Comments on: More Expansion News

By: GyRo567

GyRo567 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:24:18 +0000

Well you can always start a satirical review style… Oh wait.

Now I want you to notice something. See how I inserted an acknowledgement of my own “clever wittiness” (apologies for spelling) and it took away from the sarcastic irony, or “humor” of the moment.

Kudos to anyone who can remotely guess who I’m parodying. I’ll give you a hint: film industry.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:39:06 +0000

Oh yeah, many worse press releases out there. It’s just that “epic” is overdone and rarely accurate, whereas “unprecedented” is almost always a gross exaggeration – or at least impossible to measure.

I mean “unprecedented amount of new content”? They must mean for this series. In which case Command and Conquer 3 also had an unprecedented amount of new content. As does the Doomsday expansion for Hearts of Iron II.

Besides, if they take all the breathless prose, what will be left for the gaming press?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:04:36 +0000

As far as press releases go, I’ve seen worse; imagine the same marketing-speak, but with even less informative underlying content. Usually it’s stuff like “Remember, our product website will be launching next month!” or “Our game sold lots and lots, so we’re issuing a press release to brag about it.”

By: GyRo567

GyRo567 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:38:17 +0000

Unprecedented. Epic. I move that we ban these words from the gaming PR vocabulary. Still, 75 hours is helluva lot of time.

You haven’t seen anything in BS marketing catch phrases until you’ve read the back of a recent Star Wars book. (yes, I actually read some of those… >_> I balance it out with frequent Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem and H.G. Wells books, okay?)