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Best Trailer Ever..
Maitrader
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I know it's a matter of opinion, but I have watched trailers of many games that have come and gone throughout my gaming tenure. I have got to say that that the trailer below is the most immersive, enthralling, emotion invoking, morale boosting, "I want to join the fight" feeling inducing trailer I have ever witnessed... troll me, be condescending, say I am wrong... doesn't matter, this trailer I have watched probably a good 8 times, and it is still as powerful as it was the first time watching it... FFXIV here I come!
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That was two cinematics packed into one glorious one.
End of an Era and A New Beginning.
They definately have the hype train going full stop. Their cinematics are so full of win.
I can fly higher than an aeroplane.
And I have the voice of a thousand hurricanes.
Hurt - Wars
seriously... my experience in the beta made me decide I would pick up the game.... but after beta 3, I watched this trailer, and I was so hype induced and morale boosted that I (An old school retired guild leader from Anarchy Online) decided to contact the old school crew that made up the leadership within our organization and bring them back together for one more united push as Alpha Omega.. A trailer that could instill me with such zeal as to come out of retirement has to say something.
that sounds so familiar.... where is that excerpt from?
As much as I love the song Answers from XIV it doesn't fit the mood of the battle.
Apart of that it's not bad of a trailer though I found the XIV trailer to be better as it showed an adventure starting from a simple leve quest. (Despite after the game launched we found out they were simply the usual quests)
Epic. Gotta love Final Fantasy. I have fond memories of FFVII and FFXI was a lot of fun as well.
Best part is how you think he's going to contain the dragon, the prayers of the people adding power... then it fails.
Would have been almost cliche if it had worked.
Then makes the ultimate sacrifice to save their champions and give the world another chance.
Very cool stuff.
Also the CG is just breathtaking... especially as the dragon is like doing strafing runs on the cities and just wrecking everything...
As many have said before...
SE clearly wants to be an animated film company.
Which reminds me of an awesome guest lecture I attended back in college about computer animation in movies given by a couple of the guys who worked on The Spirits Within; that led to my first FF purchase: FFIX. I had played FFI (friend's), and FFIV and FFVI (both rented from Blockbuster), but IX was the first one I actually owned.
Favorite MMO: Vanilla WoW
Currently playing: GW2, EVE
Excited for: Wildstar, maybe?
Great trailer. No one does it better than SE.
Here's some FFXIV themes for those that haven't gotten them yet.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/alliance/dl/
Great Trailer, thx OP.
Can't wait for tomorrow tho, when we get the New Benchmark and Offline Character Creation Tool
And hopefully they gonna tell us that OB will start at the 9th of August !
Aerowyn's Video Compilation of ALL things Guild Wars 2
The Arcanists smile after he transports the heroes is by far the most touching moment of the whole presentation... The sacrifice that he embraces is simply an immortal moment. I want to say that the old Elezen is an Arcanist... but then again one could argue he is also a Time Mage... Could the Time Mage actually make a comeback by being playable in FFXIVARR?!?! That would be insanity!
It may not from a third party perspective to some, though in context it is is incredibly suiting. This is because the last patch in the game there was an abridged version of Answers that echoed throughout the landscape as Meteor was entering the atmosphere and causing multicolored clouds and lightning to flash everywhere.
It was all doom and gloom with raids from the Empire into our territory, the scene above that was crashing down upon us and the hopeless nature of monsters appearing out of no where due to the appearance of one Maw of Atomos who hovered over the crystals, draining it of energies and summoning monsters from a horrible realm.
There was literally no hope to be found anywhere, and it really felt like the end of the world; all you could do is fight if you were a part of the Alliance and hide huddled with loved ones if you were a civilian. It was actually quite the experience on the Role Play Realm as it was one of the first time when it truly felt like the end in a game and that you basically lost the fight. Try as you might, conquer the Primals that awoke, and defeat the bad guy that wrought it all... it was for naught, as the meteor couldn't be stopped, nor the calamity it brought. Then as the servers were about to go down (you were summoned to the battle in that video, and the devs say those characters represented your own) you were greeted with this movie with the same song playing sorrowfully in the background.
Here's the abridged version of the song that rang throughout the world in patch 1.23.
If you look at the lyrics of Answers in whole, they actually matched the feeling one had while entering the battle. "I close my eyes, tell us why must we suffer." Then matched with that it ended almost flawlessly with the original 5:30 version whereby you thought one character in particular died at the end before fading to white. "Thou must live, die and know". ...With the old man grinning knowingly as that was said.
Here's the original Answers Song (which is even longer than in the movie):
I totally agree, that cinema is amazing.
For those of you who didn't play FF XI, that opening cinema was equally as engaging. It really makes you feel part of something bigger and pulls you in.
Watch it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGe6PC-Tk4
This was indeed breathtaking. Thanks for sharing
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
He was a main character in the Grand Company storyline and a truly inspirational person to a lot of people. Louisoix was his name, I believe. He was the leader of the Archons who were basically scholars (not actual Scholars as in the class) of prophecy seeking to prevent an impending disaster. I'm not sure if he actually had a class; he was able to send people forward into time, so it's likely he was associated with one of the 12 or maybe even a Time Mage.
Althyk is the surveyor of change and space and god of time. He commands the element of earth and is associated with the eighth moon of the Eorzean calendar. His symbol is the hourglass.
@Badspock
Yeah, it would've been like, "what?" if that actually succeeded. Though when first seeing that movie, after "fighting" in the zone it supposedly happened in, in character... Well, my jaw was just to the floor and probably wouldn't of registered that. xD
Though the thing about it's ending was that... well, for one of the first times in a MMO... We actually lost. We did everything we could, we reestablished the Alliance, we beat some of the Primals, we fought the Empire and one of the Legatus multiple times before finally beating him... Yet, what was done was done and could not be stopped. The final battle was approaching, the meteor could not be stopped from crashing down unto us, and Atomos still came bringing with him demons from another dimension while sucking crystals in the area dry.
There was no happy ending (the movie ended with the fade to white back then), and for all we knew everyone died save our characters who were transported into the future. Everything we fought for was negated and it was an emotional time in game and during that cinematic for those who were really invested in the game. The main characters lost at the end of the game and destruction was almost guaranteed in some form.
This looks like a job for....The Riviera Kid!
CGI trailers usually look great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnImzTqcmDc
That's why I don't like them. They have very little to do with the games they hype.
CGI has never been about "this is what the game is"... its a cinematic that is supposed to immerse you within the world... and THAT, my dear Scalpless friend, is what it did to me lol
Pretty good FMV but not even close to the emotional depth of the XIV one. I like CG cutscenes but I'm not so naive as to think that the actual games would be as dramatic as the scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/ffxivartist
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
They do in some cases. This one is actually true to what the game looks like. However, it could really go both ways. You could have a crappy, non-atmospheric game with an amazing pre-rendered trailer. At least in-game footage is harder to twist that way.
I like good pre-rendered cutscenes, but I just think it's a bit dishonest to use them for marketing. You're essentially marketing a product without showing the actual product.