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Shikamo on 02 November 2017

in my opinion is a good commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR134hXaldY



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Nautilus on 02 November 2017

Hmmm so thats the full video?The part from the sizzle reel ad was from this?So it makes me hopeful that the same will happen with XC 2!



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Nuvendil on 02 November 2017
Nautilus said:
Hmmm so thats the full video?The part from the sizzle reel ad was from this?So it makes me hopeful that the same will happen with XC 2!

Yeah this seems to be part of an ad series.



Flilix on 02 November 2017

All of the Switch ads look so good. I keep getting impressed by how much better they got at this.



Slimebeast on 03 November 2017
Bristow9091 said:
Maybe it's just me, but I always find adverts like this to be very... cringey. I'd rather them just show a bunch of gameplay without that real world stuff going on. But hey, I'm not in advertising, so maybe this is what sells, lol.

Regardless of the advert though, I'll still be getting Skyrim on the Switch so I can play on the train... well, I won't be getting it, my girlfriend has it preordered, so I'll just "borrow" it, lol :P

You are right. The real world stuff is making it cringey. It's hard to relate to, with all these smiling people casually doing their thing, I just get a strong subconscious feeling of "that's not me".

I am sure the majority of gamers feel this too. And that's why most companies don't use real life footage in their commercials and as a great example, Sony turned strongly away from that compared with their 90's style of advertizing. But apparently it works for Nintendo.

The milking of Skyrim is cringey too btw. I really dislike what Bethesda has become in recent years. Reminds so much of Ubisoft and EA in how they prioritize the short-term Dollar stream instead of being in touch with their userbase. But it can backfire, like it did so strongly for Microsoft.



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Nuvendil on 03 November 2017
Slimebeast said:
Bristow9091 said:
Maybe it's just me, but I always find adverts like this to be very... cringey. I'd rather them just show a bunch of gameplay without that real world stuff going on. But hey, I'm not in advertising, so maybe this is what sells, lol.

Regardless of the advert though, I'll still be getting Skyrim on the Switch so I can play on the train... well, I won't be getting it, my girlfriend has it preordered, so I'll just "borrow" it, lol :P

You are right. The real world stuff is making it cringey. It's hard to relate to, with all these smiling people casually doing their thing, I just get a strong subconscious feeling of "that's not me".

I am sure the majority of gamers feel this too. And that's why most companies don't use real life footage in their commercials and as a great example, Sony turned strongly away from that compared with their 90's style of advertizing. But apparently it works for Nintendo.

The milking of Skyrim is cringey too btw. I really dislike what Bethesda has become in recent years. Reminds so much of Ubisoft and EA in how they prioritize the short-term Dollar stream instead of being in touch with their userbase. But it can backfire, like it did so strongly for Microsoft.

Sony still uses a lot of live action stuff in their ads.  As does Microsoft.  As does EA.

And comparing Bethesda to EA because they remastered one game - their most popular game - is, to be blunt, silly.  They put out Doom last year, Fallout 4 the year before that, have Wolfenstein 2 coming out this year, and have other franchises running like Evil Within and Dishonored.  And they are the only western publisher I know of that is putting up the money for 16GB game cards and not just going with 8GB or lower and leaving players to download 15 to 20+GB just to play the basic core content.  Honestly, this is the very definition of hyperbole.



Slimebeast on 03 November 2017
Nuvendil said:
Slimebeast said:

You are right. The real world stuff is making it cringey. It's hard to relate to, with all these smiling people casually doing their thing, I just get a strong subconscious feeling of "that's not me".

I am sure the majority of gamers feel this too. And that's why most companies don't use real life footage in their commercials and as a great example, Sony turned strongly away from that compared with their 90's style of advertizing. But apparently it works for Nintendo.

The milking of Skyrim is cringey too btw. I really dislike what Bethesda has become in recent years. Reminds so much of Ubisoft and EA in how they prioritize the short-term Dollar stream instead of being in touch with their userbase. But it can backfire, like it did so strongly for Microsoft.

Sony still uses a lot of live action stuff in their ads.  As does Microsoft.  As does EA.

And comparing Bethesda to EA because they remastered one game - their most popular game - is, to be blunt, silly.  They put out Doom last year, Fallout 4 the year before that, have Wolfenstein 2 coming out this year, and have other franchises running like Evil Within and Dishonored.  And they are the only western publisher I know of that is putting up the money for 16GB game cards and not just going with 8GB or lower and leaving players to download 15 to 20+GB just to play the basic core content.  Honestly, this is the very definition of hyperbole.

But my Bethesda criticism is about a lot more than just remastering Skryim. They have made a theme park MMO, an Elder Scrolls card game, launched a pathetic system for paid mods on Fallout 4 and Skyrim, they hide the original Skyrim in Steam store, and they have loot crates in ESO.

EDIT: and they dumbed down the Elder Scrolls and Fallout.



Ganoncrotch on 03 November 2017
spurgeonryan said:
I wonder how well this game can truly do? If it sells a million copies the floodgates will open for third parties.

I'm in two minds about this and doom... on the one hand I really love that level of third party support on the Switch and then on the other hand I'm not really sure I want to be a part of opening the floodgates to the idea of 7 year old games coming to it for €60

 

There has to be a balance between support and not getting fleeced for that support.



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