Honestly, they did a great job with the single-player trailer, but the MP trailer felt like they were taking more than a few notes from Treyarch's CoD trailers, which do a great job of showing off tons of things while still being true to the gameplay experience.

In fact, check their E3 trailer from last year, which showed off the different characters, their Supers, and the maps/gameplay in an expertly-made trailer (music choice aside):

Yep, also a great gameplay trailer. I prefer the Titanfall 2 trailer because it shows more variety and dynamic gameplay elements, but that's because the game itself features more variety and dynamic elements. COD is a bit more inherently repetitive, so I can't fault the trailer for that. Either way, another great example of a trailer that is true to the experience.

Titanfall 2's multiplayer isn't showing much in terms of variety other than "grappling hook! Different-looking Titans! Uh... Grappling hook!"

Ok, you clearly weren't paying attention :) The zip line is probably the biggest game-changer shown, but it is far from the only thing. The number of new weapons/abilities they show off in this trailer makes me giddy. Titan swords, Titan flamethrowers, gravity-bomb grenades, new Titan super abilities, a pilot teleport/blink ability...
I think the first Titanfall has the best combat sandbox since Halo CE, and it looks like Respawn is adding a great new set of toys to play with. Almost every clip in the trailer showed something that made my imagination take off, thinking of all the cool ways I'm going to use these new tricks in combat.

At least the single-player is looking interesting.

Single player is where I'm not sold yet... It certainly has potential, and I hope it's great. But Titanfall was built and designed as a competitive multiplayer shooter, and they absolutely nailed that side of it. It's perfect for what it is. The Devs said from the start that they weren't really interested in doing a traditional FPS campaign anymore, and that adding something like that to Titanfall would be a kind of step backwards for them. To turn around and add a traditional offline campaign feels like a concession... and that might be for the best. There are certainly plenty of people who want a Titanfall campaign. I'm just not sold on that side of the game yet.

Now that I've seen them both, entirely underwhelmed. Of course, I was also entirely underwhelmed by the first Titanfall, so no surprise here I guess.

I happen to love Titanfall, but that's not why I think this is the best gameplay trailer I've seen. I love it because of how honest and accurate to the actual game it is. Watching the trailer feels like playing Titanfall, and they achieve that simply by showing a lot of natural gameplay footage and letting it speak for itself. If the game doesn't appeal to you, neither will the trailer. And I LOVE that. It's not lying or trying to appeal to the audience based on elements that aren't actually in the game.

I'm not being sarcastic. I really think it is the best gameplay trailer ever made.

It's fast paced, exciting, thrilling... and it is completely true to the game being shown. Pay attention to the editing. Notice the complete lack of hyperactive cutting or in-your-face transitions. Lots of long, un-edited shots that show amazing combat sequences as they actually occur in the game. It is exciting because the gameplay really is that exciting, not because the editors are presenting it as something it isn't. Can't wait :D

Untrue. If anything the trailer lies. It never shows you missing the windows, falling off the buildings, jumping off the wrong wall, getting hopelessly lost, and getting triple teamed as soon as you call your titan in. That pretty much sums up my experience, as well as others, with Titanfall 1. It had a very high skill bar to climb to pull off the stuff you see in this trailer.

That's not the trailer lying, that's you being less than great at playing the game ;)

Yes, there is certainly a learning curve. But one of my favorite things about the game is the way they give you abilities that look and feel super cool right off the bat, and then reward skill by allowing you to pull of crazier and crazier sequences and maneuvers. I hit a stride with the game where almost every match I played would lead to at least 1 moment that felt straight out of the most climactic action movie sequence ever made. It's the perfect example of a game that rewards the player not by giving them loot or unlocks or trinkets, but by providing a sandbox that allows you to do BADASS looking stuff on a regular basis :)

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I guess it's cool and all, if you were one of literally tens of people who wanted more narrative in their sporce. But a story campaign was the last thing I expected for FIFA, right next to "you can transform into a crow and peck the goalies eyes for bonus points".