I know what the game is about and I mean wow...that confused me. | |
I thought the trailer was cheesey. I can't deny it looks impressive graphically but the scene wear he puts on the rocketpack was just awful. | |
All I could think of was: | |
I think the game is telling us that aliens are bad? I really don't know..... | |
Well that didn't make any sense. You're right, that did look like two totally different games. It just seems weird that this trailer establishes how this character ended up in what I assume is the void, yet it makes no effort to explain why he's fighting robots and where he got the jet pack from. To me, those are the important details. Are we supposed to assume that this island is infested with killer robots and that there is also a jetpack just lying around on it? And why the hell are the robots so weak? They appear to be covered in armor, yet being hit by just one bullet is enough to slaughter them. Are these the robot equivalents of hemophiliacs? I think the trailer would have actually been better if they cut out everything before 0:45. | |
Ok I know nothing about the plot and now, from the title and that trailer alone, I will try to decifer it. To be honest I don't see anything wrong with that as an advert. It shows players that they will be killing things while flying, which is probably what most of the gameplay will entail. Isn't that enough? | |
Whats up with games and helmets latey? | |
Same here...strange marketing ploy for them. | |
I think it told me all I need to know. You fight aliens with a jetpack. *shrug* This isn't rocket science, people. It's just a video game. | |
The robots all have a glowing ring thing on their backs that look exactly like the glowing ring thing from the Iron Man movie too. I guess they liked Iron Man, but felt it needed more robot aliens or something. In the middle of nowhere. I dunno, I'm completely lost. | |
Ive heard of the game, supposedly it features jetpack fueled air combat with aliens, as well as the great scientist Tesla in some sort of alternate dimension in the bermuda triangle where aliens have taken over. Just saying that makes me feel bad -_-. Needless to say in not enthusiastic about this game, and the trailer does nothing to make me at least consider buying it...its just two guys crashing than some guy flying and killing aliens like hes Boba Fet. | |
Ok would YOU wnat to
would you want to be flying a jetpack around without a helmet?? | |
Yeah, the trailer does look confusing, but not as much as the Watchers, right? After looking into the game it makes more sense. Apparently they enter the Void through the Bermuda triangle - with an airplane, by accident - and find an alien race preparing to invade our dimension, something like that. Then he meets Nikola Tesla who has been stuck in the Void for a while and has been reverse-engineering alien technology, among which is the jetpack. Did that clear things up? Probably not. Forget I said anything. | |
I don't know it's made by the same people who made Crimson Skies and that game was pretty fun. Zeppelin vs Zepplin multiplayer battles would have been nice though. | |
Wasn't this game supposed to be the interactive conclusion of LOST? | |
Of course not, our protagonist obviously shops at Jetpacks R' Us (the choice of the discriminating Jetpack consumer). The killer robots are indigenous though. | |
Silly goofballs, this isn't called Dark Void. It's called Rocketeer 2! Those UFO's are simply Nazi's. | |
I wasn't interested in the game to begin with, but after this, I care less about this game even more now. The trailer seems lazy and pointless. | |
The developers don't have to spend time animating decent facial expressions if the character wears a helmet. | |
Makes perfect sense I never really thought about it. I have just been seeing helmets getting more and more extravagant. To a point where it seems like they would have to pay more money for the helmet then the rest of the suit and guns. I guess its just another way that old video game characters are more badass then the new ones. haha | |
Well, the video served it's main purpose. It got your attention. And mine. I find my curiosity is all a-stir. | |
There's still way more information in this trailer without dialogue than in your average action movie trailer, which generally has snippets of conversation and yelled lines which are, if anything, more confusing for their lack of context. So when I watch the action movie I go: "Oh that's what everyone was yelling about," but when I play a game I don't care how vague the trailer was because I'm having fun making things explode. I've read a little bit about this game, and don't remember much of what I read off the top of my head, but when I hijack a flying saucer with my blaster and jetpack, the trailer will likely be the last thing on my mind. For example, the latest TV spots for James Cameron's "Avatar" are especially confusing. Granted, all I've read about this film's plot is from what I've read about the video game adaptation, which I've completely forgotten at this point, and the spot I keep seeing has about two lines of dialogue, unlike most action trailers. All I can figure out is that it's the future (either that or an alternate dimension, but more likely the future), and some crippled guy comes to an alien world to have his brain put into a blue elf-thing, despite the presence of numerous walking mechs, which suggest that the technology for cyborg legs is there but is somehow more expensive than the average inter-species brain transplant. Despite this economic downturn the future/alternate dimension is in, they have a large surplus of the aforementioned mechs, complete with guns and complementary futuristic heli-dropships to deliver them express to the forest where all the blue people live, who despite all being part of inspiring stories about how they were crippled and then saved their pocket change to be transferred to blue people, have somehow angered the military complex and their mech pilots, who