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Stupid dumb brain reserving memory for game marketing trash
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I'm sure it is, and I've been thinking about playing it again. It was just so far removed from what I wanted RE to be at the time so I couldn't finish it. And when I heard about RE6 from word of mouth I figured it was time to move on.
Nope, I moved on to The Evil Within instead. :T
Was going to come back for RE2make, but the year has been too packed and now they are remaking RE3 and I want that ASAP.
RE7 and RE2m are two of the best survival horror games ever. You gotta. TEW great too but not as good as those IMO, as survival horror (too wonky and combat focused).
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As someone who thought Resident Evil 5 was ass, and also largely tapped out of the series but nevertheless tried them all, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 7 are really, really fucking incredible an absolute return to form for the franchise. If you're a Resident Evil fan you need to get around to them sometime.
To be fair though, these commercials were some of the best Nintendo has ever put out. It's no wonder they sold a bazillion Wiis.
one thing, which i immediately realized was when the first RE2 trailer was dropped.
the dialogue was so recognizable and i thought, wow no way, there is going to be a spin-off... and then boom.
same goes for the first ff7 trailer. after seeing midgard within the first few seconds i knew, without getting a glimpse on the characters, that this will be ff7.
other than that...
dmc1 trailer
mgs2 presentation/demo/trailer
mgs4 war haz changed
the dialogue was so recognizable and i thought, wow no way, there is going to be a spin-off... and then boom.
same goes for the first ff7 trailer. after seeing midgard within the first few seconds i knew, without getting a glimpse on the characters, that this will be ff7.
other than that...
dmc1 trailer
mgs2 presentation/demo/trailer
mgs4 war haz changed
I've never owned a PS3 or Killzone game and will always remember this.
Watched this so many times only to be underwhelmed by how the final game did not live up to this trailer's awesomeness:
Relevant article: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/better-than-halo-the-making-of-halo-2-article?page=3
Also, a particular Shenmue II trailer which I can't find on YouTube but there is this fanmade recreation:
Thankfully in this case I did love the final game and it is still my favourite of all time.
My brain remembers Pokemon typings better than almost anything else. This never seemed odd but my wife and daughter are playing through Sword and Shield and constantly ask, "What type is so-and-so?" Even for ones they've asked previously. So now I think I may have wasted a big chunk of my memory.
There was a UK magazine ad for Tomb Raider III which had a guy lying in bed waiting for his girlfriend who was dressed as Lara Croft. Saw that when I was 10 and have never forgotten it, but have never seen it online.
Every time either the N64, and then later on the modern Killer Instinct have been mentioned, I recall the Killer Instinct arcade intro "Available for your home in 1995, only on Nintendo Ultra 64" with the logo.
This is the image I think of when I think about RE5, and how much I did not end up liking the game. This was the first image I actually saw of it after it was announced, and will forever be a symbol of potential and inevitable disappointment.
They already experienced the peak of the series anyway, and aside from the obvious visual differences, the original RE2 was better in a lot of ways.
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Not an image or video (and me trying to google this now is making me think I imagined all this), but I remember there being a call-in contest between Sega, some gaming magazine of which I can't remember, and, weirdly of all people, actress Countess Vaughn (Moesha, The Parkers, 227). You had to call a 800 number and recite a (admittedly very cheesy) rhyme given by Vaughn to possibly win a Sega Saturn and a copy of Sonic R with it. I never got through when the contest went live, so I never won. But of course, being a lover of all things rhythm, the rhyme she gave has stuck to my brain for many years.
"Super Speedy, all in 3D, race without a car
It's Sonic's latest, Sega's greatest, check out Sonic R"
"Super Speedy, all in 3D, race without a car
It's Sonic's latest, Sega's greatest, check out Sonic R"
Marcus and Kevin starring in the commercials was playstation advertising at its bestI still think about what Marcus, the Vita kid, is up to
Edit: Fuck he was advertising the PSP!?
I have every Pokemon's types, weakness, resistance, neutral, no effect memorized. So when someone says they forgot a Pokemon exists or their type I'm like how?
