Signed.
After seeing the Japanese add, I cant even laugh at how shitty the American one is.
Who do these adds even appeal to?
EDIT: Lets not make assumptions about musical taste. Any form of popular music would have been inappropriate. Pop, rap, rock... most popular songs.
EDIT 2: Once again, this is not an attack on classic rock or any particular genre. This is about misleading advertising and out of place music in shitty commercials. All the money they spent on it... its trash.
EDIT 3: And actual quality Destiny advert: https://youtu.be/jS1BM9XRgvw
And another decent one: https://youtu.be/clRpcIHpmoY
EDIT: I gotta say, I am amazed how few people get the thread.
The vast majority of the posts on this thread essentially boil down to thinking I am insulting a 70s Rock Band and like Dubstep. As though the entire point of the thread flew over their heads and was completely lost on them. I guess I cant expect less from children.
But I will say this: I was wrong about the advert.
The advert is still an embarassing and misleading schlock epic: money burning on the screen, portraying Destiny as a game of one liners and awesome fist pumping ACTION when in reality, its a very slow moving old school sci fi universe that is highly confusing and has no one liners or bro action AT ALL.
But I thought an advert like this would be completely ineffective. I thought it would be a massive failure around here. But I was wrong, since apparently all it takes is a popular song and some schlock get people excited.
Damn shame that.
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Edited by Senor Crouch: 9/11/2015 7:00:53 AMFunny that I found this thread, as I posted a comment in another thread not too long ago touching upon this topic: "I find it highly curious that these live action video trailers for Destiny use 3rd party music rather than Destiny's own epic scores. Not to say anything against the musical scores used in the trailers, God knows they are masterpieces in their own right, but there is a bit of a disconnect between the emotions Destiny seeks to portray and the emotions brought about from the scores played in these trailers. But then again, Activision has long since forgotten what it means to be a gamer, selling that part of their soul many moons ago to the lust of money. So I would no longer expect them to understand the concepts of tone, continuity, or conveyance of a video game." I will sign.