d22e00 No.15750311
Has any non-sports game pulled it off without it looking retarded?
4fcf29 No.15750316
>>15750311
Every good FPS that includes real weapons.
d22e00 No.15750321
>>15750316
Only SWAT 4 was actually product placement.
d22e00 No.15750322
>>15750316
Oh and Homefront, but it was retarded there since the product placement gun was stupidly OP.
246ca4 No.15750346
>>15750311
I'd say it really depends on the game and if it's trying to fit a certain era, and obviously trying to be set within an Earth setting itself (something like Yakuza), in which what dating a brand contributes adds a vibe of authenticity, provided it was actually around then. But doing so for a game that is a break from reality just comes off as obnoxious. Cup Noodle and American Express have no business being in something like a Final Fantasy world.
573c1d No.15750350
Partly Akiba's Trip since it is set in Akihabara and is a pretty faithful recreation of that location. It's a bit much though having the loading screens be ads too, as well as having one of the collectibles be ads.
4fcf29 No.15750378
>>15750322
>>15750321
Nah, if the game includes real guns, it's effectively advertising to players and a subsection of said players will want to buy those guns. I have multiple friends who bought M1s from CMP exclusively because they loved them in WW2 games.
1281be No.15750380
I remember when the billboard ads in Battlefield 2142 was a huge controversy, meanwhile by modern standards this is incredibly tame. Not only were the ads not in key locations, but they're weathered to blend into the background and not be highly noticeable. It's almost like they focused on delivering a better experience than trying to shove ads in your face.
d22e00 No.15750387
>>15750378
>featuring historical item is advertising for antique seller
>a seller that can barely keep anything in stock and goes out of stock virtually as soon as they get anything in
>>15750350
Oh right, I guess those games count. AT3 when?
4fcf29 No.15750392
>>15750387
One of these same friends bought an M9 for the exact same reason. It's product placement, and while it's not retarded shit like cellular company billboards, it's nearly ubiquitous in most "realistic" shooters.
a92769 No.15750397
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>>15750311
Realistic racing sims do it well. Ferrari product placement in racing games for example. If you can afford one
e78efe No.15750399
>>15750397
>non-sports games
a92769 No.15750421
>>15750399
Yeah, and? Gran Turismo and Forza are racing games. Not sports games like Madden or FIFA.
a4430f No.15750428
Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity had some fun product placement. You could fight with Colonel Sanders as an ally and, as seen in this image, had Fanta branded costumes. There's even some Pizza Hut weapons, but I can't find them right now.
d374eb No.15750472
>>15750311
Pikmin 2 did a bretty gud job I'd say.
13dd8f No.15750636
>>15750421
Pretty sure a motorsport game is ruled out by "non-sports games"
585ac2 No.15750710
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Does it count as a product placement of the product is made by the same company that made the game?
0913f3 No.15750713
someone post the cupnoodle15 webm
425f44 No.15750749
Need for speed. You know the one.
dd63b1 No.15750759
>>15750311
Outside of splatfests, the product placements in Splatoon don't look obnoxious or out of place.
246ca4 No.15750761
>>15750713
>>15750710
I do not personally consider cameos or shoutouts of things pertaining to other games that either the developers worked on or fall under the original publisher's banner to be product placement, especially if it's to something that's more or less dead by that point. More often than not it's to poke fun at their own history and extended libraries. Though, if such is in the form of paid DLC (say, Namco putting a KOS-MOS outfit in Tales of Vesperia), that's more likely them trying to make money off of fans that crossover between the two, and rather shitty in comparison.
7153bc No.15750780
>>15750316
It's simultaneously depressing and amusing how many people get into guns because they played call of duty, but hey I'll take what I can get.
f15f9e No.15750786
Patients are reminded not to die in the corridors.
cb7729 No.15750789
>>15750786
>two point hospital has arcade machines you can put into your hospitals
>sonic mania is played on the machines with a big sega logo all over the cab
0913f3 No.15750822
057749 No.15750828
>>15750387
>AT3
Probably never ever after the mess that Akiba's Beat was supposed to be. It's a shame because the setting and concept is gold. At least 2 was OK to play though, so I'm satisfied.