I'll also throw in another vote for RE6's logo being a woman giving a giraffe a blowjob even when I see the non photoshopped one, but I blame that on you guys.
I'll also throw in another vote for RE6's logo being a woman giving a giraffe a blowjob even when I see the non photoshopped one, but I blame that on you guys.
This one sits front and center
Oh yeah. This precise image appeared to me while reading the OP.
I can trace when my perspective on video games shifted forever.
It was sometime in 2005 and I had only ever owned Nintendo consoles and played Nintendo games. With the exception of James Bond titles, if Nintendo didn't make it, I didn't play it. I was a tried and true Nintendo brand loyalist a GameFAQs console warrior. I could not be shaken.
But during the Wii Era, my enthusiasm for gaming really diminished because I didn't really like those games. I was hardly playing any games at all, and when I did play them, it was because they were Wii exclusive. Red Steel, Excite Truck, Raving Rabbids, etc. I didn't like any of these games so I felt like I was just growing out of the hobby.
One day I was on IGN looking for new releases on other systems whose GameFAQs forums I could troll when I saw a review for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition.
I'd never heard of Resident Evil 4. I didn't know what kind of game it was. I didn't know it already had a legacy at that point. But I decided to watch the video review on the tiny little QuickTime player or whatever. In the footage, a villager through a scythe at Leon and Leon shot it out of the air with his pistol.
This blew my fucking mind.
I did not play video games where this sort of thing was possible. It never would have occurred to me to try that. But the reviewer just shot it out of the air effortlessly. I remember the clang, I remember watching the trajectory halt, and I remember the thrill of realizing there was an entire world of what could be done in video games that I didn't know anything about.
I bought RE4 and played it nonstop, exclusively, for like two straight years. Changed my life, man.
If I hadn't seen Leon shoot that scythe out of the air, I probably wouldn't have kept playing video games. The sight and sound of that scene was is part of me now. I will never forget it. If I was in a coma, and you put a pencil in my hand, I would draw it in an attempt to communicate. I can't remember so many things, but I so vividly remember that clang. Whew. Never forget.
It was sometime in 2005 and I had only ever owned Nintendo consoles and played Nintendo games. With the exception of James Bond titles, if Nintendo didn't make it, I didn't play it. I was a tried and true Nintendo brand loyalist a GameFAQs console warrior. I could not be shaken.
But during the Wii Era, my enthusiasm for gaming really diminished because I didn't really like those games. I was hardly playing any games at all, and when I did play them, it was because they were Wii exclusive. Red Steel, Excite Truck, Raving Rabbids, etc. I didn't like any of these games so I felt like I was just growing out of the hobby.
One day I was on IGN looking for new releases on other systems whose GameFAQs forums I could troll when I saw a review for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition.
I'd never heard of Resident Evil 4. I didn't know what kind of game it was. I didn't know it already had a legacy at that point. But I decided to watch the video review on the tiny little QuickTime player or whatever. In the footage, a villager through a scythe at Leon and Leon shot it out of the air with his pistol.
This blew my fucking mind.
I did not play video games where this sort of thing was possible. It never would have occurred to me to try that. But the reviewer just shot it out of the air effortlessly. I remember the clang, I remember watching the trajectory halt, and I remember the thrill of realizing there was an entire world of what could be done in video games that I didn't know anything about.
I bought RE4 and played it nonstop, exclusively, for like two straight years. Changed my life, man.
If I hadn't seen Leon shoot that scythe out of the air, I probably wouldn't have kept playing video games. The sight and sound of that scene was is part of me now. I will never forget it. If I was in a coma, and you put a pencil in my hand, I would draw it in an attempt to communicate. I can't remember so many things, but I so vividly remember that clang. Whew. Never forget.
