Though the Playboy Bayonettas, not so much. Unless you think that acres of silicone are somehow "sexy", despite a face like the back end of a bus.DirtyCommie said:
I'm convinced that Playboy no longer has any idea what "sexy" actually is.
Look Upon Playboy's "Sexiest Game Trailer Ever" and Despair
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I'm convinced that Playboy no longer has any idea what "sexy" actually is.
Wow, that sucked. I didn't even bother to watch it all the way through, not even for the girl. I don't know why someone thought making this trailer would increase the sales of Darksiders in anyway.
Seriously, I just can't gather enough care to fill the care cup. Gamers already have the stereotype that we watch porn, drink soda and watch porn and argue on a forum, why change that? Everyone knows all gamers do those things, all women clean, cook, nag and shop and all Muslims are terrorists. Seriously, why would anyone get insulted by a stereotype these days? It's nothing new, just get over it.
Why so much hate? Is it because they're attempting to sell Playboy and promote the game at the same time because I see none of this talk when the big game conventions come up, noone saying that the cosplay girls there are stereotyping gamers or demanding they be thrown out because they take some time away from looking at the games.
I went to the site and wow, she's actually extremely ugly even for a playboy bimbo.
Edit, and jaiden, yes, yes there are calls against the booth girls.
Edit, and jaiden, yes, yes there are calls against the booth girls.
this is one of the lamest and laziest game trailers i think i have ever seen. i mean they weren't even trying in this, just put cutscene footage in the background and a bikini model in the foreground. yeah, that's the sign of true artistic vision.
agree completely
i generally separate my gaming and my porn....what does a bimbo in a bikini have to do with the trailer at all? there was no point to either the trailer or the bimbo, if i want the trailer i can just look for the trailer and if i want to see a porn star ill just look for a porn star. neither is that hard to find and combining a game trailer and a bimbo ruins both
i generally separate my gaming and my porn....what does a bimbo in a bikini have to do with the trailer at all? there was no point to either the trailer or the bimbo, if i want the trailer i can just look for the trailer and if i want to see a porn star ill just look for a porn star. neither is that hard to find and combining a game trailer and a bimbo ruins both
Actually, it does have a bit of logic to it, though in a more roundabout way than we may assume.khaimera said:
A lot of us think that what advertisers have in mind is "they see a hot chick eating this sandwich so they'll either equate the sandwich to hot chicks, or figure that eating the sandwich will let them score with hot chicks."
The more practical application, though, is simply as an attention magnet. You have the TV on in the background, or you're using the commercial break to fetch a snack, and suddenly a hot chick appears on the screen, and quite often, we will look. For better or worse, we're curious why a hot chick is on the screen. Within a few seconds, we see the name of the brand plastered across the screen: "FACEHOLE STUFFERS!(tm)"
This doesn't go for everybody, obviously, but there will come a point in time when you are hungry and need to buy some food. You don't want to spend on a restaurant, and you really only have time to pick something up at the station while you're filling gas. You see an array of sandwiches, figure that's your best bet, but now you gotta figure out which brand you want to buy. "Hmmmm... out of all these sandwiches, the only brand I've heard of is Facehole Stuffers(tm). Not sure where I've heard it from, but it's probably not bad."
The more I think of it, the more it can really apply to this situation, though I didn't realize it before. We're at a point that I find a video game system of one type or another in every home I visit. No matter how much I don't think the person is a gamer, they will have the Wii or the PS3 (the only people I know with 360s are the gamers). However, the hardcore gamers are actually in the minority of people who own and play game systems. Some people don't have time for TV, or they download their shows free of commercials, or stream it online, or, like me, they just buy the DVDs and watch them. So there's still a big portion of the gaming population that is not reached by video game news sites or television commercials.
The plan is that maybe the dark patches can be reached via online porn.
"Hmmm... Video game trailer? With a hot chick? I'll watch that..." followed by "... man, that was lame. She didn't even get naked. She was hot, though."
Later down the line, the person is bored, looks around at the local EB or Blockbuster, and doesn't know what to get. This group has probably never heard of Fallout, but has probably already played Arkham Asylum and Call of Duty. Hmmm... does he get Assassin's Creed 2? "I dunno. I haven't heard of this one before. Graphics are neat, though. Or, what's this? Darksiders? I've heard of that. I wonder if it's good. I'll give it a shot."
There's also the double whammy that maybe some of the gamers watching will learn the name Jo Garcia and might pick up a copy of the issue if they feature her on the cover, or maybe they'll get more hits to their site as the gamers want to see more of her. It works both ways.
So really, the actual content of the ad is almost entirely irrelevant, so long as it draws your attention in long enough to ingrain the product name into your head. Up here in Canada, we're plagued by ads from a cell phone company called Koodo. Everybody hates those ads, but everybody knows what Koodo is. Everybody talks about how much they hate those ads. But that just keeps the name alive in everybody's heads. Love or hate, if someone is looking for a phone plan or wants to switch providers, they're gonna want to find out what Koodo is about.
