18 Responses to “Marketing 101”

1. 1 Josh Posted: Sep 5th, 2007 at 5:42 am

   Amazing as always guys. Great, great stuff! I listened to a 1up podcast from Friday where the Lair CEO tries to explain that the “hardcore” gaming crowd can’t appreciate the subtlety within Lair. He even suggests that EGM will regret their review. Possibly my favorite excuse for why a game is bad - it measures your commitment. If you don’t care then the game is stunning, but if you care the game is a disaster. Reply to this comment.

2. 2 JAT Posted: Sep 5th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

   Well, if PS3-owners would care about the actual gameplay, they probably wouldn’t have bought the console in the first place… Reply to this comment.

3. 3 Someone Posted: Sep 5th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

   *Pause* Hot as Hell! Lmao. One of the bests I’ve seen on the site. Reply to this comment.

4. 4 vizunary Posted: Sep 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

   @JAT, you’re an a$$-troll. great comic guys Reply to this comment.

5. 5 Chmurek Posted: Sep 6th, 2007 at 5:53 am

   Yeah, you definitely deseve lots of nice for this one! So simplistc, yet so ingenious! ^^ Reply to this comment.

6. 6 Dested Posted: Sep 6th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

   Hilarious guys, always quality. “Evokes strong emotions” ROFL Reply to this comment.

7. 7 Stripey Posted: Sep 6th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

   This one was absolute gold. It’s going down as one of my favorite comic strips……. Of all time. Reply to this comment.

8. 8 Vin Posted: Sep 7th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

   Haha, this is great. When I got my issue of game informer and saw the 7 rating I started laughing. This game got a fairly large amount of hype (at least I think it did) and it turned out to be a mediocre game, with too much bloom and sh!&%y controls. Reply to this comment.

9. 9 aka_Pyro Posted: Sep 7th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

   Um… Just what kind of game is this Lair, anyways? Is it a crappy rpg the likes of which PlayStation has not had in years? Reply to this comment.

10. 10 aka_Pyro Posted: Sep 7th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

    Ok, I checked Wikipedia. It got an average 57/100 from Metacritic. You think the developer that made Rogue Squadron could do better. People should start focusing more on gameplay than on graphics. Who cares if your game looks like a movie? If it looks like a movie that sucks total ass, who’s going to like it? Reply to this comment.

11. 11 Mrockwell Posted: Sep 9th, 2007 at 3:08 am

    Lair is very much an amazing game. The gameplay is fluid, and fun. The soundtrack and the graphical presentation are beautiful. Ignore the reviews for a minute, and try talkign to people that own the game. Lair is the next Godhand, reviewers giving it bad reviews, and gamers loving it. Reply to this comment.

12. 12 David T Posted: Sep 9th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    Mrockwell, a quick check of gamefly shows a user rating average of 6.2 ( of 10). Warhawk is at 8.9 (#1 on the list, actually). Now stop astroturfing, we know who you are. Reply to this comment.

13. 13 Atsuu Posted: Sep 9th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    Well, if PS3-owners would care about the actual gameplay, they probably wouldn’t have bought the console in the first place… I own all the systems, and PS3 has by far my favorite line-up. It has all my favorite games coming to it, and the ones I already have for it are extremely enjoyable. Lair was a failure, but don’t group all of the games in with it. Reply to this comment.

14. 14 business Posted: Sep 10th, 2007 at 12:01 am

    Hahaa, true. I’m in marketing, and it’s so true. Hahahaa Reply to this comment.

15. 15 mark Posted: Sep 10th, 2007 at 5:47 am

    Just “digging” around and found your site, love the cartoons, keep it up! Reply to this comment.

16. 16 darkwonders Posted: Sep 10th, 2007 at 8:35 am

    Well I for one enjoyed the game. It is nowhere near the low scores that it received… If anyone cares, take a look at this little thing I whipped up… The reins of a dragon Comic was still funny tho. I’ve always wondered how people spin things positive, especially in movie commercials where they have like 1 or two word answers to how critics feel. Even for terrible movies there’s always something “good” in the commercial that the critics say. Now I know why! Reply to this comment.

17. 17 xDrezdenx Posted: Sep 10th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    Half of you who badmouth lair have never even played it, so your opinions are worth nothing to begin with. If you’ve actually played it, it’s not nearly as frustrating as all these overpaid game reviewers who aren’t actually gamers make it out to be. The sixaxis flight control is perfectly fluid. If you have trouble with it, you must be mentally retarded. And I am no sony fan boy by any length, I own a 360 also, and it’s still my favorite system, and has my favorite games, but the badmouthing you people do to Lair having never actually played it disgusts me. Reply to this comment.

18. 18 DirtyFinger Posted: Sep 10th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    hehehe, best one of your comics yet. an the good part is, this joke is pretty much universal and can be adapted for all kinds of marketing lies. Reply to this comment.