7 Misleading Trailers That Were Nothing Like the Final Game

Some video game trailers present visions for upcoming games that absolutely don’t match the finished product, whether it’s in terms of story, characters, gameplay, or even the entire concept. Watch on for seven of the most misleading videogame trailers that had very little to do with the game they were trailing. Enjoy and subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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[@smnoy23]

Now to be fair to Black Flag, a pirate spinning tall tales about another pirate isn’t that unreasonable.

[@olu550]

Plus the modern day "plot" is basically you spinning a tall tale about Edward's life so it counts

[@ArDeeMee]

The biggest tale spun is „Edward is likable“…

[@OptimusSledge]

@@ArDeeMee Edward was one of the most relatable protagonists in the AC series: he spent the game trying to do cool pirate stuff and ignore all the Assassins vs Templars rubbish. Me too, Edward. Me too.

[@RevanAlaire]

@@OptimusSledgeRelatable doesn't have to mean likable. Though I personally found Edward to be both.

[@bustinarant]

​@@RevanAlaireYeah I think the point was probably for him to be *a little* unlikeable, since he was selfish almost all the way up to all his friends being dead and he found out about the daughter, or adopted his ex's daughter(?) I like him though. I could just see how it's maybe more difficult watching the protagonist getting trash talked the whole time for the way they are lol

[@djsavoy4760]

If they did videos about the mobile games and their horrendously absurd lying ads they would never run out of content. It would be a truly infinite series.

[@dizzyheads]

I want to see that tbh That way I won't get distracted by those games thinking it's real for a moment

[@Kaitou1412Fangirl]

I feel like the most atrocious one was Evertale. It was portrayed as a Pokemon clone with horror elements like monsters being sacrificed to some crazy trainer. Game is *nothing* like the adds.

[@darkhope97]

There's this one add that's just 2 God damm perfect that was done for warpath you all should really watch it

[@Gamer3427]

The worst part is that there are a few actually good mobile games out there, but it's much harder to find them among all the really badly done ones. And even some of the good ones have had issues with the advertising companies they hired for the global market making the ads look like every other generic mobile game. If I remember correctly, Arknights had some really bad ones at its global launch that made it look more like a dating sim or something like that when it's actually a story driven drama wrapped around a tower defense game that has some actual depth. It'd be like if you advertised a Call of Duty game as a jrpg by taking a few images of all the guns you could use or showing a couple of players standing beside each other at the start of a match.

[@Gamer3427]

@@Kaitou1412Fangirl Agreed. Evertale's ads are some of the most misleading ones I've come across. The worst part is that it's an alright game on its own and would find solid footing as just an rpg, but the game being so different from the ads made me worried about how many other shady things the devs might do.

[@KOU-ZAI]

And this is why I appreciate it when a trailer displays a text at the bottom that says "NOT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE". It puts my expectations on a reality check.

[@benlewis4241]

I wish some of those animation studios could have a budget just to do 3-5 minute videos.

[@tBeNz0]

I dont even watch trailers that contain only cinema bs. Show mr actually gameplay bruh

[@linksbetweendrinks7032]

Even if it is actual gameplay footage, it's not going to look, play, or sound anything like trailers do when the game releases.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@linksbetweendrinks7032That means it’s not actual gameplay footage

[@powertomato]

This is why I never pre order and wait a week until there is actual honest reviews.

[@emeraldaly7646]

"Daytona" being Mike's national anthem is such a perfect gag. If you've never seen the channel before, it still lands as an offbeat, goofy zinger. But if you *know* Mike lives and breathes car games, it gives it that extra bit of meaning.

[@RetepAdam]

Game over, yeahhhhhhhhhh

[@gamingtheologian8515]

Who sings the song?

[@ianmitchell5979]

The fact that the Anthem demo was put together when the devs literally didn't know what the game was yet, really explains why the final game was so different. There was no plan before.

[@pjlusk7774]

It’s not so much that there was no plan, it’s that there were like eight mutually exclusive competing plans. Granted, that mostly works out the same, but still.

[@incredibleflameboy]

I really want to have a go of anthem as a single player experience but with the armour customisation they promised. I feel like it could work as a game giving you options to have different loadouts for different missions. Obviously it would need a solid story for that too.

[@chriscortez2036]

Man… I still can’t believe Anthem came out 4 years ago. I remember the whole drama & glitch compilations like it was yesterday lmao.

[@meatymeat717]

"Oh, is that what we are making?" -anthem dev after watching the trailer

[@danielramsey6141]

Says a lot, cause even after it was made, they Still didn’t have a Plan!😂

[@tuxxle8830]

This doesn’t even touch on all the mobile ads that look way different from their ads lmao

[@kadosho02]

Like that more mature Pokemon, which it is not, instead it is some fantasy turn based rpg

[@DetectiveLance]

If they did that, it would be the whole list, so they chose one mobile ad to cover the whole genre.

[@alittlelostinthemoment6677]

fucking evertale just fooling all of us

[@mopolita7215]

Well, not every ad is a trailer to be fair.

[@dasbaconboi7446]

So many dragon ball mobile games using gameplay from dragon ball legends or console ganes

[@anzaca1]

I remember Halo 5's biggest problem was that the devs somehow had no idea who Halo's main character was.

[@xChaosFlower]

That's because 343 took over and was milking the franchise. I remember seeing that trailer and was unimpressed

[@doncheadlegaming7521]

“IS IT THE GUY WE JUST INTRODUCED OR THE GUY WHOS BEEN THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE PAST 4 GAMES?!”