proceed to drop in, making small craters in the blue people's beautiful alien rainforest preserve, and begin to make the forest less attractive by using their shiny bullets to put lots of varying sized holes in the forest and it's inhabitants, making much of the forest deader but in some cases more wet, and making the bullets a lot less shiny. In both a clichéd trailer line and literal sense, things just got ugly. So the blue people mount their seriously-not-Pterodactyls (seriously), arm themselves with bows and arrows, spears, and sharp sticks and ride into battle against the mech and helicopter army and apparently don't do half bad, possibly because they intimidate their enemy by swinging through the trees in their underwear. Also one of the blue people cries and there are many explosions to be enjoyed by all. I'm guessing it ends when the military complex leader guy, who turns out to be the main former cripple's father, is swayed by his son's willingness to fight for his no-so-beautiful-at-the-moment-but-give-it-about-five-days-and-it'll-be-fine forest planet, he gives his approval of his son's new blue girlfriend, and dies heroically saving the planet from one of his deluded sub-commanders who has gone on his deforestation mission with personal hatred for all things living and an insatiable loathing for all things that are blue or green. Military-dad dies in Blue-Cripple's arms, Blucripple cries, Blu-Girlfriend and Bluripple make out and become the King and Queen (and, after a heated argument, the heads of parliment or other governing body, but that can wait for the sequel) of the forest planet which will totally look fine in about 120 hours. Oh yeah, and the sub-commander guy comes back in sequel to help them against a common foe, then turns on them in the third movie, where he is finally eaten by bright purple things that resemble squirrels but are even smaller and more adorably deadly. Now I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that some of my plot synopsis is wrong, but my point was that finding the right amount of information to put in a trailer is hard. I think they did well with the Dark Void trailer, and I might be willing to rent it based on this trailer, a review and whatever is on the back of the box when I find it in the video store. Also, while you may feel free to correct me on the plot of "Avatar," I wish you to know that I probably wont be reading it for at least the next couple days, as I want to enjoy the delusion that my version would be better during that time. It would be funnier certainly, it might even make more sense in some respects. I've nothing against the filmmakers, I just have no idea what that commercial meant to convey, so I filled in the gaps. I also wish to appreciate the irony that only now, when I'm at home sick from school not working on my various and numerous final projects and have actually abandoned my entry for the escapist film festival because I was too busy trying not to think about my various and numerous final projects to write much of a script, and now, staying home and trying not to think of my disappointment in running out of time for that due to panic and procrastination, and trying to take my mind off of the various and numerous projects waiting in the last 2 weeks of my semester when I return, I have spent at least an hour an a half to two hours typing up and refining a fake plot for a movie I might rent a year from now when I remember to, most of this fake plot I made up on the fly and then went back and refined in about the same amount of time it would have taken me to make a script for my entry, only now there would be no time to film anything. I'm going to stop typing now, lest I discover something else that both saddens and highly amuses me through its irony. EDIT: I went to see avatar and was delightfully wrong. I still want to see my movie though. I also read a pretty harsh review of Dark Void. Apparently the gameplay is good, but the story is disorienting. | |
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Dark Void Cinematic Trailer Is Slightly Impenetrable
The latest trailer for Capcom's Dark Void probably won't make much sense to anyone who doesn't already know what the game's supposed to be about.
I have to admit that Capcom's jetpack action game Dark Void has been mostly slipping under my personal radar, which is a shame because jetpacks are awesome. All I know about the game is that it is apparently dark and there may or may not be one or more void involved, that the main character uses a jetpack and fights, uh, people. Things - Watchers, apparently. Oh, and Brad Pitt will be in the movie.
Well okay, reading through those newsposts tells me more about the game then I knew before, but that's not the point - the point is that I probably knew more about the game than your average Gamer Joe, and the recently-unveiled Cinematic Trailer seen here still kind of confused me.
Perhaps I shouldn't say that the trailer "confused me." Rather, if I didn't know better it would feel like the trailer is advertising two completely different games. On the one hand, a pair of flight jockeys piloting a 1950s-era airplane crash on a tropical island - sounds like a plot to me. But then there are robots, and the guy has a suit of armor that would seem to fit perfectly in Mass Effect, and he's flying through the sky with a jetpack (see, I knew there was a jetpack!) and attacking UFOs. Furthermore, while the environment does in fact look rather cool, it's actually rather well-lit and I don't see so much as a single void anywhere.
I'm usually all in favor of simplicity in game advertisement, and not every trailer needs a Don LaFontaine-style voiceover narrating every single plot point. But if this is how Capcom is going to market the game to people who don't know the story to begin with, don't you think it would be a bit helpful to, y'know, actually try and offer some context for the damn thing?
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