Have you ever NOTICED that gameplay trailers don't look right? 🥴🤔 

You forgot the bit where the devs just straight up lie

They also hide the UI and any npc interactions to make the game seem as immersive as possible

I hate that sometimes game gameplay trailers use a better shader than the one in the game

Especially console trailers that look like someone pressed f8 in minecraft. The camera movement is just too smooth.

That assassination be like: - "Hey dude" - "Wha.." - Stab throat - "Haha! Got your throat" - Proceeds to parkour away

bro hasn't heard of mobile game trailers ☠️

Anyone else as a kid moves like a bot to match trailers gameplay?

The thing I always notice in gameplay trailers is that they always move the camera extremely slowly, like they have their sensitivity set to the lowest it can go

The trailer for bonelab and boneworks is pure, normal gameplay, no edits besides splicing clips and the background music, yet they still turned out so chilling and badass

Every time I walk slow and methodical in a video game I feel like I’m practicing an E3 showcase Edit: hell yeah, 100 likes thanks 🙏

Really interesting stuff!

I personally love watching “perfect gameplay”. It’s like watching the game in its most realistic form

keep in mind, every company is completely different in how they make their trailers 🔥

hearing "1080p can start to struggle" hits hard bc i remember when that shit came out and it was the cleanest thing ever

That demo DL2 gameplay just breaks my heart. I love DL2 today, it just doesn’t look the same as the trailers though :(

I love that the one clip you use for experimental graphical settings that never made it into the game was the one game that still included the graphical settings in the code to be reenabled

They should add those graphical settings in as "experimental" and give people access to shader options. That be great.

I’m started to think the Uncharted 4 dead controller wasn’t an accident and was a ploy to get you to understand the game was actually being played.

Then you have modern mobile game adds and sponsors

Red dead redemption 2: Haha hold my bear 🗿🍺

Trailer:🏣🏤🏥🏥 🚕🚖🚗🚘🚑 Game:🗿

Usually HUDs are missing too Also in some games they decide to change some stuff up between the time they make the trailer and release the game so some stuff are quite literally different

Except Battlefield 1. One of the only games where it’s like the trailer, every game.

This was the great thing about the Doom Eternal gameplay reveal at Quake Con: It was played on an actual mouse and Keyboard by Hugo.

Ofcoz I realize that. That'S why it looks cool like a movie, until u play it and it look like reality TV series.

Watch dogs lol

You forgot the part where they have something cool in the trailer only for it to happen only once in the game

Naughty Dog gameplay trailers are the best! Anyone remember the Uncharted 4 gameplay showcase (stage fright) - and The Last Of Us Part 2 blew my mind. And it all seems realistically played too (like you can actually play it in that way in-game). More games should follow their example for more honest marketing

I've never seen Nintendo do this. They always use clips directly from the game for their gameplay trailers, with UI and everything, mostly because they have nothing to hide and actually finish their games. One of the many reasons I love them.

I wish that version of dying light 2 released 😢

Bro I was legit thinking of dl2 as soon as you said that, they took pretty much most of the good details and structures out of the game, and even the graphics too!

Sometimes I just play games like I'm in the trailer. I go all cinematic and move smoothly and showcase features along with wow moments. I also found that playing it cinematically helps me appreciate the details and environments of the game more.

Rockstar is the opposite where their games always look better than the trailers

"Mario oddessy trailer which runs at 30" Mario oddessy runs at 30?

Imagine a gameplay trailer were everyone is walking into walls and falling off of structures

It's very common for Developers to code in key presses and run them in a recorded demo for gameplay trailers since the PS3/XB360 era. This was exposed in the Uncharted 4 E3 trailer, where the demo fails to load in the programmed key presses and resulted in Drake standing still for about 40 seconds until they reset the demo. Naughty Dog even made an achievement after that! There's also the use of debug cameras, which is usually inaccessible to players. It's very blatant in the Skylanders series, where development screenshots and trailers use camera angles that are not possible to use. What's worse is that these angles show actual level detail that isn't even visible by the game's default camera!

song?

Don't forget the classic Ubisoft tactic of "let's downgrade the real graphics so much it feels like a last gen title by comparison"

Fraudulent advertising in the gaming industry should not be normalised

First of all thank you for explaining the differences between game and trailer it is really interesting to know about and secondly thank you so much for adding the music in the video it is really helpful so thank you again!

You see as a game dev, We don't plan our routes, We find a random person to play and then have all the footage mashed together

Perfect gameplay is one that's always bugged me. You can tell it isn't a human controlling the game, and that takes the impact away.

The overwatch trailers just have people shooting at nothing to have any motion.

Fov is usually set very low Lower fov can make the game more "cinematic" and lets things look bigger than they really are

Ok but like. Can we talk about how absolutely PERFECT the looping is in this video? Best loop I have ever seen.

There are also people who make these showcase quality gameplays. Sometimes live. They are very good at remembering the path and staying smooth on the camera angles. Similar to the Macro or AI gameplay trailers. People also do it too.

and they always move as slow walking as possible while moving the camera slowly, and enemy NPCs do cool animations before directly attacking the player. Compared to the full game where its just run and gun central XD

They should hire me for their gameplay trailers. I'll make it look natural, camera wise. After several takes, probably.

They should just drop using experimental graphical settings, and instead present audiences with what they’re getting, so we know what to expect.

"There is something wrong but you can't place your finger on it" yes, this is a skinwalker disguised as a game

I remember some mod that let you enable the trailer graphics setting in GTA IV Laggy as hell without their rendering software

I watched AC: Mirage Trailer today and noticed that they also include some cinematic camera events , that you probably will never see in actual game. There the player escaped from guards and break barricade on their way and camera just stop on guards to catch their reaction, when in actual gameplay you'll never see this because camera is always with the player.

I still remember seeing TV commercials for Red Dead Redemption and GTA V showing the games running at 60 FPS, only for the final games to run at 30

Watch Dogs at least has somewhat of an excuse, cause the graphics can actually be enabled in the files, they just were turned "off" for some reason. As to why Ubisoft never bothered to patch it in the first place is another mystery

Am I the only one that likes to play like that? Like it's just smooth u know, your vision doesn't get that tired, it's like walking in a park or smt

Rockstar Games: Hold my GTA 6

Also the most obvious one. Older versions/builds of the game sometimes with scrapped content or slightly different graphics.

I remember the DOOM 2016 showcase where they started with the slow trodding gameplay, and then followed up with the high octane this-is-how-you’re-suppose-to-move gameplay

trailers like this are often made when gameplay doesn't fully exist yet. these are usually concept trailers that show the idea of gameplay

Actually a 1080p video on youtube with 1440p & 4k options doesn't actually have as bad of a compression compared to a standalone 1080p, if you upscale render or natively record in 1440p or 4k. and upload said video to youtube. it will use a lesser compression method allowing for a much better and noticeable bitrate difference when viewing @ 1080p compared to a video recorded and uploaded in 1080p. I found this out the hard way after constantly searching for advice regarding gaming videos render options. and in a videography forum someone had mentioned this. TL;DR uploading a 1440p or 4k video allows youtube to allocate a higher bitrate to your video meaning a better quality 1080p video compared to standalone 1080p videos

I love Watch_Dogs but those early E3 reveal still hurts to watch.

I once did a project for school where i had to re-do the soundtrack and effects for a section of gameplay footage. I personally recorded that footage, it was a small 8 minute section of Titanfall 2 campaign. While playing the game, i had to play in that floaty, "perfect" style where i was trying to be slow and steady with camera movements. Was an interesting challenge tbh

At the start of the vid I thought he was talking about the vehicle trailers like in GTA V 😭😭

God of war was the only game to not lie to its viewers

Ever since the divison one e3 trailer I never looked at gameplay trailers the same again

One fun thing trailers can do also is run the game at 1/4 speed to let their graphics render more carefully without blurring or tearing which means that there will never be a moment they test the limits of their own graphics engine. The pre-recording doesn't have to do anything in real time, so you will never see it struggle. Offering extremely unrealistic graphics compared to expectations.

the floaty play style of like moving slow is something i learned to do it changes the way you play a game

That's why you should play Half-Life games on the lowest settings cause that's what graphics the trailers were made with.

