Overly Chatty Penguins
The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: lolfighter on May 26, 2004, 08:34:35 AM
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Yeah, bought that game a while back. Not the super-great sneakfest it was hyped to be if you ask me, but pretty solid (olo Metal Gear pun!). But there's one thing that couldn't cease to annoy me: Advertisements. The game is full of advertisements. Well, not really full, but there's decidedly too many of 'em. I don't really care that the big boss (isn't he called Campbell or something? I thought that was soup?) drinks from a coffee cup prominently featuring the Ubisoft logo (which looks a lot better than their old logo, by the way). I don't care that Captain Keyes in Halo smokes a pipe featuring the Marathon logo in the intro sequence (few people even know Marathon, so most of you wouldn't even notice). But what the hell does SONY-ERICSSON have to do with a sneaking game, and why do I have to see their ads in A GAME THAT I PAID FOR?
If the game was available for free, it could be chock-full of ads for all I care. Have a flashing neon Coke ad at every street corner. I'd even have fun shooting the ad to take out yet another light that threatens to give away my presence. Heck, even if the ads would reduce the price to, say, twenty dollars, I'd be satisfied. But I'm NOT paying FULL PRICE for a game if I have to endure ads. The reason why pay-per-view is pay-per-view is because we're spared the presence of ads right? (Or is that only in Germany? I doubt it...) Here in Germany, we have two kinds of tv-channels: The public ones that we pay for through our license fees, and the private ones (which, sadly, tend to have the better program) that we pay for indirectly by watching the copious amounts of ads they wedge inbetween (and into) their shows. But for the first time, I'm PAYING to be advertised to. What a sweet deal! The customers AND the advertisers give the publisher money! Why not require a monthly fee for the game as well?
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well,i for one, need the guiding, benevolent hand of Media to tell me what to buy, eat, wear, consume 24/7. i've been a bit worried as of late as gaming put me into a chaotic ne'er do well world free of a pandering, advertising world. i was lost, LOST i say, on what to think about and how to evaluate my self worth vis a vis the purchase of hte latest and greatest thingamahoochie.
thank GOD the stalwart folks at Ubisoft have put ads in their games, no longer will i be playing without a net of fantastic Corporate Brainwashing usurping my mind!
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I don't care that Captain Keyes in Halo smokes a pipe featuring the Marathon logo in the intro sequence (few people even know Marathon, so most of you wouldn't even notice).
Thats not much of an advert, considering Bungie made Halo and Marathon. Its just an easter egg. Same with how in certain areas of Freedom Fighter you can find the Hitman logo. Same developer.
Also, consider this. Why should I pay to go to a movie to watch the main character flaunt his brand name Rollex watch? or his sony mp3 player?
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That's crazy talk! Advertising doesn't go in games. Now proceed to your waypoint where you can pick up delicious, refreshing coca-cola!
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That's crazy talk! Advertising doesn't go in games. Now proceed to your waypoint where you can pick up delicious, refreshing coca-cola!
Dammit, not now Bob. Can't you see I'm busy building this McResnode?
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anem brings back memories of McIGN
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Commander!!!! Drop me a medpack, an ammopack, and a number four with cheese, biggie sized!!!
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i have mcdonalds medpacks hehe ^_^
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Yeah, its why I can't stand to go to a movie theater these days.
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You know game piracy is a very big thorn in the industry's side.
Sucks that all have to suffer because of the acts of a few.
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Think about a reasoning like this: "Yeah, I juarezed Pandora Tomorrow, but I'm watching ads! I'm still paying in a sense! It's ok to pirate!" Ubisoft only has themselves to blame...
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Think about a reasoning like this: "Yeah, I juarezed Pandora Tomorrow, but I'm watching ads! I'm still paying in a sense! It's ok to pirate!" Ubisoft only has themselves to blame...
People who pirate games are in that mindset when they start downloading the game.
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Its not like the ads hinder gameplay or anything....
