The Mafia Boss ads get me every time. Starting as a Level 1 crook then immediately take down a level 30 mob boss, take his money and his girl and the mob boss just starts crying. Truly groundbreaking material here.
My favorite ads are those ones where a woman playing the game finds out you have a high level in the game and reacts like they want you to just go down on them immediately, then a jealous dude nearby asks, “how did you do it?” Then the guy just gives a full on guide on how to play the game.
Mobile ads are so ridiculously versatile. One day it's just gameplay, another day it's softcore hentai, other days it's just an entire 8 episode season of randomness and chaos.
Cop: “You are being arrested for stealing” Person: “I have a level 5 Brutus” Cop: “I apologise, I didn’t know. You will be set free without consequence”
I was part of "The actual game" dev group, where a guy got so pissed that the ads of mobile games were so misleading, that he made the game they were advertising but not offering. It was wild, what spite can do to people.
And I need to clarify, I wasn't a developer, I was part of the development group, a community where we all pitched ideas for the games, beta tested it, and sent the actual developer screenshots of the misleading ads to add those levels to his game. I realized how I worded that was poorly.
@@alissacheck4194 i remember hearing about that game a number of weeks ago cool that someone decided to make 1 especially after memes (and the ads themselves) around mafia city, lilys garden, and raid shadow legends reached the levels of popularity that they did. side note originally thought u were saying you were a developer for that game that was made in spite by another developer of one of the many mobile games with AI marketing teams but obviously not lol still cool that you helped with it though
I don't understand I've played this game and the ad has nothing to do with the game. The game is actually pretty fun and addictive although every one that I played with was 30 to 50 years old
@@codebreaker2814 Do you like anime? If you play mobile games, and like anime waifus, Azur Lane is the one mobile game I legitimately recommend to anyone. Not just as a good mobile game, but to me it's genuinely a good game in general.
@@alyzeaaa yeah, that's pretty accurate. But this doesn't highlight the ones that just steal footage from PC games, where you can see the mouse cursor.
They’re designed to make you go ‘that’s so wrong, I can do better’ hoping you’ll download the game to try and prove it, the worst part is is that it works - I almost fall for it every time
As someone with a crippling Hill Climb Racing 2 addiction, I can confidently say the death grunts in the Evony ads are the best piece of media to ever be recorded in advertising history.
3:16 - "it's always just so profoundly stupid that I can't help but think about it." well then the marketing clearly worked (to some degree). it's like jack sparrow being the worst pirate i've ever heard of. "ah but you have heard of me!"
The people who made Evony: The King’s Return need to be held for crimes against humanity. Seeing their ads drives me one step closer to insanity every time.
Have you seen the new evony ad where it's some dude with horribly dubbed audio talking about how he finally found the game with those stupid simple golden pin puzzles with lava and treasure and water and some monster and/or a damsel in distress? It's some truly splendid bull poop
I believe that Lilly's Garden is one of the worst offenders of this tactic. Its like watching a 5-30 second soap opera, with the game just thrown in for extra entertainment.
Gotta respect Lilly’s Garden for the little dramas turning into it’s own side series. Then you have Matchington Manor or Homescapes showing gameplay they were obligated to add in after getting hit with laws that end up only being little cutaways after every.. idk 10-20 levels of matching levels?
honestly lilys garden at least has some effort put into it. the ads charlie is talking about make absolutely no sense and look like they were made with animation equipment from 2005
I know, I have such a problem with the adds, becose I actually already had the game downloaded, and for the most part injoyed it, but those adds just fucking bug me so much that it makes me just want to delete the game
The ads for the game where they degrade each other for not having enough “power” is my favorite if you have the least power your girlfriend will be gone you will pay for everyone’s dinner and you will be the first fired from the job site
Spoken like a true low power peasant. My life is AWESOME because I chose the Mongolian race to get raiding bonus plus I fast tracked my empire by rerolling for Juggernaut perk V3. Basically, I'm swimming in so much booty, it's criminal.
