My mind will always go straight to one thing.

Forspoken

was so excited to post the dark alliance trailer but you beat me to it

Let's not forget the Nier: Automata trailer which is a bunch of disparate voice lines over top of footage of a fake loading screen that takes up 95% of the trailer's runtime

https://youtu.be/TtwWMKZabyQ?feature=shared

@Speedy - which trailer? Can you link it please.

@Funbil - That was indeed awful lol. Adding that.

@Dreamboat - that was only a little better than the Dark Alliance trailer. Looks like a fan cut. Added for sure, that was awful. Thanks.

Great list :'D My mind immediately went to this disgrace of a trailer: Escape from Asura - New Game+ Expo 2020 Teaser Trailer, although you can barely call it that.

@Penumbra - At least they did call it a teaser trailer but even so it just feels pointless lol. Added it to the list thanks!

If you ever wanted to see a trailer that accurately depicts how bad a game is, for my money, that's the announcement trailer for Lucius III. Almost everything that I disliked about that game is on full display, from its embarrassing reliance on flaccid shock value down to its janky, robotic animations. The only redeeming thing about it is the music, which is licensed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Ud0t5ytCQ

If you want another trailer from the same developers that's almost as bad for completely different reasons, the reveal trailer they did for the first game in the series features such ugly color grading and visuals so work-in-progress that it's genuinely baffling to think that anyone thought it was fit for public consumption. The other trailers for the first game are their own can of worms, as they feature voice acting so awful that it doesn't appear in the final product. But the announcement trailer takes the cake for being as utterly redundant as it is. You can tell they're pretty ashamed of these trailers because the only place I know of that's archived them is the video section on IGN. Shit's hilarious.

https://www.ign.com/videos/lucius-teaser-trailer

@Yultimona - Interestingly I don't find those trailers that bad? They come across as kind of average to me 😅

That Duke Nukem trailer is so effing funny thank you for sharing that because I had no idea. When they used an actual wartime photo of someone's bombed out home I lost it. It's like if you listen closely you can hear them typing Google Image searches.

The Persona 3 Reload Live Action Trailer.

Link: https://youtu.be/abIwlqfLTxI?si=B93HRwPfMXQdqTnQ

In the same vein as the P3 Reload live action trailer, the ugly ass FFXIV live action trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfFucIuuw2I

Also reminded of that Bombshell reveal trailer where its just nothing but a showcase of the character model they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36Q-X198cs

@cowboyjosh - Maybe I should move it into my great trailer list instead because it really is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

@Maurith - That's getting added for sure. Truly painful, thanks!

@Korbinian - The FFXIV trailer is awful but in a way I can see what they were aiming for there. That Bombshell one though was hilariously awful. That's getting a place here!

not sure if this would be a good fit, but i remember watching Master Roshi's announcement trailer for Dragon Ball FighterZ live and just being astonished at how absolutely nothing it was, even as somebody who doesn't play dbfz lmao

Lol, the Duke Nukem trailer 😂 And there never really was anything to show as only one of those games ever came out

This is a real game btw.

This one iirc, this is a reupload sadly I can’t find the original https://youtu.be/eZzXDsIZuJs?si=QlElH6wIFJzGQ9a3

@Wheatie - I kind of think that trailer does it's job pretty well. Only so much they can do with a season character reveal.

@TheQuietGamer - Ok it's hilarious to me that game had a PS4 logo at the end. Awful trailer but more because the game is awful. Think I'm gonna use Life of Black Tiger to generally represent those sorts of games but thanks for highlighting this existing to me lol.

Gonna be real, when I hear "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" I hear Dead Space 2. Make no mistake the whole "Your mom HATES this game" stuff was awful but I love it

Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare the worst trailer ever made nobody can beat this piece of trash

The dungeons and dragons dark alliance trailer isnt that bad because it gave us this masterpiece of a video

Also I'd recommend adding the Yakuza 4 trailer because of how out of touch it is with its own franchise, like one of the comments on this video said, no wonder why the series used to be so niche in the west, Sega had no clue how to market these games

NSMBU E3 Trailer: https://youtu.be/K4pJnV5OxPI?si=X-VgAQjJyykwVvPJ

I think this is actually the worst gaming trailer of all time. There’s just random clips of gameplay, with no rhyme or reason, vaguely tied to the music, but not enough to make it satisfying or visually appealing to watch

@relax - There seem to be a few. Can you link the one you mean?