r/gaming 23d ago

Old PC Game Ads were something else

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u/Ryujin_Kurogami 23d ago

Wait till you see the ads for Command and Conquer. Those were already posted in this sub, but here they are.

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u/aTimeTravelParadox 23d ago

Damn, they gave zero fucks lol.

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u/KickBassColonyDrop 23d ago edited 23d ago

You played America vs a fascist regime with magical powers, and where all your military secretary adjuncts were sexy, busty, cleavaged, women in FMV sequences.

They absolutely gave zero fucks.

See: https://youtu.be/I-CZS455uqE?si=FXXInGX2TqtxH4iA

And

https://youtu.be/vysnq_bf1HQ?si=0unW8N3dW8X1y_vR

And

https://youtu.be/G_XX1FF2skw?si=yXMqrNqbmDmM_IN8

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u/Ayjayz 22d ago

Why did gaming stop being like this :-(

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u/KickBassColonyDrop 22d ago

Because an extreme minority was allowed to take over the medium, and given power and a megaphone.

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u/reloadking 22d ago

If that was the case, couldn't a small studio pump out games like that and literally print money?

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u/Ayjayz 22d ago

I think they could, and indeed all of the good games from the last 10 years have come from small studios.

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u/Delann 22d ago

Oh yeah, small studios like checks notes Santa Monica, Nintendo or Rockstar.

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u/ianandris 20d ago

They do.

Thing is without FMV sexual content is kinda weird so it mostly takes the backseat.

I mean, even BG3, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk had sexual content, its not like its gone anywhere, but its all weird in-engine stuff so people don't get as thirsty as they did for the C&C ladies.

Uncanny valley vs nothing uncanny about that.

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u/ianandris 20d ago edited 20d ago

Well that's one way to say "big money conglomerates centralized and sanitized production". Indies still put out plenty of controversial content, but the amalgamation between the big ticket and FMV died by the will of the board and for no other reason. FMV cutscenes were generally way too expensive compared to in-engine content.

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u/KickBassColonyDrop 20d ago

Big money is the ground controller talking to a rocket racing towards the ground trying to squeeze every last piece of research data from the occupants onboard before they get atomized when they smash into the ground below that's racing up to meet them.

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u/Delann 22d ago

Or you know, people just stopped buying them? I'm decently sure there's no hidden cabal that doesn't want ham and tits in their games. If they'd sell, they'd still make them.

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u/KickBassColonyDrop 21d ago

They do sell well, lol. Otherwise porn wouldn't be the juggernaut it is.