Journal #6139 by monster_urby

monster_urby

Posted 15 years ago2009-10-19 19:58:10 UTC

monster_urbyGoldsourcerer

My rule of thumb. The more promotion and hype that goes into a game, the worse the actual product is.

Example:

Half-Life 2 and episodes: Very little advertising, more money spent on development and upgrades. Overall mature and respectable community of players and modders.

Halo series: Glorified console shooter that was on the PC once. Too much money and time spent on hyping the product and putting up advertising campaigns. Very basic shooter complete with "console spacky-hand retard assistance module" (see: auto aim) and "pussy faggot stop-that-it-hurts protection circuit" (see: Health regeneration) Community consists of 6 - 14 year old's who swear all the time but just quiet enough so that mommy can't hear them.

Games don't need all this marketing for the love of God! They are video games! You know what used to influence my PS1 purchases? Demos! What the fuck happened to demos!?

That is all.

Notewell

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-19 20:10:55 UTC Comment #42744

Entirely right.

Although, I wouldn't mind if Valve made one or two commercials for their games, showed them on channels with gaming-oriented shows (So they hit the target audience) a few times, but only as the games are being prepared to ship, ie. preorders have been around for a few weeks.
Also, the commercials would show more scripted sequences and plot than glorified shooting.

Strider

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-19 21:42:03 UTC Comment #42734

That's pretty funny because Valve and EA are now forking out 25 million dollars to advertise L4D2. And fittingly it's the most mainstream, shallow, console-ish looking game Valve have ever done.

Even the greats can fall so low. I just hope they can pick themselves up afterwards.

Tito

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-19 23:26:19 UTC Comment #42741

Mmmm,....and yet all the Halo games have been top sellers at one point, including the latest one, Halo 3: ODST. I'm afraid it's going to take a lot more to put a dent on Master Chief's armor than negative hype. Trust me, the Halo cash-cow still got plenty of milk left to it.

Habboi

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-20 08:55:24 UTC Comment #42738

"That's pretty funny because Valve and EA are now forking out 25 million dollars to advertise L4D2."

And that's why I be not getting L4D 2 ;D

pepper

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-20 11:55:29 UTC Comment #42733

Strider... Its a fuckin zombie killing game? WTF do you expect.

Notewell

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-20 15:57:03 UTC Comment #42745

I have yet to see any L4D2 ad, the closest thing I've seen is an update on a Scifi/gaming show.

Strider

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-20 19:22:32 UTC Comment #42735

pepper: innovation, I guess?

hlife_hotdog

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-20 21:32:11 UTC Comment #42739

Let's face it, A zombie shooter needs more to set it apart from every other bloody zombie shooter out there. But then again, who tired of killing the endless hordes of undead??

I've heard that if you combined every zombie kill by every player in every zombie game all over the world, the world's population has died 10 times over.

Strider

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-20 21:47:18 UTC Comment #42736

"But then again, who tired of killing the endless hordes of undead??"

I did, very quickly.

I think the game desperately needs something special, something that breaks up the repetition. Survival mode was a joke, it's the same thing you always do, but with a counter going up, and this new Scavenge mode is the same thing with a counter going down. Valve must have hurt their brains coming up with that.

Tito

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-21 09:11:27 UTC Comment #42742

I don't know about all of you, but when I here the words "zombie game", the one and only game series that comes to mind is the Resident Evil series. I know I am going to get some no's from some of you here, but I don't care, as far as I am concerned, Resident Evil is the premier zombie game, period.

Now, in second place (to me) I will have to go with the "House of the Dead" game series. I have this game for my Dreamcast console, including the two light guns, vibrating packs and all! Man, it sure brings back fun zombie-killing memories!

Strider

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-21 09:20:12 UTC Comment #42737

I'm a big Resident Evil fan Tito, even if the old games had a control scheme resembling last nights dinner. They've got a lot of very cheesy charm to them.

House of the Dead was pretty fun, too.

Tito

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-21 09:47:34 UTC Comment #42743

Yea, House of the Dead really fun, and still is. But remember, even though you could have played it with the normal game pad, it just simply was not the same, the light guns were needed to make the game playable.

The only bad thing about the House of the Dead game, was the movie they made based on it, it was real bad.

Oskar Potatis

Commented 15 years ago2009-10-21 19:09:16 UTC Comment #42740

I like the House of the Dead games, they're fun to play with lightgun. But they're not as fun as Virtua Squad (Virtua Cop) 1 & 2.

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