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[ladron121]

 io9.com ARG Article

[krystyn]

Zero? I'd be more generous than that.

(fwiw, LCP was for Activision's game, Gun)

[Jas0n]

I don't believe the article is horrible, but the main point of the article is that the games don't stand alone from their advertised product.

I'd have to contend that the majority of games I have witnessed which were used for advertising did have their own story to them. Especially when you start looking at Dave's games. I personally played Monster Hunter Club which was used to promote the korean film "The Host." The game had little to nothing to do with anything in the movie other than the fact there were monsters. Dave told a great story through his game that completely stood out from the product he was helping to promote. (Thanks Dave - Dee - Michelle - et al)

I love bees existed in the Halo universe, but did not focus on the stories from the games themselves.

Lost experience expands upon the story which is Lost - as did the Batman Dark Knight game - but if the author of the article was basing their opinion on these more popular games (even cloverfield) and not looking into the games which have been played recently but without the feverish pitch of the mass marketed games - they made a forgiveable mistake of looking at the wrong stuff. I'm sure many of us can point them to great games that tell a great story within their own rights.

[enaxor]

[Jas0n]

Enaxor - That comment totally confuses me. I had read it once as though we are not friendly and then I reread it and it seemed almost like an attempt to point out that we were friendly...

I have no idea what the actual intention of the statement is, but my guess is that the author intended to say we were friendly - I dunno

[SpaceBass]

Counterpoint at Orbit Books, which may or may not be an excuse for them to promote a novel called This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams, who lists himself as co-writer for Last Call Poker.

[Nighthawk]

[konamouse]

[krystyn]

[thebruce]

Holy crap
This person needs a punchintheface and a kickinthenuts!

IO9, part 2: "The Little ARG That Failed"

dishing it out on args because their 'experiment' failed... at comic con...


snip... (emphasis mine)

[krystyn]

FWIW, there have been other bloggers in the Gawker Media stable who do seem to play and enjoy ARGs. I've seen other posts from other authors who seem to dig and grok the whole concept, and who take the time to immerse themselves and become part of a community or at least share with their friends.

Ms. Newitz is definitely on a tear!

Rar! Smash ARG! Grr!

[konamouse]

Here is my comment, hope it gets approved for posting.

[Fishjp]

[redct]

[pancito]

Well, we all agree that these posts are pretty much klooless. For me the irony here is that you probably could launch a grassroots at ComicCon. Certainly not the ideal audience, but doable. You could even do it outside the doors and be effective. But I think an event of some sort, a piece of performance art or whatnot would work a lot better than 1000 postcards. It would get you into the story right away, would attract attention, etc. Heck, I probably wouldn't follow up on their postcard.

I loved this: