Bioware really needs to start showing more gameplay, this is getting ridiculous.

Why should an armored robot react to getting punched? Beside the possibility of the footage being from an earlier build that was likely bug ridden, why should a robot stagger?

We've seen human sized enemies stagger already from melee, but why would a machine--something heavier than the humanoid enemies we'll be fighting--get staggered in the same manner? Punch a 200 pound person, and they'll stagger. Punch a 200 pound door, it probably won't.

Anyway, yeah, the grand total of gameplay is probably 5-7 minutes, but that's more than enough to show you what running, shooting, taking cover, and jumping will look like.

You don't need to witness someone playing through an area and skipping through cutscenes in the beginning of a crucial story mission or a sidequest in order to know what the game will offer. If it turns out the AI sucks ass, you won't find out from the video. If it turns out the areas are much smaller, you won't find out from the video. If you don't like the combat so far, you won't like it later.

Am I going to hate seeing more footage? Hell no, I'm going to eat it all up like everyone else. Do I need more footage? Of course not. And chances are, anything they release with over a 10 minute run time will result in me skipping through it to avoid as much story and area hints as possible so I don't stumble into places knowing what I'll be doing already, but seeing someone shoot something for 15 minutes won't convince me of the game anymore than watching someone shoot for 3 did back in December.

That might be part of it.  I mean the last two video game martketing campaigns has generated a lot of sustained hype, at least for me personally...and I think for a lot of people.  Yet a lot of people were dissapointed.  Showing more information so far in advance might have made us imagine things and build up the game in our own heads, maaayyybbbee they hope that this time by showing the info in a condencsed manner he hype will be less, and the judging the game will actually be more. 

Because that punch is associated with an Omni Blade. If it's the developers intention to not have robots react or spark to a melee, then why demonstrate it at all? It just looks dumb.

I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean 'in recent years' because otherwise the answer is 'a lot'. Going way back a lot of 'uninterrupted gameplays' (such as E3 presentations) aren't actual gameplay. It's all just a pre-done demo for E3. Hell some of those weren't even running at a solid frame rate and where rendered out slowly, frame by frame and assembled for the E3 presentation.

Recent years though yeah not much, since they usually start the marketting train well before this point. Usually with shit that isn't actually in the game or isn't entirely representative (the E3 shits). There going to, they've said as much. I have a feeling the 15 minute thing is being held back for whatever the shit IGN's thing is gonna be, but it may not.

Either way it's happening, if we're middle of march with out anything I'd definitely be worried. But what we've gotten hasn't been bad and we know theres more so... *shrugs* learn to wait better I guess?

Also, unrelated, but anyone waking up each day expecting major news/videos... they tell us a day or 2 ahead of time. People just gettin' all spazzy over nothing at this point lol.

This should be put in an official seal so that everyone knows that this is a genuine dutch thread. Accept no substitutes. 

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Assuming he's still alive. 

Honestly I was wondering when they were gonna show more footage of gameplay.

This, so much of this. So far I don't think we got any of that. Maybe a small glimpse of the Nomand.

Problem is all of the damn jump cuts in the trailer showed little to nothing at all. Show one typical gameplay session, not 3-second clips of random shit.

Agreed the only thing for me thast hey haven't done yet is explain the power system and how all that works other than that for me I think they've shown everything else that they need to entice me in as I'm pretty happy with what I'm seeing. I assume that'll likely come in the 10-15 minute vid we've been promised but we'll see.