THQ knows how to market a game

[Izuno]

I'm fairly certain the producer thing is just a joke. We've already established the video is parodying the Jade Raymond Assassin's Creed Dev Diaries.

exactly! somehow this just feels off...actually makes me less interested in the game for intangible reasons. i guess the parody just doesn't seem that interesting.

[kleinluka]

This whole jade raymond thing demonstrates perfectly how immature this industry still is.

[Thrik]

Yeah, I've never been keen on the way just about everyone's been towards her. She's just someone very passionate about games who happens to have good looks too. It's kind of pervy the way the media and gamers alike have jumped all over the latter. And then you read GameTrailers comments or something and it's all "She's ugly what an attention whore" and stuff like that just because she's doing a development diary like dozens of other (male) developers/etc have done in the past.

[2d-chris]

Boys will be boys.

You only have to look at movies and music that use women as sex symbols to realise that games are hardly doing it first! Even if in games we are using a porn star She's very good at what she does for sure.

[FrieChamp]

Even if in games we are using a porn star She's very good at what she does for sure.

Did you mean...Tera Patrick or Jade?

[2d-chris]

Tera Jade just happens to be a good looking women with actual producing talent, I bet there are PLENTY of good looking male game developers, but when do guys get a stiffy and a raised heart rate over them??

[PogoP]

Tera Jade just happens to be a good looking women with actual producing talent, I bet there are PLENTY of good looking male game developers, but when do guys get a stiffy and a raised heart rate over them??

What, is that not normal? Damn...

[FrieChamp]

Update: EA also knows how to market a game!

You can now check out Kim Kardashian's knockers while punching Peter Moore in the face in EA's "Face Breaker"

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54061

Awesome!

[Warby]

first of all i support the "assassins creed dev diary"-spoof theory i didnt even get the whole jade raymond thing until after the fact and yet i saw this video and it made perfect sense to me from the first second. its allaround tame and funny id say. id prefer if no game devleopers would have to resolve to these kind of methods (thats goes to both thq and ubi) and that games would be able to sell themselves based on realtime gameplay footage alone.

but is this a sign for game industrys immaturity ? i think not at least not if compared to the movies and tv industrys. they have been around for quite a while longer and they pull the same kind of shit and sometimes worse. for example i am a hardcore imdb user i check that site at least 4 times a day and their news (not the reason why i go there) are bursting out of all seams with the newest miss adventures of all sorts of slutty 14 year old girls getting nude pictures taken and having them leak onto the internet. one girl and the marketing people behind her need to be pointed out especially: "milly ray cyrus" she is in the news like everyday i dont know what exactly it is she is doing (sure as hell not singing or acting) but i know for sure her entire career and the marketing of her products is build on her bieng jailbait. the game industry has reached THAT level of maturity a long time ago

[Erratic]

but is this a sign for game industrys immaturity ? i think not at least not if compared to the movies and tv industrys. they have been around for quite a while longer and they pull the same kind of shit and sometimes worse. for example i am a hardcore imdb user i check that site at least 4 times a day and their news (not the reason why i go there) are bursting out of all seams with the newest miss adventures of all sorts of slutty 14 year old girls getting nude pictures taken and having them leak onto the internet. one girl and the marketing people behind her need to be pointed out especially: "milly ray cyrus" she is in the news like everyday i dont know what exactly it is she is doing (sure as hell not singing or acting) but i know for sure her entire career and the marketing of her products is build on her bieng jailbait. the game industry has reached THAT level of maturity a long time ago

I dunno if tabloid news stories are the thing to compare against the media Ubisoft released for Assassins. Basically what imdb is reporting on is the same shit that junk E-magazines focus on.

I didn't really see anything wrong with the Assassins Creed developer diary's that were done, it's internal promotion from the developer/publisher that gives you some insight as to who's making it and why. Sure, I'll always prefer a gameplay trailer over anything else, but I don't mind getting glimpse at who's working on the game. Be it a producer or whoever.

[kleinluka]

Well looks like THQ's strategy totally worked because now we have a 3 page thread on a game we would have otherwise never talked about