EvaUnit02 on 15/10/2008 at 06:36
It's an EA game, there's nothing new here. Battlefield FUTURE WARS already had in-game online adverts.
heretic on 15/10/2008 at 06:39
I don't like this at all.
I don't mind clever allusions to real world examples such as the satire found in the GTA games..as a matter of fact a lot of those were great.
This blatant sort of shit adds nothing to a game though, it just serves to crack the 4th wall.
Ko0K on 15/10/2008 at 06:48
What difference does it make whether it's a political ad or that for Gatorade? Seeing how you guys have issues with it, apparently it's not achieving the intended effect, in which case it might as well be ignored.
june gloom on 15/10/2008 at 06:59
What makes an ad for Gatorade on TV different from a political ad on TV? The point is that advertisements for a product is nothing new, albeit insidious. But consider this: we gamers may be a contentious lot with a wide range of views, especially on politics, but we can all agree that we like games. (Even Koki likes something.) But when you bring politics into the medium... the results can be disastrous. Look what happened to Blacksite.
I don't know. I just think trying to politicize what's largely been a neutral ground for decades is wrong on so many levels.
Koki on 15/10/2008 at 07:01
Fuck you nigger.
I live on the other side of the fucking world and I don't watch TV and the only radio I listen to plays fucking classical music and I don't think it even has any news and I still know everything about your retarded fucking campaign and your retarded fucking country. So fuck your shit you worthless cunt STAY AWAY FROM MY HOBBY
Ko0K on 15/10/2008 at 07:07
I don't know. It just seems all that amounts to someone being annoyed by his own tendency to be distracted. Maybe I simply can't personally relate to you guys. I've seen a ton of ads in different games, yet I can't remember any specific one, except I think I saw one for Michelin tires in one of the racing games, which, while it did embed itself in my memory, didn't bother me at all.
(edit) I guess what I am trying to say is that you wouldn't let something like that bother you unless you had a preexisting adverse opinion toward the advertised product.
Tonamel on 15/10/2008 at 07:18
I was more annoyed at the trailers for Grandma's Boy than this.
Rogue Keeper on 15/10/2008 at 07:18
Hm, controversial decision but I see some positive in this. This is Obama's message he's a modern guy who acknowledges gaming as a legitimate hobby and educative potential of computer games.
On the opposite side we have bigoted grumpy, mostly Republican senators and attorneys who are preoccupied with pointing fingers at sex content in mainstream games, but they don't look like serious critics of oversexualization of society and bad influences on the younglings, they look precisely like bigoted grumpy old men.
Also as long as they stick to sport and racing games I am safe. Just don't touch my otherwordly RPGs, adventures ans simulators. Then I'll be pissed.
Ko0K on 15/10/2008 at 07:27
I think I have a mental block or something, because I don't understand how an ad can be politicizing. If I were to see Palin/McCain ad in, say, The Sims or something, I would definitely notice it, but that would be about it. Trying to understand this thought process is equivalent to me trying to understand somebody who gets mad at seeing other people drive around with bumper stickers in support of their candidate of choice.
