Things Are Looking Rough in PlanetSide 2

Alright, that was pretty badass, actually.

Clearly, this video isn't canon. The Terran Republic is invincible.

Vanu baby.

@desolation15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0xcmHYuUbn0#t=6501s

Your sarcasm is not appreciated here, heretic.

Damned fem-bots!

@notha said:

did the trailer have anything to do with the game? not really.

was it awesome anyways? fuck yes it was!

It captures the madness, even if the madness isn't literally the same. It also has the NC guy die, so they did right by everyone.

did the trailer have anything to do with the game? not really.

was it awesome anyways? fuck yes it was!

They lost me at the SOE logo. It isn't 2002 anymore.

It's pretty goddamn amazing that there even is a Planetside 2. And that they are backing it up with a marketing budget that isn't full of shit. You guys need to get pumped about this fucking game - because in the MMOFPS genre I really struggle to see another group of devs that are willing to stick their neck out.

@Maurdakar said:

@Rohok: I am also furious that some people who animate entertaining CGI got pay-checked and I was thusly amused for free for a game I am excited about after viewing 5 hours plus of in game footage that was shown at E3.

Furious I say.

I'm literally fuming. How dare they provide extra entertainment for a highly-anticipated game. The assholes.

@Rohok said:

@Meowshi said:

@Rohok said:

Let's all get hyped and excited after seeing a pre-rendered CGI trailer with ZERO gameplay in it! Because that worked out so well for TOR! Yaaaayyyy CGI trailers that tell us nothing!

When will companies learn we just don't give a shit about these kinds of trailers?

People do give a shit about them. You don't speak for everyone, which is great, because your opinion is dumb as shit. There are hours of gameplay footage available. This is released in combination WITH that footage, not in place of. You don't NEED gameplay footage in a hype/storyline trailer.

TOR is a completely different situation because the trailers were all they were showing for years and the graphical style had literally nothing in common with the Blur-produced CGI. I don't care if you personal hate CG trailers, but don't go around assuming that everyone agrees with you. If people didn't like them, they wouldn't spend millions of dollars making them.

Then you're an idiot if you get hyped for a game over a pre-rendered trailer that has literally zero to do with the game.

Good job, you're the target audience for mass produced advertisements geared toward morons.

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The CG trailer is awesome, and I'm sorry you're too much of a spoilsport to enjoy it.

I'll also disagree that the CG trailer has "literally zero to do with the game". At the very least it establishes the visual style of the game, and also hints towards the tone and setting. When you see a character doing an awesome thing in a CG trailer, is makes you excited to play as that character while keeping in mind that the actual gameplay will be closer to traditional FPS mechanics.

Anyway pal, have fun being mad.

@Rohok: I am also furious that some people who animate entertaining CGI got pay-checked and I was thusly amused for free for a game I am excited about after viewing 5 hours plus of in game footage that was shown at E3.

Furious I say.

@Rohok: just 'cause you don't like fun doesn't mean the rest of us can't.

@Meowshi said:

@Rohok said:

Let's all get hyped and excited after seeing a pre-rendered CGI trailer with ZERO gameplay in it! Because that worked out so well for TOR! Yaaaayyyy CGI trailers that tell us nothing!

When will companies learn we just don't give a shit about these kinds of trailers?

People do give a shit about them. You don't speak for everyone, which is great, because your opinion is dumb as shit. There are hours of gameplay footage available. This is released in combination WITH that footage, not in place of. You don't NEED gameplay footage in a hype/storyline trailer.

TOR is a completely different situation because the trailers were all they were showing for years and the graphical style had literally nothing in common with the Blur-produced CGI. I don't care if you personal hate CG trailers, but don't go around assuming that everyone agrees with you. If people didn't like them, they wouldn't spend millions of dollars making them.

Then you're an idiot if you get hyped for a game over a pre-rendered trailer that has literally zero to do with the game.

Good job, you're the target audience for mass produced advertisements geared toward morons.

just got my beta key. should kick off monday or tuesday. cant fucking wait!!

This is a real life representation of a virtual presentation of the illustration of Planetside 2 gameplay if it had been real and not fake and not a video game or fiction entirely.

@Rohok said:

Let's all get hyped and excited after seeing a pre-rendered CGI trailer with ZERO gameplay in it! Because that worked out so well for TOR! Yaaaayyyy CGI trailers that tell us nothing!

When will companies learn we just don't give a shit about these kinds of trailers?

People do give a shit about them. You don't speak for everyone, which is great, because your opinion is dumb as shit. There are hours of gameplay footage available. This is released in combination WITH that footage, not in place of. You don't NEED gameplay footage in a hype/storyline trailer.

TOR is a completely different situation because the trailers were all they were showing for years and the graphical style had literally nothing in common with the Blur-produced CGI. I don't care if you personal hate CG trailers, but don't go around assuming that everyone agrees with you. If people didn't like them, they wouldn't spend millions of dollars making them.

I heard this was a videogame

There exists over 5 hours of game play footage with total biscuit commentating from E3. Not to mention the footage that is being leaked from Alpha which you can find without much trouble. Or the many other trailers they have put out that are actual game play and engine footage. This is sort of a tease to get people to watch those, and back those up.

I think these kinds of trailers are fun, so long as the cloths are off once you go looking. Why all the hate?

Really could have done with him respawning at the end, since the fact that it's 3 immortal armies vying for control eternally is sort of a lore point.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, everything in this trailer IS possible, except shooting the people individually in the Galaxy dropship. Incredibly improbable but, in the strictest sense of the word, possible.

@AssInAss said:

Must be the only one who confuses Planetside with Planescape Torment.

not the only one.

He'll respawn anyway.

