Thread 714647849

What are the worst examples of false advertising in video games?

I'm still mad

>>714648212
QRD?

>>714648404
Crossover between two series that had been hyped up for a while only for it to turn out to be Persona but idol shittery. They wanted to pander to weebs but censored it so it made no money. Twice.

>>714649058
That's fucked up.

>>714648212
>The Wii U was 12 years ago
GOD I'M OLD

>>714649058
is there a franchise more cucked by dogshit localization than fire emblem?

>>714650348
Panel de Pon.

>>714647849 (OP)
The only one that comes to mind is watch dogs being the most major example of false advertising. outside of that it's just the special edition slop that keeps getting promised. Like the shit quality statues, that fallout 4 bag thing, and mvc infinite stones thing.

also unrelated but im trying to figure out a movie that had a trailer of a rocket being fired from a battle ship or drone but it turns out the entire movie was about a bunch of commanders arguing about launching the rocket and the entire sequence in the trailer was essentially the end of the movie.

>>714647849 (OP)
MGS2

>>714647849 (OP)
new nintendo 3ds saying it will have tons of exclusives just to end having 2

>>714650826
take me back, leave me there.
when the internet was still just white and japanese. when niggers and indians didnt shit up everything irl and online.

>>714647849 (OP)
FF7R aka
Final Fantasy 7 "Remake"

>>714650932
world star hip hop was founded in 2005.

>>714650936
>remake the game
>is actually a remake
>false advertising

?????

>>714651010
>is not even 5% of the actual game.
>is a walking simulator that has only about 1% similarity in writing and scenario to the real FF7.. if that.
>is literally a sequel with mutiverse time travel cringe.

Yeah it's blatant marketing fraud.

>>714651010
>Remake
>Not even the first disc and it's padded to hell
>Ghost jannies and bee trannies
???

>>714651243
>retard thinks remake is the same as remaster
anon....

>>714651259
literally just pirate it.

Its funny the only part anybody remembers is the dream sequence with the rapping kangaroo.

>>714651353
I remember them making a poop joke about Denny's

>>714651274
>retard doesn't know what either word means.
>retard doesn't know what mastering is.
pic related is a remaster. the original project file with enhanced textures, models and audio.
we already have that.
name literally 1 section that was "re-made"

>>714648212
>>714649058
it was the weirdest development. why call it an SMT x FE when in reality it was a Persona x FE

>>714651353
the rest of the movie isn't funny or well written. same deal with snow dogs.

>>714651445
Outside the shitty attempt at a weapon triangle, nothing looks remotely like FE so it's more like a bootleg Persona clone you might see on sale

>>714650754
Crimson Tide?

>>714647849 (OP)
This motherfucker holds his staff in his renders but it’s locked behind a final smash

>>714647849 (OP)
??

>>714651259
>announced 5 years before release that it would be in 3 parts
>ignore that
>play it and go "Y NO FUL GAEM SAAR?????"
You're a special kind of retarded.

>>714647849 (OP)
This movie has a big titty wet t shirt scene.
That's all I remember.

>>714650348
>is there a franchise more cucked by dogshit localization than fire emblem?

>>714650427
>Panel de Pon.

Both were made by Intelligent Systems coincidentally enough, PDP was at its best when it was with original characters and not attaching another existing IP to it.

>>714651558
no too early. iirc it's like early 2000s. the entire trailer is following a cgi rocket. Every news media outlet was making fun of it because of how much it lied in the trailer and how massive of a bomb it was

>>714647849 (OP)
This Boxart implies you can play as Tails and Knuckles along with Sonic, little Sonic and Avatar Sonic

Make way for the king

>>714651605
>Complain that the game that's bigger and better is just padding that doesn't even make it one-third of the original content
Reading comprehension is a gift dearie

>>714651875
Having a bunch of characters doesn't imply playing as them. It just means they exist. Now, if you want true false advertising, picrel.
They just used a random colorized drawing. There's a triceraton pictured, and they're not even in the game.