[@SuperiorPosterior]

I love the dead island trailer, because if you take what you're watching at face value, it's showing a guy take his daughter and toss her into a hallway full of zombies, which is _hilarious._ Certainly not the intended message, but one I giggle over every time I think of that trailer.

[@ironwolf5802]

I had two coworkers that were so hyped for Anthem because of the trailer. They were talking about playing it for over a week how much fun would be to play together after work. Game came out, and not a single word about it was said again.

[@kadosho02]

That must have been a deflating experience. Ouch

[@TinySwanGrandAdventures]

I haven't even played the game and I'm disappointed at the gameplay I've seen versus that incredible trailer. I'm glad I didn't buy it but I'm also extremely crushed that Anthem wasn't like what the trailer showed. 😔

[@greedyProphet]

It's a shame, too. I picked it up for like 75% off. The foundation is pretty solid and movement was super fun. It was like ME3 multiplayer but hyper and open world.

[@lacrossev]

I was also hyped by the trailer but am old enough to wait for reviews. Did not realize the trailers were made separate from the actual game in development.

[@fakjbf3129]

@@greedyProphet Fun fact, they were going to cut out the flying until an executive played a demo and said the flying was basically the only thing he liked.

[@healsallwounds]

Ah yes, that incredibly natural dialogue from Anthem's E3 trailer. That's exactly how actual gamers communicate.

[@bobbyfernando]

What, do you mean you _don't_ excitedly, _perfectly_ enunciate the made-up name of a fictional, in-game weapon you've just received, and your co-op partner doesn't have a perfect knowledge of all the items available in the game, that they can _immediately_ know which item you're talking about, or what it even is!?

[@michael2636]

​@@bobbyfernandoand all without uttering a single swear, slur, or burp?!

[@gyorgywekerle4647]

@@michael2636 This is more concerning. I actually talk like in the Anthem trailer with my buddies. But with a lot more swearing, burping and yawning in the wee hours of night. If you play a few hundred hours of looter shooter coop games with legendary items that you could count if you used your toes too you can know what "I got watchamacallit" "Nice" feels like.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Freaking death to the ingame exclamation dialogues man…. They’re so fake and pretentious

[@bac1308]

I will never not be salty that that game failed. I still want them to finish it. That being said i just remember that puzzle part where you had to shoot the spinning rings to match up symbols but no one was smart enough or not spazzy enough to actually get through it in less than 10 minutes. There were some communications going on there...

[@kieranm1215]

Arkham Origins springs to mind. The trailer shows you a deadly battle between Batman and Deathstroke in a shipping container yard, using the environment and rapid martial arts in a true match of equals. What a story to see these men stalk one another for an entire campaign, you think. Then in the game, you encounter him once in an empty arena, button mash to block with your elbows while he hits you with a stick, easily win and never hear from him again.

[@x0gucx]

Also it was supposed to be 7? Assassin's after you the whole night but honestly you could've taken the night off because you can go to the batcave whenever and they don't do anything without you. Most people ignore half of them because they come up in side missions.

[@visionhawk4403]

Not to mention the Electrocutioner...

[@TheAntiburglar]

The trailer for Dead Island legitimately made me cry the first time I saw it, having to take a moment outside the house I was delivering pizza to in order to dry my actual tears. So imagine my surprise when the game itself came out :p

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

The trailer made me think "Wow. Look what next gen gaming is capable of!" So I feel you. It was a very somber trailer.

[@Joe90h]

I remember back when I liked Rooster Teeth stuff, they had Jeff react to the trailer. As the father of a young daughter, he got about ten seconds in and noped out.

[@OzzyBen07]

Yeah when that game came out I was also brought to tears......but obviously not for the reasons they would have liked 🤣

[@shaygray4552]

Peter Molyneux is eternally grateful that, for once, he has not been mentioned in a video about misleading video game promotions.

[@bilateralrope8643]

Just wait until he gets his own video.

[@lacrossev]

@@bilateralrope8643 Thats what I was thinking, we should make the commenter edition just 7 times Molyneux did this

[@bilateralrope8643]

@@lacrossev Only 7 ?

[@ed_j_webb]

@@bilateralrope8643 Yeah then we can have a part 2 and a part 3 and a... well you get the idea.

[@callumwright7459]

@@ed_j_webb 7 times Peter Molynuex Lied to us... Part 1.... Of 7

[@ryan55124]

A cool thing in dead island though was the fact you could actually visit the room where the trailer happened, so they did care about it enough to include it in the actual game.

[@needaccount94]

Honestly Dead Island doesn't even fit this list for me. It's obviously a cinematic trailer and not gameplay. The only reason people were mad is because it was an S tier trailer that the marketing team nailed and Dead Island the game is like a C or B. I personally love the game but recognize it wasn't great for everyone

[@VValkyr]

@@needaccount94 Dead Island falls under the "comfy jank" game. It's not the best, but you just enjoy to play it and is quite charming.

[@ARUCARDFTEPES]

@@needaccount94 I loved Dead Rising and thought this would be the next best thing. Not sure if I saw the actual trailer beforehand, but just the opening cinematic made me disappointed in the actual game. I played it a few times with a friend, but we got bored very quickly, some more dramatic elements would have really improved it.

[@Xazyv]

Yeah I think the biggest letdown was the trailer had some huge promise for a cinematic story at least, while the game itself felt mostly generic story wise and the gameplay just didn't have the weight to carry that disappointment I enjoyed it personally but going from the trailer to "who do ya voodoo/drunk man in a nightclub" is a huge step down.

