Video Game Marketing Tactics that you would and/or do fall for every time?
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Its considered a really goofy MOBA game meant to try to get into the e-sport scene, rather than a honest Dawn of War/40k experience.
Guess you could say I fall for well-done preview/tech/launch trailers. Also the fact that CDPR is basically including a bunch of stuff on gog that other devs/pubs would charge an extra $20 or so for helped convince me to give Cyberpunk: 2077 a preorder. Considering it’s also the only game from them I’ve done so with, and that I’ve paid less than a full priced game for their last three special editions combined, makes it more justifiable for a dev that has a history of strong customer appreciation.
Well, anything FROM puts out I'll reliably get if its on PC based off of experience. Aside from that, most of my purchases go to games that I've seen LP'd and look fun so realistically if you could pay a couple goons and maybe Markiplier/Muyskerm/Minion to play it and make it look fun I would probably consider it.
This as well, plus beautiful visuals. My purchase of Dark Souls and my introduction to FROM was actually prompted by the lead in cutscene to the O/S fight and the musical score that went along the gameplay.
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I never implied they did get a pass; all I said was that I got sick and tired of GTA style games. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Then maybe you just don't play many mobas since its not really that close to them. Plus the single player is totally divorced from the multi maps.
I am a graphics whore of the 1st order. But I need to set my expectations.
They marketed this way back when:
What I got was this: example.
Way back then I thought I just needed new hardware to get what I saw in the trailer.
This kinda explains what is going on:
They marketed this way back when:
What I got was this: example.
Way back then I thought I just needed new hardware to get what I saw in the trailer.
This kinda explains what is going on:
To your bewilderment, yes.
Because otherwise it would have been shut down and cancelled by now if it was still garbage.
Wait, you thought the above Batman cinematic trailer was actual in-game graphics?
I was young(er) but, yup. This is what really taught me the difference between not only trailers but cut scenes and gameplay. The fun thing is that increasingly, at least there is a shrinking difference between cut scenes and gameplay. Uncharted 4 is an example.
Well, I play ESO. So I know how they made a pretty poor experience into a good one. It's just that the base game was much better
What is even considered to be the "Dawn of War experience", seeing as Dawn of War 1, 2 and 3 are vastly different from each other?
Don't get me wrong, I really like 1 & 2 a lot (for different reasons, mind you) but the franchise is just this weird thing where each entry seemingly has very little to do with each other, aside from being 40K and some kind of RTS game.
For the record, Dawn of War 3 really didn't do it for me, either.
Sync kills, Race variety, Modular units instead of somehow scouts needing to be scouts and sniper scouts to artificially make the pad out the roster, compelling narrative (subjective), natural cover, changing the map with gameplay (armor could smash a wall creating cover for Ground, a mortar round can make partial cover), map variety, Timely cutting edge graphics to display the Horrors of War in 40k.