High Voltage Software Apologizes for Upcoming Conduit 2's Awesomeness

[Serenegoose]

Hmmm, methinks this stunt would have worked better if they'd been jokingly feeding the egobeast for a few months. This strikes me as something the Bulletstorm of DNF devs could pull, because it fits a preconceived character we're familiar with. This is just coming from nobody, relatively speaking, and so it kinda backfires.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Someone's a bit egotistical!

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

"the best visual media you have ever viewed"
They know that this is on a Wii right?

 

[Truly-A-Lie]

I could maybe tolerate a thing like this for something like Duke Nukem Forever, maybe if it was shorter, but for The Conduit 2? I barely knew they were making a Conduit 2.

 

[DanDeFool]

What's it with publishers these days, hyping their games to such a degree that they can't possibly meet the expectations?

It's marketing 101: Over-sell, under-deliver!

Wait...

 

[Blank Kold]

I could maybe tolerate a thing like this for something like Duke Nukem Forever

pretty much this. DNF is a satire of itself, among other things, and could probably have its PR team pull something like this off without sounding completely douchey.

 

[DanDeFool]

"the best visual media you have ever viewed"
They know that this is on a Wii right?

You've got to read between the lines here. It's the best media YOU have ever viewed.

They are, of course, assuming that you are a Cro-Magnon, recently arrived in the year 2011 through the use of some time travel device, or perhaps a naturally-occurring cryogenic preservation process.

Such is the mind of the marketeer. To delude others you must first delude yourself.

EDIT: Yeah... I really don't have a lot of respect for the professions of sales and marketing. That could just be because they're the ones that get all the chicks and money, but there you go.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Ahahahahaha, that's pretty funny. Still gonna wait for the general opinion before I buy it though.

But honestly, my ability to perceive awesomeness has been skewed ever since I saw THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9YtJC-Kd8
(It's a short animation called "The TV Show")

I am not embedding it solely so that only those who WANT to have their minds blown to sheer goo by sheer awesomeness will see it. It WILL skew your idea of what is awesome if you watch it. It's THAT good.

 

[mjc0961]

They're pretty cocky for the makers of a game that's only good when compared to other Wii games. But when it comes out to play with 360, PS3, and PC games, it gets ground into the dirt like the pile of poo it really is. I mean come on, really?

For our part in showing you, what was no doubt, the best visual media you have ever viewed, we sincerely apologize.

I think the likes of Killzone 3, Uncharted 2, and many more games would no longer have an ass due to having laughed it off upon reading such a ridiculous statement.

And great job, High Voltage, because now you just made all the reviews of your game that much more negative because it won't live up to such nonsense claims.

What's it with publishers these days, hyping their games to such a degree that they can't possibly meet the expectations?

It's marketing 101: Over-sell, under-deliver!

Wait...

Also known as "The Peter Molyneux."

 

[Little Duck]

Frankly, this game has one massive hill to climb after the first one's impression before I call it awesome.

 

[DaHero]

Oh, Yahtzee's gonna havefun with this one.

Oh yeah, this'll be one of the best ZPs yet.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

That box art just screams "Gears Of Combat: Extreme Warfare!"

 

[Okysho]

I'm gonna try and be positive this time and hope High Voltage does well. While it's true they seem overconfident, the first conduit was... um... functional(mostly) and with the mechanics improvements I think they might actually do a good job. (unless they included a SCAR, in my experience, any FPS that includes a SCAR has been crap, it's like the gun is bad luck or something...)

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Can't possibly be worse that the new Goldeneye reboot...

 

[Timbydude]

I thought that this was a funny idea until I read the letter. The joke was dead after the first paragraph, but that didn't stop them, apparently.

Seriously, though, this would only work if the game in question wasn't a sequel. It's just kind of weird saying this about a game that has already shown its decidedly un-awesomeness in the form of its prequel.

 

[thublihnk]

Oh they can f*ck right off. How crass. How cynical. How perfectly precious. The only way a marketing campaign can be more cringe-worthy is if it's run by EA.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I remember The Conduit. It was...standard. Not revolutionary, not terrible. Did pretty well with the controls, all things considered, but there was that whole "I can't look up!" problem. Has that been fixed?

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

I remember The Conduit being below average: most of the shooter elements were done before, and better, in other games, and it's one neat idea, the whole 'hidden Washington D.C. conspiracy' angle that was supposed to have secret tunnels and such, was relegated to an annoying side-quest puzzle mini-game based around that annoying sphere that beeped everytime you were near a hidden door (which always led to an ammo cache, never anything interesting), the sound of which always distracted me while the hidden-on-ceiling monster-maker, which I couldn't have possibly seen without going to the opposite side of the room and looking partly up, popped out another dozen alien midgets that killed my ass. In short, it was a game that thoroughly bungled it's every aspect.

So, yeah, I'm not holding my breath for Conduit 2 being any good, no matter how much they're trying to ape the Bulletstorm/Duke Nukem tongue-in-cheek jackassery (and badly at that).

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

They're pretty cocky for the makers of a game that's only good when compared to other Wii games.

It wasn't good even compared to Wii games. Zelda, Mario, The Bigs, Metroid Prime 3, and even the thoroughly-average Silent Hill: Shattered Memories can all attest to that. It's just another notch on the crap-to-good ratio for the Wii, unfortunately.