[@ARUCARDFTEPES]

@@Xazyv I was actually trying to remember that stupid song and reference it, we mocked the hell out of that while playing.

[@russellarcher5181]

Um, you can do *a few things* from that _Assassin Creed's_ trailer. When you upgrade your gun holsters to max, you can rapidly press the "shoot" button and Edward will shoot at multiple targets in quick succession; it's really hard to get in a circumstance like in the trailer, but you can end on a dual wield pistol drop. *_Womanizing is possible_*_ post-game,_ after the credits roll, on Kenway's Island, you can talk to the women in the mansion _(I think near his bed)_ you'll talk to women who run away; *if you catch them,* screen fades to black and you comeback to Edward's bed with the woman in it, talk to the next woman near the bed & repeat. There's a European white, Aboriginal woman, finally an Afro ethnic Assassin; might be tied to completion but all three are there+if you're quick enough you can get all three before they despawn

[@SebasTian58323]

Thanks for that information. I've never completed the game on account of wanting to pirate for a longer time before completing the story and then never completing the story

[@russellarcher5181]

@@SebasTian58323yeah the human world story+lack of mainstory difficulty compared to the challenge was a real pace ender

[@SebasTian58323]

@@russellarcher5181 I mean, I did genuinely enjoy the story and exploring, but just going around as a pirate was so much fun.

[@BIONICTHUMB]

I remember following the hunt the truth trailers on Halo Waypoint before the game came out and being super excited for when the game would come out and I'd finally get to pick my side. Then the game came out and I was forced into 2 walking simulator missions and a grand total of 4 Master Chief missions out of a 16 mission campaign

[@stephenheisler3823]

Or 3 walking simulator missions

[@briantoller2186]

To be fair to Black Flag, pirates and their buddies hyping them up and making them sound incredibly badass and making pirating sound glamorous and amazing was a core part of their job. Also, the womanizing almost made it into the game, so it's entirely possible that at the time that trailer dropped that they hadn't come up with Edwards backstory yet.

[@wyxsg]

Re: Heihachi - I'm shocked that you guys didn't show the story mode cutscene of him being literally blown several MILES into the stratosphere from the explosion, crash landing like a frigging meteor, and THEN walking away from that after he regained consciousness WEEKS later. I remember laughing for several minutes straight when I saw that back in the day.

[@kadosho02]

Then we get the directors cut in VII That was insane Is Heihachi a human? Uh nope, no frakking way

[@notsosuperpete1689]

I thought I'd imagined that :D Good to know it did happen!

[@randomstuffdimension2863]

Clearly his escape was due to having upside-down hair

[@ahok1937]

My main canon is also that between all this he fought in Soul Calibur II. Busy week.

[@michael2636]

Lol you think they actually play these games before making these videos?

[@AloisAgos]

Don't forget the original Rayman: Raving Rabbids. The trailer promised a dark dystopian 3D platformer with bunny enemies that were somehow both unnerving and hilarious at the same time. But the dark slapstick game we saw in the trailer ended just being a weird collection of mini-games.

[@officialdonkeykongoildrum5423]

I think it was going to be like that before. There were unsettling, gray Rabbids and it seemed pretty close to what you were saying. Unless the commercial you were talking about came after the change in direction, it makes sense

[@BonesEsquire]

I feel like you're reaching a bit with the Black Flag trailer, it's very in character for a pirate to tell tall tales, as well as the fact that most actions in CGI trailers being impossible to do in game for like 90% of trailers

[@Waumboll]

I love that Andy said: Can someone else take over and it actually happened. Beautiful. Excellent storytelling.

[@Jmt1000XD]

And it does the opposite of what the trailers were doing, being accurate.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

If it wasn't for the Assassin logo on the flag, the trailer for AC4 could be reconned into being an in-universe trailer Abestergo put out for the game you're helping them make, especially when it turns a devoted husband trying his best into a womanizer with a mysterious past. There's even an email you can find where Lemay is discussing redubbing Edward to make him no longer Welsh, which has to be based on a conversation the writers had with the executives.

[@justindunbar9476]

I feel like they made Black Flag out of spite, because the ship related content in the previous game was bashed.

[@DuelaDent52]

@@justindunbar9476What? The ship-related stuff was one of the most praised bits of III. That’s probably why they greenlit IV to begin with.

[@bustinarant]

I remember one of the emails was about cutting out most of his drinking and arguing with his wife or running off. Says a lot more when you know there was still a bit of that lol

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

@@justindunbar9476 That's completely wrong. Totally the opposite of reality. They made Black Flag because the ship related content in AC3 was the only thing that was universally praised! Everyone who played AC3, regardless if they like the rest of it, had the most fun on the ship missions in it. The evolution of the game to center around it in a pirate adventure was just the obvious next step.

[@garyballard179]

​@@MidlifeCrisisJoe The ship sections of AC3 were good, but hardly memorable. They also weren't my favorite parts of the game. I understand people's reasoning for hating on the game and Connor...but I also know that reasoning is all bullshit. Connor himself was a very good representation of a young Native American man. He was somewhat ignorant of the white man's ways, and his "wooden" personality and speech are textbook examples of _stoicism,_ a trademark of many Native Americans, especially in unfamiliar surroundings. Coming after Ezio for three games, it's understandable that people would be a little less impressed with him - but he's much like Altair in that regard, though I find Connor more likeable overall. Colonial America may not present the grand set pieces like Notre Dame, Jerusalem, or the Sistine Chapel, but it's an interesting and important time period, much more about the events than the architecture you're climbing on.