>>714651571
I think i remember frmo a thread a long time ago that the the movie is more about the live actors than the kangaroo

>>714651914
a bunch of ubisoft game are like that, but this one really is the king

>>714647849 (OP)
Remember whenever we told Daisy fans in the Smash 4 days that Daisy would just be a Peach clone, And they said "Pffft, no way! They could use the sports games to make Daisy so much more unique than Peach!"
And then Daisy ended up being the laziest echo fighter in Smash history next to Richter and Dark Samus?

Ah, good times

>>714651875
Knuckles isn't playable because he's too busy committing war crimes

>>714647849 (OP)
Especially when you consider the 2010 teaser
>Wright: I don’t know if we should trust that top hat fucker
>Layton: I like that man’s way of thinking, but he made a massive mistake
We got none of this tension in the final release
>BUT THAT LAST CHAPTER
It barely lasted 10 minutes and they all became best buddies as if nothing happened.. fuck Level 5
Also this >>714648212

>>714651914
I like this game

I bought one of those 'girl scents' from J-List. Its been years since ive been with a woman and wanted to to be reminded of the scent of a woman. But it turned out it just smelled like girly body spray/mist that you could get a Bath and Body Work for like 1/4th the price and it greater quantities. Smelled like flowery, citrus fruit. Not close to the stank of a woman

>>714647849 (OP)
SPORE

>>714652480
Layton games kind of have the problem where the big tension doesn't really work out well so that's why I never picked it up. Actually having two heroic characters at each other's throats might've been cool.

i found out that kangaroos are just huge rabbits

>>714651445
Funny enough, there are fuck tons of Megaten references
> the horny side quests from Strange Journey
> alot of NPCs mentioned weird mini quarantined by the police and SDF - motherfucking Devil Survivor- but you are not allowed to meet any of them because Nintendo
> the Cosmic Egg from 4 Apocalypse, no jump scare this time
> the dude who keeps standing on the same spot while his girlfriend freaking out. He claims he is watching your journey including the final battle and thr Marth form
> many weapons are SMT designed like the Obelisk from SMT3
I am 100% there is a pic somewhere summarized that shit
If you are wondering how come people missing that shit? I guess making them faceless and scattered everywhere has something to do with that

>>714647849 (OP)
>YO YOU CAN ACTUALLY HAVE RED AND BLUES ON THE SAME TEAM

>>714652694
> Actually having two heroic characters at each other's throats might've been cool.
There was a plan, sadly it only survived as concept arts and other texts in the free DLC that only unlocked AFTER you beat the game
Again, fuck Level 5

I remember early trailers for Lair for ps3 made it look like it was some sort of fantasy dragon simulator where you battled for supremacy and such as a proper dragon. But the final game was just Rogue Squadron with dragons, and was a mostly human focused story with a rider main character and the dragon was just a vehicle.

>>714647849 (OP)
>mfw a mishandled trailer filtered every last human on earth from the sheer unbridled buddykino that is KG

Oh, I forgot.
>shows the bull from the arcade game
>it wasn't in the NES version

zipcaster kit never ever

>>714651914
Isn't this game the whole reason they have that 'not actual gameplay' disclaimer in alot of cinematic trailers now

>>714647849 (OP)
Knockout City. I will never fucking get over it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pf8MJkuE3N0

>>714648404
Initial pitch of the trailer suggested some kind of dark, post-apocalyptic fire emblem with demons setting.
What manifested years layer was jpop idolshit

>>714654290
Hold my beer.

>>714654393
Rasler dies during the prologue and is part of Ashe's whole motivation to fight the Empire. It's leagues different than the Lunafreya shit.

>>714654521
Yeah, but the trailers gave no indication of it at first. Until like right before release, I thought he was going to be the hero. Then we get a fag in a tube top.

>>714654594
True. But with XV they kept hammering home that Lunafreya was intrinsically tied to the plot and that she was one of the most important characters.. only for her to literally die almost immediately after being properly brought into the plot three quarters of the war into the story.

