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Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:53 pm
by Moggy
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:55 pm
by Knoyleo
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!
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:02 am
by Jenuall
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:08 am
by Moggy
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:21 am
by Tomous
Jenuall wrote:
That's only misleading marketing if you consider videogame journalism to be paid for advertisements...oh yeah, fair enough.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:14 am
by Green Gecko
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Seems legit.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:42 am
by Victor Mildew
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?!
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:46 am
by Green Gecko
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:49 am
by jawa_
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:54 am
by Cuttooth
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:56 am
by satriales
That Starfield image reminds me of this movie poster where they made a two star review look like five:
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 12:02 pm
by speedboatchase
In fairness, that is genius.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 12:07 pm
by Moggy
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:49 pm
by Mommy Christmas
This made me spit my tea out when I heard it on the telly. It didn't deliver...
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:12 pm
by rinks
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:14 pm
by rinks
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:26 am
by Green Gecko
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.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:52 pm
by Octoroc
There's nothing supreme about chicken supreme.
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:17 pm
by Tomous
Octoroc wrote:There's nothing supreme about chicken supreme.
Probably very little chicken about chicken supreme too
Re: Most misleading marketing ever?
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:22 pm
by Victor Mildew
So that's what he did with all the old lady bodies.