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What, to you, makes a good trailer for a video game? Post some of your favourite video game trailers and say why you think they're good. Note: this isn't a thread about trailers for great video games, but trailers that are great, regardless of the game's actual quality. Also, when posting the trailer, please put the link in a spoiler tag to make the thread a bit easier to load for everyone (and so that each reply isn't extremely long). I'll start: Final Fantasy VS XIII Trailer: Fire Emblem Fates: Choose Your Path Trailer: Breath of the Wild E3 2016 Trailer: For me, a good video game trailer has to do one thing: convey what the game is and what's unique and interesting about it. That may sound obvious, but I do think there are a lot of trailers out there that either don't really show what the game's about, or instead tell the viewer what the games about over some footage that is just showing some neat effects but isn't reflective of the game. These three trailers immediately convey what the game's about and what's interesting about it through showing rather than telling, with any words just adding onto it.

So I figure everyone's seen these by now, but I figured I would share them. First up is the Titans trailer, which will be a series streamed on DC Universe, DC's new streaming service with everything DC. I will link that at the end of this in case anyone wants to check out the preorder page. But here is the Titans trailer, coming this Fall (by the way, warning it is rated TV mature): So first things first, I personally think this looks.... just awful. I don't really see where they got any of the characters right but there are a few things I would like to point out. Cyborg is not going to be in this show. This show seems to have a focus on Dick Grayson as Robin and Raven. From what I've read, producers have said that the show will have a heavy focus on the sense of family that the Titans are known for. We'll see. If anyone wants to discuss this further, I'd enjoy that. :) Now, coming next year is the movie Shazam! This was a big surprise to me, I had no idea a Shazam movie was in the works! Here's the trailer: Now to be honest, this trailer looks WAY better. It actually looks funny and they're going back to Billy's original origin. I'm really looking forward to this honestly, here's to hoping they don't mess it up. For those who want to check it out, the link to DC's new streaming service is here: https://www.dcuniverse.com/coming-soon/

I just thought of something and wondering about the mysterious confusion regarding about why some of the Zofian Army units that we saw on Zofia Castle Map and the other map that were marked as "Alm's Army" that we saw from the "A Mastery Class in Strategy" trailer that was uploaded by Nintendo of America in their YouTube channel and saw from the official website in the North American version along with Mae using Excalibur and Sage Silque since those three weren't in the Japanese version and definitely not presented in the English copies that were getting at May 19th. I wondered about some of us have no idea if this could be either a Localization Error from Early Build or early beta gameplay that some of the Zofian Army was actually Alm's Army that was used as footage that the developers of the trailer probably didn't realize that mistake, but it wasn't presented in the European trailers nor Japanese version. But, when I did asked the serious question to Derrick Bitner regarding about the Zofian Army units that were marked as "Alm's Army" and my two questions were at the start of the video for the Q & A of Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia along with Mae casting Excalibur (he hasn't answered my question about the Sage Silque), but he did replied and answered my question about mystery why some of the Zofian Army units were marked as Alm's Army. Derrick Bitner from GameXplain has not seen any Zofian Army units were mistakenly marked as "Alm's Army" in his review copy of the game. I was just thought of something and we don't actually see any enemies that were marked as Zofian Army, Rigelian Army, nor Brigands in the original game since they were placed as Class Names instead. What if some of the Zofian Army units that were marked as "Alm's Army" that wasn't actually a Localization Error in the first place, but some of the corrupted Zofian Army in Zofia Castle were originally meant to be from the Deliverance during at the early build of the game since Frenand did quit the Deliverance and joined Berkut that made Frenand betrayed the Deliverance after Clive gave Alm the title as leader when meeting up with Clive at the Deliverance Hideout in the final version of the game, but the developers might have scrapping the idea and just marked the rest of the Zofian Army units as "Zofian Army" units in the final version and just leave Frenand as the only traitor to the Deliverance? Also, I just wondered if the "Alm's Army" was meant to be some Deliverance members did betrayed the Deliverance and here's my thoughts why I think they were originally meant to be placed as Alm's Army in the Earlier Build like: I do remembered that there was something similar to like Cynthia was tricked by Ruger impostering Chrom that made Cynthia joined Ruger instead of meeting up with the real Chrom in Paralogue 9, but what if early development to have some of the Deliverance members were actually fooled like Cynthia did in Awakening and commanded by one of Desaix's men that really gave Alm a bad name? What if early development to have some of the Zofian Army units were planning on tricking Alm since he did became a new leader and he did not recognize any of them since when he first meet Clive at the Deliverance Hideout and Lukas or the other playable Deliverance members just noticed how suspicious the imposters were acting? What if early development to have to change some of the story plot to have some of the Zofian Army units were actually members of the Deliverance and betrayed the other members just like Frenand did in the final version? What if early development to have Desaix and his minions captured one of the Deliverance members and forced them to fight against their own members similar to like how Gordin was captured and forced by one of the Gra soldiers to fight Marth in the prologue on Shadow Dragon? And second, if the developers were actually scrapped the idea of having they were originally from the Deliverance and beat the map, what do you think Alm and his army to the surviving soldiers? I totally think that could have Alm be fair to the soldiers or it could be darker something happened in the early idea in-case if why some of the betrayed Deliverance members did that? But, I did pulled the poll up so you can give your thoughts why do you think why they have some of the Zofian Army units marked as Alm's Army in the "A Mastery Class in Strategy trailer"?