Visceral Proves Your Mom Hates Dead Space 2

[Jumplion]

If someone finds it in anyway offensive. Then they lack understanding of it.

Honestly.

People get riled up over the most mundane things. Isn't anyone happy unless they're making controversy where there is none?

While I don't want to be a buzz killington here, I do have to say that what Visceral did here was kind of juvenile (assuming the women weren't actors). I mean, they've probably just stripped 200 people of their gaming rights and showed a bunch of mothers, who are not desensitized to this as we are, a bunch of gruesome images out of context.

Personally, I'd file that under "dick move", but that's just me.

I'm working under the assumption that they're actors. Like their Dante's Inferno ad campaign.

I don't think they'd need to actually use real unwitting mothers. Although that would make this advert even funnier.

If these were real mothers, I would find it even more dickish and juvenile of them. The game isn't advertised towards children, but this advertising campaign makes it seem like they're deliberately enticing young kids to buy this to "rebell" against their mother. That doesn't really help our image.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Am I the only one who would feel immature playing this game now? Like I'm just doing it to spite my parents? It makes me feel like some preteen who tries to be edgy just to get a rise out of people.

Yes you are. Get off your high horse, find the video funny and play the damn game.

How am I on a high horse for expressing my feeling about the video? It makes me feel immature, like I'd be playing the game just to offend my mother.

Maybe you should stop insulting people for having differing opinnions.

 

[manaman]

Dammit. I know this is advertising. I know it, but it's working so well. I want this game more then ever before.

 

[Jumplion]

If someone finds it in anyway offensive. Then they lack understanding of it.

Honestly.

People get riled up over the most mundane things. Isn't anyone happy unless they're making controversy where there is none?

While I don't want to be a buzz killington here, I do have to say that what Visceral did here was kind of juvenile (assuming the women weren't actors). I mean, they've probably just stripped 200 people of their gaming rights and showed a bunch of mothers, who are not desensitized to this as we are, a bunch of gruesome images out of context.

Personally, I'd file that under "dick move", but that's just me.

I'm working under the assumption that they're actors. Like their Dante's Inferno ad campaign.

I don't think they'd need to actually use real unwitting mothers. Although that would make this advert even funnier.

If these were real mothers (which we will assume they are for now), I would find it even more dickish and juvenile of them. The game isn't advertised towards children, but this advertising campaign makes it seem like they're deliberately enticing young kids to buy this to "rebell" against their mother. That doesn't really help our image.

Considering the average age of each of the mothers. I'd really think it's more aimed at my age group. 18+

It's not inciting rebellion. Just using the age old method of showing you what's fun. Seeing whether or not your mum likes it.

Also I highly doubt they're real unwitting mothers. Much more likely paid actors.

Honestly. People are giving this joke way more depth than it deserves.

I dunno, I just find it mean spirited. You guys can find it funny or whatever, but personally I just don't see why Visceral did this. Of course, if they're actors, then I will laugh along side everyone else. But if they're real then it was just juvenile.

 

[el_kabong]

I had a good chuckle while watching this. Still doesn't make me want to own the game, though.

 

[Moeez]

"yourmomhatesthis.com" <= clever, EA, very clever!

That. Is. Amazing.

 

[Ashsaver]

Why do i get the feeling that this is gonna backfire on us later on?

 

[jezzy]

I kind of want to try this with my mom, despite the fact that she willingly bought God of War, Left 4 Dead, and Dead Space for my brother for his birthday/Christmas when he was underage. Her reaction would be along the lines of "Oh, my goodness!" but far from "TAKE ALL THE GAMES AWAY!"

That said, I love this.

 

[laxduck]

If someone finds it in anyway offensive. Then they lack understanding of it.

Honestly.

People get riled up over the most mundane things. Isn't anyone happy unless they're making controversy where there is none?

If you put it in front of a national TV audience you are begging for someone to be offended by it. And honestly it shouldn't be hard to look at the ad from a different point of view than your own and see that. Think about a family watching a football game on a Saturday afternoon and her 12 year old now thinks this is the coolest thing ever. He's dying to have this game. Now either the mom has to be the bad guy and tell the kid he can't have the game or she has to cave and buy the M rated game for a kid who shouldn't be playing it.

It isn't a good ad for national television. Too large and varied of an audience for this type of advertising. Heck, if it was on G4 TV then I wouldn't even be saying all this. Look beyond yourself and your point of view and take into consideration all the other people in a national television audience.

I would imagine it's set for a 9 water shedding. Or whatever the equivalent American thing is.

If not then the people who run the advert are at fault. Not the people who made it.

Forgive my ignorance but what is "9 water shedding"? I googled it and got nothing useful. However, in America, companies have to buy ad space to run an ad during an NFL game. It's the company's decision when to run the ad, not the network. If it runs during a football game, it ran because the company wanted to and wanted to badly enough to pay pretty well.

 

[Mr Godfrey]

Hmm. Didn't much care for Dead Space. Dead space 2's worth a play; assuming they improved it based on some of the consumer feedback. Like made the main character a character for instance.

 

[Rad Party God]

I'm in a bit akward position here. I loved that video and I laughed pretty hard by it.
But I wouldn't do that to my mom.

My mom watched The Exorcist when it was played originally in theaters when she was younger and since then, she developed some kind of phobia for horror things, showing this to her would be like... I dunno, but neither her nor do I would find it funny... I'd still buy the game though =)

 

[zehydra]

Am I the only one who would feel immature playing this game now? Like I'm just doing it to spite my parents? It makes me feel like some preteen who tries to be edgy just to get a rise out of people.

You can play it for whatever reason you want. If other people interpret that as you being immature, or if they incorrectly say you're doing it to be edgy, then that's their damn problem, not yours.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Am I the only one who would feel immature playing this game now? Like I'm just doing it to spite my parents? It makes me feel like some preteen who tries to be edgy just to get a rise out of people.

You can play it for whatever reason you want. If other people interpret that as you being immature, or if they incorrectly say you're doing it to be edgy, then that's their damn problem, not yours.

Oh I know. That I'm just talking about how the commercial makes me feel.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

Considering when she was younger my mom was a huge fan of Stephen King, plus she got me into Resident Evil and Parasite Eve, I don't think she would care.

I am also 30 so I can buy my own games

 

[Dogstile]

Is it just me or were a couple of them close to tears?

It wasn't just me then, some of them were just speechless. It was amazing.

 

[matrix3509]

Hmmm... I can't help but think that the moms are pretty much all correct here. I mean, if the first Dead Space was anything to go by, the second game will be more of the same. That is: every element that can possibly be made uninteresting will be made so. Basically, indistinct slabs of meat doing a stripper routine. Also, not scary in any way, shape, or form. No amount of clever advertising can hide what the franchise actually is.