Maybe if you promote your game I'll have heard of it...
Looking at you Alone In The Dark 2024
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Oh joy another soulless zombie shooter. I have no idea why it didn’t make it
Will Smith is a "past" celebrity, relying on his name, infamy, and horning in on already proven commodities.
Bad Boys for Life, Aladdin, Suicide Squad, (oh, and "King Richard" lol, we've all seen that!)
Those are his "popular" movies since 2009. Put a fork in him. He's done. He should enter politics.
To be fair Suicide Squad is something he did and passed up Independence Day 2 for believing if he was in one of these "Super Hero Movies that are doing so well" it would revive his career
And he likely would have been right...... If he went with Marvel instead of the DCEU
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He should enter politics.
Please don't do this to us.
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I really feel like his whole life got ruined as soon as he became a scientologist.
Edit: I meant to say "his" not "this"
I'm going to assume that any game that a celebrity suddenly endorses out of nowhere is some low effort mobile thing that probably involves crypto.
Celebrity endorsement has never been a factor in how well a videogame does either way, regardless of level of star power or degree of involvement for the celebrity: Keanu Reeves playing a heavy hand (heh) in the story of Cyberpunk 2077 did little to stop the game's initial bad press, and the main reason Baldur's Gate 3 did well isn't because JK Simmons is playing Kethric Thorm. (still, he had a great performance). Gameplay matters a lot more for a videogame.
It's unsurprising then, that Oscar winning actor Will Smith's involvement in a game in the oversaturated genre of zombie survival shooters did not become successful.
Plus, I don't think paying celebrities to promote videos on their YouTube channel is an effective marketing strategy, mainly because nobody really watches any celebrities' own YouTube channel, with the exception of Jack Black's gaming channel, of course.
JK Simmons is playing Kethric Thorm
See I played Baldur's Gate but I didn't know that shit
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I wouldn't hold it against Keanu personally because its clear he really cared and did gave a good performance but i feel like his involvement with cyberpunk ruined a lot of things that could have been.
CDPR effectively rewrote the campaign after Keanu Reeves told them that he's game if CDPR wants to record more lines. I still remember the E3 demo where CDPR said that the campaign has been completed and they're just in the polishing stages.
The whole "Origin System" that amounts to... literally nothing outside of some dialogue at the very begining
There are dialogue options all throughout the game (at least for streetkid)
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Yup we got a mid main storyline when we could've had more Jackie.
I woulda liked that
No one will hold it against him personally, it's not uncommon.
There are certain actors who performs great in every single movie they appear in, yet still have many of these movies flop. Many times, it's out of the actor's control.
All we can do is our best.
I mean look how many celebrities are in Squadron42/Star Citizen…
Keanu Reeves really helped promote the game though.
Yes, he did. But neither the main praise nor criticism of the game was not directed towards him but on the overall buginess and removal of RPG elements from the game.
Ok, what rpg element was removed? I just played it (without dlc), and it's basically first person witcher 3 in cyberpunk setting, including all the faults. Basically true to type with CDPR.
They advertisd heavily on "complex branching storyline" and "every decision will have consequences" so the expectation was at the minimum a bigger Deus Ex Human Revolution, but then what they actually delivered is a worse GTA 5 with neon lights.
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