It's more than a bit jarring how much Larian is focusing on presenting their game in a "cinematic way" through promotional material, given how consistently bad they are at it. Poor camera work, stiff animations, character models that fall just a bit short in terms of detail if inspected up-close... At least the voice acting seems to be of good quality, I guess.
The game itself looks good, admittedly at times even top of the line for an isometric CRPG (at least when not too many "cartoony" effects are in place in the scene, otherwise it slips behind something like Pillars of Eternity 2), but holy crap if it doesn't feel like they are leveraging its wrong angles and making almost an active effort in presenting it poorly, at times.
I mostly agree on that feeling. Cinematic trailers aren't bad, especially in a show like the SGS where it is the norm. What baffles me it that it leaves people who never played BG3 completely dumbfounded and that is the overwhelming majority of the million and a half people who watched it live. I am sure a good trailer can showcase both the city of Baldur and an antagonist, while still being enticing for someone who never played the game. Previous trailer was ok in that regard since it presented a variety of situations, this one drops everyone in the middle of a campaign they never participated in.
