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First image of Moby Dick Studio's (The Phantom Pain) CEO Joakim Mogren
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Because this sort of troll shit would be "confusing the brand" and never get through EA's legions of PR people.
Lol!I'm surprised a gif hasn't been posted on either of the two threads. Here's a quick one I made:
Love the quality of your GIF what do you use to make them?
akidnamededdy
Banned
I'm probably far from the first to say this, but does it look like "Mogren" could be Keighley himself?
Not fully disclosing the actual game, not feeding people instantaneous information about the game in question, not branding a game in a big franchise with the the creator/director of the series at first.
Why stigmatize this form of promotion?
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Guy looks nothing like Cliff.
MrCunningham
Member
Thanks, so basically this is an announcement for GDC.... I get this feeling that at The Phantom Pain presentation at GDC, some guy with bandages wrapped around his head will show up up stage and unravel the bandages revealing that it is Hideo. He will pull a switcheroo.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Except that everyone knew exactly what this was the second it was revealed. They never fooled anyone. This is viral marketing. Plenty of games have done it before, none of them have needlessly drawn it out this far though. At some point it's "Ok you got us, here's the game"
Thanks, will try... Someday.
I think Mogren is just some GTTV guy
Everyone on internet forums figured it out.
The dude who stumbled upon it during the VGAs or is just browsing through Youtubes hasn't.
It's riskier than you're making it out to be.
Hell, the risk is just in pissing people off about how secretive it is for no reason.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Geoff even mentions the MGS connections. They aren't exactly shying away from it.
So it deserves to be stigmatized because you don't like a drawn out joke?
Just stop following the game then until it's fully announced. Why stay on the train if you're hating the ride?
Ninja Scooter
Member
I can't participate in this discussion unless I think Kojima is a brilliant, misunderstood genius? Don't read my posts if they bother you so much.
No need to get defensive, I'm just questioning why you're watching and participating in this "viral marketing" you loathe so much.
Ninja Scooter
Member
I don't "loathe" it. I think it's stupid. And I think there is some double standard going on here with Geoff's involvement. He can essentially participate in an infomercial for Konami and Kojima and everyone thinks its cool and edgy, but heaven forbid he sit a can of Mountain Dew next to him while he talk about Halo we get a 50 page thread of people losing their shit.
Yeah or some Konami US community manager or something lol, as I said in the other thread his faked accent is the worst.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
Damn, way too late on this.
So a poorly disguised Kojima/MGS game being shown off, with Geoff being in on the joke, is the same thing as blatant product placement by PepsiCo? Why even make that comparison?
So you don't like how people are enjoying this silly promotion, and you also think that's a double standard because they don't like PepsiCo promotion, gotcha.
Ninja Scooter
Member
So this is journalism? A bunch of scripted questions with a guy who either works for Konami or GTTV and offers zero new information? It's the same shit.
I think it's a double standard because people hold Geoff to this high journalistic standard when it comes to companies they hate (MS, EA, Mt. Dew, Doritos).
VeryGooster
Banned
I wish I could hop into a time machine and tell 2001 me that MGS2 is not at all the looniest Kojima can get.
No no, the guy is Norwegian. I don't think Keighley would be able to pull of that accent.
zerodayPopbot
Member
Wow, this so edgy and meta, what a genius kojima is.
Eh, I personally had low standards for him as a journalist, DoritosGate made those standards drop a tad bit lower. He's not even making Phantom Pain out to be a end all be all game, he participated in one silly joke segment and it didn't feel gross or slimy.
The non silly version would be this:
Is that really that much better?
It all just seems to be harmless fun. I don't think Kojima is trying to break the record for "greatest controversy in video game history"
Honey Bunny
Member
naw doesn't have the stoner eyes
Ninja Scooter
Member
The "non-silly" version wouldn't happen. But throw a guy in bandages up there with a dumb "fake game" gimmick and you can give all the non-answers you want.
That doesn't happen regularly with videogame interviews?
Arozay
Member
Ninja Scooter
Member
Of course it does. But most of the time people don't buy into it and think it's great. Who would have known that all PR people had to do was put on some bandages and a fake accent and they could get away with murder. Someone should tell Lucy Bradshaw.
Glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.
Of course people are going to be more attached to something that isn't traditional or by the books.
So you don't like how other people are reacting to this interview/goofy marketing? If Pepsi advertised Mountain Dew at that Halo interview by making porn stars have a real chugging contest with Mountain Dew, and the cans were shook, people would be more receptive and entertained.
Instead they plopped bags of Doritos and Mountain Dew behind Geoff Keighley.
BadAss2961
Member
lol
Man, I am loving all this Kojima mind f*ck. But, my problem with this interview is that Geoff Keighley and "Joakim" feel like they are in different rooms. Usually for an interview like this they would have same background behind both guys, otherwise it is jarring like it is in this interview. Also, the way "Joakim" talks it feels like they are not face to face, Joakim actually has to speak up. And, WHY DID JOAKIM NOT WALKOUT ANGRILY AT THE END? Come on guys if you are going to do this put more effort into it and make it more entertaining.
Oh and didn't someone confirm that it was FOX engine after the VGAs. Again, I want this...all this...just done better
Oh and didn't someone confirm that it was FOX engine after the VGAs. Again, I want this...all this...just done better
ChosenPredator
Banned
okay now that i saw that, it's kind of a waste of time that was like literally nothing except darkman going through my mind
What mindfuck? Everyone and their sisters knows this game is the next Metal Gear, I still find it funny but it's also pretty shameful that he could find a doritos journalist to play along with this shit.
Epicus Failus
Neo Member
This is quite possibly the greatest video game related gif. I would love to hear what Kojima would say about it.
Okay not mindfuck, but you know...crazy metal gear "cheese ball" that can only come from Kojima. Except, so far it has been underwhelming...
jaydogg691
Member
Maybe it's the new guy Kyle Bosman? He has an expressive face.
Ok this image alone was worth the thread awesome
