Sonic Forces Launch Trailer

[Blue Blood]

7 minutes ago, theofficefan99 said:

 

This is almost never the case. Marketing teams don't intentionally hold back from showing 40%+ of the game for the sake of "keeping the game a surprise," because that deters them from using more hype-inducing footage. If it seems like a game is holding back with its spoilers, it's almost always a red flag. Means that the devs aren't confident and/or the game has little to offer.

Regardless of Forces being good or bad, it has plenty of "hype-inducing footage". Sonic games have faced a lot of flack in recent years from the vocal fanbase for spoiling too much. I think it's quite obviously an intentional thing. They're going too far and could comfortably show off more of the game. Even if the SEGA think "Oh this game is bad and we can't let the consumers see how bad it is", they could and would still show off cleverly cut footage. The Japanese intro trailer shows us the same rubbish levels we've seen a million times and makes them look good.

[theofficefan99]

1 hour ago, Blue Blood said:

Regardless of Forces being good or bad, it has plenty of "hype-inducing footage". Sonic games have faced a lot of flack in recent years from the vocal fanbase for spoiling too much. I think it's quite obviously an intentional thing. They're going too far and could comfortably show off more of the game. Even if the SEGA think "Oh this game is bad and we can't let the consumers see how bad it is", they could and would still show off cleverly cut footage. The Japanese intro trailer shows us the same rubbish levels we've seen a million times and makes them look good.

 

I'm going to have to disagree. I've seen a lot of complaints about them showing the same thing a million times.

 

Well, obviously it's intentional. But for what reason? What surprises?

 

Even if you're going to keep a good part of the latter half of the game a surprise, why have we only seen like, what, the first 8 or 9 levels? And judging from the demo most of which will be extremely short?

IDK. But I would definitely consider it as a red flag, rather than them just "not trying to spoil the game." If this was a serious, plot-heavy RPG I'd say you might have a point. But it's a Sonic game. 

[AdventChild]

5 hours ago, Swing said:

I really still not get this Eggman-took-over-the-whole-world-feeling. The world still looks like the familiar Sonic world. I always thought a world ruled by Eggman would feel a little bit more whacky and insane. Like we would see his face everywhere on posters or statues of him. Or he would force all the humans and animals to wear fake mustaches or have them all under his mind control and forces them to do the Eggman dance or whatever.

It sounds like they want to make this game way more exciting than it actual is. 

Especially with how the in game enemy AI is awfully lacking and are just major pushovers that are slow to react. So it unintentionally makes looks Knuckles and crew look inept/incompetent. I guess you can chalk it up for Infinite doing most of the hardwork and being more capable, buuuuuut then again (@0:13)...

 

[SpongicX]

Not bad, but it still amazes me how poorly this game's promotion is in North America. North America gets it 2 days before everywhere else, yet they're doing the lousiest job with promoting it. It's strange how an English narrated dub gets released in Italy first. Wouldn't it make more sense to release a video with English narration in English first? It's like Sega wants this game to fail in America, or knows it will fail in America... 

[Sonicfan287]

I just don't get the impression that SEGA is even all that psyched up about their own product. 

As has been stated, there are other ways to hype up the product and make a more compelling trailer that don't involve giving away too much of the game. Sonic games usually have a few "iconic" moments that they like to highlight. Like in Sonic Generations, the giant fish robot chasing you in Green Hill or in Unleashed, running along the dragon bridge or something. Forces doesn't seem to have any of that. In terms of gameplay, all they show is brief clips of boosting forward or the avatar character blasting hordes of enemies. If they're only going to show snippets why not show the most high energy moments to get people excited? Seeing a few seconds of the level where nothing interesting happens doesn't make me more excited and while I'm intrigued about the story, I could always watch clips on Youtube after the game comes out to see the story without needing to buy/play the game (although I do still plan to buy the game at some point).

I just compare these trailers to the Mania trailers and it's not even close. The love and attention put into those trailers (SEGA Proudly Presents) really sold the game for me and while I realize Forces is going for a different tone, they could still illustrate it just as strongly. Idk, maybe it's just me but this game just seems tentative in all that it does, right down to having a demo where you can only play 60 seconds of 3 levels. Seriously? 

Maybe I've just got my nostalgia glasses on from 2008-2011 but I remember their trailers and gameplay reveals for Unleashed and Generations being a lot more momentous and satisfying than these reveals. 

[SSF1991]

I feel like we barely know anything about this game, and it has been publicly known for over a year now. Why? It's one thing to keep it a surprise, it's another thing to pretend like the game doesn't even exist.

Confusion and concern seems to be the theme of this game.

[caitash]

9 hours ago, theofficefan99 said:

 

This is almost never the case. Marketing teams don't intentionally hold back from showing 40%+ of the game for the sake of "keeping the game a surprise," because that deters them from using more hype-inducing footage. If it seems like a game is holding back with its spoilers, it's almost always a red flag. Means that the devs aren't confident and/or the game has little to offer.

 

Kid Icarus: Uprising, tho. And it was a stunning game full of content.

I'm currently subscribed to the reasoning of keeping most of the story a surprise. If I'm wrong then oh no I'm wrong, but I don't think it's unreasonable to think they're keeping it a surprise.