AVPen wrote...
It is certainly a beautiful trailer, that is without question, with excellent graphics, great music, and above-par editing.... but am I the only one who utterly hates how completely "pro-human" this trailer is and that there is not a single alien ally/allies shown anywhere? <_<
I get that a trailer is more or less meant as a PR and marketing tool intended to draw in new audiences, but come on, no aliens shown at all? In Mass Effect? In a trailer for a game where one of the primary purposes of Commander Shepard is to gain allies - human and more importantly, alien allies - in order to retake the Earth? That's just absurd.
And where's the logic in not showing a single alien squatmate or even former alien squadmates? No Garrus, no Tali, no Liara, no Wrex, no *Spoiler*.... why, because they could all possible be dead in a player's playthrough? That's bullsh*t! Ashley has just as much a chance of being dead in a player's playthrough, but you still decided to include her into the trailer fighting alongside Shepard (now if you really wanna talk about trailers and mass-audience marketing...).
You're not the only one, I've seen a few people bring that up already. While there were things I liked about the trailer (the graphics, the music, and especially Ashley), the main 'Take Back Earth' theme is not one of them.
I've had a huge problem with the human-centricity in all of ME3's advertising, not just in this trailer. Shepard has always been about more than humanity, IMO, and so has the fight against the Reapers. And I for one don't understand why Earth is of such vital importance that other species would want to leave their worlds to save it.
My biggest fear has always been that the writers will throw the aliens under the bus, taking out home planet after home planet so their orphaned armies will have no excuse to not come to the rescue of the oh-so-important Earth and Shepard can still remain guilt-free about asking them to.
I guess we'll see in two weeks if this is 'SAVE EARTH! HUMANS RULE!' stuff is just a superficial marketing strategy or not. For now I'll just enjoy the technical merits of this ad. That, and my gun-totin' gal-pal being back and being awesome.
Modifié par Aris Ravenstar, 21 février 2012 - 05:25 .