Never Trust a Trailer/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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* Generally speaking, many developers like to take a screenshot of the game that was generated over the course of several minutes by a supercomputer and imply that it will look just as good at home with a smooth frame-rate. Such screenshots have been dubbed [[Portmanteau|Bullshots]] by [[Penny Arcade]].

* The new trailer for [[~~Runescape~~]]. It shows a warrior, an archer, and a mage having an epic duel with a villian. Once the villian has been killed, they fight off a skeletal horde followed by an intimidating skeletal dragon eating the camera. The armor the heroes wear? Not available in the game. The evil villain? Never mentioned. The skeletal horde? Not a quest. The skeletal dragon? Not an enemy.

* The new trailer for [[RuneScape]]. It shows a warrior, an archer, and a mage having an epic duel with a villian. Once the villian has been killed, they fight off a skeletal horde followed by an intimidating skeletal dragon eating the camera. The armor the heroes wear? Not available in the game. The evil villain? Never mentioned. The skeletal horde? Not a quest. The skeletal dragon? Not an enemy.

* In [[Dragon Age]] II's "Destiny" trailer Hawke gets [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]] before kicking the Arishock's ass. Hawke never gets red eyes at any point in the game. The trailer also made it look like the Qunari would be the main antagonists.

* [[World of Warcraft]] has had a few, mostly due to content being cut at the last minute.

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** Please see [[Descending Ceiling]] for another fan-made pack that includes this in its entirety (''with spikes'').

* ''[[Time Hollow]]'' on the DS' trailer culminates with one of the main characters falling seemingly to her death, only for the main character to dramatically grab her hand mid-air, still falling. In-game the scene is never used, and while the girl does fall, all the main character does is reach out through a portal while time is stopped and pull her through.

* Nintendo's ads for ''[[~~Earthbound~~]]'' pushed the [[Toilet Humor]] harder than anything else with the infamous "this game stinks!" ad campaign; it memorably declared its subject to be "the first RPG with BO", which it...''isn't''. As ''anyone'' who played the game will tell you, the humor is much more intelligent and subtle, with only a few potty jokes here and there. Financial reports indicate that Nintendo put ''millions'' into this misguided campaign. It backfired spectacularly and the game became a financial disaster for Nintendo, to the point where they're [[No Export for You|highly reluctant]] to take another chance on the franchise even though it's since become one of the most beloved [[Cult Classic]] games.

* Nintendo's ads for ''[[EarthBound]]'' pushed the [[Toilet Humor]] harder than anything else with the infamous "this game stinks!" ad campaign; it memorably declared its subject to be "the first RPG with BO", which it...''isn't''. As ''anyone'' who played the game will tell you, the humor is much more intelligent and subtle, with only a few potty jokes here and there. Financial reports indicate that Nintendo put ''millions'' into this misguided campaign. It backfired spectacularly and the game became a financial disaster for Nintendo, to the point where they're [[No Export for You|highly reluctant]] to take another chance on the franchise even though it's since become one of the most beloved [[Cult Classic]] games.

* The opening trailer for ''Oneechanbara Vortex'' shows clips from the game, including a rather cool scene of Aya saving Saki from an attacker by running into him with a motorcycle. Except that in the actual game, it's not returning [[Token Mini-Moe]] and Heel Face Turned ex-[[Big Bad]] Saki, but newcomer Anna who is saved in this manner.

* Patrial example: the trailers and opening for ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' has Emil, Marta, Alice, and Decus all fighting, hanging around, and doing innocuous things like the main characters from the first game did in their opening, and generally giving you the false impression that the latter two are (or at some point would become) allies instead part of the game's [[Terrible Trio]]. Weirdly, they're also treated the same way in ''the closing animated'' even after {{spoiler|they both died fighting Emil and Marta}}.