The ads shown here, although misleading, but they're just harmless and goofy. I wish Charlie or someone would talk about this one game (or maybe multiple but I've only seen one) that keeps making ads about sexually harassing women! It's just a freaking puzzle game and one ad of theirs even has a cliffhanger of a almost r*pe situation. It truly gets my blood boiling. I try to report the game every time one of their ads pop up to me, and luckily their ads stopped appearing to me. But I just can't forget them and I don't understand what kind of sexual predators was the game trying to cater to.
It's so awful, not to mention extremely suggestive ads that are clearly targeting children. Imagine if these ads aired on nickelodeon or something lol.
It's wild how these ads are so disconnected from what the actual game's gameplay even entails. I understand that these games are nowhere mainstream enough to warrant a discussion around them, but the amount of ads for games where the ads are just not even connected to the gameplay is becoming a little too much now. Hopefully a discussion does start around them to an extent where they investigate it and rule it to be false advertising because that's what it is
My hypothesis is that all these ads are tailored to make you angry at it, where you witness a bad decision takenby the narrator just so you will "go and show them how it works". Or they hope you will want to see what happens. You find out the game is nothing like the ad, but at least you're already there, you just might play it...
I saw an ad once for Girls X Battle and it was basically this anime guy at a bar drinking with some anime girls. He was a “noob” so when the girls weren’t looking he put something in their drink. It then skipped to a scene of him bringing the drugged girls to a bedroom. He levelled up to “pro” and winked (or maybe he laughed idr) then closed the door. Moral of the story is unless u drug and rape women ur a noob. I don’t know how they get away with these disgusting ads. I can’t imagine being a rape victim and coming across an ad like that. It’s sickening.
Let's not forget those ads for games like Push Tower where you have to attack enemies that have a lower number than you. Halfway through the ad, the "player" makes a wrong move and loses, so he tries again and then makes another obvious wrong move. I mean, how hard is it to compare numbers and simply choose an enemy with a lower number than yourself? Along similar lines are ads for games like Homescapes, where the ad shows some crazy situation with (usually three) things you have to fix, along with a small selection of tools that you can work with (one for each repair). The selection of tools is so obvious that even someone who's never used a tool in their life would know which tools are supposed to be used for which job, and yet the ad depicts the player making epically bad selections such as trying to fix a car with a hammer, putting out a fire with gasoline, or repairing an electrical panel with a filled watering can (this is not a joke or even an exaggeration, those are legit examples I've seen in these types of ads).
Joke's on you Charlie, they intentionally made the ads so bizarre that they would get your attention and warrant a video. Now they've got an even bigger audience, checkmate.
I'd be lying if I said some of these ads don't get me invested in the lore of their universe. Like how did this man end up trapped in between a spike trap and lava? I need to know.
Bro I've seen these ads and I to was so alarmed and confused that all I could do was laugh and have no clue what the game was like because I knew it wouldn't be the sweet chaos that the ad makes it out to be
I saw an ad for one of those "choose your own adventure" story games, and it was based in a high school where a girl hid in a locker because she caught her dad and the male principle making out in the hallway. It then gave you the option to basically continuing hiding and watching them exchange saliva, or to out her dad to her mom about being gay and a cheater 💀
Merge Mansion's ads though are on a whole new level- even going so far as having live-action scenes featuring legit actors, and a whole mysterious lore behind it. 😂
Is that the one where the woman inherits a dilapidated mansion, and there's a granny character who gets hauled off by the cops (I assume for killing the previous owner)? And when they do the pressing-their-hands-together-through-the-glass thing, the woman lifts her hand, and _Granny has "HE'S STILL ALIVE" or something written on her palm_ and she gives the woman an encouraging smirk as the car pulls out?