0913f3 No.15750848
>>15750759
Ika masume is still a thing?
976677 No.15750870
nfs ug1's product placement added to the authenticity and atmosphere of the democrat-controlled shithole, mostly because it was relatively subtle for the most part compared to later iterations
ug2 is more obnoxious with a cingular logo on your screen at all times
f8dcf2 No.15750877
>>15750843
Not only did that product placement make sense it was done tactfully without their branding and logo being plastered everywhere. Sure it was present but you had to be on the lookout to notice them.
It might be one of the few good examples of when it worked for the game's sake.
976677 No.15750884
>>15750870
oh, and also nfs carbon/burnout paradise had billboards advertising obama of all things
cdebdb No.15750889
>>15750311
Holy shit is that for real? lmao
b9c033 No.15750891
Mario Kart 8's BMW DLC was by far the dumbest product placement I've seen in a game for a long while…
At least it was optional I guess…
51487d No.15750898
The product placement in Alan Wake was okay, even though it really stood out to me that, aparently, Energizer is the only brand of batteries you can get in Bright Falls, Washington.
I remember some product placement in Splinter Cell 3 as well, I think there were a couple of Nivea products in a bathroom somewhere. It was really subtle though.
ed8a5a No.15750901
It makes sense for Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4 Plus: Summer Memories. Cup Noodles and other instant food companies handout free products all the time when Japan has natural disasters, it's piss easy good PR. Hell when they had that severe earthquake a few months ago some company off loaded an entire shipment of bread onto people stuck in their cars because road closures.
a989e6 No.15750906
>>15750759
This is the only of these cases where advertising someone else's product works. The Iku Mashimaro girl already fits in being a squid girl and not looking out of place. Fans already wanted a cameo before it happened so it's arguably closer to fanservice than advertising. The splatfest use of corporate brands is pure bullshit, though.
>buy game
>pay for online because that's what all the other consoles do, goy
>now fight for your corporate overlords, literally, to bring victory to your favorite brand!
Bonus round: now with a nig squid and a deliberately hideous white squid to make the nig look better in comparison
e01c2c No.15750929
>game about fighting the rich (((glukkons))) and their overwhelming greed for moolah
>has product placement for a fucking coke product
dd63b1 No.15750932
>>15750929
Reminds me how the HD remake of Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey had adverts in it.
91ef6a No.15750935
Division. It kept saying mechanix gloves and I was like that's product placement. I did not know what they were, and it made itself known without being obnoxious. It is tacticool trash and ive never picked them up, though I would be lying if I said it wouldn't be the first product I looked at if I needed such a thing.
cb7729 No.15750936
>>15750870
>emulated the ps2 version of need for speed when need for speed was a 3do game and was ported to the personal computer
junk those screenshots
1293ed No.15750951
>>15750877
It's kinda sad that I actually wanted some Soap shoes but the company went bankrupt due to incompetent management.
976677 No.15750956
>>15750936
i did not take any of these, also the pc ports of hot pursuit 2 to prostreet were trash and missing features from console version, such as missing graphical effects including broken motion blur in underground, shit res scaling and
most noticeably in most wanted, which on the 360 had completely redone shaders/lighting and 1024x1024 textures meanwhile the pc port used just used upscaled ps2 assets and 512x512 textures, if you've played the pc port you know it looks nothing like these images
1293ed No.15750967
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>>15750956
That reminds me of Just Cause: the PC port was based on the og Xbox version, so it looked far worse than the X360 version.
eab651 No.15750973
>>15750843
I honestly didn't understand that soap shoes existed in real life when I played the game.
4d9314 No.15750977
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>>15750929
>old enough to remember When Sobe was the gamer drink thanks to classic newgrounds
43bf8f No.15750999
>>15750891
You mean Mercedes Benz. God, those cars look nothing like one of their products and it just looked goofy and out of place
9c1789 No.15751052
>>15750761
Goddamn this game was such a piece of shit nobody knew what they wanted out of this tragedy of a product
a9421f No.15751114
I think the keys are to make sure it fits the setting of the game, and it fits the tone of the game.