Back in 1997, on the ANT network, which I found by using AOL keyword N64, they had a slideshow preview of screenshots from the upcoming Zelda 64
I didn't know it at the time, but the music they used for that montage was the dungeon theme from Link to the Past. The screenshots were from back before things like the UI and character models were finalized, and Link's design in some places still looked like he did back in the NES games
There were a lot of images in that slideshow. An early Iron Knuckle, some early Stalfos, fires in hallways, an enormous disembodied hand... but every time I think back to the day when I first discovered Zelda games, every time I hear that music, I recall this image with startling clarity:
It's odd, the things we remember
I didn't know it at the time, but the music they used for that montage was the dungeon theme from Link to the Past. The screenshots were from back before things like the UI and character models were finalized, and Link's design in some places still looked like he did back in the NES games
There were a lot of images in that slideshow. An early Iron Knuckle, some early Stalfos, fires in hallways, an enormous disembodied hand... but every time I think back to the day when I first discovered Zelda games, every time I hear that music, I recall this image with startling clarity:
It's odd, the things we remember
Not sure if it counts but all of the Half-Life 2 teasers are burned into my brain. I remember downloading all of the trailer .exes that were just mp4's wrapped in a BIK video player. I had those sitting on my desktop for a long, long time. I still remember the first Strider reveal video and the Barney combine fight music perfectly.
I have always remembered the "Have ye the stones?" Zelda 64 commercial from 1998. I thought it was so clever as a teenager.
I think NoA pulled it fairly quickly for the "Will thou suck?" ad and I could never find it online, to the point I was convinced I had made it up.
It's not easy to find but someone did upload it to YouTube eventually. Here is it:
I think NoA pulled it fairly quickly for the "Will thou suck?" ad and I could never find it online, to the point I was convinced I had made it up.
It's not easy to find but someone did upload it to YouTube eventually. Here is it:
Pretty much the entire ps3 e3 conference. 05 I want to say?
Actually, pretty much all the pre-release ps3 marketing.
"this...is a pixel..."
You know that you couldn't have remembered a vita ad, because the vita had no marketing
Actually, pretty much all the pre-release ps3 marketing.
"this...is a pixel..."
You know that you couldn't have remembered a vita ad, because the vita had no marketing
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Was a massive fan of RE4 and RE3 at the time. Some of my favourite games. This trailer dropped and I remember seeing images of it in magazines. I really liked the protagonists design. Magazine writer described the it as "you'll be able to feel the warmth of sun". Every Resident Evil game to now had been taking place at night, so it piqued my interest. Oppressive heat sounded like a perfect match for the tense atmosphere of Resident Evil.
And then the game dropped and ruined my interest in the series to this day. But these two screenshots stuck with me.
Lol I remember this. Magazines were all like "Chris will get skin cancer if exposed in the sun for too long". Now i'm not sure if that was something someone from Capcom said or just internet random rumor and everyone just took the bait.
I've got nearly all Halo games memorized, especially Halo 2. Can probably recite that one without any help.
How no marketing firm in the internet age has ever set up a customer service chat where a game's villain insults you is beyond me.
Also, if anyone has scans of the 16-bit Culture Brain EGM print ads - in particular Ultimate Fighter- I would be eternally grateful. They were literary masterpieces.
Wow, that's like watching a bunch of 90s commercials I've forgotten about on Youtube and it all comes flooding back to me like it was yesterday.It's not marketing (at least, it's not supposed to be), but I could probably tell you the review ratings of a very large quantity of games reviewed by Gamepro and EGM magazines from the late 80s/early 90s.
This one screenshot of TESIV: Oblivion is seared into my brain.
I remember being in the computer lab in middle school and everyone was crowded around the one computer that had a chance to load this up from Gamespot or IGN or wherever and it just blew my damn mind. Now I think Oblivion looks like dogshit with the ludicrous amounts of bloom and terrible character models, but at the time I genuinely thought that games would never look better than this.
I remember being in the computer lab in middle school and everyone was crowded around the one computer that had a chance to load this up from Gamespot or IGN or wherever and it just blew my damn mind. Now I think Oblivion looks like dogshit with the ludicrous amounts of bloom and terrible character models, but at the time I genuinely thought that games would never look better than this.
