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Doing an RPG in a fantasy country with magic and seeing a real ad for deodorant... not so good.
12:51 PM
And it's probably why it hasn't happened yet.
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Silently creeping out from the shadows, Sam Fischer sneaks up behind an armed guard and breaks with unsuspecting victims neck in a single quick motion.
As the dead body slumps down, a single lamp post can be seen off to the right; illuminating a lone poster reminding kids to drink their chocolate ovaltine.
11:51 AM
Anything will be a step up from this.
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@fernandosolano: @Friedhamster:
Yep. It's from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Fucking phenomenal game, worlds worst in-game advertising. Well, except for maybe ^^this^^
**It's an Obama ad in Burnout Paradise, in case you couldn't tell...
12:01 PM
As long as ads are where they would be in real life I don't have a problem with it at all.
12:04 PM
#speakup
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I agree with that, within reason. Why I hated the Burnout ad (see above) isn't because of who they put on it, but rather that a political ad exists in a video game at all.
Video games and flame wars. The two go hand-in-hand. Nothing but Xbots and Gaystation fanboys clamoring to be the loudest voice on teh internetz. Not the Wii. Most of Nintendo's demographic doesn't know how to operate a computer (Ba-dum, psh!). Anyways, one cannot navigate the comments of a video game site without being bombarded with trolls, flamers, or just asshats in general. I find that the video games themselves are the one place where I can enjoy the hobby and escape the douchiness (online play excluded, of course). But then you have politically slanted ads in video games now too; the only other topic to draw out more flamers than video games. Seriously, EA? I know you guys are all about tha benjamins, but why can't you just say no sometimes and avoid perpetuating the hate?
If I gave EA 10 million dollars to put my Gay Nazis for Christ club flyer on a billboard in Burnout, do you think they would have to think about it?
12:11 PM
It was only around for a few months prior and leading up to the '08 election.
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Call of Duty: World at War 2, now featuring the most realistic locations ever! Raid underground meetings of the Gay Nazis for Christ movement in attempts to thwart Hitler's dreaded Rainbow Regime.
Dude, I'd buy it :)
12:46 PM
It's on a BILLBOARD in a RACING GAME. You know where else you see political ads? On BILLBOARDS in REAL LIFE. It is in a context that makes sense. Stop bitching.
I don't even pay attention to billboards in racing games. I'm a little too busy paying attention to the track so I don't crash and explode.
01:01 PM
Who shat in your corn flakes this morning? And what world do you live in where people don't bitch about product placement in movies or TV? Ever seen a Michael Bay movie? Than I'm sure you yourself complained about the Chevy commercial in Transformers, or the numerous name-drops in The Island.
It doesn't bother me in the sense that someone flaming my post bothers me. It bothers me in the sense of someone talking politics while I'm doing my best to not give a crap about politics.
...See what I did there?
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Because he was alive during the Renaissance. There's no way he could be alive now.
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It's not often that the numbers work out so perfectly like that! Cherish this moment of order in a crazy and unpredictable market.
Oh. And buy this game Kotakuites. It's absolutely awesome.
08:50 AM
Anyways, last night I just deciphered the last glyph, and now know the 'truth'. All I have is 2 viewpoints left, and the battle in Roma, and Ill be finished the game. I dont think Ill look for the feathers.
Point is this, Ubisoft did a lot of good things. Now they just have to tighten it up for AC3. There were a lot of problems in this game, most of them subtle things, which need to be fixed for next iteration.
Especially the beards. Sweet Jesus they did a bad job putting beards on characters.
Oh well, its still a 4/5 in my book.
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I played the first 20 minutes in my lunch break on release day. Most of the comments from my fellow coworkers were dissecting the various features of Lucy's face.
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#speakup
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But just this once, Ubisoft. Lucy better get a make-over for next game, else Wayne Brady's gonna have to choke a bitch.
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These are minor points against though, and on the whole the game is a great success.
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They almost *always* sell better.
There is a natural progression in sales that trends up, especially for any game that gained any sort of cult following.
There's been lots of talk the past week about the Dead Space sequel in the works, and people asking why, since it sold short of 2 million.
The answer is: the people that did play it liked it. It was rented by a LOT of people, who also liked it, and it has great word of mouth.
So you'll see a growth in sales as the series goes on. AC is working the same way. New IP sells a couple million, sequel sells 4-5 million, third installment sells 7 million... next thing you know, over 5 or 6 years they've wrung 15 million sales out of the franchise.
People forget that Call of Duty started off with 1.5 million sales. Then 1.5 million, then another lackluster 1.4... Then 13 million... and now 17 million potentially?
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