Game Trailers: The Don't Stop Me Now Effect

[Arbitrary Cidin]

There were recently a couple articles on the Escapist about Mario music videos playing to the song "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen. In response to this, I started messing around on TubeDubber [http://www.tubedubber.com/] and started to notice something rather strange. It's actually pretty hard to find a game with a trailer, gameplay video, or cinematic that this song doesn't fit almost perfectly with. Here's just a few random results of the phenomenon:

'Splosion Man [http://www.tubedubber.com/#kCWMamsmvlc:GSADxMocaHs:0:100:0:0:true]
God of War [http://www.tubedubber.com/#H7veXxaPRIc:GSADxMocaHs:0:100:0:0:true]
Sonic the Hedgehog [http://www.tubedubber.com/#UrzEFUMNHuk:GSADxMocaHs:0:100:0:0:true]
Team Fortress 2 [http://www.tubedubber.com/#a7ozG-YNLNg:iUBwjyhRweQ:0:100:0:0:true]

Let's see what the Escapist community can find, whether you somehow manage to find a game that doesn't work with it or stumble upon an completely epic combination.

 

[orangebandguy]

You've stumbled upon a phenomenon there, something to do with mind control devices no doubt!
Subliminal messaging, how it fits so well it can't be random.

I'll just be locking myself in with some guns, they'll never take me alive..

No but in all seriousness, it's just one of those songs I think. I liked it in shaun of the Dead, that scene was great.

 

[sgtshock]

It's hard to find anything upbeat or fast paced that song doesn't fit with. Still, the timing on the TF2 trailer is almost too perfect (at least in the beginning with the engineer).

Edit: Shit, the part when the scout runs into the pipe bombs matches up perfectly as well. Maybe it isn't a coincidence...

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

Hmm, I was expecting a few more tries at mashups rather than speculation on why it works this well.

 

[StonkThis]

Lol, this works incredibly well with the assassin's creed 2 launch trailer

Works pretty good with L4D2.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Wow. Especially during the end, it matches PERFECTLY.

This cannot be a coincidence..

 

[Canadamus Prime]

On the contrary, it's making me a little sick of the song.

Second! I'm probably going to have that song in my head all night.

Incidentally, I thought the Sonic one could've been done better, there were too many scenes of Sonic and Co. standing around to fit the song.
Also I didn't think the TF2 one really fit, well except maybe for the end part with the soldiers flying around in slow mo.

 

[phar]

I think someone needs to learn about Linkin Park