Do mod trailers have that same effect of anticipation? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:04 am

4. You assume I am stupid and would do something stupid like put metal to a trailer. That is NOT what you do! I would use some of the fantastic music from a orchestral group, like Two Steps From Hell for example. I would never use actual band music for a trailer. Unless its to convey a point like where they use Johnny Cash music for the Splinter Cell Conviction trailer to convey his pain and anger.

I'm not assuming you're stupid...., just go to youtube and look at any video that has Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas game play footage,
or even Halo or Oblivion footage, 99.99% of them had some have heavy metal or some other type of music over them, when I'd much rather be listening to
the sounds in the game.

So far, I think the only footage/trailer that convinced me to try a mod was Midas Magic for Oblivion, and even then I only watched
maybe 1/2 of the video to get away from the music, as I wanted to hear the sound effects of the spells, I couldn't care less about the stupid dramatic music.

I'm in a band, I've been playing guitar for a long time now, I get my fill of music every day when I practice the band set-list, and especially on the weekends,
when I play the band set-list, so I get my fill, that's why the first thing I do in any game I play is shut the music completely off, because in game music
gets repetitive for me in about 4 minutes, plus it just svcks up resources.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:57 am

I'm not assuming you're stupid...., just go to youtube and look at any video that has Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas game play footage,
or even Halo or Oblivion footage, 99.99% of them had some have heavy metal or some other type of music over them, when I'd much rather be listening to
the sounds in the game.

So far, I think the only footage/trailer that convinced me to try a mod was Midas Magic for Oblivion, and even then I only watched
maybe 1/2 of the video to get away from the music, as I wanted to hear the sound effects of the spells, I couldn't care less about the stupid dramatic music.

I'm in a band, I've been playing guitar for a long time now, I get my fill of music every day when I practice the band set-list, and especially on the weekends,
when I play the band set-list, so I get my fill, that's why the first thing I do in any game I play is shut the music completely off, because in game music
gets repetitive for me in about 4 minutes, plus it just svcks up resources.

Well those people with the 99.99% of videos are stupid, you see? (I don't mean to sound condesending, just they don't know thats a bad idea. >.>) Plus, I will be making quest mods. So the trailer would be much more like a trailer for a movie. It would be some fantastic orchestral music, showing gameplay and game area's the mod adds, and would have voice overs telling about the story and what's going on. No annoying music, you don't really need to hear ingame sounds. (even though they would be there some of the time) The dramatic music doesnt work for something like 'Midas Magic' because it adds and changes spells, its not a quest mod. That again, is someone not really knowing how to put together a video properly. So I think you just have experienced plenty of the 'bad'. (Again I'm really not trying to just sound like a dike here. :/) I guess I should say, poorly thought out videos.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:18 pm

Well those people with the 99.99% of videos are stupid, you see? (I don't mean to sound condesending, just they don't know thats a bad idea. >.>) Plus, I will be making quest mods. So the trailer would be much more like a trailer for a movie. It would be some fantastic orchestral music, showing gameplay and game area's the mod adds, and would have voice overs telling about the story and what's going on. No annoying music, you don't really need to hear ingame sounds. (even though they would be there some of the time) The dramatic music doesnt work for something like 'Midas Magic' because it adds and changes spells, its not a quest mod. That again, is someone not really knowing how to put together a video properly. So I think you just have experienced plenty of the 'bad'. (Again I'm really not trying to just sound like a dike here. :/) I guess I should say, poorly thought out videos.

Well, that sounds reasonable, and I agree, everybody, (well the 99.99% of people who upload videos to youtube) are thinking to themselves that
they're uploading the next "Citizen Kane".

FWIW, I don't get any level of 'anticipation' I.E. "Oh man, I can't WAIT for that game/mod to come out!" mainly because,
time goes by fast enough as it is, and I found out a long time ago that NOT getting excited about something saves you from
being 'let down', so I prefer to keep my glass is always 'half empty',

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:31 am

Well, that sounds reasonable, and I agree, everybody, (well the 99.99% of people who upload videos to youtube) are thinking to themselves that
they're uploading the next "Citizen Kane".

FWIW, I don't get any level of 'anticipation' I.E. "Oh man, I can't WAIT for that game/mod to come out!" mainly because,
time goes by fast enough as it is, and I found out a long time ago that NOT getting excited about something saves you from
being 'let down', so I prefer to keep my glass is always 'half empty',

I suppose I could understand taking that aproach on it. Even if you don't get all excited, does a well made cool trailer still help? Would it make you be interested in getting it when its released any more, even if you don't get all worked up over it?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:18 am

I suppose I could understand taking that aproach on it. Even if you don't get all excited, does a well made cool trailer still help? Would it make you be interested in getting it when its released any more, even if you don't get all worked up over it?

OK, to be honest, when watching a trailer, an ENTIRE Trailer that hasn't annoyed the living daylights out of me in the first 15-30 seconds,
YES, if I spot something in it that I like that will at least make me go read more about the mod at the Nexus.

I guess that's the important thing, is to get people to go to your nexus mod page and look into the mod in more detail
than the trailer can go into.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:25 am

Use the Skyrim trailer music, it hasn't existed long enough to be overused yet.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:15 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Uz3qGsu5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7xw-0xArcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiH3vA7q0jo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y This one and Magnificat would work well with slow motion scenes of Violence, for the Irony of the Beauty of the Music contrasted with the violence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avdHNjOmWBU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4ei1khHPI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfQb6BKq_ZU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OY_mguQv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:30 pm

OK, to be honest, when watching a trailer, an ENTIRE Trailer that hasn't annoyed the living daylights out of me in the first 15-30 seconds,
YES, if I spot something in it that I like that will at least make me go read more about the mod at the Nexus.

I guess that's the important thing, is to get people to go to your nexus mod page and look into the mod in more detail
than the trailer can go into.

Thats pretty much the goal. The point of the trailer (other than the fact I enjoy making it, and have fun with the finished product) is purely to get people to be interested in the mod and follow it.

Use the Skyrim trailer music, it hasn't existed long enough to be overused yet.

While this is true, I don't think using it would be all too original. It would have to fit perfectly to get by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Uz3qGsu5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7xw-0xArcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiH3vA7q0jo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y This one and Magnificat would work well with slow motion scenes of Violence, for the Irony of the Beauty of the Music contrasted with the violence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avdHNjOmWBU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4ei1khHPI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfQb6BKq_ZU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OY_mguQv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I

I listened to a few. That is somewhat the music I would use. But I was thinking something more like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlL_-5VfQJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXvwOXYhkbU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtBll0rh4nM

Couldn't you just imagine those songs to an incredibly awesome trailer? I sure could! Just hearing them gets me excited about it! Also, Two Steps From Hell is not an incredibly well known orchestral group, so their stuff is barely used, if used at all.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:37 pm

Good choices...