10 Video Games Betrayed By Terrible Marketing
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- Brutal Legend deserved SO much better.
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Brutal Legend is criminally underrated
Agreed. Sic game, sic soundtrack and I liked the RTS sections.
It was a good game with an EPIC soundtrack but had control issues the story required a freaking MAP, honestly it's the last great performance by Lemmy r.i.p.
on god it is
It was great id love a sequel
Hell yeah!!!
brutal Legend.... one of my all time favorites, I loved the RTS part, the whole world looked amezing, the sound track....
It's nice seeing Brutal Legend get some love.
That Mighty No.9 tagline is an A+ youtube comment. Marketing... not so much
Brutal Legend DEFINITELY deserved Better! And a Damn Sequel
waiting on one till this day
I think its mostly bc of the whole rts later that kills brutal legend...found it such a great game until the last half and begin to not care ...
@@jakobwild5886 Yeah, I love the Game but by the last few missions it was more RTS focused which kinda sucks the fun of the early hours of the campaign.
If the day ever comes that a Brutal Legend sequel happens I hope it’d be more like God of War gameplay.
@@jakobwild5886I honestly enjoyed the whole RTS aspect and thought it was an interesting and fun mix of genres, but I understand that it’s not for everybody, and the game doesn’t tell you what it’s gonna be about before.
For no mans sky you forgot that he also promised online multiplayer
It gets worse. IIRC, he said it was online but never technically said it was multiplayer per se. So first he denied saying you could play with people on that technicality, as if "online" was going to mean anything else to people.
Then he turned around and claimed "It's hypothetically possible but super unlikely because the universe is too big to find each other."
Then people proved it false in-game by being in the exact same spot without seeing each other or their ships, and data miners swiftly proved the entire thing bullshit by proving there was no netcode implemented whatsoever (in other words, multiple misdirections deep).
He went almost entirely silent about the issue until the big updates started, pretending like nothing happened.
I respect that they were in a tough position with Sony's pressuring, and that they ultimately made good on their promises and much more. I do. NMS is a genuinely excellent game now. But I'll never believe another word from Murray's mouth. He's just 2020's Peter Molyneux.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 well said
I don't think OOT needed any marketing at all other than "coming soon" and maybe showing Link swinging his sword. After the massive impact of Mario 64 and Goldeneye, we all scrambled to get it as soon as we could. And even had watch parties where we'd take turns playing.
TLOU2 gets a pass bc it was obviously done to prevent spoilers which a lot of movies even do.
Brutal Legend was such a fun game. The RTS surprised me since, as everyone who had seen, it wasn't included in advertising. The areas were full of secrets and content to explore with many sound tracks to cycle through, the VA was great. and the story was interesting with lovable characters. It definitely is an underrated gem that I still recommend checking out if you haven't already.
For Halo 5, it was more than just its marketing, Frank O'Connor called it a "return to Halo's routes," but we got the Halo equivalent of Power Rangers instead. And as for Mighty No. 9's "cry like an anime fan on prom night?" That was a combination of bad marketing and overambition on Inafune's part.
When i was 13 i loved the marketing of dead space 2 i would even go as far as to say it sparked my love for survival horror as someone who hasnt played silent hill (yet). I remember sitting in our dark living room at my dads house freaking out dealing with the eye machine and the ubermorph lol
AND THAT marketing cost $60 million to produce and $60 million to Failed Commercially
i got bait and switched with brutal legend, getting early access to the demo that cuts off before any of the rts stuff begins.
thankfully i enjoy those kinds of games and i loved it, but man they really didn't want anyone to know what it was.
Seeing brilliant games get ruined by terrible advertising will always feel criminal.
Brütal Legend also made the mistake of launching in the same window and CoD, which would never do well for sales
I loved the “your mom hates dead space” campaign.
No kids from the 90's was confused by gross out humour. Everything was covered in slime and proudly declared how bad or grossly sick it was. The trouble with Earthbound was that it looked like a little kids game and not the real world Final Fantasy it was.
Mighty No. 9 not being number 9 seems criminal
I love Brutal Legend..
Wish they would do a remaster or at least a port to modern consoles :(
1:52 - Never saw the marketing for Dead Space 2. But as a fan of the first game, I was already gonna buy the game at release.
But EA did us PC gamers dirty. The Severed DLC was never made available on PC. If they ever decide to remake DS2, they need to rectify this grievous error.
So real question, for both games and movies, where is the line between "good" deceptive marketing, like the trailers for the Averages Infinity War movie trailer (I can't think of a good example in gaming at this time) and "bad" deceptive marketing like the games here?