The lie:
>Touted as the final chapter of the Blight Saga and a 'return to form'
>Promises of fan favourites being in the game

The Truth:
>Retconned how Darkspawn work
>Retconned magic
>Only returning characters are Solas, Varic, The Inquisitor, Morrigan and Isabella
>Varic is actually a schizophrenic hallucination 90% of the game because he died at the start and it's EXTREMELY obvious that it's the case
>Zero mention of ANYTHING from previous games
>Devs don't even know their own timeline
>Secret ending reveals everything that happened from Origins to Veilguard was orchestrated by some Mystery Niggas

>>714654290
>Two different chicks that routinely speak with Noctis and clearly want to hop his bone
>Ends up with some chick who he's only ever spoken with through letters
Didnt see any of the movie shit but I felt that was kind of a bad thing

>>714651875
Not trying to defend forces, but no, it really doesn't.

>>714655212
Movie only makes it worse. Lunafreya was at Insomnia during the attack and instead of going to the where she knew Noctis would be, she decided to go to where Titan and Ramuh are before going to Altissia instead of explaining to Noctis what the fuck is happening.

>>714651571
>>714652221
>>714651353
>>714647849 (OP)
In Kangaroo Jack's defense, it's more of they got screwed over by executive meddling. It was originally supposed to be an R-rated, crime movie with some dark humor. But it didn't go so well with test screenings with the test audience only liking an early scene with some kangaroos. That and because Snow Dogs was sort of popular at the time, they basically had to scrap everything and reshoot and edit it into a family comedy and added the CGI kangaroo.

Crackdown sequels

>>714652841
That was the intention, but playtesters wouldn't stop shooting each other.

>>714653776
How fucking old are you, dude?

>>714659804
when they say you're here forever it's no joke

>>714659804
I'll be 305 next month.

Although they fixed most things later on, this thing was a joke when it released.

>>714660712
and you've been a virgin that whole time?
you must be powerful...

>>714661135
I have a Guatemalan woman who would say otherwise.

>>714655158
>Zero mention of ANYTHING from previous games
Fucking really?

>>714647849 (OP)
Until my last breath, I'll never stop being mad about ff7re
I was just out of high school when I saw the PS3 e3 tech demo, and remember thinking "maybe adult life won't suck after all"
Then almost 2 whole generations of nothing.
Then we finally see something, and a lot of the PR indicated that it was an honest remake, although deep down I was skeptical after seeing the launch trailer
Then the leaks came out, and I saw everything this was, and more or less knew how it was going to be.
Years later, after rebirth proving my hunch 100% on the money, and seeing all the backpedaling, calling this endeavor a "reimagining, not a remake", I found myself irreversibly disillusioned.

>>714661179
>Guatemalan woman
Anon that's a man.......

>>714661585
I didn't say Brazilian.

>>714650932
>go on reddit
>join subs like r/movingtojapan because I'm a huge weeb
>almost every post is from some Indian dude wanting to move to Japan
damn Japan is turning into Canada.

>>714647849 (OP)
The first Scorn trailer made me believe it will be more of shooter that it actually was.

>>714655158
Basically any discussion of this game is pointless, because of just one singular thing:
>No save transfer, the world state from previous games doesn't matter
Effectively they've discarded THE main gimmick of that IP, on which it was sold since its creation. This game basically does not exist as far as anyone who bothers with this IP is concerned.
It is impossible to defend this, which is why they tried so hard to channel all criticism this shit gets to be related to "internet racists".

>>714655158
Speaking of Bioware. Remember where the first ME Andromeda's trailer came out with its country song and the clear focus on "new frontier" kind of vibe? Yeah, nothing of it was in the final game.

>>714664437
Said trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8V9dRqSsw

>>714656026
They should've just made the entire movie about the fact that this kangaroo gained human speech and a 'tude after putting on this guy's stuff after the trailer was released if they already reshot the movie a bunch. Literally just film scenes where the CGI kangaroo causes mayhem away from the main cast and makes a bunch of snarky comments or meets some wacky but inconsequential side characters.

>>714664437
>>714664491
I am still mad. Silly of me to get excited over a teaser trailer that showed nothing of course, but what can you do. The end result was absolutely NOTHING like this.
Oh, and speaking of Mass Effect...

Speaking of misleading trailers that are nothing like the final game. Name a bigger one that this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqrG1bdGtg

>>714652736
more like huge opossums.

>>714664681
that's Kangaroo Jack 2.