The Final Fantasy 15 Cup Noodle ads feel out of place because it both does not fit the fantasy setting as well as does not fit the tone of the game. FF15 takes itself too seriously to for the ads to not come across as out of place.
I think an example of both the best and the worst product placement in any form of entertainment media is Taco Bell in Demolition Man. On the one hand it was shamelessly in your face, but it also not a serious movie, or at least a movie that did a bad job of being serious, and importantly, the changed the logo of Taco Bell to fit the futuristic setting.
To go back to the FF15 example, >>15750761 if you look hard enough, you can see some differences in the logo in FF15 to the logo of the actual product, the FF15's font is slightly different, but it would have been better to use a font that was more like the fonts of other "products" that exist in the game.
a9421f No.15751115
>>15751114
Scratch that comment about the cup noodle logo being changed, turn out its the normal Japanese logo's font.
f8dcf2 No.15751272
>>15750951
I owned a pair and they weren't that great. Very heavy as there's a removable chunk of thick hard plastic on the bottom and it had extra padding around the ankle which made them too hot.
And they were only available back in the early 2000's when skateboarding/rollerblading/BMXing was considered a crime and cracked down on almost everywhere outside of a few major cities. Young kids today don't know how good they have it, they have skateparks in North Korea now for fucks sake.
6deaf1 No.15751473
>>15750906
Did the Japanese version have corporate shit? I don't think they got the TMNT but they must have gotten the transformers.
6667d9 No.15751512
>>15750710
Well he is not lying. Loom was a great game.
7decff No.15751603
>>15750906
marina is perfect
77499e No.15751607
Crazy Taxi is hard not to mention, and I always think of the ads in the Tony Hawk games, too.
I'm not sure how I think about the Calorie Mates in MGS3, they're definitely out of place but the game has fun with that codec call.
>>15750710
It's hard to judge Monkey Island since the whole game jokes about consumerism and kitschy souvenirs. A product placement for coke or mcdonalds wouldn't be out of place with the game's humor.
69a917 No.15751629
Super Monkey Ball did it just fine, but that's because it somehow managed to not completely contradict the game's tone, even if it was absurdly in-your-face about it.
242a2c No.15751695
Otacon using Apple instead of Linux was absolute bullshit.
a0b3ee No.15751883
>>15750759
ika musume guy said he liked it and drew fan art of the game so a costume is a no-brainer
82bc4f No.15751921
>>15750392
hell if you went back far enough in my life that's probably what ignited my love of 1911s, when I think about it my favorite is a rattlecan old ass a1 though it also got me into history in general."who the fuck are these nazis anyway?"
379a80 No.15751940
Rainbow Six shilled Heckler & Koch products very hard, I consider it product placement. The guy on the front cover is even an H&K employee, and all the mocap was done by H&K "instructors".
1b28e0 No.15751951
>>15751940
>mocap was done by H&K "instructors".
ah, so that was why it remains unsurpassed in awesomeness
t. HK pleb
6f6a2c No.15751970
>>15750932
>Reminds me how the HD remake of Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey had adverts in it.
For games developed by the people who made the remake. How nice of them, to advertise their games like that.
5a452d No.15752003
>>15751970
Here's a smug cherry on top for you, the game that Matt Glanville was advertising is still in development hell
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=133911386
78e91b No.15752017
>>15750932
Except it doesn't fit in at all
d0e8de No.15752104
>>15752017
Neither does the advertisements in the HD remake. Since it is no longer satirical advertisements.
3738a4 No.15752775
>>15750378
>gun that no one fucking produces anymore
>product placement advertising
youre a fucking retard m8
3738a4 No.15752791
>>15750977
nobody has fucking drunken that shit outside of a quiznos
3738a4 No.15752812
>>15750956
most wanted is blurry shit colored shit
d22e00 No.15752935
>>15752775
While it doesn't make him less retarded, the M1 Carbine is still produced by a few companies. Since they weren't sole source contracts all you need to get the full technical specs is a FOIA request (and possibly not even that) and any American company can get it on making them. 1911, M1 Garand and AR15 are the same way.
