Horrid marketing - COD: Goats assumes it's next-gen. Your examples

[Faluva]

Read the latest news on COD: Goats PC system reqs, and it's obvious their horrid marketing attempt won't go unnoticed.

PC system reqs. are quite fake given the game's and its engine's "complexity". For instance, COD:Goats min. reqs. are higher than BF4. This is technical innovation... on paper. Not worth people's attention.

This rabble gave me a thought on how developers keep trying to pretend their tech is suddenly advanced or they start to artificially support some platform which they ignored previously. Double-face companies should die, correct?

As for technical innovation, it's not megatextures or file sizes as Treyarch / IW / Activision believes. Open your eyes wide, corporate and corrupt suits. Look at GTA5 and witness a next-gen game on last-gen platforms.

I assume myself correct stating that next-gen should be about game's storylines, and interacitvity, realism in some cases. Fuck graphics - polygon count on screen, particle effect density and texture resolution doesn't really matter. Bring us proper ideas, content, and emergent gameplay.

That's IT.

What are the most horrid game/gaming marketing tricks companies ever tried to pull off? Names as much as you can!

 

[Zhukov]

"COD: Goats"?

Come on man, put some effort into it. Jesus.

I can't even tell what exactly you're so pissed about. They posted inflated system requirements... or something? They spent a lot of money on graphics?

If that's what your problem is then I think your rage is misplaced. COD has been running on a dated engine for years now. It's never really been much a graphical powerhouse. Of all the complaints you may wish to direct at COD, focussing overmuch on graphics is about the silliest.

Oh, and if GTA5 is some kind of bright shining beacon of next-gen gaming done right, then, quite frankly, fuck next-gen.

 

[GoaThief]

Recommended card is a 780gtx.:-D

Welcome to the new generation, gone are the days where a cheap PC could be built that would out perform consoles. To be expected really and I don't just think it's marketing, glad I preordered a PS4 - seems like it's now definitely the best option for price/performance. Will probably grind out my 2500k + 480gtx for as long as possible, hopefully 2 years.

I'm not a fan of the series but it looks pretty next gen to me;

Spoiler

 

[Fireaxe]

If there was a COD Goats I would totally buy it...

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I'm not a fan of the series but it looks pretty next gen to me;

Spoiler

If I didn't know that was a screenshot from COD I'd honestly guess its a game from 2010. Not even kidding.

And that's probably on highest settings. On the PC you should be able to turn off all of the effects and filters, including every single shadow. If that still means that minimum system requirements are the ones that were recently revealed, then the problem is with optimization not with how advanced their technology is.

 

[aguspal]

I am not quite sure what this thread is even about?


Is it for the grapchis? (Fail spelling) they are not bad. Could be better but I am pretty sure its not going to be a majorf factor on the game´s reception.


By now, its pretty clear that you either love COD (like myself) or you Hate it so much that you consider it to be the gaming´s devil or something like that. I dont think either group cares about this kind of thing honestly...

 

[McMarbles]

CoD: Goats? Someone needs to make that mod, like, NOW.

 

[Dango]

"COD: Goats"?

Come on man, put some effort into it. Jesus.

I can't even tell what exactly you're so pissed about. They posted inflated system requirements... or something? They spent a lot of money on graphics?

If that's what your problem is then I think your rage is misplaced. COD has been running on a dated engine for years now. It's never really been much a graphical powerhouse. Of all the complaints you may wish to direct at COD, focussing overmuch on graphics is about the silliest.

Oh, and if GTA5 is some kind of bright shining beacon of next-gen gaming done right, then, quite frankly, fuck next-gen.

Did you actually read the post or did you just come in here to be too cool to hate COD?

But yeah companies tend to hype up their new consoles way too much because WELCOME TO THE FUTURE ARE WE FUTURISTIC ENOUGH FOR YOU?

It's pretty much the only reason Sony had the absurdly dumb boomerang controller that I thought was actually kind of cool.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I do begin to wonder if some publishers are making up ridiculous requirements to hide poorly-done optimization. And "next-gen" is just a marketing phrase these days, borrowed from the console sector.

CoD: Goats? Someone needs to make that mod, like, NOW.

Even better if they can model it after this.

