If this is an example of the posters in the Outer World, then its very different from what you see in Bioshock. Different art styles, Typography and design.Should have been more clear but I didn't want to make the thread title too long. But yeah, I'm not talking about actual ads for real-world products, but in-game, in-universe ads. Like this:
I guess. I don't like them personally. They were cool the first few times. BioShock still looks incredible. But I don't get the appeal of shoving them in a game seemingly for the sake of it.
And what a weird thing to catch on. Imagine someone who doesn't play games seeing how many games use that art style. "Huh, guess gamers really love '50s style advertisements."
Again, it's not that I don't like them, just that they've been used to death. Including them just feels creatively bankrupt at this point.
I think the "low quality" is them trying to adhere as close as possible to the style used by the posters they aped. It was a decision to replicate not reimagine.
Yeah I though this might be about SFV or something that has actual real ads.
That, I will agree to disagree with you on. The game most certainly delivers on the corporate overlords ideas. So far as it failing to be interesting that is entirely dependant upon the person. So what can I say but opinions vary.
One of the main narrative themes of the game is rampant capitalism. These posters invoke a setting where everything was prospering, ads that sell the inhabitants of that world the capitalistic dream.
They don't fit Outer Worlds thematically, though. The colonies were founded in our future, which means culture should be a futuristic version of a futuristic version of modern times. Or at least a futuristic version of modern culture. Not the future of the 1950s. It makes sense in Fallout (the bombs dropped in the 50s and culture was cobbled together from 50s era culture) and in Bioshock. Outer Worlds it's just a choice the devs made for their world (because they're Obsidian and it's just a clear spiritual successor to Fallout) but it isn't really justified in universe beyond "that's the way it is".
it's fitting because the rest of the world is styled in the same 1950's aesthetic. consistency is all that's necessary
This is both accurate and ehhh... In terms of advertising aesthetics there are a ton of similarities. The 50s were very much applying tried and true advertising tactics and aesthetics to modern technology. There were certainly differences, but not as stark as, say, the 50s and only 20 years later in the 70s.
I repeat:
It's not consistent. That the setting looks this way is inconsistent with the background of the game. It's just an aesthetic choice the developers made regardless of how it squared with the narrative. Which is fine, but you can't wave away criticism of that choice with "it fits the theme."
