You know why I love games? It's not just the actual act of playing them, but it's the trailers and the various screenshots to get you hyped up before the actual game launch. It's like ohmygod-I'm-going-to-get-to-do-that? or ohmygod-that's-the-world-I'm-going-to-be-in?
No doubt there's a lot of value in the film business in affecting people emotionally, and engaging educationally, but no one can doubt the awesome hype that video games are now capable of. Just look at the Dead Island trailer I posted a little while ago.
Now MORE AWESOME TRAILERS below.
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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I can't even find it in myself to make fun of this video. How can you make fun of shouting at dragons? How can you make fun of wide roaming vistas and beautiful graphics? How can you make fun of sneaking about catacombs and fighting large spiders?
You can't, you just can't. And boy, that music.
Crysis 2
I'm starting to think now that there's a serious glut of trailers being released about this game, a bit overwhelming if you ask me. But now I can say with certainty what the game is about. Some aliens attack New York and some dude in a suit has to kick ass. Old man talks. Black guy talks. More ass kicking.
But one thing I don't get... who the fuck is Alcatraz?!?
Battlefield 3
So EA wants to take on the big bad boy Activision with their own epic man-war-shootery. Yeah, their last game Bad Company 2 was really horrible, at least story-wise. Multiplayer was not too bad, but it couldn't really take on the Call of Duties.
But this BF3 trailer looks ... alright. I'm not particularly super excited because teasing us with some footage intended to say, "Hey check out how hyper realistic this game looks, with the falling soldier, the proning on top of a building with another building opposite exploding" has really all be done before. And they had to have a flash of some insurgent smacking us in the face.
I'm not complaining though. I like man-war-shootery games. Bring 'em all on.
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