4:35 idk if its advances well no, it is up to audience choice, the idea is it hooks you in because you can make your own choice, the idea is you can make choices
These ads make me genuinely pissed off. I feel like a child who has to deal with adults making faces at me to get me to laugh. It's fucking insufferable
Just think, somewhere out there, someone is getting into their car right now to drive to work and make this trash. They get paid Jack shit and have to follow a script for some terrible ad that is literally copied from 15 different companies
thanks for making me laugh. I have been having really hard year and your videos give me a chuckle when I feel like im about to lose my mind. cheers mate
The game ads I hate the most is the merge mansion ones bc they keep trying to sell you this whole subplot of Granny being suspicious and hiding things and meanwhile there’s none of that in the actual game
I’ve been getting ads from a game called “Evertale”, that depict a Pokémon-esque creepypasta ARG, and what makes me so angry is that the ads look fantastic like it was something I actually wanted to exist, but “big surprise” it’s just another generic anime waifu rpg, I mean I could literally see it on the icon for the game placed on the ad, like c’mon nobody’s being fooled here. I just don’t understand how they can make those ads and not think “wait… why don’t we just actually MAKE this, instead of our actual shitty unoriginal game?” Then there’s those constant RoK ads where they advertise ONLY the Vikings faction and NOTHING ELSE. Every time an ad comes up I’m just like “Oh boy what’s the news on how great the Vikings are today?”
the ADs are actually social experiments. YES REALLY. they make fake game ads then they record data for how much attention they get. the ADs that get maximum attention from specific people (gambling addicts) are developed into real games. they literally make ads first then they make the game for the ads
They’re always either so low-quality you’d think they came from r/dankmemes, or so incredibly sexually explicit that it’s hard to believe they’re legal
A state of survival add played right before Charlie started talking about “State of survival” I just straight up thought it was part of the video and didn’t skip it, only when it ended I realized it was an ad.
Other mobile game advertisement formats: -actors claiming to be devs bowing and apologizing for some reason -stupid simple puzzle game that is failed to bait dumb people thinking "I can solve that" -some overly enthusiastic social media influencer acting like they are playing a game that is clearly fake/scripted gameplay while commenting about what they see happening
Don't forget promo codes with repeating number XXX777 XXX888 As if they own by the same people just with different publisher or they all hiring the same sh!tty advertising company.
@@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN im assuming they saw that commercial of a japanese company apologizing by bowing when they raised the price of their product (i think it was ice cream?)
That second example is every ad for 'Puzzles & Survival.' It's so blatantly obvious how that ad's trying to manipulate people, because nobody's _that_ stupid! I've been suckered into downloading and installing a few pure Evony clones (yes, State of Survival, Chief Almighty, King of Avalon and War and Peace, I'm looking at all of you), but I'll give yet another Evony rip-off a chance before I even _think_ about installing Puzzles & Survival for the first time.
I've always wondered how these ads aren't called out for false advertising they show you "gameplay" but you go onto the game and it's completely different from the ad just another clone of a game that's been around forever.
Every time I watch a state of survival ad, I flashback to a few years ago when I purchased something for my brother in that game and then someone running the game stole my debit card and bought a bunch of weird shit for 300 dollars.
I saw an ad with actual actors that was a woman sitting on a couch on her phone, then a man comes up behind her with a knife like he's going to stab her and is entranced by the game she's playing. the whole first scene happens in a second or two but they just gloss right over that shit like it never happened.
All it accomplished was me going "wtf did I just see?!" And thinking about murder man for the entirety of the ad. Couldn't tell you what the ad was for.
Also there is adverts where they don’t play the game properly to make you play it. Like clickbait but for games. And, they sometimes don’t even advertise there own game. Like literally. You can watch an advert where an alien is invading earth, then you download the actual game and it’s like a candy crush ripoff.
I remember about 10-12 years ago mobile game ads were actually honest and showed the gameplay, not only that but some of the games being advertised were actually decent
The worse version of these are the ones with actual people, they either push in line and just make the excuse they have a 5star character and they’re always saying something but it’s voiced over by someone else so it’s like watching an English dub of an English show
Eventually in a couple years, we will be all telling our grandchildren about the cinematic masterpiece of Mobile Game ads and how they affected us on how we see society.
