Intergalactic Reveal vs. Starfield Reveal - Delayed Input

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KYLE: The Game Awards 2024
happened last week

and there were surprising winners
and funny speeches

and touching speeches.
But,

thing is, nobody cares about those things.
Get a clue.

Above all else, The Game Awards 2024 had
trailers, better trailers than ever before.

So let's talk about those.

If you told me a week ago The Witcher IV
would be in The Game Awards, I'd say,

"Okay, that will obviously be
the biggest trailer of the show."

And if we're going by YouTube views,
I'm not wrong about that.

But I guess beyond the confirmation that
Ciri will be the main playable character,

I don't feel like this trailer left a
massive impact on the public imagination.

It's a different person, sure, but
she's mostly still doing Witcher stuff.

Here we go, drinking potions
so she can do slightly more damage.

I'm just saying, as a reveal trailer,

it doesn't provide a lot to chew on
for the next 2 or 3 years.

Or 4.

Or 5.

Or six.
[laugh]

My favorite trailer for the show is for
Fumito Ueda's untitled Project Robot.

And what I love about it
is just how tangible it feels.

It's clear in the opening seconds

that you're watching someone
control a video game character.

But I do-- I can acknowledge that
it's kind of a low-key announcement.

Maybe some of that Ueda allure has worn off
in the years since The Last Guardian

but I do believe someday
people will come to realize

that this WAS the greatest game shown.

Until then, I can understand that 150-something
million people just don't get it yet.

After all, the rocket boosters
are the robot's ears

and that just looks silly.

Unlikely sequels for:

were announced.
But, in my opinion,

the biggest trailer of the show
belonged to a brand-new franchise:

And I guess we can't say
it's a new IP starting from nothing.

It from the studio who brought you:

Naughty Dog.
But

it's still cool to see a brand new thing
like this at this scale

at a time when it is riskier to do
than ever.

So I was rewatching the reveal trailer a lot
and it kind hit me how similar it actually is to

Concord, and not in the way that the
YouTube comments would suggest.

But it belongs in this strangely specific
sub-genre of:

'Cause, you know, it's hard for
normal people like you and me

to imagine ourselves
being space travelers.

But it feels more grounded when we
see things that we're familiar with

like cheeseburgers and

sandwiches

or soda cups.
"Whoa, that's what I drink out of."

So then I was watching
that Starfield reveal trailer

and it's actually even more similar
to the Intergalactic trailer.

There's a lot of shots in common.

Starfield.

Intergalactic.

Yeah, you got this
and you got that.

You got this.

You got that.

Flippin' switches,
flippin' switches.

Boosters on.
Boosters on.

And in putting them side-by-side,

you do begin to appreciate the
differences between the two approaches.

So here they are:

First, probably most obviously:

Starfield introduces you.
You are special.

You found the key to unlocking everything.

STARFIELD VO: What you'd found,
it's the key to unlocking

[inhale] everything.

KYLE: Intergalactic introduces:

Let me know of that's pronounced Moon,
which would be cool and funny.

But for now, I'm going to presume it's Munn.

In this game, that's-- You're--
That's you.

You are so badass and
you're the boss.

AJ: There, you're the boss.

KYLE: Obviously, two very different
choices and, you know, like,

in a Bethesda game,
you're going to be a created character

so the approaches are inherently different.
Neither is the right way to go.

But I am just-- I'm super impressed
by the facial animation.

Maybe it's because I spent too much time
playing Star Wars Outlaws

[HONK] this year.
But I was, like, studying this shift

from fearful apprehension

to space

to this almost darkly focused game face.

You're lookin' at the same thing
I'm lookin' at.

Maybe that's not impressive to you
but to me, that's just animators showing off.

Also, the eye patch was a good call.

An eye patch is like a narrative gimme,
makes anyone more interesting.

So Starfield referred to their look as
NASA punk.

ISTVAN PELY: We've been referring
to this approach as NASA punk.

This means a design language where
the tech is advanced yet

still looks grounded and relatable.

KYLE: And I guess we have the
advantage of hindsight on this one

but I have to say,
NASA punk didn't really resonate.

Hard to look at Starfield's spacecraft
and say, "Oh yeah, that is definitely Starfield."

Meanwhile, I'd say the