[@Peter_The_Great]

"Stallone in the Dark" Alright, whoever came up with the pun. Fantastic job! That's quality work!

[@EssenceEater]

Dead Island, while being one of my least favorite games, has my favorite trailer ever made. It captures everything I personally want in a zombie game, hopelessness, dread, and the horrible choices we humans make in disasters.

[@EliasExists]

There are some great games that are like that but not necessarily fps

[@shinrailp1416]

I love the writing on the Game of War one Whoel Army ready to fight this one thing in the forest getting a rousing speech to help their morale..... "There is nothing to fear except the thing coming out of this forest" That is the exact opposite of what is needed right now!

[@OptimusSledge]

I think she was hoping the men were too distracted by her... chestplate to pay attention to what she was saying.

[@ttd0000]

@@OptimusSledge Considering how they cheered at that line, she was NOT WRONG! a good commander knows her men well.

[@MarkDeSade100]

@@OptimusSledge She was talking?

[@BogeyTheBear]

Why did my inner muse spin around and say "There is nothing to fear-- except _what I will do if you fail me!"_

[@peterthomson7099]

That made me laugh. An actor she ain't.

[@brunodionisio2511]

What about "We Happy Few"? The first trailer had gameplay sure, but It looked really good and fun, story-focused! Not the boring survival game that was released

[@Yarntu]

We happy few was super good what do you mean????

[@thatunknownfella]

that game was great, what are you talking about?

[@DuelaDent52]

For better or worse this was always going to be a survival game, the very first reveal for it back in the Kickstarter showed this.

[@JoriDiculous]

The game changed quite a lot during development. Again why early trailers newer should be taken serious. You still can download the early builds of the game where it is a more true survival horror game.

[@vvevv88]

Why do I remember the title of that game? /rummages through memory Oh.. A moment of silence, please. 💐😔

[@thesand808]

Thank you for introducing me to the Dead Island trailer. That was an absolute masterpiece.

[@stevenwilliams9108]

Halo Wars came out right near the end of my peak Halo fandom. I remember when it came out I was sooooooo mad that it was not like the badass trailer. I ended up absolutely loving that game and putting hundreds of hours into it. But at first, I was outraged.

[@MrRockout100]

Aside from every mobile game ad. The original assasins creed trailer had altair using a crossbow, which was not in the game, and hiding with a huge group of monks while enemies could still see him

[@DuelaDent52]

To be fair, you still do hide among monks in the final product.

[@BeanManolo]

The producers removed the crossbow to make it more historically accurate. A irony if you consider things in later entries like the Chocobo mount in Origins

[@Ylyrra]

At least that was content that was cut or gameplay mechanics that were tweaked. Bigger changes happen between release copies of games and their patched versions. It's still the same game that you going to be playing, in a meaningful sense.

[@bcfb21]

Have you guys ever done “7 most evil empires in games”? Seems like a list you would’ve done but I don’t remember seeing it

[@flusendieb6833]

I just misread that as “7 most evil vampires in games”

[@RvEijndhoven]

@@flusendieb6833 To be fair, I want both those videos to be real.

[@rjfrost7090]

#1: The Outsidexpire of Empress Jane Douglas.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

I'm not sure if they could be considered an empire, but the Enclave. In both of their appearances in Fallout 2 and Fallout 3, they have attempted to commit genocide on the grounds that they are the only genetically pure humans left ever since the apocalypse happened.

[@megatronjenkins2473]

​@@rjfrost7090I would offer her my phased-plasma cannon😍😍😍

[@naughtycicero1460]

Now I want a “7 Best Ponchos in Video games” video. Make it happen, Jane!

[@josiahcain4176]

The trailer for AC4 is seen in game actually as a creation of Abstergo (the in game representation of Ubisoft. If Ubisoft was controlled by a secret organization known as the Templars). And considering all the precursor stuff that happens the mystery line does fit pretty well. Regardless it's Black Beard telling tall tales in a trailer made by the in game gaming company.

[@AshenVictor]

Imagine thinking that any Mishima would just be dead? No matter what they do to each other it never sticks.

[@ASpooneyBard]

Remember when Heihachi threw his son into a f'ing volcano and he just grew wings and flew out? I'm sure a bomb the size of a man's head would have done the job though.

[@MisterMeaner3000]

I will never ever ever forget seeing the trailer for Dead Island for the first time.

[@ThatShaggyMatt]

My daughter was maybe a little bit younger than the girl in the trailer when it released, and it absolutely *wrecked* me. Like, I didn't get around to playing it for a long time because "umm.... I just.. uh... can't."

[@TurbanatorUK]

It really is a beautiful trailer, and an effective short story on its own. I'm thankful that the studio created the video, so at least we can watch it.

[@hariszark7396]

A traumatising experience for every father or father to be. 😟

[@DeathnoteBB]

And I’ll always be upset the game was no where near as good. It was a decent game, but god the trailer. The _potential_

[@anarchyantz1564]

I mean they did sort of include the family, you can find them in their hotel room all dead, well minus the Children's happy meal

[@evergreen1979]

I will never forget my first time seeing that dead island trailer, it was amazing. Very few game trailers I have seen over the years were as well made as that one.

[@genra17]

Heihachi has always been too tough to die. They eventually explained how he was on the current roster, being a non-factor to the story at-large.

[@DasSpaceAce]

Western mustache Andy is a whole ass vibe & I'm here for it. It would also be amazing to go full mutton-chop-Victorian-gentleman-boxer.

