Jimquisition: In the Hall of the Mountain Dew
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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ABOUT JIMQUISITION
A show in which a fat British man who wears sunglasses indoors rants angrily about the injustices of mankind, interspersed with MS Paint doodles of videogame characters doing terrible things.
PlayStation Move Heros had a level where there was a Subway restaurant. You can actually go inside it and look at the menu, The textures used on them were the most HD Textures in the entire game.
When I'm not slaughtering aliens or committing horrific war crimes, I like to sit back with a nice swig of water.
'Water: 97% natural ingredients, 3% turkey semen.'
AValveFanboy
So, 100% natural ingredients then?
I'm sold!
AValveFanboy You know, I bet hardcore gamer kids would be healthier if CoD and Halo had bonus codes on stuff like bottled water and bags of baby carrots.
AValveFanboy You know, I bet hardcore gamer kids would be healthier if CoD and Halo had bonus codes on stuff like bottled water and bags of baby carrots.
MegamanXfan21xx Nah. They'd buy it, use the code and toss the food.
Can't hurt to try!^^
3 years later, Mountain Dew and Doritos becomes an omnipresent meme in the world of gaming. I think "any publicity is good publicity" applies here, with PepsiCo laughing all the way to the bank.
I actually like the crisp, bold taste of a refreshing Mountain Dew.
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oh so THIS is where the doritos and mountain dew thing started
Still can't remember the last time I had mountain dew. It doesn't have that satisfying, cool, sweet flavor of Diet Pepsi. (This comment sponsored by Pepsi)
Weird marketing tactic there, since Mountain Dew is owned by PepsiCo lol
Bartosz Skorupa
+ChitterChatterD
Ever taken the Pepsi challenge?
The one where you have to drink Pepsi and Coke and figure out which one's which?
I'm great at that. I have a trick:
The Pepsi is the one that doesn't taste as good.
I imagine the only significant result of this promotion was a massive spike in Halo players applying for shelf-stocking positions at 7-11 so they could get first scan as soon as the delivery arrived...
I just love how Jim says mountain dew
Can't believe it's been two years. Feels like I watched this video for the first time yesterday.
"Lust for more, not hunger for the basics." well put.
This seems like such a lovely position for the industry to be in right now.
The birth of a meme, encapsulated.
Made a liquid snake reference, instant agreement with whatever you say in this video. Yay LIQUIIIIIIIID!!!
Jim, How did you know what hedgehog piss tasted like back in 2012? Sonic Boom didn't come out yet!
I was going to remark that Sonic Colors had already come out, but really, who needs to ignite that kind of flamohshititstoolate.
Remember that Doritos were invented when some guy grabbed a bunch of unsold chips out of a trash bin at Disneyland and said "Hey you can fry these a second time and sell them!"
(double chips -> dos fritos -> doritos)
Shukterhouse Jive no fucking way..
Fucking, bravo. I've got so much time for Jim, he's one of the most clued in and thoughtful games journos out there.
I searched the title of this video expecting that somebody had actually made a mountain dew parody of In the Hall of the Mountain King.
I'm disappointed, mistitling this video is like declaring a second Christmas just so you can cancel it.
6:20 - 6:35 Wait... that was a real ad!?
as a fan of uncharted, i feel fucking dirty after seeing that. it's fucking disgusting.
Exactly what I thought when I saw it
Yeah that was really hard to watch! What were they thinking!
***** I don't think I want to. For the good my health and my childhood.
***** Same for the Batman movie in '89. Alfred asks Bats on his Batmobile carphone to swing by the grocery store because they're all out of Diet Coke. Alfred opens the fridge and there's a single can left, to which he pops open and sips with a flourish.
"Just for the taste of iiiiiiit, Diet Coke! Ahhhh!"
Don't lie Jim. You drank the rest of that Dewlicious Soda Drink! Mmm-mm
And was only blind for 36 hours
This video just made me want a mountain dew. Not american mountain dew though, UK mountain dew, which is completely different, equally shit and about 2000 miles closer to my keyboard.
Another great video from Jim!
"At some point games have to make money..." except that, if your product is no good, then, no, at no point does the game HAVE to make money... You want it to, you need it to, but no, you're not entitled to make money until you make a good game...
The hall of mountain dew. The hall of the mountain king. Yeah I see what you did there Jim. Very clever.
Wait; did 4:20 really include "[Xbox Live offers] the best value in the industry"?
BULLSHIT.
