It's on at midnight duder. I don;t know if thats your time right now.  
But it isn't here

machinima =/= masterpiece movie

It seems like the game, but different camera angles. Oh wait, thats all it is. Nothing too great so far

It seems to just be a bunch of cutscenes chopped together in a different way.

A lot of shots of john riding horses at different camera angles.

Oh yeah, how do we pad out Machinima people?  That's right, we show a lot of panning shots of the environments and scenes of characters walking in the same loop.  But in this case, it's horse riding.
 
Yeah, this blows so far, I must say.  Every time animation from a cutscene plays, the framerate changes, so the scenes have this disjointed vibe going on.  Immediately, this wasn't a very good idea.

"It seems to just be a bunch of cutscenes chopped together in a different way. "

The story kinda jumps around. I mean I know whats going on cause I've played the game but I'm not sure you know know whats going on if you had not played it

I dont understand why they didnt just release this online as a extended trailer. As a tv spot this just doesnt make any sense. It doesnt attempt to catch the new viewer up or establish the setting. Who is this for? Im guessing they met a guy who knew a guy and got Hillcoat to help them cut a extended trailer from cutscenes. I dont know why anyone at Fox would want to stick this on their station.  
 
Midnight on saturday, why bother. 
 
I love the game though, having already seen all of this doesnt help.

I was hoping this would be a prequel or something of substance.

Yeah... that was kinda dumb to watch. Ugh.

I thought this was the thing that the director of the movie The Road was working on. I don't think it's advertisement for the game.

So it's like the "movie" for Shenmue? I wasn't able to watch that. It got boring really fast.

Well that was just a pathetic attempt at an advertisement. I severely doubt anybody that hasn't played the game would have a clue what was happening. I was hoping there would be something to this, but it would seem as if anybody that could edit together some cutscenes could have produced something as average as this... meh.

shoot. i forgot and only caught the last 3 minutes. It showed the part in the game I just finished playing, but also spliced another little bit in. Not impressed.

That was a bummer. I was hoping that it would be like a side story about some minor character. Got some unfinished  cliffnotes version of the game's story instead. Having not played the game it just came off as disjointed and rushed. 

most of it wasn't that bad, but the end where they kept switching between the old mansion and fort mercer was terrible

Maybe they rushed when they were making the movie.

Eh, it was what it was. An advertisement in a "short film's" clothing.

yeah this was a real disappointment. it was just a bunch of cut scenes duct taped together then thrown in the garbage.

" So it's like the "movie" for Shenmue? I wasn't able to watch that. It got boring really fast. "

Is there any story ruining spoilers from this? I missed out cuz time zone difference.

Machinima continues to suck.

Watching it right now,
I think it's more advertising than anything, But I have to admit it worked.  Although I have to ask, How much of the story will watching it have spoiled for me?
I'm probably going to buy this late in the summer to tide me over till New Vegas.  Of course alot of the reason I'm sure has to do with GB member praise since release,
But watching this turned it from a "maybe if I can't find anything else" to "100% getting it... at some point"

Only got to see the second part of it. Finale was just anticlimactic. It just doesn't work for anyone who beat the assault mission and expected a cinematic interpretation.
 
It's just an advertisement. The problem though was its timeslot which most people who would have interest was busy watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and people who knew about it and was awaiting it might have beaten that part already.

It wasn't a masterpiece but I thought it was really well done. I especially liked the how the ending came together, bill escaping and seth getting his treasure...that said, the scenes did feel disjointed in places, especially where cuts were made to the scene. The graphics looked a lot better than on the consoles I thought.. 
 
For a half-hour movie to promote the game, I thought it was pretty sweet.

" Watching it right now, I think it's more advertising than anything, But I have to admit it worked.  Although I have to ask, How much of the story will watching it have spoiled for me?

" That was a bummer. I was hoping that it would be like a side story about some minor character. Got some unfinished  cliffnotes version of the game's story instead. Having not played the game it just came off as disjointed and rushed.  "

I posted my optinions in the other thread but i'll sum it up here:  It was a Glorified Machinima! 
 
I haven't played the game so i didn't really understand the story.  Obviously this was ment as an advertisment but how many people are awake at 12 in the morning?   

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I posted my optinions in the other thread but i'll sum it up here:  It was a Glorified Machinima! 
 
I haven't played the game so i didn't really understand the story.  Obviously this was ment as an advertisment but how many people are awake at 12 in the morning?   

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I have to say....for someone who considers RDR one of the best games Period, that thing blew all kinds of Shit.

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I posted my optinions in the other thread but i'll sum it up here:  It was a Glorified Machinima! 
 
I haven't played the game so i didn't really understand the story.  Obviously this was ment as an advertisment but how many people are awake at 12 in the morning?   

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People watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. "