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Think about a reasoning like this: "Yeah, I juarezed Pandora Tomorrow, but I'm watching ads! I'm still paying in a sense! It's ok to pirate!" Ubisoft only has themselves to blame...
People who pirate games are in that mindset when they start downloading the game.
broad generalizations are always wrong
you forgot to mention the crackers who (almost) without fail will put something like "support good games: buy it if you like it" in their .nfos
and a large portion of pirates end up buying the game, they seem to want a demo sans "BUY THIS GAEM OLOLOLO" stamped all over it
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I pirate all the time. And I NEVER feel bad for it. Know why? The people who work on the game don't get anything out of sales. My roommate worked on goblin commander 2 quake expansions (extremities and zaero) and Gore. I talked to him about it and he says they don't see one extra dime out of it because they make it, not sell it.
Also, if I feel the game is worth while I buy it just because I like owning the shiney case and manual :p.
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This reminds me of Dredd Vs Death. I think it was that game at least. Basically, it was full of Red Bull. Everywhere you goddamn went there were cases of Red Bull and cans about. It made me go "EEYYYYYYAAAARRGGGGGHHHHHH'... in my mind.
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Yeah, Wipeout XL for the PS1 was exactly the same. Racing game coated with red bull ads. I think even the loading screen inbetween courses had a red bull ad on it. Geesh!
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My brother's friend drank 4 red bulls the other day and he repeatedly jumped down his 8 stair deck on his skateboard.
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i remember when that somewhat new 007 movie came out
OLO ADJUSTIBLE RAZAR!1212!@!2122121!!!!!!!!!@1
BOND SETS HIZ TO 7 ... 007 OLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLL
those were annoying (that and the only reason there was an entire scene with bond shaving was so that they could get the guys who made the shaver to pay them)
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My brother's friend drank 4 red bulls the other day and he repeatedly jumped down his 8 stair deck on his skateboard.
Were they like big steps?
My friends records was in steps was around 12, one of the nice [incedental] skating stares down at UCD, if you have tony hawk 2 you can see the "vine gap" which is like some 30 feet attempting to be jumped in one of the extra videos.
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Yeah, Wipeout XL for the PS1 was exactly the same. Racing game coated with red bull ads. I think even the loading screen inbetween courses had a red bull ad on it. Geesh!
Wipout XL was the sequel to wipeout right?? and then wipeout 3 came out on ps2???
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You are correct sir. It was a pretty fun game, and the sensation of speed was great, if you could ever not hit the wall for five seconds. Or hit a GIANT red bull sign that was posted every five feet on every course.
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Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to twart the evil Coke demons from spoiling the latest batch of sweet, delicious Pepsi. Should you get hurt in the process, one sip of cool, refreshing Pepsi will nurse you back to health! Should you fail in your mission, you'll be the mascot in our next commercial.
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My biggest hatred is the advertising before you see a movie. I payed 9 :Ding bucks to see a sweaty dumb-as-bricks Marine climb a rock and then tell me to join the Marines?
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Somewhere, MonsE is priming a frag grenade...
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Somewhere, MonsE is priming a frag grenade...
*Shrug* Ask any Marine, there's a lot of jarheads in there...
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It's just because YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Son, we live in a world that has rocks. And those rocks have to be climbed by men with guns, and big bulging muscles. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. CForrester? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for wasted time at the start of a movie and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that those cheesy commercials, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that rock. You NEED me on that rock.
We use words like honor, code, loyalty, popcorn...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent climbing something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the shadow of the very rock I climb, then questions the manner in which I climb it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick a rock and start climbing. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
(half an old cookie to the first person to name the source, as that's pretty bloody obvious if you haven't been living in a cave all your life)
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Jack Nicholson.
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that's pretty bloody obvious if you haven't been living in a cave all your life
Does my bedroom count as a cave?
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Jack Nicholson.
More specifically, A Few Good Men.
"THANK YOU FOR PLAYING "SHOULD WE, OR SHOULD WE NOT, FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF THE GALACTICALLY STUPID?"