Spoiler

[small]ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "Visine Veteran"- Twenty Goats Stared At[/small]​

 

[shootthebandit]

I know you are all waiting for a COD:goats synopsis well wait no longer

Coming this spring. a tale about truth, revenge and freedom. A lowly afghan goat herder is brutally killed by the taliban. Only his goat can avenge his death. Headbutt your way to revenge, truth and freedom as all american goat, captain Billy Gruff. Use billy to take down the T.R.O.L.L (tactical recon ordinance light launcher) and resecure the bridge in order to lead his fellow goats to freedom and truth

 

[freaper]

I know you are all waiting for a COD:goats synopsis well wait no longer

Coming this spring. a tale about truth, revenge and freedom. A lowly afghan goat herder is brutally killed by the taliban. Only his goat can avenge his death. Headbutt your way to revenge, truth and freedom as all american goat, captain Billy Gruff. Use billy to take down the T.R.O.L.L (tactical recon ordinance light launcher) and resecure the bridge in order to lead his fellow goats to freedom and truth

Needs more freedom. Needs more truth. Needs more God. And will the standard they're waving have a winged goat on it?

 

[fix-the-spade]

Recommended card is a 780gtx.:-D

Yet it still runs on the Quake 3 engine (as much as Activision insist it doesn't). That shot just reminds me of a 1080p shot of Battlefield 2, maybe with a high res texture pack.

Once it's out and in motion it'll be interesting to see what the difference between PS3/4 and 360/Bone versions will be, presumably very little except for bigger textures and more particle effects/Anti Aliasing for a given frame rate. Recommended 780, probably means they've not bother optimising it at all, it doesn't run? Your problem PC pleb, back to your Battlefield and Counter Strike.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Recommended card is a 780gtx.:-D

Welcome to the new generation, gone are the days where a cheap PC could be built that would out perform consoles. To be expected really and I don't just think it's marketing, glad I preordered a PS4 - seems like it's now definitely the best option for price/performance. Will probably grind out my 2500k + 480gtx for as long as possible, hopefully 2 years.

I'm not a fan of the series but it looks pretty next gen to me;

Spoiler

Looks more like a screenshot from 2010 rather then groundbraking graphics if you ask me.

 

[TwiZtah]

Recommended card is a 780gtx.:-D

Welcome to the new generation, gone are the days where a cheap PC could be built that would out perform consoles. To be expected really and I don't just think it's marketing, glad I preordered a PS4 - seems like it's now definitely the best option for price/performance. Will probably grind out my 2500k + 480gtx for as long as possible, hopefully 2 years.

I'm not a fan of the series but it looks pretty next gen to me;

Spoiler

Yeeeeah, that does NOT look next gen to me at all. The system requirements are not true, they just aren't.

And furthermore. That 50 Gb install is after you have installed all the planned DLC, they are just thinking ahead, duuuh.

 

[MysticSlayer]

"CoD: Goats"?

I'm wondering if we need to have a lesson in spelling, or a lesson in phonetics. Probably both.

Read the latest news on COD: Ghosts PC system reqs, and it's obvious their horrid marketing attempt won't go unnoticed.

PC system reqs. are quite fake given the game's and its engine's "complexity". For instance, COD:Ghosts min. reqs. are higher than BF4. This is technical innovation... on paper. Not worth people's attention.

For the record, to my knowledge, neither Infinity Ward nor Activision have officially announced the system requirements. NVIDIA is the one who ended up leaking them, and from past experience, it isn't like NVIDIA hasn't overestimated PC system requirements in the past. The 6GB RAM and 50GB storage space should be enough for even an amateur at PC hardware to question the legitimacy of NVIDIA's information. If it is correct, then I only have two things to say:

1. In that case you can't call it false advertising.

2. What in the world is up with the game to make it require so much?

 

[Atmos Duality]

I know you are all waiting for a COD:goats synopsis well wait no longer

Coming this spring. a tale about truth, revenge and freedom. A lowly afghan goat herder is brutally killed by the taliban. Only his goat can avenge his death. Headbutt your way to revenge, truth and freedom as all american goat, captain Billy Gruff. Use billy to take down the T.R.O.L.L (tactical recon ordinance light launcher) and resecure the bridge in order to lead his fellow goats to freedom and truth

Wow. That actually sounds interesting.
Activision would probably shitcan it because it's Too Creative and doesn't adhere to the Call of Duty Cliche design document.

And oddly enough, this is the second time Goats have popped up in my game-related reading recently.
(the other was the Goat Dimension joke from a Suikoden Tactics Lets Play. Because one of the characters is a goat lady.)

 

[Charli]

I know you are all waiting for a COD:goats synopsis well wait no longer

Coming this spring. a tale about truth, revenge and freedom. A lowly afghan goat herder is brutally killed by the taliban. Only his goat can avenge his death. Headbutt your way to revenge, truth and freedom as all american goat, captain Billy Gruff. Use billy to take down the T.R.O.L.L (tactical recon ordinance light launcher) and resecure the bridge in order to lead his fellow goats to freedom and truth

*gets out the popcorn*

I'd watch it. Looks like a perfect summer flick!