/v/ - Video Games

Everything nowadays has to be clean and sterile, having even a small degree of personality can only lead you to thousands of groups complaining about whatever it is that pissed them off.

>We will never see ads like these

Thanks soy boys.

>>14580824

Because the middle class was removed.

Now you can only have triple A or indie trash. Shit's fucked.

>>14580824

They've gotta make ads be as safe for kids as possible

Meanwhile women magazines have bitches in next to nothing proclaiming "How to please your man in 500 ways to make you orgasm (ladies youll need to try this at home!!!!)"

I've also noticed that most trailers have also gotten pretty boring as well. Even today watching this trailer still gets me excited and pumped.

>>14581113

>I've also noticed that most trailers have also gotten pretty boring as well.

Unless it's a gameplay trailer, I don't give a fuck. I hate when companies put up some highly polished cutscene montage or completely unrelated bit if theatrics instead of actually showing people what the fuck game mechanics are. Why would you get hyped for something a company feels the need to purposefully obfuscate what the fuck it actually is that they're selling?

>>14581326

Even gameplay trailers bore me. A trailer is always too short to meaningfully show accurate gameplay and even gameplay trailers tend to include rapid montages and theatrics, which can include direct cutscenes or those fucking forced walking sections. There's also the chance the company is tricking you with "vertical slices" of the game like with Killzone and AvP Colonial Marines. I ignore gameplay trailers and just wait for the "X minutes of GAME" videos instead if it is before the release date or watch gameplay videos of the game by other people if the game is already out. Also I don't let myself get hyped for anything, cautiously optimistic at best.

And of course I always wait at least 1 year or so before getting any remotely modern game because of DLC and season passes bullshit too and pirate the complete version once I can so I can try it out for myself. Gameplay videos, not trailers, are for me to decide if it is worth the bandwidth to pirate or not. I just miss the days when companies actually tried to catch our attentions with creative stuff instead of this mass marketing cancer of shilling, cinematic 2deep4u, GRAPHICS, and focus group bullshit.

>>14584717

Got some print ads.

>>14584743

>>14584762

Sony seemed to pick up the "what the fuck" marketing ball from Sega after the latter stopped making consoles. Still, baffling though they might be, you can't say they weren't attention getting.

>>14584766

>>14584762

>klonoa ad

>making the joke that your game's name sounds like an STD

Did they think that would… resonate with people?

>>14584774

Did Nintendo think saying one of their games stank would resonate with people? I mean, there is such a thing as irony and being tongue in cheek, but there's also overestimating the viewer/reader's ability to see that.

>>14584799

A restaurant that was only in certain states at that, if memory serves. Also, wasn't that a preorder bonus, and not an ad?

>>14584806

Thanks for reminding me.

>>14584808

>>14584848

>previous high scores

holy shit so many faggots would be offended by this nowadays,glorious,even if fake

>>14584808

>that earthbound ad

The scratch-and-sniff stickers included with those were the best. I wish I could smell those again.

>>14584906

I've always liked this commercial.

You're not wrong, but does it really matter?

Do you care how something is marketed towards you? Marketing is all bullshit and deception anyway. The number of shit games that have amazing trailers and the number of great games with no trailers is just as high as the number of good game/good trailer combos. So long as you hear about a release, you should only really care about the (non-journo) reviews, the features, the actual content of the game. The marketing is all bullshit that has NOTHING to do with the game and is often never reflective of actual quality anyway. Boring or exciting, they're just shoveling lies at you.

>>14584916

He had France rejoin NATO which was big news at the time, they were also facing scrunity for their nuclear arms testing and armament policies. That's why the Simpsons had him nuking Springfield at the time.

>>14585024

It does matter historically, the change in advertising shows clearly when games went from being targetted towards a very specific audience to something that was focus tested to be as accessible as possible to the lowest common denominator.

Many great games failed commercially because they had no marketing budget while a very similar game of much poorer quality released around the same time only succeeded because of the marketing behind it.

>>14584717

>>14588249

>>14594167

This may seem like a longshot, but do you know what video game that reaction image comes from? I want to know.

>>14594176

>Atelier

Oh, that's a shame. The Atelier games don't swing right with me. I asked initially because it looked a bit similar to Fortune Summoners, I suppose, and I did enjoy that game. Thanks anyway, anon.

>>14588249

>>14584848

>previous high scores

>Radovan Karadzic

>Srebrenica genocide in July 1995

>CnC released on August 31, 1995

The 90's really were a better time.

>Implying srebrenica happened

>>14594511

Rayman comes from France. Why do you think they call it "Gay Paree" Anon?

>>14580796

List the number of people who have lost their jobs and had their names drug through the mud after offending one fat, rich feminist bigot. Next, list the number of people that have lost their jobs and had their names drug through the mud after offending /v/.