[@SimuLord]

If you stare deeply into Arthur Morgan, Arthur Morgan stares back into you.

[@kadosho02]

Andy a time lord? Why yes, yes he is

[@DaneGleesacks]

Order 1886 vibes

[@Mystic-Midnight]

@@SimuLord He reminds me too much of Trelawney over Arthur Morgan

[@bustinarant]

​@@Mystic-MidnightThat's a good thing. Trelawney is the least likely to be hunted and killed by the government lol

[@AvatAR42420]

With the Rambo trailer, I think they did not want to reveal that it was just a substandard port of the admittedly very cool Rambo arcade game, but half of the appeal is wielding the mock machine gun. It would be like porting Dance Dance Revolution and having you play it with a controller. They should have been honest about what the game was....and if you think that'd hurt sales, maybe don't make it.

[@Joe90h]

That Rambo game and the Sega arcade game aren't connected in any way. I think it's sheer coincidence they made the game an on rails shooter, or they were too incompetent to make something else with the budget they had after getting the rights.

[@hollylucianta6711]

@@Joe90h There's a video by Matt McMuscles about it--basically this was a tiny company who had stumbled into the rights, similar to the Gollum game. They didn't know how to make anything other than rail shooters so that's what they did.

[@oohhboy-funhouse]

Rail shooters are a lost art. Sure they still exist like in the famous AC130 and numerous passenger sections. But having those physical controls especially if it had recoil feedback isn't half the appeal, it's 95% of the appeal. Silent scope was way out there with a second scope display. Police 24/7 had sensors track your stance perfectly to free-form the Time Crisis cover mechanic, being fit was a requirement. If they had that in a gym I would absolutely sign up. You get a serious work out without the idea of having to work out.

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

​@@oohhboy-funhouse More like a thankfully faded genre. Half a dozen would be PLENTY

[@coldwave007]

The call back to Daytona USA was AMAZING. I had that game on the Sega Saturn, and that catchy tune is still burned in my brain!

[@JohnDoe-jc5kt]

I had an idea, 7 secrets/easter eggs that were missed because they didn't render in, since you were juuust too far out of reach. I was on new vegas when I thought of this, I was playing around with the settings and missed some stuff because i couldn't see anything, like the plane just outside of the ranger outpost. I feel like there's quite a few older games with similar cases of rendering or simple actor/object fade mechanics that were a bit interesting. I know you guys can probably hunt down some really cool examples of this.

[@AmyDentata]

Oh man this well is so deep you could get like 50 more videos out of it at least. Watch Dogs 1, Cyberpunk, No Man's Sky (though now it has MORE than the original trailers promised), Lair, Binfinite, anything involving Peter Molyneux, undoubtably a lot of older games I've since forgotten in old age...................

[@s.m.2523]

Alien colonial marines.

[@GooMooBoo]

I remember Soma had a gameplay trailer that made it seem more existentialy horrifying than the final product. It featured a large Geiger-esque corridor with a chamber, in the center of which sat a brain. The brain was revealed to actually be the player's.

[@travislyonsgary]

Kinda fair, though admittedly the actual game kind of layers that horror into the environment and story for a lot of fridge horror.

[@ryanahr2267]

I honestly never even noticed the stuff about AC IV. I've always loved history so, despite not at all being a fan of stealth games, the AC franchise still got me early on because of the incredible settings. Pirates are one of my absolute favorite historical things to study, so this game was pretty much my perfect storm. I definitely saw that trailer multiple times as I worked at GameStop at the time but I was just so thrilled with the game (especially the shanties) that I didn't even realize that there was stuff missing. Also, I've been loving the hell out this shade of green that Jane's been rocking as of late.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

The Teklen 5 trailer/intro, lie and all, is still one of the best fighting game intros of all time.

[@benjaminolson7206]

Well the one thing I'll say for Game of War is that Kate Upton's character from the ads was actually a part of the game on some level. It's a low bar to clear, but Evony didn't even manage that.

[@batboythecool]

yeah lol

[@nightspawnson-of-luna4936]

@@batboythecool Didn't they replace her with Mariah Carrey or something?

[@benjaminolson7206]

@@nightspawnson-of-luna4936 That's my understanding. But I'm guessing they didn't update the in-game character art, given that this was a game that spent way more money on advertising than actual game development.

[@willfieldsend]

Even though Dead Island the game doesn’t match the trailer, that trailer is still amazing

[@radarlove232323]

Surprised you guys didn't mention those ads where you're a lady who gets pregnant and then cheated on and has to move into a crummy shack which you then have to upgrade to take care of your baby, but the game is actually just a Candy Crush clone.

[@wifu2will108]

Anyone else remember Pokémon Go's first trailer? It promised fishing, pokemon spawns based on your terrain and weather, PvP battles, trading, and more. Sure they kinda implemented the terrain and weather. With more water Pokémon showing up at the beach and weather Pokémon based on the general season. And the eventually added some interactivity and PvP but I was so disappointed with the initial games release and even the current version when compared to what was promised in the promo trailer.

[@AverageJoe_15]

Since Andy has that beautiful mustache now, it would be cool to see a video showcasing some of gamings best facial hair styles. Maybe even split the video into two parts making one about mustaches and one about beards

[@acomingextinction]

found Andy's alt account

[@davehedgehogUK]

He looks like a kiddy fiddler, wtf are you on about?

[@AverageJoe_15]

@@acomingextinction Haha nah I’m just a bearded fella who appreciates some good facial hair

[@rizkyanandita8227]

​@@AverageJoe_15sure thing Andy.