I love how it shows dying light 2 in this, because the topic of this video is exactly what happened with it.

this is why at the beginning of some trailers it says “this is not actual gameplay” or “game engine footage”

GTI Racing trailer had cars that had hoods and doors flying off World Racing 2 trailers had "special" (the sky was more blue, the cars were more reflective etc) beta graphics

See the thing is I like to play like I'm showing the game off to an audience or doing sort of a techdemo so I try to make the camera as smooth as possible. It's really fun too because you can make some really cinematic moments

Don’t forget when in the ads for the new forza it was always raining to show the reflections 💀💀

You can simulate the camera movement using the joystick. Put sensitivity and acceleration really low and turn off motion blur for that smooth movement. It’s good for when you’re trying to appreciate the scenery.

I didn’t even think about how there was minecraft parkour going between shots of trailers until after finishing the short nooo 😭😭😭

the *stroogle* word made my day

most trailers are like "actual in-game footage" and then have the video play in-engine without player interaction whatsoever. the Dying Light 2 video is the prime example because that wasn't player input but an animation in-engine. or Rainbow Six Siege's trailer back then. so yeah, most of the time it's either pre-rendered or just rendered at real time in-engine to mimic gameplay

This guy made the fact that companies want to pretty up their product into some crazy fun fact. Dude, obviously they're using things like "E3 cam" (looking around extremely smoothly) and stuff to showcase what they have. It's not some crazy "did you know" or "have you noticed this hidden thing" type deal.

I have literally never thought that.

I realized this a long time ago so when I’d try and mimic the smooth and planned movements, it would always get me killed one way or another so you have to play weird

This is why I would love a definitive edition/remastered version of watch dogs 1 to add some updated features from the newer watch dogs games and give us those beautiful graphic that we thought we were going to get back in 2012 and 2013. And I mean they quite literally abandon watch dogs legion 😭 and it's been 10 years so I don't see why not 🤷‍♂️

In some cases (like rdr2), they add lights to characters’ faces to make detail more visible

also worth noting most gameplay trailers are offline pre-rendered visuals built in a separate 3d application usually with higher quality ‘hero models’ and path tracing. the characters are rigged differently, the post processes and pacing are different

I'm probably the only one but I have been trying to play games more like they do in trailers, and it usually is really nice it gives a different type of immersion to them. For example in Cyberpunk 2077 I always walk and look down at my feet to see if the animation is right. Or wait at lights, or drive as correctly as possible.

I always play single player games like it's a E3 demo xd

*_My momma called, seen you on TV, son_*

Or in the case of anthem they built an entire game area for a trailer and then scrapped all of it and started new

To be honest I do love playing some games like them trailers do. Slowly moving and carefully panning the camera, trying to immerse myself as much as possible😅

the fact that 1080p can now struggle shows how crazy technology is and can become

They also hide the HUD and any UI to make it look as cinematic as possible.

Ngl, I never think gameplay trailers look off

that and it's usually running on a really early version of the game, but it's kinda cool to think about

Bro the watch dog gameplay that they released for e3 I think back in 2012/13 and then the downgrade that we got at release was crazy, the pre release gameplay footage legit looked out of the world, while the released version was still a banger and one of my favourite games at that time it was still one of the most disappointed releases by ubisoft

Shoutout to dying light 2. On release it’s a completely different unfinished game where only a couple things from the trailer were actually in the game.

the fact about 1080p is so true even that I have a 1080 screen I watch in 4k to get rid of blur

I actually play a lot like how gameplay trailers look, except faster. I usually know exactly what I'm doing so I try making my gameplay look smooth and stuff, while playing fast, even though no one's watching me play I just like how it look. I tend to turn off a lot of HUD elements as well.

The thing i hate the most about trailers is when they dont even show the gameplay and instead some cinematics or cut scenes

That’s why I am going to be open to the community and actually have a trailer that’s genuine gameplay. Like a random encounter or something. If we die, we’ll cut it off to another encounter.

I could notice certain things about the dl2 trailer. like how when Aiden's shot with the arrow the directional damage thing is behind him and not where the arrow would have hit him.

"It's using the game engine ..." Running on a $5000 rig.