>>14584808

>Did Nintendo think saying one of their games stank would resonate with people?

They were completely right because Earthbound does stink.

>>14596702

> /v/ is composed of a bunch of low functioning autistic NEETs and have no power to change anything

<admits, in so many words, that the posters on /v/ have been the oppressed minority all this time

<the point still flies completely over his head

>>14597051

If you are arguing that it is a matter of "mindset" then you're missing the point of OP, which is, "why is video game marketing completely devoid of originality, talent, and the ability to make anything remotely entertaining?"

The answer was, "because humorless feminist bigots have money and influence in the industry."

You can't, then, get butthurt by that blatant statement of undeniable fact and say, "w-well you guys, who have no power or influence, are exactly as bad though!"

Furthermore:

>/v/ is a hivemind

>>14596777

>smug King Dice

>get lucky sevens

Checked.

>>14597094

I think you would love to believe that any person or group or "entity" could ever be as evil and destructive as the goons and feminists. In fact, that's why the goons come up with this "confederate nazi misogynist white-supremacist." So they can pretend they are fighting some greater evil through their armchair politics. And they need to give this boogeyman a face, so they choose an anonymous image board: one of the few places where people can openly say exactly what they think of the goon's "progressive politics." But it is dishonest or perhaps just plain naive, on your part, to mistake certain undeniable observations as "commonly held beliefs." Fact is that the world outside the goon's rich little bubble will always contradict his deluded perception of it. /v/ is not, nor ever has been, one personality or even an amalgam of like personalities. And this is why /v/ will always be a piss-poor personification of the goon's fascist, sexist, racist boogeyman. Truth is that, when the goon describes this horrendously evil facist bigot, he is describing himself. The goon, even as an adult, is still that same insecure rich kid who likes picking on nerds he knows will not fight back. Only now those nerds are the balding, hormonally handicapped game devs who will bend over and flagellate themselves at even the slightest accusation of "offending women." And the goon will turn to that white-supremacist phantom he invented when he feels the need to justify this bullying. He will look to /v/ and say, "here is where those villains congregate." Meanwhile, /v/ is just a few thousand anonymous people who talk about video games, sometimes. And sometimes, they notice the abhorrent behavior of the goon and comment on what a dick he is. But they rarely see eye to eye. /v/ isn't even a community like other online forums. There is no common general thread where everyone meets to chat about anything and get to know each other. /v/ is a collection of smaller general threads, each with their own isolated groups of about 8 or so people who just meet to discuss a specific game: their specific game that most other anons would say is shit. And, in the few occasions when these different groups mingle in a common cyclical, they clash. There is shitposting galore and it is a testament to the wildly different personalities that come together here. In fact, the one thing that /v/ hardly ever argues about is the fact that the feminist goons are pieces of shit. But, as I said above, that is hardly a "common belief." It's more just an undeniable observation.

>>14597360

I know everyone is deathly afraid of being called reddit, but holy shit format better.

Screw commercials, what the Hell happened to amazing game covers

>>14597458

Because you skimmed it. Which is why I gave you a tl;dr.

>>14580768

I think because it's easier. Just record some footage and blast the most popular song of the month on top of it. Compare that to writing a story/dialog, making a set + costumes, hiring actors and adding in effects after recording and it just takes less work and effort. That said, companies are still managing to spend more and more on advertising by plastering their games on the sides of buses and hiring "influencers" to shill for them

I DON'T FUCKING CARE WHETHER IT'S /v/'S FAULT OR TUMBLR

I JUST WANT IT BACK. THE POWER TO BE IMAGINATIVE, TO HAVE FUN WITH A CONCEPT INSTEAD OF WATERING IT DOWN TO THE MOST INOFFENSIVE MUSH BECAUSE THE DEVS ARE SCARED OF OFFENDING SOMEONE/THEY'RE TOO KIKEISH TO SCARE AWAY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOM

I WANT GAMES MADE IN THE NAME OF PASSION, NOT MONEY OR AGENDA

>>14597789

Just stop playing AAA.

>>14597814

You think I haven't tried? For every Cuphead and Shovel Knight, there's 2 more of scams like MN9 or Unsung Story, or political bullshit like Sunset or Gone Homo. Even worse are when they have devs that can't help but get involved in political bullshit anyway (like Yooka-Laylee canning a guest VA for having the wrong views, not that it proved to be a good game technically in the end either). Indie is fucked too.

>>14597811

It is, but people were clearly capable of it once-upon-a-time. Even in the 2000s, people were capable of better levels of technical polish and imagination without being so politicalized. I don't know how everything went wrong, except that it all started in 2008. Was it the recession? Internet becoming accessible to retards via iPhone? Obongo?

>>14584762

>fear effect

I still can't believe it got turned into kickstarter trash.

>>14598022 (checked)

Dubsman is right again!