[@sinteleon]

Yes, but... Mario.

[@Dribbleondo]

Jane has successfully turned into a green screen, and Andy has turned into a Henry Cavill lookalike.

[@RevanAlaire]

You should see how young baby faced and beardless Johnny Chiodini looked.

[@krismorris4282]

16:45 Jane might be pleased to know they made a Master Chief in a Poncho toy/action figure. I ran across it at a drug store and bought it for my friend who was also a fan of the look.

[@anon_y_mousse]

Mike, I agree with you. That's one of the best anthems for a video game ever. I heard it so often playing that game at the arcade.

[@IHazMagics]

One of the things I remember about Black Flag (and is really hard to find a video for) is thr little cutscene after a ship battle where Connor gives one of the pirates a captains hat. He then turns to a buddy as if to say "we made it honey!" The other pirate is equally happy by this turn of events "omg babe I'm so proud of you!"

[@noogidoo2217]

Edward, not Connor, but yeah that's the scene when you capture a ship and decide to add it to your fleet, showing one of your crew getting promoted to the captain of the ship you just captured. Think there's a group of a few others but that description is pretty accurate lol

[@IHazMagics]

@noogidoo2217 I found a video of it. Connor puts a hat on a lad, gives him a pat on the shoulder snd walks off. The guy turns to his buddy and they have a little celebration. I like to think they got out of the pirate game, settled down together and raised a few goats.

[@noogidoo2217]

@@IHazMagics as nice as the thought is I'm pretty sure the animation triggers when you add a ship to your fleet, implying the man has been promoted to the captain of the ship you just captured. Also if its AC4 then its Edward, Connor is AC3

[@IHazMagics]

@noogidoo2217 honestly they all blend together at this point, and not in the good way. I was thinking Connor most likely because AC3 was the first AC with naval combat.

[@noogidoo2217]

@@IHazMagics fair enough, just letting you know I guess

[@kyojin18]

What's funny about the Tekken 5 thing is that Heihachi wasn't in the original arcade release.

[@DirgeTV]

I think when that Trailer was made, it was with the intent of actually killing off Heihachi. However fans being fans (and likely giving a reaction similar to Street Fighter 3 New Generation's location tests), they caved in to the pressure and thus we got Heihachi in both an updated Arcade release AND the final console version. Thankfully of course, they actually stuck to their guns with Tekken 7 (After making fun of themselves in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 for not having the guts to actually make a character stay dead).

[@rizkyanandita8227]

​@@DirgeTVTekken 8 will have him back. Like, they cannot kill his character permanently. Except if they can make a replacement character that have the same moveset.

[@DirgeTV]

@@rizkyanandita8227 I mean, they literally showed him die onscreen so I am positive HE is dead this time (That and its out of respect to his original Voice actor who passed years ago). IF the rumors are true about him having yet ANOTHER child, we'll likely have a Female replacement for him.

[@gamepapa1211]

Ah how clever! You made a video about misleading trailers, put Cyberpunk 2077 in the leading few minutes, and never mentioned it again in the actual video. I see what you did there, player! I feel you! Respect!

[@Mikanoes]

Game of War Fire Age! Holy sh!t I never thought I'd see THAT referenced in my life! MAN that's been a while for me.

[@azuredragoon2054]

List Idea: 7 Bosses you could beat with Gravity I had the idea after remembering a couple bosses in Dark Souls games that could fall to their deaths. The one that first came to mind was the Solo Dragonrider in Dark Souls 2 which you could trick into charging off the edge.

[@MarkDeSade100]

Dragon's Dogma. Death is an optional boss who is very powerful, unless you know how to knock him into a bottomless pit in certain places - which results in an instant kill. You get a lot of EXP, but sadly none of his item drops, which are needed for endgame weapon & armor upgrades.

[@typacsk]

Luke: "Tremendous work!"

[@Toschez]

Bowser

[@butwhataboutdragons7768]

Not the main boss, but in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC there's a major storyline boss that's pretty difficult, has lots of health and can summon annoying helpers...but he's also fought on an open balcony. One Unrelenting Force and he's a bloody smear far below on a frozen lake.

[@osurpless]

Yep: “If you thought one Dragonrider was hard, you’ll probably never make it to this boss…” - Sunburned Albino on the Dual fight

[@NoMoreCrumbs]

Never forget that the term "bullshot" was coined due to Ubisoft's constant visual downgrades in their actual games

[@Pseudowolf]

That and companies claiming "in-game footage" when it was actually pre-rendered video.

[@JoriDiculous]

@@Pseudowolf aka E3 trailer

[@Kjf365]

​@Pseudowolf Well, now they say "in engine" footage which is far more genuine.

[@Toschez]

Pretty sure bullshots predate those examples, made famous more by EA and Sony.

[@Pseudowolf]

@@Kjf365 I think they do that because people caught on to what they were doing and they were worried about class action suits for false advertising.

[@kyleshertz2277]

Black Flag really is one of the best Assassin's Creeds. Just brilliant.

[@carlosmaffizzoni2576]

Glad to see you still got it, just as always. Kudos.

[@johnoneil9188]

One example that always comes to mind is the innitial trailer for Bioshock Infinite. I remember seeing it in the cinema before a movie. It had a thumping song and that scene of Elizabeth being hung from a tree but nothing of that is even remotely in the game that came out.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

It kinda happens as an alternate universe rendition of the events of the game, as we see later on the game's crazy Multiverse Theory bullkriff that needed more nuance.

