>"Make your enemies cry like an anime fan on prom night"
Why did this trigger people so much in 2016 I think it's pretty funny desu

Safe edgy.

>>714891912 (OP)
it was a reddit time

cause people wanted it more edgier

>>714891912 (OP)
Because it alienated all the fans that fap to Call.

>>714891912 (OP)
Because it was directly insulting the only people that would ever actually pay for it

always seemed like a cheap crappy commercial with crappy writing and a crappy voiceover. is the joke super offensive? not really, but it's also not very funny or well delivered.
the game ended up sucking massive cock so I feel like people just wanted to shit on them for all their mistakes at the time

>>714891912 (OP)
weebs can't into bants

>>714891912 (OP)
Mob mentality + weebs taking bants way too personally.

>>714891912 (OP)
Cause you're a normalfag.
Ironically I went to an anime con on my prom night.

>>714891912 (OP)
I legit forgot this was line but i never forget the pizza explosions.

>>714891912 (OP)
Who the fuck wrote that line?
Why does it sound like a woman wrote it?
How do women like this spend their time that they don't even immerse in the culture their workplace supposedly caters to?

>>714891912 (OP)
>>714892621
>>714892709
Golly, I wonder why such a joke didn't take well to the Mega Man fanbase. Truly a mystery

>>714891912 (OP)
I thought it was funny too, but because it sounded like "anime fan" was cleaned up from the term they really wanted to say

>>714893197
Electionshitter....

>>714891912 (OP)
Low hanging fruit

You're supposed to have goodwill and rapport before you insult your customers. No 9 doing this, at this point in time, with this shitty trailer would be like mcdonalds releasing an ad after that coffee scandal calling their customers mcucks.

>>714891912 (OP)
there's multiple layers to the sad tale of this game. most of which was washed away by revisionist history. but I remember.

>>714891912 (OP)
what a crash and burn this game was
it reminds me of when the developers of clock tower made that shitty boat game

The game already looked like garbage and worse than the kickstarter pitch, then this trailer starts and shows it looks even worse and then throws a random insult at most of the people who'd be into the game

This line does facinate me though. How the fuck did this manage to squeeze through? How did they write and record that and think to themselves, "hey maybe we shouldn't insult our fanbase like this before the game is even out?" Did the con-man somehow make everyone involved think it somehow wasn't an anime game they were making/advertising? Did they think Mega Man was never an anime franchise despite having multiple anime and being made in Japan?

Truly to be a fly on the wall when this was tossed around a viable idea to advertise your game that was already on thin ice when the trailer dropped.

>>714891912 (OP)
The CEO of the co developer Inti Creates even said the commercial is awful while that was happening

>>714893860
Guaranteed one of the hamburgers like the community manager insisted they put it in. It's not like the jap side would've come up with it. It's a very english dub kind of gag.

>>714893860
because it's an innocent tongue in cheek line and it would've been forgotten if the game was good
you should see the commercials for disgaea, they have the same tones

>>714891912 (OP)
>Why did this trigger people so much?
Because it was true and also 99% of their fanbase.

>>714893860
There was an entire drama with the community manager. These people were simply hostile to their audience.

>>714893860
It was an inoffensive joke blown out of proportion by ironic weebs.

>>714891912 (OP)
>>714893197
Well, was it funny enough for you to buy the game at full price on release day???
If not, it was a marketing fail.

>>714891912 (OP)
Because, in context, it came across as an actual insult, or at least disingenuous. It's like if the "hello fellow kids" guy decided to try insulting you to blend in. You get what he's trying to do, but it just doesn't land the same way.

If the same joke was cracked by someone gamers generally respect or at least enjoy listening to, it would've worked.

>>714891912 (OP)
The reputation of kickstarter games was already terrible by the time that trailer was released on youtube. Any excuse to make fun of them was a good one, especially because Inafune .
Remember Double Fine's 3.3mil lumberjack? Maybe Phoenix Project's "veteran japanese devs!", or that youtuber minecraft clone? People don't even remember the nepohire drama anymore.

>>714893860
>How the fuck did this manage to squeeze through?
Goofy trailers were just the style at the time. Deep Silver's marketing team was just trying to copy NIS America's homework.

>>714894164
The difference is Disgaea is very much in on the joke, actively engaging with it own otaku-isms it mocks while also playing them lovingly, and actually being a good game. It's mocking but in an affectionate way that complimented the games' tone

This kind of humor does not compliment the tone of MN9, and it being dogshit dose it no favors.

You have to earn the audiences' respect in some way before you can comfortable enough to say a line like that. To say nothing about how Mega Man fans felt like dirt after the parade of cancellations from Capcom, and MN9 advertised itself as the return to form people were begging for. After a weak trailer that snidely mocked them, it's understandable why it would be the source of mockery.

All this said, it feels like the mid 2010's was a uniquely terrible time for Japanese games in general that weren't made by Fromsoft. Look how Nintendo advertised Fatal Frame 5, look how they tried to advertised Tokyo Mirage Sessions and try not the cringe into a corner.

>>714895075
See >>714895156

>>714895237
Some marketing teams are able to create trends while others are only able to chase them.
Deep Silver hired the latter, but that doesn't really matter. Even if the trailer had a good script, people would still make fun of it.

>>714892451

The fan version or the best version that won the poll

>>714891912 (OP)
the cultural Marxist takeover of vidya was only just beginning. people saw it happening and were powerless to do anything about it except become non-buynary. and here were are in CY+11 still starving shit companies insistent on taking ESG money out of their potentially greater profits.

>>714891912 (OP)
Well obviously it triggered the main demographic of that game specifically, but it wasn't even accurate back then. I live on the bible belt and anime was just seen as a slightly unusual interest here. Most people at least liked one piece, dbz or naruto and our public school libraries have manga. Maybe this would've been a funny line 20 or so years ago when Inefune was relevant.