No seriously. The Vanu perfected a machine that makes death irrelevant and everyone has it. Why are you any other faction again?

Let's all get hyped and excited after seeing a pre-rendered CGI trailer with ZERO gameplay in it! Because that worked out so well for TOR! Yaaaayyyy CGI trailers that tell us nothing!

When will companies learn we just don't give a shit about these kinds of trailers?

Must be the only one who confuses Planetside with Planescape Torment.

Make a full-length CG movie. Please?

@fisk0 said:

@dcsears said:

Oh wow, cool video, it's highlighting a bunch of really sweet things that will never happen to you while playing Planetside 2.

Would be pretty awesome if they had dynamic drawn out death scenes with flashbacks to the victim's childhood and civilian life - the last time he spoke to his wife, reassuring her he'll come back home after the assignment, him grasping for a photograph of her, heavy breathing and the heartbeat getting weaker, fade out to black .. and BAM - RESPAWN.

And I thought the death animation from BF3 was bad.

Forget Planetside 2! I wanna play the game shown on the trailer! That, and I'm totally using the stealth faction.

I've been having a lot of fun with this one. It feels like such a leap above all of the competition. The graphical fidelity combined with the scope of the game with the amount of players and shit happening on screen all at once with no noticeable lag is simply mind-boggling.

I was broke when Planetside came out, otherwise I would have played it longer - It was a ton of fun playing a stealth hacker, stealing bases out from under people.

Certainly the most interesting shooter that is on the horizon so far.

@Tumbler said:

"Not actual gameplay"

Ok then, done watching this. (exits video)

so edgy and cool XD!!!

Honestly the only thing this trailer needed was, as the Vanu forces closed in all tightly-packed, a red beam with spiralling white energy pierces the clouds right in the middle of them, completing the cycle of each faction fucking each other over.

@poser said:

I was sold after GDC. This trailer is for the console kids.

Yeah, only console players enjoy CGI trailers/cutscenes. Brilliant observation there, idiot.

I don't understand the hate for CGI trailers, they can be fun. Maybe this doesn't tell anything about the game, it's still a gorgeous piece of media. Short movie if you will. There is SO MUCH gameplay of this game already on the internet, why would you even need more?

@Veektarius said:

Well-produced trailer but the whole one-man army theme does not fit the game.

Maybe you didn't watch to the end? The whole point was that that dude was awesome, but he is still just one guy and there are thousands of enemies coming in.

one of the coolest cg trailers i've seen for sure

I was sold after GDC. This trailer is for the console kids.

All the gameplay footage of this game looks amazing. This is the real REAL Battlefield game DICE failed to give us.

That NC trooper fights like he's a 40k marine lost in a different game. 0o

Also... Vanu. Winning as they should.

Not actual gameplay because this would never happen in the actual game.

"Not actual gameplay"

Ok then, done watching this. (exits video)

@dcsears said:

Oh wow, cool video, it's highlighting a bunch of really sweet things that will never happen to you while playing Planetside 2.

Would be pretty awesome if they had dynamic drawn out death scenes with flashbacks to the victim's childhood and civilian life - the last time he spoke to his wife, reassuring her he'll come back home after the assignment, him grasping for a photograph of her, heavy breathing and the heartbeat getting weaker, fade out to black .. and BAM - RESPAWN.

I really wish this was actual game-play footage.

A fall from 15,000 feet, barely a scratch.

Stealth knife, instant death.

Oh wow, cool video, it's highlighting a bunch of really sweet things that will never happen to you while playing Planetside 2.

Very effective marketing. I wasn't excited for this game, and now for some reason I am!

@Erik: You better not be saying that based solely on this trailer.

@Grimhild said:

Typical. Easy mode... I mean... Vanu come in at the tail end of a great stand-up fight between the NC and the TR... Pfft.

I'm kidding, calm down.

@Vodun said:

@ravage484 said:

@Humanity: Do you remember Gal-drops? That game was some real fun..

Was there ever a successful one? Every one I was involved in ended up with us all dying real quick or getting spread out and then dying later.

I saw the Strumgrenadier outfit do several well coordinated Gal drops. Those cats could roll. Also, the Gal is now the mobile spawn unit, so instead of just having everyone bail (pilot included), it's better to drop your passengers and then actually find a good landing zone. They're tweaking the Galaxy to make it like an OP for the offensive force once it's landed, basically.

If 90% of your squad doesn't die then it's not a 'proper' Gal drop.

Also Vanu kicked butt and had some pretty sweet armor. In the trailer it looks like Vanu is recruiting hot chicks into their forces so I'm all for it!

Typical. Easy mode... I mean... Vanu come in at the tail end of a great stand-up fight between the NC and the TR... Pfft.

I'm kidding, calm down.

@Vodun said:

@ravage484 said:

@Humanity: Do you remember Gal-drops? That game was some real fun..

Was there ever a successful one? Every one I was involved in ended up with us all dying real quick or getting spread out and then dying later.

I saw the Strumgrenadier outfit do several well coordinated Gal drops. Those cats could roll. Also, the Gal is now the mobile spawn unit, so instead of just having everyone bail (pilot included), it's better to drop your passengers and then actually find a good landing zone. They're tweaking the Galaxy to make it like an OP for the offensive force once it's landed, basically.

Mr. Soldier really needs a lesson in mission creep.

@ravage484 said:

@Humanity: Do you remember Gal-drops? That game was some real fun..

Was there ever a successful one? Every one I was involved in ended up with us all dying real quick or getting spread out and then dying later.

@dezvous said:

Is there any truth to being able to clamber along the side of large ships because that would be freaking awesome. Or can you at least land on top of them etc?

I remember one of the devs saying that it's possible to jetpack on top of a galaxy and shoot the pilot to take it down.