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Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



Yeah, the MK story in the latest is actually really entertaining. It’s bonkers but well made and fun.

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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Vegetable posted:

Video games having trailers just breaks my head. It doesn't feel like a thing that makes sense to happen.

This game will outgross most movies on its first day of release.

Krankenstyle posted:

wait till this guy discovers book trailers

It always trips me out to see a book trailer in the wild.

Jedit posted:

Goddamnit, stop giving Mortal Kombat games plots. People just want to see Liu Kang shove his hand up someone's rear end, pull out their spine, then beat them to death with their own skull.

The game wouldn't be nearly as popular without a single player component with a couple hours of cutscenes.

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

It always trips me out to see a book trailer in the wild.

Fun times is going to a publisher's office and having to put on your best ooohh-ahhhh expression while they play you their latest book trailers.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Lobok posted:

Fun times is going to a publisher's office and having to put on your best ooohh-ahhhh expression while they play you their latest book trailers.

Lol. Like where the hell do hey play those things? They're so rare.

BonoMan
Feb 20, 2002

Jade Ear Joe

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Lol. Like where the hell do hey play those things? They're so rare.

I think they were basically just used for social media ads/fodder. We made a bunch for Quirk Books and a few for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt before I think publishers backed off the effort.

They were always fun for us because basically got to just have fun with it and try some new things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7lMDqslWks&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH_G1IY6yA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STL9oKOJbWA
(the "Hole Girl" one isn't on YouTube for whatever reason)

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours
Hole Girl.

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Lol. Like where the hell do hey play those things? They're so rare.

They don't spread far from the source. Publisher social media accounts, or the pre-order page on Amazon. In some markets you might see one at a movie theatre, but not the pre-movie commercials. The theatre's pre-show ads.

Deakul
Apr 2, 2012

PAM PA RAM

PAM PAM PARAAAAM!

I wish I enjoyed fighting games cause Nether Realms has been going full ham with all of their games the past few years and it looks so fun but I feel like I can't really experience any of it cause you need to memorize ridiculous combos to do anything cool.

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming

Hole Girl vs. The Bone Brothers

BonoMan
Feb 20, 2002

Jade Ear Joe

Lol I even had to clarify that is what she was to be called.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010


I am interested on this feminist retelling of The Hobbit.

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Johnny Cage has a fatality in this one where he shoves his hand up someone’s back, rips off his legs, then uses the torso as a puppet to tell a joke.

Then someone throws a tomato at the “puppet”. Game owns.

His daughter Cassie has a good one that honors both him and her mother Sonya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh04Z9UCL-o

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 15 days!)

Deakul posted:

I wish I enjoyed fighting games cause Nether Realms has been going full ham with all of their games the past few years and it looks so fun but I feel like I can't really experience any of it cause you need to memorize ridiculous combos to do anything cool.

just play on easy, aside from the Shao Khan fight in 9 they're pretty quick to get through once you can remember a few specials

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Lobok posted:

They don't spread far from the source. Publisher social media accounts, or the pre-order page on Amazon. In some markets you might see one at a movie theatre, but not the pre-movie commercials. The theatre's pre-show ads.

Very, very occasionally one will sneak out. I recall seeing not one but two for Sue Grafton, and one for Gillian Flynn, god knows I can't remember what books they were for.

Synthwave Crusader
Feb 13, 2011

Lobok posted:

Still awesome but have they been using it for any other trailers over the years?

No, the reveal trailer back in December had 21 Savage and people were not pleased at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTams2yc0s

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Hot Take: Mortal Kombat 11's story mode is going to have a more interesting time travel story than Avengers Endgame, and probably some better action and quippier quips too.

Ibexaz
Jul 23, 2013

The faces he makes while posting are inexcusable! When he writes a post his face is like a troll double checking bones to see if there's any meat left! When I post I look like a peacock softly kissing a rose! Didn't his parents provide him with a posting mirror to practice forums faces growing up?

Scyantific posted:

No, the reveal trailer back in December had 21 Savage and people were not pleased at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTams2yc0s

I was pleased

I think the juxtaposition fits and is in-tune with the games competitive scene (or at least my interpretation of it). It makes me want to beat some rear end with my bros, which makes it Good Trailer, and people who didn't like it might just be weenies

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

DC Murderverse posted:

Hot Take: Mortal Kombat 11's story mode is going to have a more interesting time travel story than Avengers Endgame, and probably some better action and quippier quips too.