Nintendo offers the "best value in the industry" by the token that their equivalent to PS+ and XBL, Miiverse, is _absolutely free_ and unobtrusive once signed in (and once in, people never have to sign in again, as each 3DS and each Wii U account has their own Miiverse account). Additionally, Miiverse never _wants_ the player to stop what they're doing and look at what it offers, which is mostly just a chat system.
So Nintendoes what Sony and Microsoft don't. Once again.
Oh you are now uploading the latest episodes awesome!
If anyones wondering what the soundtrack is in this and several episodes, its "Jesters of the Moon" from final fantasy 9, the theme song of the two token comedic villains Zorn and Thorn. Perhaps its the token comedic aspect of the characters and their theme as to why Jim uses it when talking about ridiculous concepts.
Its the franchise wars, someone quickly unfreeze the demolition man!
i love this guy
me too
I remember when some people were giving out Mountain Dew and I couldn't even see a single bottle that some one had drunk more than half on the floor
To quote the Heavy "Not big surprise"
Fuck Xbox lets just switch to PCs like I have, it is actually not that expensive.
No PC gamers are snobs I won't assocate myself with them.Go Playstation like the rest of the civilized world.
***** Nice to see you tar all of us PC gamers with the same brush, And least we forget the bullshit that Sony has pulled in the past, from the users personal information leaks to all the way back when they bullied the legit company 'Bleem!' with lawsuit after lawsuit that despite losing every single time, bankrupted the small company into oblivion. 'Playstation' and 'Civilized World' are not really in the same area code. think carefully before suiting up as the white knight when the company your defending is just as shady as the one you are openly condemning.
In short, fuck brand loyalty and only look out for yourself.
ArmouredLemming Don't bother, there's no point in trying to have civilised conversations with fanboys, you'll only give yourself a headache in trying to process all the bullshit.
ArmouredLemming Go invade Poland PC gamer nazi
And whose the Playstation gamer nazi, dipshit?
Consider aswell that with the addition of voice actors and how long it takes to make the graphic look like it does today, and probably several more things I´m forgetting, means that games is much more expensive to make too.
Nothing but the worst, for our dear little Jim Sterling
Yeah, first it was the taste, then it was the fact that every time you open the bottle this mist crap suddenly forms in the air of the bottle. It's so thick it looks like cigarette smoke.
a store that's open from 7am till 11pm
all this charging us for being able to use a console online for MP is kinda like paying to go into a nightclub, then paying the barmaid to serve you a drink... which you pay extra for because she's wearing a tight top.
so, getting into the nightclub? £20
paying the barmaid to actually serve you? £5
price of the drink? £6
the nightclub is fucking dead and it's basically a sausage party - priceless
I can see Nate chowing down on subway sandwiches...
Mountain Dew doesn’t cause blindness
the escapist logo seems to of got drunk again... Or it could be momentary window lag.
Is it bad that I like Doritos and Dew un-ironically?
Why would it be bad? People like what they like.
There is nothing wrong if you enjoy different snacks.
I fuckin' love Doritos. I don't like Dew, but then again I don't like anything carbonated except store-brand grape soda. See, snack foods are called snack foods for one simple reason: they taste good. It's like masturbation, in that we wouldn't do it if they didn't stimulate nerves in ways that feel good
Jim looking at the industry money grabbing desperation changed to the avarice of today, what do you think looking back at this video?
I had never seen those Uncharted Subway adverts before. I've never had enough interest in the series to actually pick it up but now I have absolutely no desire to ever play one.
They don't need it, they just want it.
I agree that is is ridiculous to hope for such a thing. companies would never do it, i was just saying that maybe, sometime somewhere, a company (probably an indie one) could do this.
Mountain Dew is awesome. I already drink it all the time. Or at least during about 1/4 of my meals.
Sometimes they make the best value games.
Mountain dew of all things.
They should've advertised with coca-cola if anything.
Matthew Barker Shut it you mug.
Chex Quest was dope though
I have a friend who got gastric tumor's through drinking 3/4litres Coca-Cola daily .Had to have a bigish piece of stomach cut out .
How do you reference Doritosgate without mentioning Lauren Wainwright or Rob Florence? It was the Florence piece in Eurogamer that busted this wide open.
We got it free in our Uni accommodation, 800 people simultaneously spit liquid from their mouths
yeah April 2010 its been about 2 years didn't think it was that long. i don't mind Mountain Dew either i buy it from time to time...
Cortana is set to advertise Bodyform.
Jim you are my fucking hero.
This is a problem with capitalism in general.
"The company" needs to maximize profits (and apologists claim that's fine even if they're dicks about it).
"The company" can't afford liabilities, even if it means putting hundreds of people out of jobs (while the smug assholes at the top claim "the kids these days" are lazy).
