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I was curious to know what everyone's favourite game trailer is be it because of the cinematography or how hyped it made you for an upcoming release.

I thought I'd focus on a few oldies (15ish years) that people may be less familiar with or have forgotten.

Dead Island: I feel like this is one of the most famous gaming trailers, absolutely nothing to do with the game but stunning none the less - https://youtu.be/lZqrG1bdGtg?feature=shared

Halo Reach: A trailer that really drives home the scale and hopelessness that Reach was trying to achieve. If the TV show looked as good and felt as raw as this I doubt there would be as much backlash - https://youtu.be/18-_9E0HNY4?feature=shared

Assasins Creed Revelations: The culmination of both a trilogy and quadilogy of games, the trailer sets up for an epic conclusion - https://youtu.be/HMsbMK9Odoc?feature=shared

Fallout 3: This served as a completely new direction to the Fallout franchise and executed a masterful reveal - https://youtu.be/zPt08UYmyMo?feature=shared

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[–] lollingforever@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago
[–] nathan2850@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser (which released 10 years ago)

Hitman Absolution Attack of The Saints Trailer

Hitman 2015 E3 Trailer

The Witcher 2 Letho The Return of The King Slayer Trailer

Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer #3

[–] dwpea66@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

The The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess trailer at E3 is an all-time gaming moment.

The BotW and TotK trailers are extremely good too.

[–] DeLongJohnSilver@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

DC Universe cinematic and Fall of Cybertron

[–] azninvasion2000@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

If you lived in NYC, The Division trailer was like omg. Then the game came out and we were all like.... uhhh this is ok I guess?

[–] CosmicOwl47@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The one I’ll always remember was the Gears of War trailer that had Mad World playing

[–] skylinenick@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Fun fact, the director of that tv ad went on to make Oblivion, Tron: Legacy and Top Gun: Maverick

He’s also just an all around very nice guy

[–] BitterWest@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Anything from Kojima

[–] fujiiheavy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

it’s battlefield 1 and not even close. official release video has 7M views.

https://youtu.be/c7nRTF2SowQ?si=OT2sYdKzc1VexGng

[–] hyperwriter1@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

My two favorite are the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain trailer with "Nuclear" playing in the background and the E3 2006 Halo 3 trailer.

[–] Rigby-Gaming@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Dead Island was one the most incredible, gut wrenching, arresting game trailers ever made, and was also the most grossly misleading piece of bullshit ever in the history of video games.

[–] pieapplebomb@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I've always been a big fan of trailers where you don't necessarily know what it's a trailer for at first, and then there's a huge reveal. (Assuming you're watching it at some sort of event, and not on youtube or something where you can see the title of the trailer.)

One of the first that comes to mind in that regard is the trailer from the Game Awards revealing Joker for Smash Ultimate. You know right away it's something Persona 5 related, but you don't know exactly what until near the very end, where the envelope turns around and shows the smash logo.

Honestly, a lot of the smash ultimate DLC trailers are like that, but I still think Joker is one of the best.

[–] withering_fox20@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

All of MGSV trailers are rewatchable and entertaining to this day.

The Elden Ring launch trailer was good.

MK11 launch trailer was pretty good as well.

Gears of War trailers.

Halo 3- believe trailer.

God of Ragnarok Story Trailer.

Spiderman Web of Shadows trailer.

[–] DatBoiYongG@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Assassin's creed unity: https://youtu.be/xzCEdSKMkdU?si=cDvuySOq22P3-o1q

The music is an absolute banger and the whole video is just so god damn cool.

[–] thecactusman17@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Red Dead Redemption (1): "My Name Is John Marston"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD24MkbHQrc

Still gives me goosebumps how amazing this looks for 2010, like an actual Sergio Leone western film turned into a game. And then they somehow exceeded expectations with it.

[–] Calamity_Jay@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

It's nigh tradition in the FF XIV community that we all eagerly await the Japanese Fan Festival as that's when they reveal the full trailer for the next expansion and the last of the new classes they're adding. Every single one since The End of an Era has absolutely SLAPPED.

[–] No-Yak5609@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Detention's trailer is beautiful

[–] ASH98_CZ@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Mortal Kombat X

[–] Seecue7130@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Mass Effect 2.