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Your favorite game trailer

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Not to be confused with 'opening sequence', but those usually included in your CD to advertise other products launched by the publisher.

Well, here are mine:

Wing Commander IV. "The strong shall survive!", anyone?

Jane's F-15.

Crusader: No Regret. Love the 'burn' part.
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The latest BF2 one is pretty addicting. Dawn of War had a pretty cool video released a month before the beta was opened, IIRC.
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BF2 Wetlands kicks ass
Dawn of War's Intro which they used as a trailer kicked much ass
HL2's Wake up and Smell the Ashs


Best however so far is Mersenary's Playground of Destruction's 30 second TV spots, "Blow things up, "Blow things up some more, "Blow the heck out of it"

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Best however so far is Mersenary's Playground of Destruction's 30 second TV spots, "Blow things up, "Blow things up some more, "Blow the heck out of it"
Ah, I saw that in passing the other day. Looked pretty good.
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Ah, I left out this one: WarCraft: Lord of The Clans. "Blackmoore! Tonight you sleep in hell!" Very memorable. Too bad the game itself was never released on the first place. Imagine an 'old school' adventure game in WarCraft universe, when you're playing as Thrall.
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Anything Metal Gear Solid or Grand Theft Auto. Final Fantasy is always good too.
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Mechwarrior II. Merceneries.

The other Mech 2 videos were all good for the other 2 games. But this one set the scene so damn well. A dark and grity city, no nice straight up clan fighting with sophisticated weapons. Just running like hell from the bad guys...and the chick being left behind as the Catapult blows her away....then the Dropship Captian says:

"Look at the bright side Kid....you get to keep all the money...."
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Okay, seriously, there is but ONE trailer that deserves top place.

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Chrono Cross: Loved the trailer, which had the same music as the intro.
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I liked the Heavy Gear trailer.
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the final fantasy trailers are almost always pure gold. at least ever since 7 anyway.
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Darth_Zod wrote:the final fantasy trailers are almost always pure gold. at least ever since 7 anyway.
I don't play PS (I'm a PC purist :wink: ), but I got that one in AVI format. Isn't that the short movie where Squall Leonheart had a duel with Seiffer Almasy?

Pretty cool, seems more movie trailer than game, IMHO.
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The Chrono Cross one stuck out to me, for some reason. The DoW intro movie's pretty good. As is the Gman's speech for HL2.


That FEAR demo trailer's really good. The 10 minute one.
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The BF2 one with the screens was awesome.

The HL2 trailers were golden.

Zelda trailer, need I say more?

Rome Total War trailers.

Homeworld 2 trailer just oozed plot.

I'll add more as I remember them :x
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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:the final fantasy trailers are almost always pure gold. at least ever since 7 anyway.
I don't play PS (I'm a PC purist :wink: ), but I got that one in AVI format. Isn't that the short movie where Squall Leonheart had a duel with Seiffer Almasy?

Pretty cool, seems more movie trailer than game, IMHO.
that'd be the trailer for FF8. though yeah, was pretty cool. sadly the games past 7 haven't been as great as the trailers portray them. lots of disappointments since 7 has been released. :?
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Darth_Zod wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:the final fantasy trailers are almost always pure gold. at least ever since 7 anyway.
I don't play PS (I'm a PC purist :wink: ), but I got that one in AVI format. Isn't that the short movie where Squall Leonheart had a duel with Seiffer Almasy?

Pretty cool, seems more movie trailer than game, IMHO.
that'd be the trailer for FF8. though yeah, was pretty cool. sadly the games past 7 haven't been as great as the trailers portray them. lots of disappointments since 7 has been released. :?
I like the theme song, Eyes on Me. Who's the singer, by the way?
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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: I don't play PS (I'm a PC purist :wink: ), but I got that one in AVI format. Isn't that the short movie where Squall Leonheart had a duel with Seiffer Almasy?

