Advertising in games will only ever be contextual because advertisers don't want to suffer a negative backlash from gamers, one of the chief architects of the growing business has said.
Shenmue: Reclaiming the Path is a fan game using Dreamcast-era visuals, and tells a new story within the Shenmue saga taking place in both Hong Kong and Guilin. Its expected to release on September 16th.
Something about recreating old school graphics in an era of HD high poly photo realism just hits a spot. I'm not nostalgic cause I mostly played GameCube and GB/A, but it's a visual style that gets over looked even by indies.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
CCP Games has unveiled an ambitious roadmap for their sci-fi MMO EVE Online in 2024, headlined by the massive Equinox expansion set to launch on June 11th.
I personally do not have a problem with in game ad-verts as long as they are in the proper context.
In games like GTA or Fallout 3, I have no problem with a character passing a McDonald's or seeing a McDonald's bill board or something like that.
I do not want to hear a character say "man I sure am Hungry, I could go for a McDonald's hamburger right about now" or I don't want the character passing 30 McDonald's in a 2 block radius either.
The problem is once these idiots get started with it (like everything) they tend to go to far because their level of greed increases.
We as gamers won't see a decrease in the price of games but they as developers will see an increase in profits.
Case in point was the Obama ad.
There should be no "intentional" political or religious messages in games.
There should also be no "Echo friendly" type messages either.
Not that I'm against saving the whales or recycling plastic bottles or "going green" (anything like that) I just don't want it pushed in my face.
Everyone has their own personal opinion on that stuff and it has no place in gaming.
Bottom line, I play video game to escape from reality for a while, I don't need nor want it shoved in my face while doing so.
A message to the devs and advertisers.
I can tell you this, if something is shoved in my face too much I will react in such a way that I will NEVER EVER buy your product.
I'm guessing I'm not the only one either so that is something you may want to think about before getting too stupid with it. ;)
I also don't ANY type of advertising on my game disk.
I will be pi$$ed if I have to watch a commercial before I can load my game.
It's bad enough that I pay more that $10.00 to see a movie and have to sit through car or soda commercials before it starts.
Sorry for the long rant.