>>714655158
DAV is a funny case of marketing for sure
>release a cartoony light hearted CGI trailer
>nobody likes it, feels nothing like dragon age
>"OH SHIT THE PLAYERS HATE IT"
>"Yeah guise scratch that, we actually have DARK AND GRIMY fantasy in SPADES"
>focus marketing on pushing this message
>game releases
>it was like the original CGI trailer all along

>>714661010
Still is a joke.

>>714663374
>NOOOO Only I should get to be a gaijin in Japan!!!
Cry more, bitch-tits

>>714650932
Americunts of various races are more than capable of shitting up any online forum.

>>714655212
You would have to physically restrain me from raping Iris. What is with Square and these jailbait girls?

They implied the last XIV expansion would be a low stakes expansion after the previous expansion ramped them up to the highest they had ever been, what we got was only just barely very technically slightly lower stakes.
I might be misremembering but I think they might have teased the competition between your usual allies to be a bit more direct too.

>>714663615
Action rather than shooter but might I suggest Succubus, it's a spinoff of that diaster Agony game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/985830/SUCCUBUS/
There was supposed to be an RTS spinoff too at some point, not sure what ever happened with that

>>714664949
I remember the massive hubbub just before this trailer hit all from one twitter post saying it was the best trailer they've ever seen and everyone was assuming it was a sequel or revival to a dead franchise or something.

>>714663615
>>714665908
Oh and make sure you get the free uncensor DLC

>>714647849 (OP)
I remember when this movie came out and was getting TV advertising. The commercials were about a CGI kangaroo dancing around like a retard. Was the movie not that or something?

>>714650932
>when the internet was still just white and japanese

>>714666289
Those commercials were all the CIG kangaroo scenes in the movie. In the movie they were just a heat induced hallucination one of the protagonists was having. The actual movie is a crime comedy about two guys chasing a kangaroo that stole money or something.

>>714666289
Never saw it, but iirc it was a buddy cop movie that was supposed to be rated R.
The talking dancing kangaroo was only in it for a few minutes.

>>714666474
>>714666613
That's pretty funny, I'm gonna read up on it more. I remember countless commercials of the stupid ass kangaroo, I was 13 at the time so I was already old enough to think it was retarded and for 20 years I just assumed it was a dumb CGI kangaroo movie. Learn something new every day with barely on-topic /v/ threads.

>>714651353
I remember the groping scene

>>714665484
brown

>>714666613
The kangaroo wasn't a talking kangaroo except in a brief dream sequence which ends up being played in almost its entirety in the trailer, and the kangaroo in human clothes was barely featured doing anything interesting outside of that trailer scene.

It.probably should've been criminal.

>>714664681
Pretty sure they decided it just wasn't worth the money. They didn't expect much from it anymore and figured they'd just lie in the trailers and push it out.

>>714667318
Yes

Commodore 64 games constantly used Amiga or Atari ST screenshots on the box.

>ctrl+f molyneux
>0 result

>>714668930
Fable was mentioned >>714650826

>>714649058
One thing Atlus does that I really hate is that they keep making these Persona lite games where the add a bunch of social mechanics but not the main draw of Persona, the romance

>>714661010
>fixed

Lol!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4KxRp8jeliQ

>>714663615
I remember when it came out, and people defended it saying "well, they never said it was a shooter!" OK but they had a gun in 90% of the trailers, and that implies a lot

>>714668763
IIRC it was originally a more adult movie but they cut it up for a lower age rating, the whole movie is a lie, really

>>714647849 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-8hRXYWBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxTfCTltUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd1VjjarUl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAQ7uxtS_LM
>marketing campaign has a better story than the actual game
I'm still mad. It's insane how 343/Halo Studios spent millions of dollars on making kino ads instead of making sure the game's actual story was good. Imagine being Brian Reed (Halo 5 writer) and getting mogged by COMMERCIALS. This debacle is why I will never get hyped for games or trust AAA devs ever again.

>>714673745
I feel like people would have been willing to give this more of a try if they hadn't felt so deceived.

>>714673745
I look at Drag X Drive and suddenly the Knockout City characters don't look so bland anymore

>>714673745
>Peach expy
>side shaved head and girlboss personality
Of course.

>>714655142
This is exactly why ONO is a fucking HACK.