Deep Silver has defended the CGI trailer which catapulted zombie survival title Dead Island to worldwide success, telling VideoGamer.com that labelling the marketing tool as misleading would be "ridiculous".
"We did many gameplay trailers with in-game footage before the release, so labelling the CGI misleading would be ridiculous," said Deep Silver's creative director Guido Eickmeyer. "We never pretended to be something different.
We might be in the age of remasters, but it doesn't look like the Dead Island 2 devs believe remaking the original game is the right move for the series.
but remakes require far less effort for these companies and they can still charge $70 for them!
Feel like everyone makes fun of Skyrim re-releasing like 18 times yet applaud these remasters elsewhere. Would much prefer NEW games
Making sequels really is the way to go. Otherwise we'll be stuck playing only the first entry, forever!!!
Josiah Motley of KnowTechie writes: "I love video game trailers. While I don’t believe they are an integral part of a game’s success (especially these days), there’s something about a well-produced trailer that really just reminds me why I like video games."
It’s the music. It’s perfect. I agree with this for sure, it is well choreographed….unfortunately the game didn’t live up to the trailer.
Have you ever seen any of the MGS 3 or MGS 4 trailers? Those blow this out of the water for me.
Kevin F. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Many of the best Xbox 360 games are playable on the Xbox One and Series X|S consoles. Some even with some enhanced visuals and performance. Unfortunately, not every game from the Xbox 360 library has received this glorious feat of being able to be played on more modern Microsoft consoles."
The Spider-man games will never happen. The xbox 360 Marvel Ultimate Alliance games have a better chance of happening than Spider-man titles but won't happen. The Xbox One Ultimate Alliance games delisted years ago
Yeah... you can totally forget about those entries that got delisted because of licensing issues. Those are not happening.
They're kinda missing the point. We weren't upset the trailer was misleading, we were upset that the trailer was BETTER. Next time take the hint and follow some of the narrative conventions laid out in your bloody marketing because whoever wrote that deserves a bigger cut of the profits than the literary genius who scribed such wonderful characters as white douche, black douche, black douche with boobs, asian douche with boobs.
I actually liked the game but these guys need to shut up and realize we don't owe them crap and next time they should just hang their heads in shame when a 2 minute trailer achieves more emotional resonance than their entire game.
Trailer > Game
The trailer was misleading.
To put it simply ppl may or may not have been expecting the game to be like the trailer but the game was faaaaar from it.
Any info you put out about the game, reflecting its personality, art work etc says that the game is going to be like that or why show it.
IF they did not intend to make the game like the trailer then they should have released it as a short film with its own title called 'How I died in slow mo'
Anything game related is saying something about the game. Of course ppl who watched the trailer did come away with it thinking theres going to be zombies, thats obvious. Ppl expected the soul that was in that trailer and Deep Silver delivered the exact opposite.
Exact reason I hate cgi trailers etc that are far from the game. Some of them are good which shows a side of the story or the feel etc. For eg the Mass Effect 3 cgi trailers were fantastic and stuck to the story.
Dead Island? NOT
I loved the trailer and I loved the game. :)
Gamers don't want the post zombie apocalypse or killing rooms, but the "mid" apocalypse. where you're fighting to survive trying to figure things out while everything is falling apart. NPCs whom you have to protect, need their support, or have to fight.