Evil is Powerful, But Courage is Solid…What?

Or “How I stopped worrying about Americans making crappy trailers for games they can’t market properly and learned to love MGS IV”

Why is it that American movie trailers all sound the same? I ask this question knowing full well that I am working in the very system that creates this nonsensical trailer-talk. However, what, if I may ask, does that sentence above mean? Can anyone tell me?

It’s like this Mr. Kojima (can I call you Hideo?). You make better games than this trailer is highlighting. We don’t need to hear “Mr. American Movie Trailer Guy’s” voice to think that this game is going to be a hit. We know you can make a hit. So please, give us the 14 minute long meandering trailers you always give us. The ones that highlight things that are so obscure that even after playing all 8 games (it is eight now, right?) that we’d still need a MGS lexicon to figure out what the hell is going on.

We, the gamers, demand it.

As for this trailer: I may never figure out what “Courage is Solid” means, but it sure sounds like the old man needs to go take a “deuce”, which is how EA got in trouble marketing Skate 2.

Will people never learn?

(Video: Machinima.com via Youtube.com)