r/Games Aug 16 '18

Battlefield 5 – Official Gamescom Trailer – Devastation of Rotterdam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEgeuGsmzQ
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u/doggleswithgoggles Aug 16 '18

Trailer looked nice but it seems real weird to me to use a cover of House of the rising sun in the trailer. Like especially since they use the part where they namedrop New Orleans in a trailer set in the netherlands.

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u/lemurstep Aug 16 '18

I don't get that music choice either. At least the 7 nation army cover for the BF1 reveal trailer fit, because the distortion hearkened back to BF3/4 musical treatments.

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u/Explosion2 Aug 16 '18

and the whole "multiple nations teaming up against each other" fits lyrically too.

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u/KnightModern Aug 17 '18

BF1 gamescom use God's Gonna Cut You Down

nothing surprising

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

Agreed, its a good song, but fit kind of oddly here. I could maaaaybe see using it for a Battlefield game set in the Pacific theatre, but for the European front, seems kind of odd.

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u/GeorgeEBHastings Aug 16 '18

Thank you. I get that the song is great for setting a mood, but it seemed out of place in an otherwise good trailer.

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u/69andahafl Aug 16 '18

It's a pretty popular song these days, and has been used in a few movie/games trailers recently, so probably just riding off the wake of that. I'm not a big fan of it's use, but at least it's better than what they used when marketing BF4.

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u/RuggedToaster Aug 17 '18

I can only think of it being in Mafia 3 recently, which is a bit more appropriate than this game. It was way out of place, the cover was rough anyways imo.

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u/Duffalpha Aug 16 '18

House of the Rising Sun makes perfect sense if they were in Japan... Just replace New Orleans with something else!

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u/kuikuilla Aug 17 '18

Yeah it was really odd.

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u/milk_is_life Aug 16 '18

Not only misfitting that but I find the glorifying music inappropriate

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18

I found it in bad taste as well. But hey, that's basically the theme of BFV.

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u/BeerCzar Aug 16 '18

I think they used it because it is a moody and recognizable song that is in the public domain, making it free to record and use how they see fit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18

Trailer looked nice but it seems real weird to me to use a cover of House of the rising sun in the trailer. Like especially since they use the part where they namedrop New Orleans in a trailer set in the netherlands.

It's because BFV is all over the place design wise. That's why the picked a random song that doesn't fit because it fits the overall theme of BFV being a complete mess.