0a1513 No.15752950
>>15750843
Honestly, I didn't even know they were a product placement until about 3 years ago, and I played that game like a fucking zealot. I don't this is egregious at all. In fact, it blends in pretty well with the Sonic universe and is probably an example of product placement in a game done right.
18fda3 No.15753035
The Mercedes Benz x Mario thing was pretty retarded.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned our lord and saviour Pepsi Man yet
4fcf29 No.15753061
>>15752775
>place real world product in game
>use real name
>have player use product
>people go out and buy said product
>anon is truly shocked and does not understand this
Imagine being this much of a retarded nigger, yikes.
2cc996 No.15753083
The product placement in ssx 3 for 7Up's dnL soda has made it feel like a trip back to the early 2000s.
27632a No.15753084
>>15750380
>>15750884
Huh, I never knew about these. Then again I played on such a shit rig I don't think the textures were anything but a blurry mess to me.
0a1513 No.15753088
>>15753035
Pepsiman at least did it in a charming way instead of going full retard like Fucking Finish this dead series of games already XV. You could at least plausibly laugh at the crazy shit going on in the FMVs and while the gameplay was limited, it was competent and fun for what it was, not to mention it didn't outstay it's welcome and last longer than it has any right to. That's more than I can say for a game that can't even hide the fact that it's a piece of shit shilling Cup Noodles of all things
2cc996 No.15753306
>>15753088
You sound really angry a tossed together shit game like ff15 also had product placement like it hurt its quality. The only good parts of it were the product placement.
d3ca9d No.15753344
>>15750380
>>15753084
The billboards in 2142 also were also not static. So DICE could actually update them and sell it as active advertising space.
Once they killed the game servers, they defaulted to the regular in-universe billboards.
b82d5c No.15753370
>>15750321
>Only SWAT 4 was actually product placement
Every single weapon and attachment in Escape from Tarkov is product placement. I have no fucking idea how these slavs did it while not even EA or Bohemia couldn't. They have photoscanned the weapons/attachments, put the actual company logos on them, their legit names, etc.
32f905 No.15753389
>>15750378
I have a friend who has made it his mission to buy every gun from Counter-Strike that he possibly can. He has a full-sized USP with suppressor, a Benelli M4 (a $1500 shotgun, which is absurdly expensive even if it's semiautomatic), a P-90 with the extended barrel, an FN 5-7 pistol, the Sig Sauer pistol (whichever P-model it is; I forget) a Beretta 92FS, and the R8 revolver. He's asked me at least a few times if I want to go in on an MP5 parts kit with him.
940afa No.15753405
>>15750759
>>15751473
>Did the Japanese version have corporate shit?
50% of all Japanese Splatfests are sponsored, in both the first and second game.
Sponsoredfests range from 7Eleven microwave meals, to winter coats, to Nike shoes. The Nike shoes even got added to Splatoon 2 as reskins of existing shoes.
The in-game Nikes are actually pretty nice, and an improvement over the pre-existing shoes they reskinned.
763dd3 No.15753436
>>15752812
most wanted is the only race game I've ever really cared for. Making nail-scratching hour-long pursuits to get the bounty milestones and a campaign that made me give a fuck. Might be brown, but it's not shit.
dd63b1 No.15753893
>>15753405
The Nike splatfest has to be the most retarded and pointless one so far.
Basically: do you like these crappy shoes or these crappy shoes. Really compelling stuff.
3738a4 No.15754043
>>15753061
>product developed by government request and only produced under government contract and only available to the public through surplus sales
>commercial product
imagine not knowing
3020e6 No.15754080
>>15751603
Marina is a nigger.
7decff No.15754086
>>15752303
>>15754080
that's the best part
940afa No.15754093
>>15753893
The first two Splatfests I posted are worse, in my opinion.
In case it isn't obvious, they had the exact same Splatfest twice in the first game.
3020e6 No.15754097
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3f281a No.15754118
>>15750898
I don't know if you've actually finished the game, but all those advertisements are there for a reason, alan is a sellout.
