"Your mom hates this"

Has anyone seen the new PS3 / Dead Space 2 commercial with "Your mom hates this"? This commercial really rubbed me the wrong way. I think it is a very nice overview of the current state of game development.

I would venture a conservative guess that 40-50% of gamers are over 18, and 60-70% of those over 18 most likely do not live with their mothers. Why are they finding it necessary to advertise on the merits of, "mommy won't like this,so you should buy it"? Even for the people that do live at home, "my mom hates this" stopped becoming a tool for buying things after about 9th grade when you wanted the new Limp Bizkit CD.

I'm not really sure if there is a thesis to this post, but it is something that I saw and it really rubbed me the wrong way. There are just as many older gamers as there are mommy-dependant gamers. Why does it always seem that games and their advertising are child oriented?

It's an advertising gimmick - not 1/10th as bad as a lot of the horrible advertisements on TV that have me grabbing the remote to mute them ASAP. I would have preferred and ad that showed the gameplay, but few ad's these days show the product at all. I give it a big "whatever". :)

It's "You're mom hates Dead Space 2" and I've seen it.

My mom is staying at my house and I was playing the DS2 demo and she couldn't stand to watch it. I'm like "It's just a game and it's fake and not real". She's like ooh it's terrible. Me and my 12 year old nephew have no problem with survival horror, but all the woman are weak.

My mom is staying at my house and I was playing the DS2 demo and she couldn't stand to watch it. I'm like "It's just a game and it's fake and not real". She's like ooh it's terrible. Me and my 12 year old nephew have no problem with survival horror, but all the woman are weak.

clr84651

lol, Wow.

I know my mom would HATE Dead Space 2, but she wouldn't really be able to stop me from buying the game because I'm over 18 and out of the house. When I was living with my parents and I wanted to play the more violent stuff, I'd make sure she was at least out of the room. Commercial didn't really rub me the wrong way, I thought it was kind of funny. Especially the mom that "medium disapproves" of Dead Space 2.

but all the woman are weak.clr84651

My mom is staying at my house and I was playing the DS2 demo and she couldn't stand to watch it. I'm like "It's just a game and it's fake and not real". She's like ooh it's terrible. Me and my 12 year old nephew have no problem with survival horror, but all the woman are weak.

clr84651

So you're saying that your mom is weak or your girlfriend, if you even have one, is weak? I am a woman and I AM NOT WEAK!

It's just like that popular online video clip "2 G----, 1 C--.", the reaction videos on YouTube, etc are what sells the site and gets people to visit it.

who cares. the "snuggie" commercials drive me apesh!t too, i mean its called a f#cking blanket people! but i digress, this is still not enough to get me on a soapbox or forum bout it. sounds more like your delicate sensibilities were offended, rather than "mommies."

They were paid actors...

What the ape said.

On another note, I always wondered why American game commercials always try to be funny dragging down the game into ridiculousity. I mean, Dead Space is a horror game, shouldn't the commercial be scary then?

As I can't remember another thread discussing a video game commercial (other than Kevin Butler), and based on the number of replies to the thread, I'd say the commercial was quite successfull. It would appear that for some hardcore gamers, some of you all are overly sensitive to a tv ad. jnjreams76

He's right ya know. All the ad needed to do to be successful was to get people talking about it. And here we are, a bunch of gamers up in arms over a TV commercial. We played right into their trap.