Halo 3, PS2 Ads Make "25 Most Epic Ads" List

DigitalSushi

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John Funk said:
If you asked someone familiar with advertising what the most epic commercial of all time was, there's a good chance that their answer would be Ridley Scott's famous Apple "1984" Super Bowl spot
I never enjoyed that one, because of what it stood for and especially what it stands for now, its using a marketing tool to appeal to the rebellious riotous groups of the 60's and 70's and saying, "hey we are just like you, so buy our product if your an anarchist"... sure it was genius at the time but I'm too much of a cynic for that. Doubly so for today.

It's a great list and highly worth your time, even if only two videogame-related ads pop up on it.
When Sony do good advertising they do it really well
Here is Sony's For years I have lived a double life [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQh4iRMi5nE] Playstation advert, while not hugely great in of itself the kid at 40 seconds that states "and I have conquered worlds" was so well recieved that in the UK and in France you would go into a Blockbuster or privately owned game shop and be greated with his bio that stated
"Name - Ross Northcote
Age - 11
Occupation - School and Conquerer of Worlds"

We also had this which was the first of the pretentious of Sony ads that probably helped along with a decade's worth of crap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dpzhMMFk5U
everyone was talking about it whether or not her face was actually like that in real life, everyone including people that don't play games went apeshit for it, it was amazing.

Featuring an absolutely incredible diorama (sweet baby Jesus, that diorama was amazing)
I watch that awesome video whenever I think about it, its the advertisement version of Deus Ex, and with Chopin, my word that was just showing off.
 

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Shycte said:

Not gaming but still great.
I shed a tear then, I imagined that red lamp is Luxo Jr's (the Pixar Lamp) Swedish cousin once removed, as such we need to set up a charitable organisation to save Luxo Jr's the Lamp's cousin once removed!
 

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Those believe ads were boring. As someone who has never played Halo (the sort of person who these adverts are trying to get interested) it had absolutely no impact on me.
Comparing that with the Dragon Age ads, well those were good.

and of course the best ad is the guiness evolution ad

EDIT: on going back and watching their number 1 ad, I have to say WOW, then consider how they can possibly rate that 1984 ad higher then the pantene chrysalsis ad