game ended up being. Selling Solid Snake as the protagonist only to shove Raiden as the final protagonist, an anti-Snake of sorts, so uncool at the beginning of the game, subverting expectations.
In no trailer and/nor promotional piece of advertisement there was a single hint of Raiden's existence.
Here you have Super Bunny Hop's video about the subject, a great analytical piece for MGS 2:
SPOILERS AHEAD:
Killer 7:
The Grasshopper Manufacturer game directed by Suda 51 was also one of these. The campaigns for this game were CRAZY! action scenes, guns, 3rd person control, nice art style, first person shooting camera, explosions, characters becoming blood. ACTION ACTION ACTION!
It is true there were some other trailers detailing the more avant-garde artsy side of the gameplay and visuals, but there was not much publicity on the unique and characteristic controls and mechanics this game offered, and where the trailers showed us a game full of action, guns and craziness, we ended up having this survival horror-esque shooter that plays more like a On-rails Resident Evil than a Metal Gear Solid 2 like the trailers made it seem. Everyone thought it was going to be like a 3rd person shooter because every other game with guns in the 2000's was like that, and the INFLUENCE MGS 2 had in those years, releasing 4 years prior, made this game seem kinda like a step in that gameplay direction due to camera angles and mechanics.
Here's a trailer from way back when for you to see what I'm talking about:
Those are the only 2 instances where I could think of this specific scenario. If anyone has more knowledge about games in situations like these, please share them, I think it would make a nice discussion piece for the forum.
Thanks and have a Nice day!
Submitted by the thread:
Borderlands
Spec Ops: The Line
Dead Island
BRUTAL LEGEND
NIieR: Automata
I'm talking about games that (for example) were sold like "The best FPS in years" but then turned out to be more like an adventure game with puzzles with sporadical shooting segments, or even promotions that sold a game factor like: X character or using X bombastic scenes in the trailers but ended up having that character only show up at the last moment and the bombastic scenes were only part of the GRAND FINALE after 50 hours of gameplay.
The first games that popped in my head with situations like these were these 2 titles:
Metal Gear Solid 2:
Almost everyone knows how infamous the publicity stunt for this game ended up being. Selling Solid Snake as the protagonist only to shove Raiden as the final protagonist, an anti-Snake of sorts, so uncool at the beginning of the game, subverting expectations.
In no trailer and/nor promotional piece of advertisement there was a single hint of Raiden's existence.
Here you have Super Bunny Hop's video about the subject, a great analytical piece for MGS 2:
SPOILERS AHEAD:
Killer 7:
The Grasshopper Manufacturer game directed by Suda 51 was also one of these. The campaigns for this game were CRAZY! action scenes, guns, 3rd person control, nice art style, first person shooting camera, explosions, characters becoming blood. ACTION ACTION ACTION!
It is true there were some other trailers detailing the more avant-garde artsy side of the gameplay and visuals, but there was not much publicity on the unique and characteristic controls and mechanics this game offered, and where the trailers showed us a game full of action, guns and craziness, we ended up having this survival horror-esque shooter that plays more like a On-rails Resident Evil than a Metal Gear Solid 2 like the trailers made it seem. Everyone thought it was going to be like a 3rd person shooter because every other game with guns in the 2000's was like that, and the INFLUENCE MGS 2 had in those years, releasing 4 years prior, made this game seem kinda like a step in that gameplay direction due to camera angles and mechanics.
Here's a trailer from way back when for you to see what I'm talking about:
Those are the only 2 instances where I could think of this specific scenario. If anyone has more knowledge about games in situations like these, please share them, I think it would make a nice discussion piece for the forum.
Thanks and have a Nice day!
Submitted by the thread:
Borderlands
VIDEO
Spec Ops: The Line
VIDEO
Dead Island
VIDEO
BRUTAL LEGEND
VIDEO
NIieR: Automata
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