[@lylemcdermott2566]

There are multiple essays videos about this one. It was supposed to be way darker. The cult vibes with all the crazies lynching people was scratched off.

[@MelodicQuest]

The development cycle of that game was horrendous. Ideas either had to be scaled back or outright scrapped. Director Ken Levine claimed that about two-thirds of the original concept is flat out missing from the final product.

[@MrNightshade2010]

@@MelodicQuest yeah there wasa whole subplot with the vox popli taking over street war style with you leading them but never happened

[@philiphunn194]

Loving the Magnum PI cosplay, Andy. Tom Selleck would be proud! 😎

[@timmortalone8579]

Time to hear him say "Nuns don't work on Sunday"

[@mayhemmcfly4229]

Someone just give our man Andy a Detroit Tigers baseball cap already...😂 now I really want him in a video wearing one but not mentioning it...just *randomly* wearing one...😏

[@philiphunn194]

@@mayhemmcfly4229 I would die laughing if a snippet of the theme tune played before Andy sat down (not much, obviously, because of fair use - but just enough to be recognisable). The manliness factor alone would be through the roof.

[@mayhemmcfly4229]

I also forgot a "Red Hawaiian shirt" to complete the 'ensemble' 😆

[@t.n.carhart1097]

The key difference being that Andy is likable and attractive, and Tom Selleck is not!

[@Evamme534]

Crazy thing about the rambo game is that it was made by the same developers who would go on to make a decent terminator game and an amazing robocop: rouge city! I guess that means they learned from their mistakes very well and lets hope they give the rambo game another go, this time better.

[@gregzebra7324]

RE6 had those live action trailers that showed real people trying to survive against the zombie apocalypse whilst barely actually showing the zombies. They were tense, sad and scary. The game itself had Leon crash about 40 different vehicles whilst fighting oddly sexy spider women while Wesker’s random son punched stuff in the face and Chris also punched stuff in the face. Definitely fits on this list. I’d argue Black Flag’s trailer is fitting. It’s about pirates and pirates were known for their tall tales.

[@SimuLord]

I look through my Steam library and think to myself "well, I sure do own a lot of games that are exactly what they say on the tin..." Perhaps no greater example exists of this in my collection than American Truck Simulator. No deception in the trailer. It's a simulation. Of trucks. In America.

[@TheBattleRabbit860]

When it comes to the Assassin's Creed IV trailer, the one thing I'll give Ubisoft credit for is that in later games (it was either Rogue or Unity) they continued the "Abstergo Entertainment" thing and if you did through the in game emails and lore, you'll see that they "released" the other AC games in universe with different titles (like Fear and Loathing in Venice for AC II) and the trailer we got for AC IV is the trailer that Abstergo released for their in universe version of it. Kind of clever, but still a dick move.

[@JoriDiculous]

Wasn't that Syndicate? Or maybe im mixing shit up. Only knew you'd run around the office and look at all the different AC games, fake and real-ish (maybe that was AC4 too??) Been to long i played any of them

[@ClockFink]

I never believed Heihachi Mishima was dead. I’m not even joking. The day after I saw the trailer, I went online and made a FaceBook group titles “I Never Believed Heihachi Mishima Was Dead” and invited my friend who watched the trailer with me and concurred on the matter. Might still exist, for all I know (left that site years ago). So prolly evidence of this, even.

[@Mintylight]

I just can't stop thinking about the absurdity of wearing a poncho OVER A MECH SUIT! He also would have needed someone else help him put it on, because I doubt he could have done that himself inside that thick suit.

[@tirsden]

Yeah it is a very weird thing when you actually think about it... I'd kinda expect it to snag weird or affect movement. It's like he's not actually a dude in a suit, he's a magical anthropomorphized suit-creature and yeah, then the poncho miiight make a little more sense.

[@Storm0483]

I know if we're talking about mobile games this list won't stop at 7, but there was this really cool trailer for a game called Darkness Rises. In the trailer a knight and a mage fight an orc or a demon with really cool fight choreography and animation, and I downloaded the game only to find that it was basically the character walking to various points and you just mash any of the skills because it didn't really matter. Also classes were gender locked which instantly annoyed me and I barely played past the tutorial.

[@Gothic7876]

Basically every mobile game ever

[@rubz1390]

I actually feel nostalgic for Game of War ads now haha. Was a different time. The criticisms about Black Flag I don't agree with though, I am sure you could actually recruit crew members on land as well; and Edward did have some "ladies of the night" that you could interact with at the estate. Of course it would fade to black,but when control returned you would be lying in a bed so I think it is obvious.

[@Hogscraper]

I would agree that the Dead Island trailer had nothing to do with the gameplay but they said as much when it was released. It's like this strange Mandela Effect where people remember things that never happened while I remember Daemon from IGN talking about how it was nothing more than an artistic insight into the backstories of some zombies that you may or may not even run into during the game. I even remember him and others explicitly going into why it was pointless to even speculate on gameplay based on a trailer that was clearly stated was not gameplay related. Weird how often people "remember" the exact opposite.

[@dannogsus2184]

I mean If you look at everything the mishima family has done to each other over the years being blown up by a bunch of robots actually seems pretty tame

[@davidmartin5483]

Wasn't there an easteregg in Dead Island where you cana acually find the resort and the family from the trailer now all dead?

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

Yes, and it's been irrelevant for over a decade.

[@coreDesignix]

My first thought for this sort of thing was Balan Wonderworld. The first trailer they released (which is also the opening cutscene) makes the game look so cool and mysterious! Then the game starts, you're not even in the enshadowed manor you just entered, and every button is jump.

