Avatar: The Game Puts the Hurt on Ubisoft
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*laughs triumphantly*
No, I'm not surprised Ferngully didn't make a decent video game.
I think now is about the time Ubisoft should stop pissing around and make that Rayman game everybody wants. There are Rayman fans here, right?
No, I'm not surprised Ferngully didn't make a decent video game.
I think now is about the time Ubisoft should stop pissing around and make that Rayman game everybody wants. There are Rayman fans here, right?
Does anyone else think that Avatar was pretty good,but doesn't really deserve what it is currently getting? I mean yeah the effects were damn good and the story was passable but does it really deserve to be the number two highest grossing movie of all time? $1,602,168,000 and it is still in theaters? The Dark Knight made $1,001,921,825 in its entire theater run and I thought that that had a better story, better characters, better dialogue, better acting and it got really violent at times to boot. Sure there were no giant cat aliens but was Avatar really that much better than TDK or any other movie?
http://enchantedarmsgame.us.ubi.com/
Ubisoft should cease to exist if only because of the above title.
I've not had a game make me that angry in quite sometime.
It is still considered one of the greatest FPS's ever made (last I knew). It often ends up in 100 best games of all times lists.
I mean I liked the Perfect Dark entry better but that isn't a movie tie in so
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I played Halo and still don't get it. It only did one thing better than FPS predecessors which was the vehicle controls system (which still CnC Renegade was much more pleasant to me). Games and Movies these days succeed by marketing more than game design. Look at Modern Warfare 2, they spent more money than god on advertising and their game succeeded. I'm not saying it was a bad game, I'm just saying it hardly warrants the record sales it recieved.
As more Psychologists move into marketing more sub quality products will sell far better. It is very easy to make people like whatever you want. Which is an unfortunate truth, people need look no further than TEA parties or various other incidents in the US of people saying the most foolish and uninformed things because of some television personality who has an AA in Psychology.
Marketing beats substance. Not to say that there is nothing incredibly popular that is incredibly well made, but it is hardly a 1:1 correlation.
If you were curious I thought that Perfect Dark for the N64 was a better FPS than Halo. So did every person in my neighborhood until the second Halo's advertising campaign started. It wasn't until that point that people started saying Halo was a fantastic FPS around where I lived.
I'm still waiting for MW3 to introduce AI into multiplayer and call it revolutionary sort of like other games calling dual wielding revolutionary.
Ubisoft should cease to exist if only because of the above title.
I've not had a game make me that angry in quite sometime.
I've often wondered why Goldeneye never gets mentioned as the best video game tie in for a movie?dwoo21 said:
It is still considered one of the greatest FPS's ever made (last I knew). It often ends up in 100 best games of all times lists.
I mean I liked the Perfect Dark entry better but that isn't a movie tie in so
.Ragsnstitches said:
I played Halo and still don't get it. It only did one thing better than FPS predecessors which was the vehicle controls system (which still CnC Renegade was much more pleasant to me). Games and Movies these days succeed by marketing more than game design. Look at Modern Warfare 2, they spent more money than god on advertising and their game succeeded. I'm not saying it was a bad game, I'm just saying it hardly warrants the record sales it recieved.
As more Psychologists move into marketing more sub quality products will sell far better. It is very easy to make people like whatever you want. Which is an unfortunate truth, people need look no further than TEA parties or various other incidents in the US of people saying the most foolish and uninformed things because of some television personality who has an AA in Psychology
.Marketing beats substance. Not to say that there is nothing incredibly popular that is incredibly well made, but it is hardly a 1:1 correlation.
If you were curious I thought that Perfect Dark for the N64 was a better FPS than Halo. So did every person in my neighborhood until the second Halo's advertising campaign started. It wasn't until that point that people started saying Halo was a fantastic FPS around where I lived
.I'm still waiting for MW3 to introduce AI into multiplayer and call it revolutionary sort of like other games calling dual wielding revolutionary.
that's been turned into a movie now, saw the trailer the other dayOnyx Oblivion said:I didn't think the game was THAT bad, just not good enough for me to keep playing for more than one hour. If nothing else, its better than most movie games, like "Superman Returns"
The best licensed game crown still belongs to Treasure:
"Astro Boy: Omega Factor" for the GBA
astroboy the movie XD
stop angry video game nerd new this because in one of his episodes he worked out Good movie = Bad game
Bad Movie = Good game
Bad Movie = Good game
i have to be shallow to take offence over what is essentially nothing?Therumancer said:
it isn't offensive to anyone who can enjoy what is a god damn movie without trying to divine some ulterior motive. if anything i'd say you'd have to be pretty shallow to get offended.
it's no Triumph of the will, it's not brainwashing me, it's a STORY for christ's sake.
they have what is called a susceptability (sp?) chart that rates how much you respond to persuasion, peer pressure and/or influence, it can absolve you of responsibility to the extent of providing evidence in court. the fact that they need a scale to do this shows that it is not universal.theultimateend said:
even in a controlled experiment where you got a psychologist who knew exactly how to sell something to someone, they can't sell it to everyone because people are different. marketing is VITAL to a movies success, but to say that marketing is more important to a games success then content is frankly ridiclous.
and point in question?
how much difference do you suppose the avatar game marketing squad was to the movie one?
yet one succeeded and one failed, maybe because one was spectacular and one was dismal.
it makes me sick to my Indie music loving stomach. it's the same mentality that dislikes bands because they get popular. and all it really is is elitism and pretentiousness
I'm expecting EA to buy them, and then close them after not releasing a game that Jesus would say "this shit be better than me." and yes, Jesus would talk like a stereotypical gangster. but anyway, yime to move past the joke and say: damn. I like Ubisoft, and they release pretty good games, but they expect people to buy a movie game? that is out right stupidity.