Steven Bogos said:
Yeah. Ouya views you, the guy "wasting" $60 on crappy games as a brain-dead moron that literally wallows in his own filth and beats himself to death.
SilkySkyKitten said:
I wouldn't say you're being a prude at all, truly. I admittedly am one of those "brain dead morons who wallow in their own filth and beat themselves to death" folks who enjoys games like Call of Duty and Battlefield and has plopped down $60 on those kind of games multiple times. So seeing this and knowing that this is the kind of image someone is willing to use to describe my gaming tastes is rather... disheartening. Possibly rather disgusting too, not just due to the content of the ad but just at the people who thought this was okay to make and put out.
... did we watch a different ad?
both you and the OP have taken the opposite view to what i'm seeing.
If the dude being shown in the ad was like how you describe yourself, they would be happy with their purchase.
The dude shown hates the game and is having major buyers guilt, his complaints escalating to the point where he is spewing [literally] vitriol all over the place, and going way over the top in 'beat himself up' over it.
If anything, it's a harsh criticism of cod haters, those people who suffer buyers regret and 'spew' crap about how much it's terrible and sucks, and who constantly harp on about how they wish they never bought it and that no one should buy it or any following sequels cause they're 'crap/a waste of money/all the same/etc.' (as is the usual complaints).
So it's actually the opposite, it seems whoever wrote the thing is actually leveling major criticism at the kind of people Ouya
wants as customers XD
Perhaps they thought like you first up that it was mocking cod-players, and didn't realise until after releasing it that it was actually indicating the opposite, and then ran to the unplug button as fast as they could before their anti-cod/anti-AAA fan-base realised it was mocking them.
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As for the ad itself... seems kinda stupid to me. Like i get it, but it's just not a very funny joke nor does it lend itself well to the 'punch line' of go and buy an ouya[they just feel a little too disconnected]. The concept could work, they just need to rejig it a bit. I'm also not so big a fan of overtop... gore?* stuff like ripping a spine out.
*(is it gore if there's isn't really any blood or guts with it? just bones?)
edit: k, apparently not endorsed by ouya, still i guess a bunch of people were jumping to the conclusion it was, which is why ouya took steps to take it down.
Lieju said:
what does vomiting have to do with rage?
Have you not heard of 'vomiting with rage'? I think I first head about it ages ago from like futurama or something. Either way, it's definitely a 'thing'.
