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Good video sir! one thing ho, Viz is a comic, not a magazine, Viz even had a video game released of it by Probe, who also made the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat 1 and 2
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the infamous Mighty No. 9 advertisement despite showing some footage in the intro. "Anime fan on prom night" is still one of the funniest sentences to me due to how out of touch that marketing team must have been with their target demographic
An important note about the Turok baby name campaign, the idea was credited to a man named Dr. Simeon Cantrell at the Institute of Science in Marketing. Cantrell was not a real person, and when they mentioned a book on the subject he would be releasing called "Market Their Pants Off!," the associated ISBN number was actually attached to a book called "My First Knock Knock Joke Book."
@@shimyku7820 That's what makes it funny. They came up with a badass-sounding japanese name, and everyone is like yeah but it just means a dumb "big sword". (though it's worth noting that in Japanese, "Dai" also means great in the sense of "grand/Important".)
I actually won that Sin to Win contest. Spent most of the event getting pictures, slept maybe 10 hours between three days. I even told this one girl I was Jon St. John to get a pic with her. But I ended up having to turn down the sinful date with two incredibly hot women, in order to play Marvel
The fact that (assumedly most) Christians were totally chill with Dante's Inferno until it came out EA was fabricating controversy with Christians is actually really funny imho. Keep up the great work, big guy!!
I have to wonder what things would be like if the game was successful. I have absolutely no idea what they would do for the paradiso chapters, and I really have to wonder if Dante would've actually fought God.
The craziest Videogame ads were definitely the marketing campaigns made by Acclaim. _Shadow Man 2_ ads on gravestones, paying people to name their babies "Turok," and of course, offering to pay the fines of anyone caught speeding on the realease day of _Burnout 2._ What were they thinking?
The Hitman Absolution ad should have been like this: non-offensive reasons to fake-kill someone, and once you completed the process, the target would get a letter in their mail or Facebook notifications saying that their friend has eliminated them, and then would be shown an ad for Hitman. That would have worked great in my opinion
You forgot the worst ad campaign of them all. Earthbound, a incredible masterpiece of a game, was marketed with 90s gross out humor. The slogan was “Because this game stinks” I AM NOT KIDDING RIGHT NOW. Earthbound is a legendary masterpiece, and the marketing… oh god… it sold 75,000 copies only. NINTENDO SPENT SO MUCH MONEY ON DEVELOPING THAT GAME, IT WAS VERY, VERY POPULAR IN JAPAN, AND… THE MARKETING KILLED THE GAME IN AN INSTANT. Just like That.
the marketing team probably saw that one boss that burped alot, remembered that Ren and Stimpy was popular at the time and decided to sell the game on just that lol
The Hitman add having a drop down menu instead of a text box is so stupid. If you did a text box, IO could wipe its hands if someone sent something genuinely hurtful. You could list as your reason "Hi, I hope this doesn't freak you out to much, I just wanted to see what would happen" or you could reference lighthearted beef you had with your friends "For always beating me in Mario Kart" or "that time he stole my cookie". Why is it always London weird marketing campaigns happen in? This wasn't a bad marketing campaign, but for the release of the Empire Strikes Back, stormtroopers were "released" onto London to take photos with citizens and hand out Empire Day merch- on the actual obscure holiday of Empire Day/Commonwealth Day. Although I feel like anyone who'd be offended by such a blatant comparison between the Galactic Empire and the British Empire would have already been by the accents of the Imperials.
You should also do Activision. To promote one of their call of duty games, they made a fake news outlet about a terrorist attack! It looked so realistic that other news outlets started talking about it. It got so out of hand that when the FBI went to defuse the bomb, they found something stranger, no! Even dumber than a bomb! A new Call of Duty game! The big problem is that the whole bomb threat has NOTHING to do with the plot of that game! There is no bomb threat mission let alone an entire plot revolving around a bomb threat!
Its honestly kind of fascinating how quick the Dante’s Inferno marketing campaign went from cute and creative way to use the game’s themes to promote it, to whatever the fuck was that Sin to Win thing. Like…surely there was a better way to incorporate lust into the campaign than just straight up sex, right?
Lust by definition is more than sex anyway, so it's really not that hard to do. I really do wonder what their ideas for Vanity and especially Despair would have been....
@@somerandomguy6767 have Envy be that you're able to pay to get a poster for the game, but when it's unfurled the poster tells you about how you've given in to your desire to have that which others have. Gluttony could be a pop-up cafe thing, but every food item has a message of how "by giving in to gluttony, you have pushed yourself further" Pride would be a release day thing, where you could brag online about owning the game, but every release day copy would have an insert about how "pride cometh before the fall" or something like that
I mean, I could think of a worse scenario than not having enough body parts returned: Getting more than what you started with. But on a serious note, my Mom worked as a manager of a nursing lab at a college, and anatomically correct fake body parts are actually incredibly expensive, missing a bunch wouldn't be cheap.
