Most misleading marketing ever?

PostRe: Most misleading marketing ever? by **Moggy** » Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:53 pm

Qikz wrote:
Tomous wrote:
Qikz wrote:
Godzilla wrote:Which game, TV show, film, product has the most misleading marketing?

Sea Monkeys? X- ray specs? Fallout 76? The new Toblerone in the old packaging?

GRcade decides.....

Recently it's No Man's Sky.

I've heard they fixed it now, but they released a product which was missing half of what was promised in the marketing. It even got taken off steam for a while because of it IIRC.

Then you have Kinect and more specifically the ex Bullfrog guys Milo. It was all made up, they knew at the time it was never possible but tried to market it as a finished product.

Recently? No Man Sky released 7 years ago....

If it makes you feel better, Mark Hamill is now 72.

Tomous wrote:
Qikz wrote:
Godzilla wrote:Which game, TV show, film, product has the most misleading marketing?

Sea Monkeys? X- ray specs? Fallout 76? The new Toblerone in the old packaging?

GRcade decides.....

Recently it's No Man's Sky.

I've heard they fixed it now, but they released a product which was missing half of what was promised in the marketing. It even got taken off steam for a while because of it IIRC.

Then you have Kinect and more specifically the ex Bullfrog guys Milo. It was all made up, they knew at the time it was never possible but tried to market it as a finished product.

Recently? No Man Sky released 7 years ago....

And they still haven't finished patching it!

Jenuall wrote:

That's only misleading marketing if you consider videogame journalism to be paid for advertisements...oh yeah, fair enough.

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Seems legit.

Jenuall wrote:

This is just strawberry floating ridiculous. Fair play if you enjoyed the game, if it was your personal favourite game of the year, it's not like its a bad game or anything. But how in the world did so many places rate it so highly?!

Victor Mildew wrote:
Jenuall wrote:

This is just strawberry floating ridiculous. Fair play if you enjoyed the game, if it was your personal favourite game of the year, it's not like its a bad game or anything. But how in the world did so many places rate it so highly?!

Soaring violins and BWWWWAAAAAM noises does that to you.

It's a guaranteed super effective.

I'm now very wary of YouTubers and X-ers who publish videos/tweets about how much free stuff they've received from a publisher... and then go on to speak in glowing terms about a game by that publisher.

Victor Mildew wrote:
Jenuall wrote:

This is just strawberry floating ridiculous. Fair play if you enjoyed the game, if it was your personal favourite game of the year, it's not like its a bad game or anything. But how in the world did so many places rate it so highly?!

There are 56 scores on that thumbnail. I certainly can't name 56 gaming review sites or publications generally and few of the ones I do know about appear to be on that list. For me it's not really worth being bothered about to be honest.

That Starfield image reminds me of this movie poster where they made a two star review look like five:

In fairness, that is genius.

satriales wrote:That Starfield image reminds me of this movie poster where they made a two star review look like five:

To be fair, it's balanced out by Glamour giving it 7/5.

This made me spit my tea out when I heard it on the telly. It didn't deliver...

PostRe: Most misleading marketing ever? by **rinks** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:12 pm

Mommy wrote:This made me spit my tea out when I heard it on the telly. It didn't deliver...

Outstanding. They must have known.

PostRe: Most misleading marketing ever? by **rinks** » Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:14 pm

shy guy 64 wrote:
Vermilion wrote:Does anyone else remember Daikatana?

isn't that a bit like asking if anyone remembers bleeding from the arse?

Bit harsh. Bleeding from the arse can be the result of having had an exceptionally good time.

rinks wrote:
Mommy wrote:This made me spit my tea out when I heard it on the telly. It didn't deliver...

Outstanding. They must have known.

Supervised stunt. Do not attempt.

There's nothing supreme about chicken supreme.

Octoroc wrote:

There's nothing supreme about chicken supreme.

Probably very little chicken about chicken supreme too

So that's what he did with all the old lady bodies.

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