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Edited by heysharpshooter:
9/12/2015 12:24:48 AM
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Petition to Never Use Classic Rock in a Destiny Advert Again
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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I basically agree. Zeppelin is old for me and I'm 37. I know that there are a lot of classic rock fans out there amongst Gen X and Millennials, but it's a niche genre. I [i]don't[/i] agree that they should have put modern pop/rap/rock in their commercials, but it would have at least made more sense than stuff from before I was born. Their target audience is teens through mid 20s after all (based on age polls in the forums). I always prefer music that matches or at least emulates the music/mood you expect to see in game. Though Bungie does have a history of tongue-in-cheek advertising, so it's not surprising that the ads don't match the tone of the game. [i]While I'm baffled by their choice of music in the ads, I just let it go, as it is [b]typical[/b] of Bungie ads.[/i] The only time music in an ad/trailer ever made me kind of angry was in the Dark City trailer. They used a track called Sleep Now by Howard Hughes, which is absolutely awesome, but very different than the music and mood of the movie. With a movie trailer, I actually expect to get a taste of what's in the actual movie... In this case I went in expecting a more action packed and well scored movie like The Crow. Instead I got a slow movie, with a decent climax and a completely different musical style. While having a very different mood in an ad or trailer isn't exactly atypical, as there have been many other instances where advertisements and products with not aligned. But I definitely think they should try to at least stick to music that resembles the in-game/movie score or a song that on the OST at least (if it's going to be a pop/rock/rap/etc song).