We will all be saying we have a Level 5 Panzer 4. And that there's no way their puny Level 1 T34 could beat you in Clash of Tanks. And the world will be peaceful because foreign leaders will settle disputes in Raid Shadow Legends.
imagine your grandson having an existential crisis at the AP history exam after being asked to correlate an excerpt from a mafia city ad to the geopolitical and socioeconomic situation
I love how the red dress the lady on the thumbnail is wearing is actually Ada's dress from the Resident Evil 2 remake, its not even recolored or anything
Yeah and the annoying part is the few times I actually thought about downloading one of the games off the shitty ads it seems apparent from all the reviews that the game doesn't actually work or plays like how it is advertised.
@@HairyJuan then there's the weird running games or jumping games where it's clearly just thrown together in a few seconds. Then you proceed to download it and your phone heats up to 500 degrees. Still don't know what half of those are doing that heats your phone up so much.
@@aethlred7380 If you check the app permissions on most of these mobile games, you'll very quickly see that's it's either using adware to fill your phone with ads, or using your phone to mine crypto.
And who can forget the ads for that "Evony: King's Return" game? You know, the ones where they play a baby-level puzzle badly so you'll get mad and be like "Even I can do this". And it's even worse when they have some Fiverr actor play with their phone in front of the ad and pretend they're actually playing the game. The scripts to these ads reek of using machine translation too.
Oh my god I hate those ads so Fucking much. I’d actually play a game like that too but, of course, that’s not even what the game is about. Surprise surprise.
I actually saw that ad several times in my dress up game(for rewards obviously). I prefer to slow the volume down and count for 30sec while my eyes rest
"Guys, didn't y'all believe all those puzzle ads were fake? And that there's no such game? Well, today I finally found the game. Evony: king's return..."
For me these ads are like train wrecks that you can’t look away from. I got this state of survival ad a while ago and they legit had the joker as the main part of the ad
I commonly ask myself “what tf did i just watch” but this time I don’t even have to ask because there is no good answer for whatever the hell these ads are.
They are literally only made to target younger audiences like 10 and below. My little brother is 7 and plays on my grandpa’s phone all the time and everytime he sees one of these crappy ads he downloads it cause he’s like “ooh bright colors, fun shoots stuff”
Mobile game ads saved me. I used to be a dumb loser with no job. But one day a mobile game ad showed up claiming that if I could reach pink color I would be “Legally A Genius”. So I downloaded the game and after reaching pink color I got a letter in the mail declaring me a Legal Genius. Now I have a well-paying, stable job and am no longer a loser. All thanks to mobile game ads.
Sound like every fucking paypal games that you play,you will win with"REAL MONEY".That was those ads said.And here I thought some casual or tryhards gonna become Elon Musk and Jeff Beso in no time
Speaking of Mobile game ads it still pisses me off that Evertale has been advertising as a horror game for over a year and yet nothing has been done about it. I'm actually amazed nothing has happened with it, even though it feels like a pretty straightforward case of false advertisement.
I just got an ad for evertale before this video. The ads are actually kinda cool but I know the app will be nothing like it. It’s so stupid that at this point I’m wondering if the ad adjacency would make more money actually making the game in the ads
@@MelodyGardenia it's a meh rpg with a gacha mechanic. Its not completely terrible, but it's not great, and it's definitely not a dark psychological horror game. Costing only $1 it's not terrible but it's painfully obvious how much they want you to get addicted and spend ton of money on micro-transactions.
dude if Evertale was actually what it looked like in the ads i'd be such a fan of it. and it would prob get a lot of good recognition, idk why nobody there asked themselves "wait.. but what if we did?"
I'm so glad you mentioned State of Survival, I was just about to mix up a Bleach and Draino cocktail because every video I have watched on RU-vid today has been stuffed with them.
Mobile game ads be like “Save the king from this weirdly deadly scenario he’s found himself in!” And I’m just like “Well he ain’t a good king if he got himself stuck in a frozen tundra, now is he?”
There's one that keeps popping up on YT whenever I have a video on a cartoon or something of a swordsman or something and the most of them are either farting or vore fettishes.
