Good stuff. It really makes it clear how awful video game commercials were and still are. I'm not sure I've ever seen a competent video game commercial.
"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark." - Muhammad Ali
"Dating is not supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be a heart-pounding, stomach-wrenching, gut-churning exercise in pitting your fear of rejection and public humiliation against your desire to find a mate. Enjoy." - Darth Wong
Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Good stuff. It really makes it clear how awful video game commercials were and still are. I'm not sure I've ever seen a competent video game commercial.
Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Good stuff. It really makes it clear how awful video game commercials were and still are. I'm not sure I've ever seen a competent video game commercial.
I thought the Wii ads were quite competent.
"The surest sign that the world was not created by an omnipotent Being who loves us is that the Earth is not an infinite plane and it does not rain meat."
"Lo, how free the madman is! He can observe beyond mere reality, and cogitates untroubled by the bounds of relevance."
Phil Hartman screaming at the Atari 2600 was pretty awesome.
EDIT: Most of these cheezy old commercials actually talk up... gasp... the system's features and games. That's a hell of a lot better than this PS3 "crying baby doll" horseshit.
If Religion and Politics were characters on a soap opera, Religion would be the one that goes insane with jealousy over Politics' intimate relationship with Reality, and secretly murder Politics in the night, skin the corpse, and run around its apartment wearing the skin like a cape shouting "My votes now! All votes for me! Wheeee!" -- Lagmonster
It was so quiet and the world seemed dead, and it seemed to stark. It seemed like there was this real despair about that gameworld, but I know that it's a shooter, which seemed to hit a perfect balance between showing me drop-dead-gorgeous action and giving me a world in which that kind of violence didn't seem out of place. Anyway, I thought it was a beautifully shot little ad!
Note, I really haaaate Donny Darko crap, so there was no nostalgia factor there. Ugh.
I've never played Gears of War or heard that song before, but the broken statue at the beginning and the choice of music were brilliant. Set that running around to generic sci-fi actioney music and it becomes totally forgettable.
If Religion and Politics were characters on a soap opera, Religion would be the one that goes insane with jealousy over Politics' intimate relationship with Reality, and secretly murder Politics in the night, skin the corpse, and run around its apartment wearing the skin like a cape shouting "My votes now! All votes for me! Wheeee!" -- Lagmonster
Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Good stuff. It really makes it clear how awful video game commercials were and still are. I'm not sure I've ever seen a competent video game commercial.
I thought the Wii ads were quite competent.
OK, so I exaggerated. But you have to admit that most game commercials to this day are headscratchers.
"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark." - Muhammad Ali
"Dating is not supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be a heart-pounding, stomach-wrenching, gut-churning exercise in pitting your fear of rejection and public humiliation against your desire to find a mate. Enjoy." - Darth Wong
Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Good stuff. It really makes it clear how awful video game commercials were and still are. I'm not sure I've ever seen a competent video game commercial.
I thought the Wii ads were quite competent.
OK, so I exaggerated. But you have to admit that most game commercials to this day are headscratchers.
Very true. The PS3's commercials generate an instant What the Fuck?! reaction every time I see one.
I remember every one of those commercials from the Nintendo 'Power Pad' one onward. Looking back i must have got my first game system around the time that came out, since that 'Power Pack' with the running pad and teh zapper was the one my mom got. Jesus i must have been one.
Now i feel old.
It's even worse that i remember clearly using words like "rad" in general conversation.