Honest Trailers

They are going to get so much crap for that add.

What ad? For the Transformers? If Deathbattle feels free to shill ads for a service for people to dumb/lazy to buy groceries, I got no issue with Honest trailer shilling a shitty movie they will no doubt mock in a few months.

edited 20th Jun '17 4:58:11 PM by Ghilz

Still they are called honest trailers and it looks bad if they're accepting advertising money for a movie they'll presumably make a trailer for eventually.

Except it's Smosh Games Honest Game Trailers that included the ad, not Screen Junkies Honest Trailers. Both are done by different writers and companies with the only thing similar is the style and narrator.

Good point, I had forgotten. Never mind then, I don't see a problem.

Warning: Ear Worm song in the trailer.

Badmouthing Megamind? That's a paddling.

They didn't badmouth it. they said people skipped it. Which they did,

Geez, so sensitive.

edited 27th Jun '17 1:40:07 PM by Ghilz

Someone on the Honest Trailer TV Tropes didn't get that since they wrote Despicable Me was in the So Okay, It's Average trope as they said Wreck It Ralph was a better movie but at least Despicable Me was better than Megamind.

Anyway, here's this week's Honest Game Trailer.

Not only did i not realized there was a Skylanders cartoon but Crash was also in it.

edited 27th Jun '17 6:58:20 PM by MrTerrorist

They mocked Bubsy. I approve.

It really seems really hateful of Crash, and calls him a failed 90's mascot when he actually became more of his own thing rather than a Sonic clone.

I don't think I've ever considered Crash a sonic clone. But definitely a relic of the 90s. and even then he was overshadowed by Mario, Sonic and hell, even Banjo Kazooi

And considering the original game sold over 7 million copies, while Crash: Mind over Mutant, the last main title, sold about 1 million, I'd say that's accurate to call him a 90s mascot.

That's without even going into the fact that there's not been a main Crash title in 9 years.

If he's a failed mascot, he only really "failed" over a decade after the original four games were released, and not through any fault of the games made in the 90s. There's no taking it away from Crash that he was a massively popular in his heyday even if the series gradually fell into irrelevance after Naughty Dog jumped ship.

Anyway, the video's suggestion that people who still like Crash or the classic trilogy are deluded by nostalgia is pretty insulting, as well as hypocritical when coupled with the video praising the totally-not-dated-at-all Mario 64 as an all-time classic.

edited 28th Jun '17 10:49:48 AM by DrDougsh

I love Honest Trailers, and they generally have a way to temper criticism with compliments for the things they're doing honest trailers for, but this was almost nothing but bile and unreasonably aggressive towards the franchise and its fans.

What is this, cinema sins?

The Honest Game Trailers are written by different people, I think.

That'd explain a lot. But even the game trailers tend to be better. The ones for Nier Automata and Arkham Knight, for example, were fairly even-handed.

Dissing those would cause greater Internet Backdraft ?

Not to mention their Breath of the Wild Honest Trailer was pretty much nothing but praise for the game; without so much as mentioning any of the game's flaws.

*coughweaponbreakagecough*

They didn't even mention this

I am disappointed.

This trailer for Crash rubbed me in the wrong way, and you would think that they would give it a more fair shot. Crash was popular in the 90's, but he still managed to make something of himself in the 2000's but it wasn't as strong. Heck, the reason why Crash is remembered is due to the fact that there was a lot of staying power to him.

He was also Play Station's unofficial mascot for the 32 bit era, and was used for their ads as heavily as Sonic and Mario.

I think the issue was when they went multi platform and Crash didn't represent Play Station.

Yeah, Playstation has always had that thing of replacing mascot characters.

Naughty Dog itself had a bad habit of ignominiously dumping their flagship characters. Just ask Jak, who arguably has it worse than Crash what with having barely having had anything to do for the better part of a decade now, with no re-boot in sight.

I feel like I'm in a tiny minority that kind of doesn't appreciate the directions Naughty Dog chose to take after they left Jak behind. Both Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter were such brilliantly creative concepts that took every chance to throw something weird and unexpected at you. Uncharted, on the other hand is just... an Indiana Jones clone. The Last of Us is just... a zombie apocalypse story.

I don't mean to bash those series, which are quite good in their own right. Their stories are well told. But they are very standard genre excercises at their core, quite unlike Crash or Jak, and it makes me a bit miffed to see those series praised while Crash is dismissed as a relic of the nineties and Jak is ignored altogether.

Naughty Dog wants to keep their flagship character for 1 console generation and then move on to something else. It is a really good thing IMO as it keeps things from getting stale.

Sony however passes these characters onto other devs to milk the hell out of them.

Then there was the whole thing were the PS 2 had 3 mascots at the same time, Sly, Ratchet and Jak.

Honestly I never really saw them as mascots. Just characters who happened to have games on the console.