4fcf29 No.15754258
>>15754043
>op asks if any non-sports game has pulled off product placement without looking retarded
>post example of most effective product placement in the history of vidya
>cuckchan rapefugee shits pants and wants to fight on the internet about it
Heh.
3020e6 No.15754273
Pic related was well received in the early to mid 90s. I knew a handful of kids who owned the game and enjoyed it.
044273 No.15754339
>>15750311
Yakuza pulls it off well
763dd3 No.15754416
>>15754273
I had it in my DOS IBM a a kid. Never beat it. Don't remember anything other than the first beach level.
d22e00 No.15754735
>>15754435
Honestly the pic I posted wasn't too absurd, handing out food during a disaster. The other preview shot of the product placement… not so much.
Then again the series is full of crazy costumes to find and the player is given the option to do plenty of stupid actions (pic 2 and embed related) .
48ac99 No.15754749
>>15754735
that's hilarious. I love it. Western devs sneak it in, Japs throw it in your face for a laugh. Pure entertainment, just like video games are, because they aren't art.
763dd3 No.15754914
>>15754749
Art can be fun, anon.
6c86bd No.15756197
>>15750761
Was just about to pirate this, never mind.
6c86bd No.15756202
>>15750884
That's hideous, why do companies think shoving their politics down everyone's throat is going to win them anything other than ire?
711c35 No.15756540
As long as your game's set in the real world, it's not really a problem. Why wouldn't there be a Pizza Hut in this modern city?
902f48 No.15756697
If I were to one day make a game that was like RCT except about mechandising/running a grocery store, would it be inappropriate to actively look for brands that would want to be featured in said game? Or would I just be better off to stick to Bepsi and Cock-Cola?
556576 No.15756750
>>15756655
nips tolerate product plasement since the 70s, mangas always had placement of products.
d94569 No.15756957
>>15756655
I came here post about Calorie Mate, but anon already covered it.
I didn't even know Calorie Mate was a real thing until like 6 years after playing MGS3.
702b71 No.15757125
I mean it a game is Trying to recreate a realistic location I see no problem.
a335ce No.15757200
>>15756957
Is CM any good?
d7f4b0 No.15757261
>>15757200
Not him but it tastes like sand
509ca4 No.15757339
>>15751940
>’’’H’’’eckel my she’’’K’’’el advertising their tacticool guns on vidya
Atleast they knew their target audience
Not like anyone’s going to seriously consider buying them, advertising guns through games is fucking retarded when you think about it. But nothing can come close as weird as Jimmy Neutron shilling some car with the animation budget the size of a whole season being put into a 2 minute commercial
659f8f No.15757514
>>15757200
>>15757261
The regular flavour is like sandy butterscotch, the chocolate one is not bad either. The rest of flavours are very forgettable.
940afa No.15758946
>>15756697
I think it would be nicer to have Bepsi and Goga-gola because you'd be able to have fictional competing brands. The in-game companies might offer you discounts or bonuses for selling their product instead of the other, or some background economic factor results in one becoming temporarily more popular than the other, and the player can take advantage of these things to improve sales or change which products they sell in a somewhat realistic and interesting fashion.
Using real products, you wouldn't be able to do this. You couldn't have Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the same game, as they're real-world competitors who would be competing for the adspace of your game, and not fictionally competing in some fakey-fake grocery store as mere window-dressing.
31583d No.15758972
Dunno if you'd call a video game website a product but Silent Hill 3 had these costumes. Probably to get better reviews.
166f42 No.15759355
FPS games, and some modern strategy games.
902f48 No.15759357
>>15758946
Fair enough. Thanks for your input anon.
Release date never ever
c6093a No.15759417
>>15750380
Tbh that's actually a cool and sensible way to do it because what the fuck else would a billboard be for
92f733 No.15759458
>>15756202
no Obama's campaign paid for the ads, i remember this because it was the first in history.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95720334?storyId=95720334
3738a4 No.15759897
>>15757200
>>15756957
>>15757261
>>15757514
Calorie mate is fucking shit, Clif bars are 6 gorillion times better
246ca4 No.15760020
>>15758972
Reminds me of how SMT IV had stuff like cardboard armor if one preordered from amazon.