I’m so glad tlou2 didn’t spoil the game in the pre release trailer.
Please bring us a Brütal Legend 2!
Ocarina of Time’s marketing was bad sure, but that game became very popular. Earthbound too. Rule of Rose deserves to be on this list in place of both Ocarina of Time and Earthbound, because it was all thanks to the Italian Press that Rule of Rose became controversial.
Seeing list after list talk about it, I feel like I might be misremembering Brutal Legends. I remember it having RTS segments, but I don’t remember it being as massive a part of the game as these lists seem to indicate.
Well, you had to do them in order to advance the story. It's fair to assume that a number of people, who wanted to play an open world game, might never have finished because of the RTS battles.
But yes, I only recall it being like three or four throughout the story and 90% open world, exploring, and so on.
...unless of course you went to multiplayer. That was 100% RTS.
@@jjosz9565 that’s just how I remember it too. And it wasn’t that bad. I would set up my troops then charge in myself to join the fight. It was particularly satisfying to summon the Led Zepplin.
Please, if you’re reading this and haven’t tried Brütal Legend… do so! It doesn’t matter if you like heavy metal or not. Obviously, be aware of the hybrid genres, but I swear it’s an amazing, fun, funny game with a great story.
… and be sure to make me know how it goes ;)
I dont know if anyone played z-force for ps1 but Yakuza reminds me of a way more perfected version of that game
I wish Brutal Legend was just the action game it was at the start
definitely would have been better as a action game with the same open world
Love your work! Small criticism, I think Jess was wearing jewelry or something? I swear I keep hearing clinking being picked up in the audio. Maybe it's my ears playing tricks on me lol
Backbreaker should be on this list
I loved brutal legend for its humor and stellar soundtrack… but the sudden switch in gameplay to strategy totally threw off the feel of the game… still… worth replaying… not a lot of value after you beat the campaign tho… the few side missions are fun tho
I think Jess is confused about what 'marketing' actually is. Because most of those things weren't "betrayed" by their marketing. Some of those games were certified hits, and the marketing got them in the minds of buyers. Stop thinking about all of history in the mindset that everyone was a tissue paper soft crybabies like they are now.
TLoU2 had the plot leaked. It was their only way to reclaim their agency. They were completely justified. POS games trolled them, and they trolled them right back
Yeah. BL looked great as a hack and slash. But twice I’ve tried to get into it and twice I’ve just stopped playing because it’s just not the game I’ve wanted to play.
storytelling was good
Hey Jess!
I'm definitely a fan of whatnot :p
Ocarin-A not ocarin-ER 🤦🏻♂️
To be honest, when I found out Joel would not be in the game at all beyond the intro, I lost interest in playing TLOU 2 🤷♀️ So I understand why they would want to keep that under wraps. But faking footage is a bit much 😑
Good list 🎮👏
🤣🤣🤣🤣 its all about dones density 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No man’s skies biggest flaw came from the fact that hello games didn’t have a marketing team.
And the guy who is the head of the company is a big introvert that then had to go on interview after interview.
He really didn’t know how he was supposed to mark the game considering before no man sky, the only games their company had made was Joe danger and Joe 2.
I thought the your mom hates dead space 2 was funny
People are so easily offended by the weirdness of the marketing. I think it's rather funny than offensive.
A lot of people now days are easily offended. 😆
Cyberpunk 2077 should be on this list as well.
I dont listen to marketing or reviews. I play the game and then judge
If you have the money that’s great but sometimes you gotta listen to a review to get a better feel for if you’ll like a game or not
@@jazzifizzleno16 I get ya. Especially if you're paying full price for a game.
For some games, you may actually want to pay attention to the reviews. But even then, some companies have performed very scummy moves after their games' review period ends; one notable example is adding microtransactions after promising the consumers that such a feature would not exist.
nice
What are you talking about, TLOU never got a part 2...
Denying reality doesn't make reality disappear
As a huge anime fan. I actually find it extremely funny And I don't think that it is insensitive.I think that people who found it to be offensive are too sensitive. And let's be real , this is the exact type of joke that would be in rick and morty and would be praised and adores by the same ones offended in this instance
If you're offended by any of this, you should be embarrassed.
What are you talking about? Literally no one said anything about being offended anywhere in the video or comments. Did you comment on the wrong video?
@@OversoulGaming Jess literally mentioned people being offended by several of these, specifically gamergurlz and anime creeps. Listen better, you dope.
Why are games like GTA called sandbox games and not the city building games? Lol