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Weekend Confirmed 147 - Resonance, Tera, Kentucky Route Zero
by Jeff Mattas, Jan 11, 2013 11:00am PSTWith regular frontman Garnett Lee away enjoying the technological maelstrom of CES, Jeff Cannata helms this episode of Weekend Confirmed, with co-pilot "Indie" Jeff Mattas. The duo of Jeffs are joined by Joystiq's Xav de Matos and director Dan Trachtenberg to discuss a number of video games, both big and small. IGF nominee Kentucky Route Zero and Resonance get some love, Cannata and Dan rave about Tera, and Xav talks about his time with the multiplayer mech mayhem of Hawken. Finishing Moves brings the show to a close, but feel free to stick around for a short post-show playoff edition of the NFL TailGate.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 147: 1/11/2013
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When my wife sees advertisements for games while we watch football games on Sunday, all she sees are violent reflections of games. And it is embarrassing.
Even though these commercials are sandwiched between plays where real people are doing physical harm to each other in the name of sport, the violence of the game commercials stands out like the gunshots they’re simulating.
I’ve got 99 problems to be solved with a gun cries Battlefield 3.
I’m coming home to hatchet you to the face you filthy redcoat says Assassin’s Creed 3.
These are my non-gamer wife’s perceptions of my favorite entertainment. And I would imagine that the majority of non-gamer’s perceptions are similar.
The real problem is publishers seem to believe that this is the only way to successfully market games. They treat gamers as if it takes violence to get us to purchase their products. Zombie boobs oozing gore and Kobe bustin’ caps in all the suckas are what publishers believe will sell.
And the truth is that it’s working. Or at least these publishers seem to believe that their sales are linked to these violent marketing campaigns.
My question to everybody is how can gamers change this? How can we take back our medium and help the public see that it isn't all gun fantasy?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4Uz6SDjD4
The character played by Crazy Tom is the centerpiece of the advertisement. The message from the marketers is that they know their target audience likes violence, but they also know that they like story and character.
Now let's examine the 99 problems BF3 trailer that aired during the 2011 NFL season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDaxWayEQY
This trailer seems to be about guns and quotes from places most people haven't heard of. Actual gameplay is barely on display (though the uneducated may not know that, nor the difference between gameplay and in-game footage). Instead it's all about guns, 'splode, and box quotes. Battlefield 3 had a campaign with story that they could have laced between action shots, but instead they chose Jay-Z.
I think there is a fundamental difference in the way these two pieces of advertisement treat their target audience. The way certain publishers in the games industry is treating their audience is continuing to propagate the idea that all gamers want is violence.
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