Kotaku posted this screen which shows a teaser image for the fifth Armored Core game - a series I’m so uninformed about that I hardly know what the hell it is. There was something about this image that struck me, however, because it is probably one of the worst teaser images I’ve ever seen. If you are, like myself, completely unaware of what game this is supposed to excite you about, you’re left with something that appears more like some kind of brain teaser puzzle than an advert. A red “5” made out of dots, the numbers “1.14” (presumably january 14th) and then the ambiguous word “Beginning”. I smell prequel?
This is merely the latest in a long line of crap teasers in the same fashion, showing you nothing but a letter or a number which is meant to appear exciting and enthralling. In reality it just looks cheap, lazy and dull. At least give us an actual image, concept art, a drawing, SOMETHING other than “those four other games are getting a little sibling”. I blame Hideo Kojima and the teaser-itis he’s been suffering from the past few years, but at least he had the decency to actually show us an actual, honest to god picture when he did it.
