10 Ways Trailers Let You Know A Video Game Is Secretly Awful

3. "From The Team That Brought You..."

Notable Offenders: Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

Pretty much any time a game can't stand on its own two feet and let its gameplay speak for itself, it's a good time to be skeptical.

Variations on the phrase, "From the team that brought you..." is a sure-fire indication that the developers aren't confident about their new project and want to use their prior successes as a crutch.

Case in point, we have the recently released survival game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, which was helmed by Assassin's Creed director Patrice Désilets and obnoxiously marketed as "from the minds that made you jump from rooftop to rooftop."

Unsurprising for anyone who actually saw the rest of the trailer, the final game received wildly mixed reviews from critics, and was for the most part a colossal bore.

Elsewhere, there's the trailers for interactive survival horror game The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, which couldn't help but namedrop developer Supermassive's previous game, Until Dawn, despite Man of Medan being a huge decline in quality from that title.

Great games don't need to stand on the shoulders of what came before, so it's always smart to be wary when a trailer invokes a company's prior pedigree a tad too eagerly.