>>714893330
>mcdonalds!
>feel superior to paddle-handed retard women with fused together melted vaginas!

>>714894263
"community manager" is such a fucking red flag now

>>714893860
Ironic weebs were in the mainstream at the time and in concept they love that kind of shit.

>>714896632
Only because the game itself was shit.

>>714891912 (OP)
>"Make your enemies cry like Keiji Inafune on launch day!"
I fixed your trailer
pay me

>>714891912 (OP)
Because at the time, it was the cusp of Anime starting to become mainstream and this was a series that was "inspired" by a Japanese IP. It was seen as an insult to Megaman itself and so people rebelled. It wasn't that people were offended, it was just another notch on the belt of people realizing that the corporate west STILL hates Japan and everything that they do, so they will throw a dig at them and anyone that likes them. We are tired of it, especially when the west is so creatively bankrupt that they are blatantly stealing from the very people they fucking hate. Remember when the west actually produced stuff worth a damn and it was Japan that was constantly stealing designs, because they didn't have a single original bone in their body? When the west didn't even think about insulting Japan, because no one cared about them and whatever they were failing to make? Maybe, just maybe, stop with the childish insults, remember how to make shit and then keep doing that for a couple decades if you want to make Japan suffer. You might just get the market back.

>>714891912 (OP)
I think it was your image that filtered people more
The voice over was just easy to mock

Imagine defending Mighty Number 9 in Anno Domini 2025
What a bold choice

>>714891912 (OP)
the bad trailer wouldn't have mattered if the game didn't suck ass
luckily we have better indie megaman clones now

>>714893860
There was a strong anti Japan sentiment in the gaming press and advertising back then. Wouldn't be surprised if the people hired for marketing were among those that hated anything japanese.

>>714892531
It felt like a bad attempt at making a 90s commercial with TUDE, which is hilarious cause I personally don't think it's that hard to replicate one of those successfully. They just really fucked up with this trailer.

>>714898460
the combination of the game demo being ass, the full game looking like a lot more of the same, the plans to make it into a multimedia franchise INCLUDING AN ANIME, all coupled with the trailer... people are forgetting just how much context there is to it

ever since they hired that psycho bitch in the wake of gamer gate, literally nothing they could have ever done was going to win over people's good graces. they leaned into possibly one of the most unsafe angles they ever could have, and they received exactly what they were asking for in return.

>>714891912 (OP)
it's a really contrived scenario for an insult to begin with (do they think anime fans are even aware of when their school prom is?), and on top of that its an insult targeting the main demographic for the game. it's just a really badly written low effort attempt at humor.
it'd be like having an Xbox commercial with "make your enemies cry like an obese person being told they need to go on a diet",

>>714896632
kek, to think that Sonic's next game after that tweet was the spinoff Rise of Lyric one that had glitches up the ass

Everything about the game was turning out comically bad. It was amazing how every single thing about the game was a complete disaster. The fact that they had an extremely cringey ad that also directly mocked the exact demographic that would buy a Mega Man spiritual successor was the cherry on top at the very end. An ad that couldn't be worse if it tried.

>>714891912 (OP)
>hahaha let's directly attack our target audience
lol, lmao.

>>714893027
That dina woman probably wrote it. She was their community manager.

Imagine a commercial for Barbie that said something like "man up, don't be weak like a little girl" or a dentures ad that preached about how boomers are ruining the country. It's the stupidest marketing imaginable.

>>714899651
>Imagine a commercial for Barbie that said something like "man up, don't be weak like a little girl" or a dentures ad that preached about how boomers are ruining the country

>>714892993
Back when the sonic twitter was a shitpost account, they took the piss out of mighty number 9 by posting this image

>>714892880
I was playing kaizo Mario world mods

>>714897309
that's because it's a nonsense job title. they literally aren't doing anything that one of the actual game devs could be doing in their spare time. the only person that would ever have that as their job title is someone who can't meaningfully contribute to the product itself, and the only person who would WANT to have that as their job is going to be someone who is going to go on a power trip and drag their politics into it.

>>714895156
>extremely spoopy trailer
That was Alison Rapp's idea according to her. Thank fucking god she was fired.

>>714893334
This was definitely the reason why the trailer was so hated on. There was so many things happening behind the scene that people were already mad at, and the game itself didn't look that great, so to that "joke" came off as far more insulting as it should have.

>>714899835
I remember this. Didn't this dumb commercial fuck over Gillette's sales something fierce?

A more modern example was Bud Light, a beer for the lower class and/or rednecks, teaming up with Dylan Mulvaney out of all fucking people. They couldn't even choose a trans "celebrity" that could convincingly act like a normal person, they had to go with the most obnoxious and uncanny trans "celebrity" on the planet. That stunt fucked them so hard they went from the most profitable brand in the states to being worth jackshit.

>>714902749
not only that, but hiring him pissed off their conservative customers, and then rolling back and getting rid of him pissed off their liberal customers. they managed to piss off literally everyone to the point where they couldn't even sell product anymore.

>>714903198
liberals don't really drink bud light from what I saw, but they could've gained some support if they stood their ground. but of course they're pussies who cowed cause at the end of the day it's all bullshit meant to sell products. you can see by the dwindling support of pride month this year how much they really give a shit.

>>714891912 (OP)
It’s probably the irony of the ad insulting it’s own backers, while the person who came up with that shit joke was probably some useless fat community manager with no self-awareness. They probably thought they were being cool and ironic, it’s really sad

>>714903946
>it’s really sad
people were already disgusted by what MN9 wound up being. insulting potential customers before the game's even out? they deserve their failute.

>>714893197
You mean weeabo

>>714896632
entered the thread only to see this