>>15756197
>Having even considered wasting memory on the game prior to seeing the noodle wagon.
Why?
6dac5f No.15760127
>>15750710
I need to replay the secret of monkey island
43bf8f No.15760208
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>>15753088
>>15753035
>Pepsiman
>Pepsiman at least did it in a charming way instead of going full retard like Fucking Finish this dead series of games already XV. You could at least plausibly laugh at the crazy shit going on in the FMVs and while the gameplay was limited, it was competent and fun for what it was, not to mention it didn't outstay it's welcome and last longer than it has any right to.
Holy shit, I agree. Whoever made the game, decided to have fun in making it and it shows, since the game was never suppose to be serious in the first place.
As for Pepsiman, remember: Fighting Vipers did it first. And he was actually a great character to play as.
>>15753306
>The only good parts of it were the product placement.
That might explain a lot, since the detail on the product placement items, especially the Coleman camping items, were always really detailed. It's like they focused all their efforts on the product placement and nothing else.
>>15750380
God, I remember this. Everyone (including me) fucking overreacted at the time, because they thought it would lead to more invasive types of advertising, like pop-ups, or ads all over the mechs. Also, EA fucked up with advertising on Fight Night Round 3, like unskippable Dodge video advertisement. Even if you already seen it and accidentally pushed the wrong button while trying to equip the Dodge boxing gear, you have to watch the whole fucking video again. That had an effect too.
6ab293 No.15763246
>>15750311
Is there any game where can destroy/damage the product placement ads? Eg: blow up a billboard ad in a FPS with a rocket a launcher.
cb7729 No.15763267
>>15760208
>announces pepsiman with pepsiman making a big gaping face whenever you win
epic
e72aeb No.15770919
First time noticing it in all my time playing this game. Who knew Linux would persists into the far future?
164ba0 No.15771124
>>15750380
Driver 3 also had nokia billboards everywhere and Tomb Raider angel of darkness some kind of stopwatch.
78e91b No.15771168
>>15753035
Bepsi man is great
78e91b No.15771174
>>15770919
Ironically it still doesn't have a Linux port.
65ab9c No.15771180
>>15770919
>Who knew Linux would persists into the far future?
Broken technology reigns in a cyperpunk dystopia.
119f0e No.15771183
>>15770919
It's the only way you can stick it to the Man.
6c86bd No.15771758
>>15760020
Hopeless optimism I suppose I gave up after 10, ho hum.
9d84d6 No.15771821
>>15751114
>Taco Bell in Demolition Man
They dubbed over the UK release with "Pizza Hut". It's shoddily done.
6c86bd No.15771849
>>15759458
So instead of being fool ideologues they're grasping shills. TheyI still need the same amount of gas.
27caa4 No.15771967
>>15757200
they're actually not bad. I've had a couple
>cheese
actually a lot better than you might think. Kinda sweet, smells strongly like fake cheese but the taste is really mild and good.
>fruit
Probably my favorite. Has little bits of dried fruits in it. Kinda sweet but not really too sweet.
>maple
probably my least favorite, but it's not bad. tastes like maple
>chocolate
easily one of the best flavors. The bars are even colored lightly brown unlike the other 3 i mentioned which are more like beige.
>>15759897
a pack of 4 CM bars has 400 calories while it looks like a single clif bar only has ~200 or so. I guess 2 clif bars would be 500 ish calories and take up about the same space as a CM package. I've had a clif bar or two and I never really liked them that much. They're like chewy granola bars. Calorie Mates are like shortbread cookies, which is easier to eat especially if you're feeling kinda hungry anyway. But they do make you want to drink soem water or something with them.
Of course, unless you live in nipland it's probably 100 times easier to find clif bars than calorie mates.
6500e0 No.15774797
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>>15751114
>FF15 takes itself too seriously
No it doesn't. Honestly I think people are graphing at straws to hate FF15. The cup of noodle shit was funny. As an aside Nissin Top Ramen is better. The only real big issue with the game is the god-awful easy combat system (or lack thereof).
>>15756655
Metal Gear did great product placement but Cool spot wins the thread imho.
6500e0 No.15774798