[@jaradsmethers3601]

at least the game succeeded in being mysterious as it contains no story that was sold separately in a book

[@Joe90h]

@@jaradsmethers3601 Plus the mystery as to how it got made. And the mystery of how much jail time the creator might get! I looked it up on a whim just now. 2 years, 6 months suspended sentence, 1.2 million dollars in fines.

[@Siriastimeflies]

I never heard about this game, but for some reason "every button is jump" really got me 😂

[@Endgame_01]

Andy's new look with the mustache and the open button down shirt reminds me of an 80's cop movie

[@dreday247]

Actually worked for an agency working on the Halo 5 campaign. The eggshells folks walked on while talking about how "different" the game was to the actual ads were pretty fragile.

[@clarkmichaels822]

Like Dead Island, ZombiU also had a really cool trailer. It did stay closer to the actual gameplay but it was still miles better than the actual game.

[@hashem6356]

Was surprised mafia city wasn't included. The ads were legit nothing like the game, but they were so freaking funny.

[@nrstreams6671]

ok... the anthem he was playing at 4:00 is definatly unlocking core memories but what was it from!

[@crossedpawsgacha8702]

was thinking about faith and how if you try to pause when Michael is on screen you get a creepy as hell animation with even creepier music. gave me the idea for a list you could possibly do, “horror games that punish you for trying to not be scared” or something like that. also makes me think of slender man jumpscaring you for clipping outside the map

[@ivanbennett9099]

This makes me remember the E3 2014 cinematic trailer for the division. I thought the game was going to be an emotional survival game, but nope, it was just another looter shooter.

[@JoriDiculous]

That trailer looked amazing. But as always with all E3 trailers, all lies. (Cyberpunk, Watchdogs, No man sky etc)

[@snorpenbass4196]

What confuses me about the Dead Island video is that the family flees into their hotel room...where there's like, four zombies waiting for them. So...did the zombies pick the lock, carefully close the door behind them and then lie down on the floor to wait for the occupants to come back to their room? Bloody clever zombies, that!

[@LiamKart]

the video is in reverse, all the zombies inside came in AFTER they grabbed their little girl and tried to block the door. watch the trailer and see what I mean

[@dougosullivan7111]

Pirate ships would always sail around with distress flags up, it was to draw in merchant vessels, they only put their black flags up to show the merchant vessel they were about attack them when the merchant vessel was to close to get away. Pirates also never swung from ship to ship with rope, they'd use planks.

[@JeedyJay]

To think the Fable 3 trailer had me believing I'd be playing a chicken escaping from a dystopian factory...

[@thespectre01]

Anthem continues to take a thrashing. Does it deserve it? Maybe. Did I enjoy it? Perhaps. Am I awaiting the next thrashing? Absolutely.

[@sethgile8584]

You can’t have a miss leading trailer list, without mentioning the famous “ Kill zone 2” gameplay trailer.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

No wonder those games are effectively dead nowadays.

[@danykilson4950]

Ironically, Killzone 2's actual gameplay ended up being superior to the initial "gameplay" trailer in every way.

[@jotarokujo4727]

​@@danykilson4950Yeah the game ends up being good,sucks that the misleading trailer kinda killed it

[@1doobiedoo]

11:19 I love the lil shout out to Jules.

[@TheAceOfJace]

If we're talking about Assassin's Creed, what about the trailer for the first one, that shows Altaïr using a crossbow to assasinate a target, when there is no actual crossbow that you can use in the game?

[@maattboyy]

Aliens Colonial Marines. I’ll never forgive Randy pitchford.

[@chefbreccia2642]

Often called the game that killed pre-orders. Hey A:CM, how many fingers am I holding up?

[@angrydrummergirl2648]

The real misleading trailers were the 2 trailers I watched thinking they were part of this list but were ACTUAL TRAILERS that had the "skip ad" button 😂

[@hedgehogmorph7248]

08:15 How could you've missed that - he is not just very much alive, but also, kicking

[@alexandertsimperdonis]

" And eventually...NO PONCHO..." *Cameron Monaghan wants to know your location*

[@FaTerokiMenra]

As soon as I saw the title, I knew that classic Dead Island trailer would be here.

[@frodobaggins7710]

Man, can't believe Luke was able to stay in that box for so long, who knew he could do that?

[@apeg457]

I remember seeing the bath commercial for Game of War: Fire Age, thinking to myself "is this a new Elder Scrolls game? Or maybe a new Dragon Age game?" only to shout a NO when I say the end. Most disappointed moment in my gaming history, all that glamor for nothing.

[@kodaluke4133]

I know the games do great for sales, but honestly I'm surprised you didn't mention any of the Diablo games that show amazing trailers to only play a dungeon crawler

[@TNTITAN]

Because it’s already a known fact what Diablo is. You know full well at best they are showing a in game cutscene.

[@roguedogx]

4:25 a truly fantastic trailer, and the game wasn't bad, but wow was it misleading

[@hylianxbox6586]

I will still agrue to this day that Dead island still has the depressing tone that the trailer had but it was shown from the world building and side quest, and notes and audio logs of the game rather than from long cutscenes like other games and what many people were expecting

[@remliqa]

How ironic that the ads for this video were "gameplay trailer " of Hero Wars and and another zombie apocalypse from the same company. We all know how truthful those ads are.

[@ion_X]

for Dead Island I'm surprised you didn't include the masterful cinematography from your coop gameplay lol