Pretty cool, seems more movie trailer than game, IMHO.
that'd be the trailer for FF8. though yeah, was pretty cool. sadly the games past 7 haven't been as great as the trailers portray them. lots of disappointments since 7 has been released. :?
I like the theme song, Eyes on Me. Who's the singer, by the way?
Faye Wong. there's also this nifty techno remix version that was made for dance dance revolution i came across a few months ago.
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Darth_Zod wrote:
Faye Wong. there's also this nifty techno remix version that was made for dance dance revolution i came across a few months ago.
Ah, Faye Wong! Thanks.

Another trailer I've left out is StarCraft (found on Diablo CD), which also happens to be the game's own intro. Rednecks in space, wouldn't it be cool? :)
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Well, if intros released before the game count as trailers, then Dawn of War completely annihilates all competition. :P
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Speaking on trailers, what would you imagine when the words "game trailer" come into your mind? FMV with real actors like those of Wing Commander? SGI-generated scenes with motion-captured movements? Video sequences showing the actual gameplay itself?

Would you believe me if game "trailer" was first started at 1988? Yes, it was included in Microprose's Red Storm Rising, advertising F-19 Stealth Fighter, Pirates!, Airborne Rangers, and Gunship. It was of course primitive by today standard, utilizing "crude" animation in 16-color EGA and Adlib "fake" sound effects, but during that time, it was really a blast!
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Wake up and smell the ashes...

Dawn of War

The Sims 2 one with the guy going through life getting knocked back by girl till he meets the hornbag and has a family - had my friends and I rolling on the ground laughing for about 5 minutes.

F.E.A.R - the 30 second "action snapshot" = I WANT THAT FUCKING GAME!
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weemadando wrote:Wake up and smell the ashes...

Dawn of War

The Sims 2 one with the guy going through life getting knocked back by girl till he meets the hornbag and has a family - had my friends and I rolling on the ground laughing for about 5 minutes.

F.E.A.R - the 30 second "action snapshot" = I WANT THAT FUCKING GAME!
What about the full size movie? would it count as a trailer?
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Re: Your favorite game trailer

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: Crusader: No Regret. Love the 'burn' part.
Good one. That was one bloody badass intro.

also:
most recent: Warhammer: dawn of war
Starcraft, especially from broodwars (with the trenches and all)
Diablo2? (don't remember it but the cutscenes were kickass tough)

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Re: Your favorite game trailer

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wautd wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: Crusader: No Regret. Love the 'burn' part.
Good one. That was one bloody badass intro.
Actually I've got a very personal story with that one.

See, the company I work were arranging a (promotional) seminar for Navision products it sells. Since it's a small company, everyone was involved (including DBA like me) for the preparation (why my boss didn't just hire a pro event organizer? sigh...).

The night before the seminar, everyone was busy in the ballroom to make sure everything's ok. They were using my notebook to test the projector. Thanks God I *did* remember to change my Britney nude wallpaper to something else *before* the testing.

So they needed a video to test if the sound system work as well for the connected notebook. My boss expected some Micro$$oft executive interviews AVI for that purpose, but since I don't have one, I thought I was gonna use one of my collection of game trailers instead (or anything I've downloaded from spacebattles). I almost used the STvsSW AVI when the twisted inside spoke, "why don't use the Crusader trailer instead?"

Then I, standing on the podium, played my Crusader: No Regret trailer while cranking the volume all the way up. Everyone stopped working, staring at the big screen wondering what the hell was played. And when the burning scene came out, I moaned to the microphone in sync with the the painful moan of the burned person, trying my best to imitate the scream, while twisting my face in such psychopathic expression as I was both painfully burning myself and enjoying the burn.

And on the following day, all of my co-workers suddenly became excessively nice to me, and my boss hurriedly issued my performance bonus which had been delayed for several weeks.

Strange.
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Fun story.

A shame i cant run no regret anymore. I'd really like to see the movie again :(
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