Why has there been no definitive answer on unique animations?

[passwordistaco]

Plus the sound was cool. I hope there will be sound in the game.

I do love a game with sound.

 

[Biggs]

I hope they do a video of how they're mocapping the sound, then I can make a thread doubting about the sound being included in the game.

 

[blockerdave]

You can be a member for a day and have a great opinion. You can be a member since Friday, claiming a game developer is being misleading, whom most of us know is legit, and you'll get called on being a fool.



Again; There are videos showing you the mo-cap process. What more could you possibly want for it not to be determined "vague?" You've been told and shown there are unique animations in the new release. You don't believe it's in the game. Hysterical.



Really?



Kids that buy computer games. Not any of us. It's about making the Ashes exciting again and giving some credibility back to the license. I reckon the trailer was designed to create excitement, not show specifics. More of an extended teaser. No doubt there is going to be more trailers, play-tests, images, previews and more. It's all about pacing oneself. This is fine.

In a world where Test cricket is on the chopping block, let alone barely any professional players want to be a part of most test teams, I think expecting Big Ant are going to lead with a trailer focussing on a 2nd innings declaration, showing the physics of the ball bouncing across a lightly-damp outfield at 2.30pm on day 4, with limited cuts showing 8 new bowling animations is prolly... not going to do what they want it to do, marketing-wise.

Plus the sound was cool. I hope there will be sound in the game.

Tldr but yes I think it was a poor trailer. Not a single action was played in full, a new angle every 1.5 seconds, far too close up. No detail or understanding improved by it.

What excitement was garnered by it?? Again my question is who is excited by "the ashes" a test format, but wants to play smash and bash 5/5 in whites. Because that was all there was in the trailer.

I understand what the trailer tried to be, and I understand I'm the opposite of the audience for it so it's hard to make an objective judgment, but I thought it missed the mark because of the inherent contradiction of selling a historic test format in a t20 way.

 

[Biggs]

I thought it missed the mark because of the inherent contradiction of selling a historic test format in a t20 way.

That's how you move units, whether you like it or not. Watch any AAA title trailer. Smash-cuts are the edit de-jour. You also gotta make Test cricket exciting for millennials because god knows the ICC can't figure out how to.

....and had they advertised that the magnificent SuperTest™ format is included as standard, they would've had exactly more 3243 copies pre-ordered.

 

[blockerdave]

That's how you move units, whether you like it or not. Watch any AAA title trailer. Smash-cuts are the edit de-jour. You also gotta make Test cricket exciting for millennials because god knows the ICC can't figure out how to.

Oh yeah, doing exactly what everyone else does definitely makes it not poor...

It blew.

 

[Biggs]

TLDR. I think you're looking to nitpick.

EDIT:

925 Likes on YouTube. 580 Positive reactions on Facebook. That's the crowd. It was fine.

I hope they do a YouTube video on how they made the trailer so I can make a post about how I don't believe there will be marketing trailers for this game.

 

[grkrama]

925 Likes on YouTube. 580 Positive reactions on Facebook. That's the crowd. It was fine.

only this much?

Edit:
its 47k in cricket.au youtube channel

 

[blockerdave]

TLDR. I think you're looking to nitpick.

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925 Likes on YouTube. 580 Positive reactions on Facebook. That's the crowd. It was fine.

I hope they do a YouTube video on how they made the trailer so I can make a post about how I don't believe there will be marketing trailers for this game.

i haven't nit picked at all. frame by frame moans is nit picking. saying the angles and cuts sucked is broad bush and the opposite of nit picking. this comment so far is all nit picking.[DOUBLEPOST=1508832334][/DOUBLEPOST]

only this much?
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hey man, 1500 sales. it's fine

 

[grkrama]

I think the trailer is fine as a grab your attention one, what they can do is a 2- 3 min feature trailer, and a 6 min gameplay trailer to compliment it.

 

[Spoobir]

@Spoobir - where are your dbc17 vids?? I presume you have a YouTube or vimeo channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/Spoobirrr/videos is my channel.

Videos I put the most time into were for the SA vs England match I played:

I'd be happy to make a trailer for Ashes Cricket. They just gotta give me an early copy the game

 

[Spoobir]

Just to also weigh in on the discussion you guys were having: I too was underwhelmed with the trailer, like @blockerdave, mostly because apart from the obvious licensed player models/kits and some hints of new animations it looks like it could just have been made in DBC '17. Plus I've seen enough diving slip catches to not get excited by them anymore, I'd rather see someone take a regulation chance if I'm honest.

Even though it's obviously been under a year since the last game and I'm not expecting it to be a radically different game, I'd have liked to have seen just a bit more new stuff in the trailer. Variable weather conditions perhaps?

Here's hoping the trailer was just to say "This game exists!" to people who don't follow this stuff religiously like us and we get some more stuff in the next few weeks.

 

[blockerdave]

My problem was simply that whatever you wanted to see from the trailer, you couldn't see it. Even those millions of kids out there desperate to play a test match like a t20, how can they glean anything from seeing a 1.5 second bad-angled close up of a ball 1 metre from the bat, another 1.5 second bad-angled close up of the bat coming towards the ball, and a 1.5 second bad-angled close up of the ball leaving the bat?

I couldn't see shit.

It was a like bad parody of a terrible action movie.

 

[Spoobir]

My problem was simply that whatever you wanted to see from the trailer, you couldn't see it. Even those millions of kids out there desperate to play a test match like a t20, how can they glean anything from seeing a 1.5 second bad-angled close up of a ball 1 metre from the bat, another 1.5 second bad-angled close up of the bat coming towards the ball, and a 1.5 second bad-angled close up of the ball leaving the bat?

I couldn't see shit.

It was a like bad parody of a terrible action movie.

I just re-watched the '14 and '17 trailers and yes, I'd absolutely have preferred that style of trailer over what we got.

 

[kulch]

Hopefully there is a release trailer days before it's out showcasing alot more especially some good default angles of an edge from a ball that deviates off a worn pitch

 

[gunit123]

Hopefully there is a release trailer days before it's out showcasing alot more especially some good default angles of an edge from a ball that deviates off a worn pitch

I'd expect much more than a trailer tbh...

There should be in-game footage by then