When will video games look like their trailers?

[Cicero]

So when I think of it, I find it odd. Wouldn't the game look weird if it looked as good as the trailer or would it be amazing?

awesome There have been numerous official attempts to replicate the experience of the Resident Evil games in real life, most of them inexplicably food-related, like this zombie-themed restaurant or this butcher shop, which serves actual meat designed to look like human body parts. So they've got the "gore" part pretty well covered, but for a re-creation of the "survival horror" aspect of the series you'd have to go to Japan, where you can pay the equivalent of $40 for the privilege of being locked in an abandoned hospital, which you then have to escape. Or try to, anyway.


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[StoppingTime]

Never. All the trailers are simulations; they do that on purpose. If they can make something better with less effort, they will.

[Cicero]

Never. All the trailers are simulations; they do that on purpose. If they can make something better with less effort, they will.

So they'll never, ever look that good?

[StoppingTime]

I doubt it. Animation (or emulating or simulating or whatever they do, tbh I'm not a big gamer), is much easier than actually playing the game and expecting it to look good.

[Twilly F. Sniper]

As StoppingTime said never.
To note: especially on remakes for portable consoles.

[Lost in the Echo]

As mentioned, the video game itself will probably never look as good, as advertised.

In advertisement, they do this to glamorize and promote the video game.
To make people optimistically think "hey this game looks awesome, I should buy it".

[Axw_JD]

Well, games ARE simulations afterall, so saying that is just because is a simulation is not true.

Computer Generated animations (like most trailers you see for games, as well as animated movies) are not run in real time. That is, the computer is NOT generating images of that quality at 30 - 240 times per second, but rather at 1 or 2 images every couple minutes.

Will computers get there some day? Probably. It just takes not only better / faster hardware (to render more stuff at the same time) but also better algorithms and more strict hardware standards (since games have to run on multiple hardware, they can't be as optimized as they could. That's why you see that 6-7 year old consoles beat the crap out of 6-7 year old PCs most of the time).

Most of the time, this isn't just done for marketing purposes, but can be also used in the design process of the game and reused as marketing material.

[Syvelocin]

By the time the games get to that quality, the advertisements will have increased in quality just as much.

[Majin Vegeta]

By the time the games get to that quality, the advertisements will have increased in quality just as much.

yeah I agree so technically never. games look way better than the trailers in the 90s for games did so in a way it also already has.

[TheMatrix]

What you see in the advertisements is probably not always what you get to see when playing. This is because of two reasons:

You can't actually do that in the game. Teaser trailers are a perfect example, where lots of special camera angles are used that provide extra awesome-ness but are not very useful for actually playing from. Imagine playing an FPS in 3rd person mode with a camera that spins around you all the time, or even is fixed to look behind you. Not very useful, no?
That's a fixed animation you're seeing there. Nobody is going to waste their time programming a trailer video. Instead, it's just done with some animation software.

[Snookers]

Advertisements have the purpose to persuade people to buy the products.
In my opinion trailers will never be "honest" or too honest about the game.
The best thing when it comes to buying a video game(s) is to try out the demo or the trial version first.

[Stuey1]

never

[gothicsanctum]

The Ads are pre-rendered using large render farms many times more powerful than your computer. it they did look like that expect -1 x 10^-99 FPS from current hardware.

[FantaSauce]

Also you have to think of the space that it takes up i mean we COULD have games running like trailers look but then we'd need computers that can read quad level blu-rays to store them on a single disc (150gb per disc)

[Celtic.]

there as good as they ever will be. Note that the Ps4 Will have NO graphical improvement despite going into the next generation of gaming

[Synyster Shadows]

Games being as good as the trailers? Pfft, never.

[VictoriaGotaSecret]

If you play on a console expect it to be a little different than the trailer because the trailers are done in PC's which have better graphics and other tech junk

[Croconaw]

Never. Trailers are used to get you to purchase a game. It is not what the game actually is.