Subject: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:36 pm
They just seem to completely misrepresent what the games are like sometimes. Like the advert for the first Gears of War game. Yeah I know it's not an FPS but whatever.
This advert was how I first heard about Gears of War. Needless to say, when I actually played it I discovered it was an all-out action shooter bonanza with a bunch of macho dudes with gravel in their throats spouting one liners and chainsawing the heads off of mutant alien things. Rather than the isolated dramatic poignant survival tale the trailer seemed to promise.
I just saw an advert for Halo: Reach, and it's the same kind of thing.
I mean, if the games actually ever delivered moments like this, I'd be pretty tempted to play them.
Superbuu3 Raziel
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:17 pm
Firstly is Gears of war even an FPS?
Have any other FPS games actually had trailers like this, because i don't look at XBOX trailers and thats the first time i seen any trailers that inappropriate for the genre.
A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:29 pm
I saw both of these on TV.
Superbuu3 Raziel
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:41 pm
I don't actually watch tv, been a habit since i started uni.
I would say its probably because these series are just generally misadvertised. Seeing as these are 2 of the 3 games you should get an XBOX for the other being mass effect. They try to widen the fanbase by having an advert that would make people look into them. MS are so sure these games are so great that even if your not necessarily into the genre's if you gave these games a chance you may well be drawn into them. I honestly don't find it suprising. I mean going by how the fanboys go on about these games and how badly they think they need films of them, they really do think they are deep and complex.
A_Nonny_Moose Live Free or Don't
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:56 pm
Well, I am quite impressed with the Halo trailers for being live action. They're certainly aren't afraid of about tossing big money behind the franchise.
Zero The Hero
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:55 am
I remember seeing that Gears of War commercial on T.V when it first came out. It bugged the hell out of me too.
SimianWonder Simian D. Wonder
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:25 pm
Gears of War gets away with it by being great. Yes, it's shamelessly macho but it's a riot of testosterone that you can't help but enjoy. Halo Reach I'm looking forward to as well, because 3 was a bit meh. Halo Wars was more fun, but nobody seemed to like that much.
Superbuu3 Raziel
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:36 pm
I think i should get halo i mean it must be deep:
Kimarous CP9 Agent
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Subject: Re: FPS commercials bug the crap out of me. Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:16 pm
Probably the only game where the song could potentially fit. It's just that... well... the visuals and the soundtrack haven't always been congruous.
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