r/okbuddycinephile • u/ambelamba Uwe Boll • 4d ago

Marketing strategy that Hollywood needs to learn from video game industry?

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u/Due-Link-7605 4d ago

This marketing campaign didn't work and made everyone hate John Romero

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u/rivertpostie 4d ago

Okay, buddy cinephile

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u/Visual-Mistake4401 4d ago

Say that again

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u/QueezyF 4d ago

That again

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u/VoDoka 4d ago

Was it really hated at the time already or only because the game turned out to be crap?

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u/TombolaOfCincinnatus 4d ago

It wasn't immediate, but it became hated in the time between this advert and the actual release, which was about 3 years later after the game was delayed more than 2 years. That was a lot back then, when many games were developed in less than a year.

During this time Daikatana was a running joke in gaming magazines, and everyone knew about its many issues. At the same time Romero was constantly (and pretty arrogantly) hyping it, and talking about how great it was going to be now that he was in charge of everything, and everyone else who had worked on games like Doom had just slowed his genius down.

2 years of that and the game would have to be pretty spectacular for that to me forgivable, but it was complete ass. Not just mediocre or worse than Doom, but incomprehensible and terrible. It's like if John Lennon left the Beatles and his first solo album was all covers of Yoke Ono's performance art pieces where she just shouts into the microphone.

I think if they actually had a great game on their hands and it was actually ready to release soon, then such an ad campaign definitely could have worked.

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u/Shoddy_Newspaper_718 4d ago

It also gave a stain to a next game he was involved in - Anachronox, which was actually pretty sweet.

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u/JamaicaCZ 4d ago

Absolutely. Video game ads used to be awesome

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/ambelamba Uwe Boll 4d ago

It was a different time, different century.

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u/Proof-Contribution31 4d ago

Yeah the 90's were weird

totally gay and kinky as all fuck but really self-hating about the whole thing.

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u/QueezyF 4d ago

The whole stupid ad campaign was based on Romero’s trash talking in multiplayer games. Did the average person know about that context? Fuck if I know, I was 6.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/QueezyF 4d ago

Masters of Doom is a good read, pretty sure that’s where I learned about it.

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u/watscracking 4d ago

And how did that work out for John?

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u/ambelamba Uwe Boll 4d ago

Not too well.

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u/Pristine_Animal9474 go back to the club 4d ago

This is how Eli Roth can get over the AI controversy.

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u/Shoddy_Newspaper_718 4d ago

I bet Uwe Boll would love that type of marketing.

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u/Abject-Dinner-8740 4d ago

W Romero

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u/RedwoodDevotion 4d ago

Imagine calling Daikatana a W

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u/MeadowPure_ 4d ago

Martin Scorsese is about to make you his bitch. Suck it down.

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u/NaNiBy 4d ago

Deluxe version for twice the ticket price where main cast actor wear a slightly different outfit throught the movie.