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SHOTS FIRED: Activision launches red turtle shells at Nintendo with Blur commerical
- Thread starter Skiesofwonder
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blame space
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:lol never change, gaming industry.
SirPenguin
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They should have made a blue shell joke - that would have really gotten them going
OldJadedGamer
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Jin34 said:
The Sonic and All Stars Kart racer was a lot of fun actually. Even at a discounted price.
avatar299 said:
It was actually.
Ajemsuhgao
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Jin34 said:
Blur is the one that's actually good.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
:lol Activision's ad department sat around their big table and all thought What can we possibly to do piss off the Go Nintendo guy?
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Forkball said:
Doubt it.
The first place position never receives blue shells
Cosmonaut X
Member
JSnake said:
Heh, about what I've come to expect of him. GN is a pretty decent news aggregator for Nintendo news, but that's about it.
BTW - "Rawmeat Cowboy"? Wowza at that name choice...
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Ajemsuhgao said:
Please leave my thread.
You can't play kiddy gaemz because your friends will laugh at you and that makes you feel insecure?
With Blur, you can bullshit yourself and your friends playing a kid's game with an adult skin!
With Blur, you can bullshit yourself and your friends playing a kid's game with an adult skin!
don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to blur, but this kind of advertising is just like what you see with cosmetics, aiming for insecure stupid people who can't deal with themselves.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Skiesofwonder said:
So they are doing snaking and even if they throw them many blue shells nobody will stop them?
Ajemsuhgao
Member
Skiesofwonder said:
Eh, I can't really say that considering I've only played demos of them both. But, to me Split/Second ended up being like Pure. Looks really good, sounded interesting enough. But when I finally play it, it's extremely simple(gameplay), and just another racing game. :\
Chao said:
I'm not really seeing it like that. I'm taking this as more of a we're similar but more "grown up" type thing.
flamesofchaos
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hatchx said:
By that time we will probably see 3 - 6 Blur sequels/spinoffs.
JSnake said:
I wonder who is the bigger tool, the gn guy or the wiifolder guy.
ShinHayase
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jibblypop said:...and yet Mario Kart is the series that has been getting guys laid for almost 20 years now!
Winner of the thread!
Hours Left
Member
The "kiddie" racing game that the commercial shows looks infinitely more interesting than the game that they are actually trying to advertise.Feathers said:
The whole "REAL MEN PLAY REALISTIC RACING SIMS" vibe the ad tries to ram down your throat reeks of misplaced bitterness and is just douchey.
Face it Tiger..
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pretty awesome, activison hit it on the head.
"ninty is teh kiddy"
"ninty is teh kiddy"
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Yeah, don't get me wrong - I love companies going after each other (Sony Move ad), but it's hard to support this when it's like "This is stupid because it's kiddy. Buy our game because its bad ass and has explosions." But I'm probably not who they are trying to appeal to in this commercial.Gunloc said:
GrotesqueBeauty
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22.55 million copies sold
Seems to me the joke's on Activision.
Seems to me the joke's on Activision.
maybe they'd be be better off launching their red shells at the competitor right next to them on the track rather than at the guy two laps ahead.
cool ad, i do like the juvenile old school style competition trashing, even if the 'lol kiddy' thing is dumb. first kevin butler, now this; it's good stuff
That was pretty terrible.
It's the kind of ad that would've worked like 10 years ago if the game was aimed at 12 year olds. I thought "teh kiddy" had died out of it's own stupidity, and replaced by "teh hardcore", another level of stupidity, different but stupid nonetheless.
I guess the industry still has a loooong way to go, what a shame. Unless it was meant to be satire, but even satire has it's limits.
It's the kind of ad that would've worked like 10 years ago if the game was aimed at 12 year olds. I thought "teh kiddy" had died out of it's own stupidity, and replaced by "teh hardcore", another level of stupidity, different but stupid nonetheless.
I guess the industry still has a loooong way to go, what a shame. Unless it was meant to be satire, but even satire has it's limits.