The Agency Returns With A CG Trailer

yuck

bwwardiii

@deathscent: not by a long shot. I WAS interested. that video just showed me exactly what to expect from this game's developers even if not from the game itsself.

a gameplay video would have to be ridiculously stellar to make up for that crap.

@Clarke: YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAHHHH

Love the start. SOE!!

Is it just me, or does it sound like the TF2 Soldier announcing that?

Either way, this doesn't look fun, and that chick was hot. Sweet animation and voice-acting, but the guy at the end looks terrible.

@Hellicus:

Did... you just censor "bullcrap"?

reminds me of confidential mission on the dreamcast

@Theoutlet: and if it does come out, the game will be terrible - or be amazing, then ruined by devs with patches in a matter of months, killing the game.

It wouldn't be the SoE we know and hate if it didn't go down like that!

Armagetiton

@devinpadgett: "except this sucks way more. Sorry. "

I'm sorry, but are you insinuating that the "meet the" videos for TF2 suck?

Armagetiton

Maybe I'm just a cynic but it seemed they were trying way too hard...

That is crap. With boobs. Heh, yet another Sony success emerging, eh? :)

Zelmor

looks like a Cg from late 90's

@dredgman: I kind of liked it. I also like it when a game makes fun of itself

I hope they do it right though, I'm starting to really look forward to this game

Rory Michael O'Sullivan

@Rinaldus: I laughed. It's cheesy and retro but in this case I like it.

Rory Michael O'Sullivan

@Marios_shadow: You hit the nail on the head. Of course that could be why it appeals to me.

It has a retro 90's charm that is gone from games these days. I like the overly stoic movements and the fact that they had the male protagonist smoking despite how big a no no that is in today's market.

It all feels very 90's and for some reason that just makes me want it more.

Rory Michael O'Sullivan

why are they releasing trailers before/not at the e3 press conference

runandgun

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There's a good reason SOE and SCEI are separate divisions... It's to keep SOE from stinking up SCEI.

ok...

@KevvyBear!Rawr!: Ballistics would be the proper word :P

DAS

@Phydeaux: They're going to need to make their characters a little looser and more lively if they want to match Mr. Hodgson's energy.

716

I wish my K-6 did that.

MightyCow

Damn that looks bad. I was actually looking forward to this :(

Lets hope the gameplay is better that this flacid clip.

Gary Newman

Meh...

Bullets: they know who the main stars are & will not harm them.

@716: Agree so many people use that standard default fonts

MercerCh00x

mrs. smith?

stalin23

That was an incredibly dull trailer. But it's SOE, so I didn't have my hopes up to begin with.

DangerFlakes

@716: comedic brilliance

Maybe that's, uh, what they're going for! Yeah that's it!

@rSpy: It's called a tray. And yes, that character model does look like shite.

kiddoblivion

@mGS_FOXDIE: it was probably a bad idea to put music in that resembles TF2's. THat was the first thing i thought of. THat game was the rare game that was actually funny and well written.

this just Looked like a typical attempt at humor and writing by a video game studio. in other words, it wasnt too good.

oh well, comedy is the hardest to write.

SlackJawed Yokel

What does this have to do with an MMO.

@jamesjohnson01: yeah but TF did it right, this doesnt.

SlackJawed Yokel

"By day, I'm a clever comic magician holding an ordinary radio. At night I become... Agent J."

+ Watch video

716

@Sullyville: It's overused, but I don't find Impact to be too objectionable. Sand font, on the other hand....

716

@Clstirens digs the zune. Yeah, i said it.: I know, it looks like a cutscene for one of the original Tomb Raider games.

@Drogmir: Like I stated before, this was intended.

The spy genre and it's lame puns and cheesy lines and cliche' action sequences and run on sentences describing them are heavily parodized in The Agency.

@Clarke: Better than trying to be comical sans relief.

Black-Dog-Howls

@[www.2404.org]

mbk337

I don't even care anymore. I was pumped for this game when it was announced but there's too many great MMOs on the horizon for this one to even register. God willing by the time this comes out I'll be balls deep in The Old Republic and have forgotten what it's like to be balls deep in anything else what with the sudden loss of a social life and whatnot.

bkchurch

Seeing this flop would actually be a huge personal relief for me.

It was the third part of my PS3 Holy Trinity (LBP, Home, Agency), and with each of the prior releases that I hung in there for, I gave up hope. I stopped caring about this game and only hearing that it was still being worked on would perk my ears up and make me a little quaesy that I traded off my PS3 for a second 360.

This video is my Pepto-tums-rolaids-bismol. I no longer have to look back and sigh at what might've been because it never was.

Just more promises to break.

@devinpadgett: Hell, the movie looks like TF2 as well! Look at 50 second in; the guy with the ski cap on. that looks like a white demoman to me (especially at 57-58 seconds).

mbk337

@Indrajit: Same thing i was thinking.

What creepy muscles that dude has when he is holding that plate

@Rinaldus: Agreed, and the animation in this was pretty meh.

Monkeez

@mGS_FOXDIE: Its called Satire.

@jamesjohnson01: Do not dare to compare this piece of cheesy b*llcrap to m Team Fortress 2, please.

@gecko7jlk is enjoying the killzone 2 map pack: You know, it isn't even the visual quality of the trailer that bothers me. It's the embarrassing animation that does it.