This does a good job of reinforcing that ARGs and especially contest-based advertisements are a very tricky, if not outright bad, idea. There's a marked difference between a memorable campaign and a gimmicky one, as some of the later examples here show.
Shoutout goes to COD Black Ops 3 for tweeting a false terrorist attack and playing it up like it was a real thing. It also had pretty much nothing to do with BO3's plot from what I know of. And people wonder why we all hate activision.
EVERY SINGLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL JUST BLEW UP, OH MY GOD THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE!! EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL SHELTER JUST BLEW UP AS WELL!! OH NO!! Just kidding buy my video games please :)
EA lost when they underestimated how sexist a fan of theirs in the early 2000’s could be. That Comic-Con stunt could have instead set up a booth where you could pay $10 to get kicked in the nuts by a woman in softcore porn outfit and would have made $20k
Or just "pay 10 bucks to talk to [insert hired person here] for 5 minutes". Maybe hire a model or something, and when you exit they hand out a flier that says "you have tasted the sin of lust. Dare you delve deeper?"
the moment EA started rolling the Sin list on Dante's inferno, I was nervous for when they would inevitably get to Lust. Greed and Wrath were fine, and you could argue the picketers were meant to be Pride...but jesus fuck I was dreading that they'd go there, and sure enough, Sin to Win
The secondhand embarrassment I got from watching some of these advertisement campaigns unfold still occupies a place in the back of my mind to this day.
As a Christian myself, I’ve always HATED the whole “Christians hate and protest against everything that’s fun!” Cliche! I may love Jesus but I also love Doom and Duke!
Same. Though i see where the stereotype comes from. The obsessive need of some people to be moral busy bodies is everywhere not just with christians, but oh boi do some christians just not have anything else to do but protest as if their ticket to heaven hangs entirely on how outraged they are about what they find morally objectionable
Bethesdaland. A theme park meant to serve as a replacement for an E3 presentation that didn't have the most interesting lineup, let alone attractions. It was also scorching hot, which kind of kills the mood.
Honestly there are so many utter failures in video game marketing from E3 humiliations to old school things like American earthbound ads proudly proclaiming it stunk.
Never heard of the “No Hope Left” campaign but holy hell it actually sounds really interesting. If I’m going to be honest I’d watch an entire video on it if there’s enough content to make into one hint hint wink wink
so a thing about capcom showing of (fake) dead bodies in london to promote resident evil, they aren't the only ones to do that, as in specifically in london. sega also spread severed limbs around the streets of the city (even that's the same as capcom) to promote mad world, only this time the limbs were holding copies of the game and they had people watching the parts both ensuring that nobody stole any of them, but also making sure nobody freaked out to hard, also it wasn't a competition.
Fire emblem's had some *weird* ads before awakening came around and they decided to actually try, but by far and away one of them is easily a contender for "worst game and ever", the American live action ad for Fire Emblem Rekka no Ken (which has no subtitle in the west. Ya know, to be confusing, so we have to call it Fire Emblem 7). Most bad game ads just tell you nothing about the game or vaguely point you in the wrong direction, usually because they're made by non-gamers who are working with at most 2 minutes of provided footage and 2 sentences of summary. But the fire emblem ad is *something else*. Aside from the hammy acting, the most hilarious name mispronouncing they could have possibly chosen, and the hilariously bad costuming, the plot of the ad is that one character Killed their friend and ally Dorcas (or, as they say, Dork-Ass), and then everyone else laughs about it. And it ends with the tagline "Build an army. Trust no one. Fire Emblem." Which. Just. Not only is "trust no one" *literally antithetical* to fire emblem as a series, but more so then any other entry, Fire Emblem 7 is *ABOUT TRUSTING STRANGERS.* Deadass, there are more enemy units you recruit in this game then any other, more times allies come in to help you then any other, more times that the enemies lose BECAUSE they betrayed their allies then any other, hell, Legalt, Nino and Jaffar "betraying" the black fang to save it from the inner corruption of Sonia and Nergal is *literally* a major plot point of the whole game, as is how Zepheal's *mistrust* of the world and his allies lead to him becoming the main villian of FE6. (oh yea, this is a prequel, and also FE6 never came to the west. Translation everybody!) Time and time and time again in THIS GAME SPECIFICALLY is trust reinforced as a good thing. Is betrayal reinforced as horrible and bad. Hell, units becoming better friends is **"literally a game mechanic*** that makes them ***better at fighting***. The ad is so antithetical to the very core concept of the game itself that it's downright hilarious. Like, if it was used for ANY other fire emblem, maybe, MAYBE it could be merely *inappropriate.* Maybe if it was used for any other fire emblem, you could somehow find some minor justification for how the tagline got that mangled. But it's literally the ad for *the most trust based fire emblem story.* Also isn't two considered far worse than absolution?