So, whether we like it or not, and I'm guessing everybody hates it, there is some validity to the theory behind this "trailer." The point is not to be offended by it. They're reaching out to people that aren't us.
"Sexiest game trailer"? I was hoping for giraffe/pegasus hybrids made out of fire vomiting chainsaw-bombs on a war of robots versus zombies, while Zeus and Ra try to claw each other's eyes out in the clouds fighting over the universe contained in a magic bracelet worn around the wrist of an angel.
This is bullshit. Gamers aren't sex-obsessed kids, sociopaths, or likier than the next kid to bring a gun to school.
Watching the trailer I couldn't help but think "Get out of the way, I can't see what's going on". Some scenes have interesting visual effects, but that had nothing to do with the girl, it could've been a slab of polystyrene and still look awesome.
Glad to see I'm not the only one sick of this crap. I don't mind sex in games, so long as it's in good taste. For example Mass Effect, where your character did develop a proper relationship with the other. That kind of stuff is cool.
Watching the trailer I couldn't help but think "Get out of the way, I can't see what's going on". Some scenes have interesting visual effects, but that had nothing to do with the girl, it could've been a slab of polystyrene and still look awesome.
Glad to see I'm not the only one sick of this crap. I don't mind sex in games, so long as it's in good taste. For example Mass Effect, where your character did develop a proper relationship with the other. That kind of stuff is cool.
I have to agree with whoever said that this sucks, not because I don't like some T&A whenever possible (I do), but because in this video, you can't clearly see the game or the girl, and mixing the two into something that looks like neither is not an improvement.
Which one of those videos was supposed to be sexy? I was turned off enough by the almost Warcraft-ugly game design as it was.
Can't I be naturally horny AND unimpressed?Andy Chalk said:Look Upon Playboy's "Sexiest Game Trailer Ever" and Despair
Playboy has unveiled "the sexiest videogame trailer ever" for Darksiders [http://www.darksiders.com/], a three-minute mix of T&A and gameplay footage that says infinitely more about Playboy's attitude toward gamers than it does about the game.
First things first: This is not sexy. I'm open to other opinions here but having some bikini-clad bimbo sitting, kneeling, squatting or otherwise being in the way of gameplay footage projected on a wall isn't sexy. It isn't hot. It isn't even interesting. I can't see the video because of the T&A and I can't see the T&A because of the video. (The bikini is kind of in the way too.) It's a lose-lose situation.
But here's the real problem: It's insulting. There's nothing even remotely clever or creative about this trailer; it's just a bored-looking woman standing in front of a wall with Darksiders footage projected on it. I could do this in my basement, although to give Playboy its due credit I probably wouldn't look quite as good in a bikini. Yet non-gamers will inevitably see this and have their opinions affected accordingly, which is to say it will reinforce their view of gamers as nothing but a gang of horny, juvenile idiots. And who can blame them?
In case you're wondering, the young lady being paid to pose awkwardly is Jo Garcia, Playboy's "Gamer Next Door" and "Cyber Girl of the Year." Aside from taking her clothes off, she also blogs about games for the site, such as in this video preview [http://www.playboy.com/articles/jo-garcia-darksiders-preview-video-1/index.html] for Darksiders, which is almost as painful to watch as the "body art trailer." Whatever Playboy was looking for in a videogame blogger, it sure wasn't gamer cred.
Am I wrong here? Is my gamer embarrassment legitimate, or am I just too old and curmudgeonly to "get" this kind of thing anymore? Check it out at Playboy.com [http://www.playboy.com/articles/jo-garcia-darksiders-sexy-video-trailer/index.html] (perfectly work safe, it's all very tame) and decide for yourself, but honestly, if this is what Playboy wants to bring to the gaming scene, I think it should just stick to the straight-up porn.
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I never saw the appeal in Playboy to be honest and frankly, as soon as people feel the need to mix games with sex to form a selling point it makes me feel so very angry at being the targeted audience, though nowadays one must wonder whether 'gamers' can really be considered a targeted audience as apposed to little sub-targets with big companies aiming for the biggest targets because not only are they worth the most [cash], they are also the easiest target to hit and the cheapest ones to do so. (I feel that last point didn't fit into the metaphor as much as I would hope, all the same the biggest crowed of gamers are worth more cash because there's a bigger consumer base, easier to please them and require less resources to do so. By resources I mean thought, though money can come into it as well)
Hmmm... I went kind of off track there, my apologies.
But yeah, even this horny male desires his games and sex separate... unless its foreplay or some kind of fetish.
Is it to hard for Playboy to understand that when I watch a trailer I want to watch a goddamn trailer and when I want to watch porn I want to watch goddamn porn? Mixing the 2 isn't going to work towards anyones advantage...