How does she do those wonderful stunts in such high heels?

Seriously whoever is in charge of hiring the pr and advertising people for sony in general needs to be fired. The sooner the better. I dont even know what i was supposed to get from that aside from the fact that the game may involve shitty jokes and snowmobiles.

Detre

@MightyMike235: I bought PDZ from a sale bin. I don't know, the graphics are a huge turn-off for me, it reminds me too much of the Winx Club. *shudder*

Hey is that the E-Surance chick?

CFStang

@jamesjohnson01: Yeah, but TF2 succeeds at being funny, whereas this was just kinda retarded.

Rinaldus

Was this trailer suppose to give me TF2 laughs of something?

Because it came off as really cheesy and cliche.

Drogmir

@devinpadgett: Exactly. Exactly.

Eh, the trailer didn't really do anything for me. I just wanted to say props on The Raven reference.

Poe ftw.

Ryan Beavers

@Sullyville: They're just trying to make an.....impact.

I know this game will come out someday, but it's hard to keep from glazing over whenever it's brought up. Like my mind thinks it's just never going to happen.

I saw a deleted scene that takes place shortly after the end of the trailer.

"...so now we can serve guns to people who DIDN'T hear all the gun fire in the kitchen (not to mention the snowmobile you drove through a brick wall somehow). Yeah, they'll stay put, they can't hear a thing. I love it when we hit up deaf ski resorts."

Seriously, this sounded like a cool concept, but this trailer looks awful.

I totally agree about the character statement. They lack charm and humour - even though that's what they try to achieve. So plastic stereotypes it's hard to get excited about them.

elmorepow

Seems to me like they're trying to somewhat go the route of the "Meet the X" shorts for Team Fortress 2, except this sucks way more. Sorry.

@mGS_FOXDIE It's extremely cheesy and cartoony. That's the purpose and direction. It parodizes the cliche' spy genre into an interesting MMO. Similar to Team Fortress 2's cartoonish humor and art style.

@mGS_FOXDIE: Very cheesy. It reminds me of Perfect Dark Zero.

MightyMike235

YES I was waiting for info on this game since last year.
Hopefully they show more about it this year at E3.

I was going to say you were being a tad pointed Luke, but in all honesty, I can see what you mean. The whole thing seemed a tad stilted.

am i the only one that's actually been turned off from the whole thing?

deathscent

Hooray! Maybe we'll get another prerendered trailer of MAG at E3 too?

The only thing that bothers me is the use of "Impact" font at the end.

I hate that overused font.

Sullyville

Well you were certainly right about the crappy characters. If I cared about this before I certainly don't now. Give me a gameplay trailer dammit.

meh...kinda seemed cheesy to me

There's nothing quite like a femme fatale doing cartwheels and flips in an evening gown or a qipao.

Nice....er...."guns".

Indrajit

Pre Rendered is always the Best on the Eyes :)

gecko7jlk is enjoying the killzone 2 map pack

Is that the same Voice Actor from the Esurance commericials?

dongately

the whole trailer is lame, nothing redeeming.

zuagamer

I'd rather have watched 10 minutes of level grinding.

jedbeetle

@mGS_FOXDIE: And it is completely reflective of gameplay. Completely.

@Rory Michael O'Sullivan:

Non-gameplay trailers are such a waste of time. Give me some gameplay at least

@Detre: it's better with the sound off. still - you are entirely correct. fired and replaced with young people who have some understanding of the demographic.

jedbeetle

you start to get worried when trailers rely on boobs.

jedbeetle

@FATDAN: huh.. that got spaced out wierd. should have looked like 3 blocks, not double spaced lines... sorry about that.

Trailer BreakDown:

Total length of trailer, 89 seconds.
00 to 13 : not the game (logos, etc).
13 to 35 : useless text/map/audio/"mission status"
35 : Actual CGI starts
52 : Female Agent checks watch (1)
55 to 56 : Female Agent checks watch (2)
64 to 65 : Female Agent checks watch (3)
73 : Actual CGI ends.
73 to 78 : usless "mission status" updates.
78 to 89 : more logos and junk

89 second trailer (gross total)
65 second trailer (net total, counting the mission status + CGI)
38 second trailer (net total, counting only CGI)

So, out of 89 seconds, we only care about 38 seconds. And in those 38 seconds, we have to get to see some check their watch. 3 times.

the best is always the cheesiest :)

@Heliophage: hahah yes i think he did

SlackJawed Yokel

@CFStang: ROFL

I hate the fact that the secret agent guy is jacked beyond all recognition like he's been taking steroids all his life. I hope all the characters don't look like that.

TheRockingDead

@deathscent: Frankly I found the video quite embarassing by todays standard. I think I've seen better CG in the late 90's...

Etheo

Is this some attempt from sony to rip off TF2?

X?

badSamurai

@SlackJawed Yokel:

Exactly. TF2 might run on the cliche of characters but it works and its funny.

This is pretty cheesy and unfunny. It relies on stereotypes as the joke instead of a tool to tell a joke. Like what Valve does.

Drogmir

@DAS: And that guy's rivalling Chris Redfield's upper-arm-melon-smuggling technique!

still looking forward to the game.

@elmorepow: And the voice acting was spot on if by spot on I mean total shit.

Immolo Draco Gladius

@Heliophage: LOL ! I just noticed xD