Today's video game TV ads suck. Here are the 6 types of ads that need to go.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
agree with the cut-scenes ones. go away now!
I'm actually rather fond of the second and sixth types, but they need to be done right to work.
Most hated: Motion control trailers...
I never like the Live Action ones...I mean it's trying to sell a game and they show no gameplay or cutscenes to show what the game is actually like.
Take the Skyrim one for example that was aired in the UK (don't know about the rest of the world), it was only long after the game came out they had a better, gameplay advert showing how awesome the game is.
Yeah just screw advertising because things sell without advertising on pure word of mouth...
by definition...Uncharted doesn't need to be in the first category..
and The "artsy" category only being filled up by one video game?..really?..stretch much?..(Gears is a franchise so it's ONE video game)
and it was a great trailer.."artsy" or not..movies do it all the time when there's a fire fight going on..someone being tortured..or a town being swept away in a global catastrophic event and all you hear is classical music..so the fact that a video game has done this...(in apparently an obvious over saturation with just two video games) doesn't quantify it for the list..
the "pretty cut scenes" one isn't really worth mentioning..if you play videos..i dunno..at all?..you'll know what's capable on current consoles and computers..
this isn't the 90's where we didn't know any better and the lack of internet media had us wondering, what might be next?.
motion controls..
what..you want them to sit down?..they're showing you that all you need is the move or kinect..no sitting down using a controller..if you have a better idea of getting that message out..please..impart your wisdom oh creator of original ideas..
and the two last one's haven't even been around long enough to be overused..wtf?
a better idea for an article would've been "Ratings, why they don't matter to you"..or if you wanted to stick to the topic of overuses why not "Where has originality gone in video games?"..
and at the end...really?..you need a trailer to renew your hope for the video game industry?..that's just ridiculous to the point of being insulting.