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State of Decay 2 promos ramping up!
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Those are exceptionally well done. My problem is that the mood and tone of the videos doesn't seem to be that of the game. I actually wish the emotional impact and tone of these promo pieces was prevalent in the actual game.
Damn, those are really good. Like legitimately well acted, I'd watch a whole youtube series of this stuff.
When you realise one camp raided the other, fuuuuuck. Rip Lynn/Lin :*(
Fair point. Reminds me of the now-infamous Dead Island trailers.
These kinda makes me wish 2013 Ms was still around so they would launch a TV show alongside the game XD
Yeah these ones are really great and could probably do very well.
Sea of thieves had a fairly substantial marketing effort. And even halo wars 2 had 2-3 promos for the game
I was just thinking about that earlier, when I first saw these. I'm not too crazy about them, but they're rather all right. However, I really, really wish that Microsoft would stop advertising their games with basically misleading campaigns. I guess it all started with the success of the Mad World ad that everyone vent gaga over, and it continued with the Halo 3's Believe campaign. Halo 5 was the worst offender so far. Not only was there the Hunt the Truth series (which was otherwise wonderful, but completely unrelated to the game's actual plot and themes), but the whole campaign was emphasizing the conflict between Chief and Locke, and in the end you could feel very little of that in the actual game. Then there was the Locke armor pre-order trailer that showed Locke as this incredibly agile and explosive fighter, but that was also at odds with how he played in the game. Then the incredible introductory Team Osiris cutscene that the gameplay could never live up to, juxtaposed with the Blue Team introductory cutscene in order to demonstrate the stark difference in their approaches - but in the game they played exactly the same, minus the Locke's barely useful scanning device. It was a master class in mismanaging expectations.
Sea of Thieves also saw a bit of that, with the E3 2016 cinematic trailer that made the game look more like a traditional adventure, and featured some things that were not really there at launch (hints at undersea mermen encounters, for instance). The Phantom Dust reboot trailer? What about ReCore and its announcement CG trailer? And even the later marketing material (including the game's cover art) that featured a Corebot that was only added to the game a year later? And now this. I love State of Decay, and it's definitely a game series that takes itself seriously, but the tone of these videos seems to be at odds with what I've experienced in the first game, and what I've seen in all the video demonstrations of the second one. I wish that Microsoft's marketing team would just stop doing that. The actual games they put out are not bad at all - I'm finding many of them great, in fact - but they build up these strangely unfitting expectations, and then people end up being disappointed.
I like them. I just pre-ordered the ultimate edition and it started downloading. Playing 4 days earlier is a really good bonus for pre-ordering.
I don't agree with this. On State of Decay there is actual encounters with other groups of survivors, that you can help, ignore, or fight againstto compete for resources. All NPC have their own background stories and missions, that you can find out or completely lose if you chose to kill and/or rob those people. There won't be emotional cutscenes trying to connect you with the members of your group, but you can in fact find you in a situation where you can need to figure out what will you risk, what will you do, in order not to lose one of your group's members.
The tone of (at least the first) State of Decay is already dark, melancholic and crude, but in it's own way.
Seems entirely too serious compared to what the game will likely end up being.
They're like 5 minutes each, that's not long at all.
They're like 5 minutes each, that's not long at all.
Agreed. I watched a recent gameplay preview in which the player ran around in aracade fashion beating zombies with a wrench, while they waited for someone to search the place for music lyrics, iirc. The game didn't look like it took it seriously at all and I couldn't help but think that I wouldn't be able to get too invested because it evoked the comparison of Dead Rising when the series took the "wrong" turn. The ads are well done though.
EDIT: This gameplay
There were other survivor groups in SoD? I remember the military group, but full fledged survivor based like your's?
Have you played through and beat the first? The mood and tone is like this in the game. From the dialogue with characters to the notes you find. The music when there is some. This seems to take it one step further for SOD2.
Not groups as big as yours, but there are small groups of 2-3 people, that you can help or not. Maybe there will be bigger groups of NPC on SoD2.
Outside Xbox gameplay anf that silly IGN video both had them finding another large group of survivors. One tried to help, other killed them for stuff
Honestly, these live action trailers and mini-films never cut it for me, especially when it doesn't represent the game in any manner. Sounds like they're marketing to a crowd that won't play these games and maybe intice them. I thought everyone hated live action promos.
I had similar feeling for God of War live action trailers, however it was still representative of the main game, yet still irrelevant to me.
Give me gameplay promos, or atleast infuse gameplay footage within these live action short films.
Do they have latest gameplay trailer/promos that anyone can sell me the game with (please ignore let's play or preview videos by individuals/websites, I don't want someone excitedly selling a game with their commentary)? The game looks amazing and plays amazing. I just hope they highlight more variety in gameplay/scenario.
That will be great. SoD2 is looking lika a bigger, better and smoother SoD1.
I have played through the first game numerous times, and I don't agree. The tone and mood of the trailers is very dark. The game does focus on the survival aspects, but I don't believe that they do a good job of getting you emotionally invested in the characters and the group. I hope I am wrong for SoD 2 (which I am 100% playing regardless), but based on numerous gameplay videos, it just doesn't seem to be the case.
Well these trailers are basically "A day in the life of a State of Decay" character except these are more elaborate than the how the game usually handles it.
In the first SoD, character's personalities were defined by character stats & interaction with each other to keep morale up. Would be nice if SoD2 had a similar vlog style format for each character for something a little deeper but I think these trailers dramatize the desperation angle pretty well.