"The company" is never satisfied even when it's literally making 10x more than every single one of its employees and shareholders combined could hope to use in their entire lives - thus painting the question, "what's the point?"
I have no love for communism either, but honestly, these past few years I've been starting to loathe capitalism.
And this isn't pure capitalism, it's just being a prick about it.
I didn't know Naughty Dog jumped on the sellout bandwagon too. Makes me lose a bit of respect for them. :-/
Azariachan I know what you mean.
Azariachan I never saw that ad until now either. And here I thought companies like Naughty Dog and Rockstar could do no wrong. My guess is that they saw what Tomb Raider did with Lucasade and thought "Oh, it can't be that bad! Let's add Subway to Uncharted 3 to up the sales a bit!"
+Azariachan I lost respect for them a long time ago, when they stopped making unique and entertaining games with a unique art direction and unique gameplay mechanics, and instead now make glorified interactive movies instead.
The One True Moe
I kinda like their interactive movies because the writing and acting is pretty good. The gameplay is average at best and there's not much replay value, but it's fun while it lasts.
They're just slowly getting worse and worse with these ads, pre-order bullshit and DLCs up the roof. It's a shame really.
There were some rumors that they might bring Jak & Daxter back, though, so let's hope it's true.
Azariachan
Maybe they'll bring jak & daxter back, and that would be quite amazing, cos jak and daxter is a fun game and there isnt nearly enough 3D platformers these days, but honestly I wouldn't hold my breath.
Also I'm sorry, but the fact that the game has no replay value just reinforces my point.
I mean compare this to crash bandicoot a game series that I enjoyed and continue to enjoy to this day, cos it was fun, exciting colourful, has hilarious and memorable characters, fun little challenges, unique and varied worlds and gameplay mechanics, and an overall has so much fun and wacky energy put into it.
It's a game that keeps people coming back to it cos it was just that damn good.
Knowing that they made a game like that says to me that this studio has lost they're real creative talent years ago, and its a shame, cos crash bandicoot was the very first game I have ever played. It like so much else in the 90s defined my childhood.
Thanks.
I wonder if this is way Mountain Dew has only in the past year or so been available in the to the UK for the first time????????
I believe I had Mountain dew before 2010. :T That and I've seen it in shops and such.
The problem is if the kickstarter meets its goal and the game developer buys a expensive car instead you get nothing.
Now if they made it where you can get your money back until the game ships I would go for it.
If a company just came out and said they wanted the extra cash I might actually buy some of that extra shit.
But hey, it fucking worked!
There was such a time?
To be fair, I have never tasted Mountain Dew, because I never found it at the markets here in Greece, but from videos and screenshots I see around the internet and according to wikia it's a refreshment that comes on numerous colors!
Unless it's an energy drink I can't imagine it being healthy!(Heck, I don't even think energy drinks are healthy)
i want to see master chief in a giant Doritos bag costume in a game
the flavour is.
MOUNTAYNE DEW
It's a convenience store that I assume is only in Canada.
Along with this another funny bit is the least intruded players of these games are the pirates as they play with no drm and along with that none of the crap it brings...
The pirates being the only people the companies don't screw over, a perfect business model one that screws over the people who don't try to "steal" from them and I use the term steal loosely since piracy is a much greyer area
Fair enough. Thanks.
Here's a thing, I think these promotions could actually be a good thing if used differently.
Think about it, they have a few mountain dew, coca cola, or deritos adds in a game like say... Grand theft auto (billboards, maybe on a tv every once in awhile) and then the charge $30 for the game instead of $60.
I think that is a good compromise.
too true jim, too true
Fun Fact: The cheese in Doritos is very similar to lighter fluid, and burns violently.
this one reminds me of
"Hall of the Mountain Grill" for some reason.
wtf is Hall of the mountain grill? i think it's one of my dad's old moody blues albums.
Out of respect I shall refrain from asking why you know what hedgehog piss tastes like.
I found it funny that Naughty Dog originally did this for uncharted 3, then eventually made the multiplayer component free-to-play, offering skins, hats, and even the single-player content tf2 style if players were feeling it. Don't get me wrong, I love Naughty Dog, but I just thought what they originally did and said for Uncharted 3 was silly, especially with the subway ads.
so THATS where all these fucking memes about doritos and mountain dew came from....
You like all the killing Snake!
I love it.