@Grima the Fell Dragon Basically unlike other sleezy gaming magazines that disguised themselves with hot women with video games on top. Rate your Mate is exactly what it says it is, it was literally just a part of the late original playstation magazines where you could rate images of women from 1 to 10, and these weren't just models or anything in cosplay oh no these were real people shamefully plastering themselves on the magazine.
I'm honestly shocked how Sony didn't get much of a mention. Their advertising was absolutely ABYSMAL during the PS3 and PSP era, and was probably part of the reason the PS3 struggled throughout most of its lifespan.
As someone who grew up on Playstation, I'll always find it funny the only reason that the PS3 even survived was because of the 360's red ring of death. Imagine making such a catastrophic failure that the ONLY reason you didn't rot in the deepest recesses of people's minds was because your direct competitor made an even MORE catastrophic failure.
@@PlayerZeroStart And even then, once the PS3 and the Xbox 360 got a more attractive revision and a revision that actually worked, respectively, the PS3 got more games worth a damn and Microsoft started shifting focus toward the Kinect, thus shifting the odds in Sony's favor.
Reminds me of that time the old show "The 6 Million Dollar Man" filmed an episode in an old theme park. Only then did they discover that one of the wax bodies in the haunted house was actually a real dead body covered in wax.
@@kashsmith6181 "Ugh, lousy stiff. Wait a minute, that's curious. This mannequin's got human flesh and bone inside of it. Wait a minute... uh oh, uh oh, *uh oh"*
I had no idea John Romero didn't make the Big Sword ad. I feel a little bad, but I also find it ironically funny that Romero, the guy known for having an ego was like: "Okay, now don't go too offensive with the ads please. I want this game to sell well." And then the marketing team just kind of slapped him with one of the worst ads they could have made.
@Grima the Fell Dragon No no. I have. This just pushed me over the edge. That's That's. Edit: autocorrects a bitch but I ain't fixin it it's too haha funny
Hey, I just want to say I played No More Heroes for the 1st time on the Switch 2 days ago & found out that your transitions originate from there. So I'm always going to affiliate that game with you.
I found it funny at 0:52 that Sega commercials in Italy needed to change the pronunciation In "Seega" since the world Sega is the euphemism for masturbation
i think it wouldve been good to mention how the last part of the dante's inferno marketing was extremely misogynistic and objectifying, but im assuming that this aspect was just meant to be self-evident. even then, doesnt hurt to mention it
I'm sorry, I'm sure all the stuff you're talking about is super important and really engaging, but at 23:06 is that Satan taking the form of a Nintendo-ass "Head and two big fists" Bongo-Bongo-ass boss while Dante fights him by JUMP-CANCELING CRUCIFIX BEAMS AT HIM? If I didn't know this game sucked, I'd think it kicked ass!
I remember the tombstone thing being panned very broadly, but only the part about putting it on headstones at all. Hearing that they wanted to specifically take advantage of the impoverished and bereaved is just disgustingly corporate-dystopian.
Naming your baby Turok is like naming your baby Dovahkiin. Which is what did happen, because Bethesda was doing a campaign where if a parent gives birth to a child with the Dovahkiin name on 11/11/11 (Skyrim's release date), they would get all of Bethesda's past, present, and future games free. And that is exactly what happened that day when a mother gave birth to a kid and giving the boy the name of Dovahkiin.
Okay, I'm not even done watching the video, but GBA, second best thing to do in the dark? THE FIRST ONE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A BACKLIGHT! YOU'RE NOT SEEING *SHIT* WITHOUT A LAMP 3 INCHES FROM YOUR FACE
Another terrible print add that sticks out in my mind is the only advertisement I know of for The Legend of Legaia on PS1. To those who don't know Legaia is a turn-based JRPG with colorful graphics, interesting characters and a unique battle system... the add made it look like a Silent Hill clone.
The Ea gas situation was similar to how people we’re heading to a grocery store to get free groceries when the store announced mrbeast was gonna pay for others groceries even though he asked them not to
Ok this was wonderful. Thank you kind sir for gathering these together and showing us how unhinged and desperate devs can get.... I can't believe the Shadow Man ones still.... Like gurl u serious? Y'all really should seek some therapy, just saying. Nonehtless I also would like to mentioned that I had to research on the Dante's Inferno Satan fight. Y'know.... For science.... Yeah. So thank you for this long, girthy..... REALLY long and REALLY girthy video.... Very nice video, not very veiny but nice nonetheleless.... I do wonder if the devs... Modeled that after their own dick.... Let's hope not cause that would make things weirder than they already are... But my dumb shenanigans aside. Thank you so much for the wonderful video, you always make me chuckle and laugh and it's always a joy to watch your stuff since you have such an amazing and funny commentary, and thank you also for just being a wonderful guy :). And last but definitely not least, thank you so much for the time and effort you put into every video :D. Oh and can't forget hope you have a wonderful day today and remember to do to yourself what you do for us, bringing such good energy and happiness, after all you also deserve that happiness :D
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