It's to hide how slow the pvp is, seriously (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, August 08, 2017, 22:38 (2751 days ago) @ INSANEdrive

Destiny PvP is not a fast paced all action pvp like CoD. But the strategy and positioning of destiny's gameplay makes for a poor 30 second ad. So how do you hide that? With lots of fast cuts and vastly overblown music. Personally, I thought the music was awful. While I enjoyed seeing the new guns and emotes, there was no real gameplay shown. That trailer gave us basically no information about the pvp at all. I wouldn't even have known that it was supposed to be competitive if the words "Competitive Multiplayer" hadn't been shown at the start, because every fight in that trailer looked like a one-sided affair.

It's hard to show someone just how tense the pvp in destiny can be in a trailer. I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about it and I do this sort of thing for a living (okay, I'd probably show a 30 second Trials match where three enemies go down right away, and the last enemy drops the protagonist's allies one by one over the course of the next 20 seconds. Then you have 5 seconds of "holy shit he could be anywhere" and a quick super to dodge to counter super to shotgun melee and the match is won. Shaxx VO: Well done! Now do that four more times, guardian. tag line: Destiny. Become Legend. All night long.). Anyway, my point is that this is hard to convey in such a short time, and I get why they did what they did. I don't like it, because I feel like a trailer should teach you something about the product rather than simply being a lot of flash, but I'm also not in charge.