Did you know that master chiefs MV armor is made from recycled mountain dew cans? : D
there are some problems with kickstarter, such as if a feature doesn't work, you have to include it anyway because you promised it to the fans
On the topic of how it's triple A games that are always begging for more money and claiming poverty I do have say two things that came to mind. A. Unless I'm mistaken, Nintendo, the company that everyone said was dying never once came out and begged us to buy Smash, or Hyrule Warriors, or even Splatoon. Seems odd for the 'money troubled' company huh? And B. You don't see this sort of thing happen anywhere near as much with the indie crowd that are often composed of actual people who are living on bare bones budgets to make things work. Don't know, seemed worth commenting on.
Calvin Campau i know what you mean but Nintendo is more or less designed, coded, etc by people who are known, in the PC community anyway, as "modders"
[note: that's the GOOD kind of modder, not the little shits that sell aimbots for shit like COD or some other such crap... PC modders are the unpaid people who design superb unofficial patches/updates for games because the game devs have stopped supporting it. and, my god, do they do a GREAT job of patching/fixing what the paid assholes should have done in the first place, for nothing!] also, reskinning, recoding the behaviour AI, etc etc etc.
eg? rem Battlefield 1942? there was a 7Gb mod for the 1.6 version of BF1942 and that mod was called 'Forgotten Hope' and it not only made BF1942 about 100 times better a game but made the maps about 10 times bigger, introduced just AIR battle only maps w bombers and interceptors and escorts, introduced battls in the Pacific, Eastern Front, Normandy landings, Normandy hedgerows [ambushing Comets and Shermans with Panzerfausts was so much fun as a german engineer on 128 player maps].
or the guys that got the world's first TRUE 4 player co-op team game [Hidden and Dangerous] to work by spending 18 months recodiong the network bugs so that it was a smooth running, non crashing, teamspeak work of art.
and all done for £0.00.
so, good on ya, Nintendo!! code for the passion of producing a work of art... not for the greedy fucking shareholders that demand the publishers nag the devs to release a pos 12 months ahead of its scheduled release date just to add 4 pts on the dollar for EA or 2K!!
the double xp is nice but I'm just happy to have orange game fuel again. say what you will but my favorite.
The whole doritos and mountain dew sponsorship is especially big with COD, also including whoever else sponsors COD, but it's literally just Activision trying to rake in more money from an already heavily milked series. Think about it. Every new COD game gets ton of preorders, and ends up being the game with the most sales every year due to the fact that Activision keeps publicizing the crap out of it every year, even though it's not necessary to do so. I'm sure the games budget is $10,000 dollars, with only $10 going into the creation of the game because it's copy pasted every year, and the rest going into publicizing. And you'd think with all of the sponsorships and money the devs make, that they would give free content? No, because their hunger for money is never satisfied, so they make overpriced DLC, from only 4 maps for $15, even though it's all the same crap, and overpriced customization. The funny part is, that COD is a AAA game, yet there's many indie games that don't have overpriced DLC, like payday, or, like Jim said, I dies aren't sponsored.
I'll just say one thing :
Doritos Locos Tacos Doritos
I'm not entirely sure.
Fuck, that was good.
Yup. i agree
Whenever I hear about games insisting that costs are necessary for the "Service" they offer, I point to ME3's multi. An online mode that, first off, got WAY more mileage from me than the single player.
Second, it came free with a new copy of the game.
And third, they continued releasing DLC for it at no charge for months after the game came out.
Other companies need to cut the bullshit.
Goatmon other companies? doesn't EA publish mass effect now? unless of course you are talking about bioware, which has a pretty good track record. i like most of their games.
Good one Jim, except that Balls are ALSO bad for business, so they cowardly cut them off too.
This makes me feel so stupid because I got the limited edition, lots of MTN Dew (I do like MTN Dew and decided not to use the dbl xp in order of fairness), Haven dashboard theme, Masterchief avatar armour and the branded controller.
It's more that it's really annoying when they're raking in money like that and still trying to pinch every last penny everywhere else.
Mountain Dew tastes ok
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker had Doritos and Mountain Dew product placement before it was cool.
(And yes I know they made them generic in the US version. And the US version is infinitely better for it.)
Bu- But I love Mountain Dew!
I never knew Halo 4 did this. I just played the game.
Also, I tried Mountain Dew once, and it was alright...
The problem is that small companies can't really afford to do ads, put DLC, or online passes. That's why they tend ot make the best games, they have the least amount of bullshit in them.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks MTN dew tastes HORRIBLE.
Agreed jim the games industry is taking the piss and yet they never seem to give anything back
I feel thirsty...
Always hate it when they try to play the "poor widdle me" card to excuse obvious greed.
Now, what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth?
Mountain Dew or Crab Juice.
Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I'll take a crab juice.
lmao hedgehog piss tho