I am telling you right now that you are right.

BOGO LOAD
Jul 1, 2004

"You know I always had trouble really chewing the fat with my pops. Just listen to him..."
Much better MK11 trailer released last month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPbdSK_lrY

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Nah, the launch trailer is the best MK11 trailer by far. Doesn't spent a lot of time on any one plot detail that gives you the basic gist of the story and has kicking rad music that gets you pumped up.

Macksy
Oct 20, 2008

DC Murderverse posted:

Hot Take: Mortal Kombat 11's story mode is going to have a more interesting time travel story than Avengers Endgame, and probably some better action and quippier quips too.

Also the story mode from the next injustice game will continue to be better than anything from the dceu

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
Hoping for a Mortality Fight DLC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy9nZWd-aAk

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Macksy posted:

Also the story mode from the next injustice game will continue to be better than anything from the dceu

Again: lmfao.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Deakul posted:

I wish I enjoyed fighting games cause Nether Realms has been going full ham with all of their games the past few years and it looks so fun but I feel like I can't really experience any of it cause you need to memorize ridiculous combos to do anything cool.

honestly just watch the Story Mode videos on Youtube. if you're really not gonna get anything out of the fighting then you can at least consume the story for yourself.

Mulva
Sep 13, 2011
It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

They're not wrong.

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Just say you don't like fascist Batman being depicted as an unhinged fascist and want him to be the underdog hero fighting gods.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Jimbot posted:

Just say you don't like fascist Batman being depicted as an unhinged fascist and want him to be the underdog hero fighting gods.

yeah Injustice is basically "but what if Batfleck was totally right" but without all of the interesting creative choice of the Knightmare sequence

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Mulva posted:

They're not wrong.

It's still 4/19, this is a half-baked take.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
NRS Fighting games

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Mulva posted:

They're not wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URUJPTpZXnE

The Clap
Sep 21, 2006

currently training to kill God

The MSJ posted:

Looks like hanging out with The Family thought these guys a thing or two. Namely about family and also NOS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7PAyCDwEg

this is the best trailer ever made in the history of the universe

Ammanas
Jul 17, 2005

Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

The Clap posted:

this is the best trailer ever made in the history of the universe

its too long and shows too much
the previous trailer rolled better

imagine how hype itd be to see the haka revealed in the theater
now its simply an Expected Moment

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

I'd expect the haka as soon as I saw that they were going to Samoa. He got a lil girls soccer team doing it in the last movie.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

I think my mass effect is broken

Teenage Fansub posted:

I'd expect the haka as soon as I saw that they were going to Samoa. He got a lil girls soccer team doing it in the last movie.

A haka is from New Zealand, when it's Samoan, it's a Siva Tau.

Ariza
Feb 8, 2006

Vagabundo posted:

A haka is from New Zealand, when it's Samoan, it's a Siva Tau.

That's too hard to say.

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



The MSJ posted:

Looks like hanging out with The Family thought these guys a thing or two. Namely about family and also NOS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7PAyCDwEg

This is bonkers even for F&F, Day1.

cvnvcnv posted:

Seoul-Oh: A Car Wars Story
I love you.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Lol. Like where the hell do hey play those things? They're so rare.

The best book trailer is the one for Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

https://youtu.be/mWs1h5WAjWY

caligulamprey
Jan 23, 2007

It never stops.

It's not much to look at, but I do appreciate that Thomas Pynchon's narration in the Inherent Vice trailer sounds exactly like the kind of person who would write Inherent Vice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U

porfiria
Dec 10, 2008

by Modern Video Games
I feel like I used to see book trailers watching ER on TNT on weekdays at 10 in the morning during my misspent summers.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

porfiria posted:

I feel like I used to see book trailers watching ER on TNT on weekdays at 10 in the morning during my misspent summers.

There were definitely commercials for Stephen King, Dan Brown, that kind of stuff

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Rahonavis
Jan 11, 2012

"Clevuh gurrrl..."

The best book trailer I’ve ever seen got me SO hype for an animated film that would never be*:

https://youtu.be/5nHBylwZRgE

* - Okay, there technically is a movie based on this book, and an animated movie, and even a whole series. This commercial is a million times better than all of them combined.

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