Mass Effect: Andromeda Official Cinematic Trailer #2!

Well thanks for quoting him. He was wrong about an E3 "blowout"  but pretty much everything other than that including the mountains of info on the game he leaked has proven to be correct. I still don't see him as being wrong on the Fallout style information dump as we still have 2 months until the game is released. 

So as I see it the only thing he's been wrong about was a "blowout at e3" so I stick with with my previous comment of him being right about pretty much everything. Ian is already slightly teasing the trailer on twitter so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

He went back on the E3 blowout after he initially promised it, so he wasn't completely wrong on that front. Could have been a change of plans on Bioware's part. 

Supposedly an industry insider who likes posting information and leaking information about games out there on the interwebz.  He does seem to focus on BioWare games (at least to the best of my knowledge) and his accuracy is usually quite good. 

I think it's not that important if Shinobi was always right on MEA. He demonstrated in the past that he was right on several things and games. He's by no mean perfect, and I'm not taking his words for granted, but I can agree that we'll get a trailer this week or early the next at worst (he didn't actually guarantee we'll get one this week).

My problem with what he said is on the fact that the trailer will apparently satisfy most of the complainers/the vocal minority. The validity of his statement depends a lot on what exactly are the problems of this minority he's referring to. Because people have been critical or skeptical of different things.

If it's about plot and characters, a trailer focused on that might satisfy those people if they reveal and show squadmates and/or crew members with details on them, and a bit of plot/stories or the game. Although for the latter showing modern of the story won't necessarily stop the criticism, since we have people not liking certain choices in the plot so far, and revealing more won't necessarily stop the criticism.

If we're talking about gameplay features, the statement is unlikely to turn out to be right. While explaining more of the combat and the new features might satisfy some people since they didn't show much so far, most of the criticism is based on the choices made about the gameplay, so showing more might not satisfy them.

Another point to discuss is the length of the trailer. If it's about 2-3 minutes, we'll see the same critics we saw in the past, since Bioware didn't release a lengthy video so far. And this is connected to the points made above. People want to see different things they haven't shown so far. While a lot might be interested in both and a detailed trailer on either might satisfy them, there are several people primarily interested and/or concerned on one of them (or other features, like MP), so unless we'll get a long video that focuses on both, there'll be people disappointed, and depending on who shinobi was referring to with his statement, the latter won't be right.

I'm fine with them showing whatever they want at this point if they're going to be detailed enough, but I think a good approach to take is to not have too high expectations on the next trailer. You won't get too disappointed if it turns out to be nothing special and you'll be happily surprised if it turns out to be great.

MEA will be better then ME3 for me just for the...not logical decision of having just two dialogue choices for most of the game

Exaggeration aside, I'm glad they're giving us more choices, even more then ME-ME2, during dialogues. I hope they'll focus a bit on a video or a blog post on the different tones.

why nobody has learnt from the lesson that was ME3 is anyones guess. Do not believe the hype. Do not pre-order. Let them sell you back into the ME universe. If it stinks look elsewhere. If it's great then they've done a good job.

Shinobi isn't Bioware though, so I don't know what he's referring to. I guess it might be about some complains he saw on GAF.

You're assuming everyone hated, disliked or had that much problems with ME3 or its endings.

I'd like that to happen.

I don't think a cinematic trailer can do it, however. It might show off some plot points, characters and romances and that will hype a lot of people, but what is needed to show that Andromeda is on tracks is a full gameplay video. Like 10 minutes of someone just playing the game and minimal editing. 

You do realize that over 2k people saying they don't mind the endings support my point right? Beside, not everyone here was around BSN at the time. And many might've get over it, since the poll is years old.

"Change all the negative sentiment?"

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On the other side of the fence, the hype levels after new 1 minute trailer...

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Meanwhile, whilst all this is happening, I believe someone, somewhere, is harvesting the two extreme ends of opinion on ME:A that radiate of this site like a source to fuel their arch evil plans for domination.

That's the point I made in my first post in the thread. It's unlikely the trailer is going to change the problems people have with certain design and story choices. If shinobi was simply referring to those that criticized the scarcity of info, that's another thing which might be solved by the next trailer, is it has enough info.

I'm looking forward to the trailer and hope it turns out to be as awesome as Shinobi is predicting.