awful celebrity cash grabs in gaming...
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- What do Will Smith, Vin Diesel, Terry Crews, and more celebrities have in common? Well they are all celebrities' that appeared in video games. Some were some pretty awful cash grabs in gaming...
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Undawn (Will Smith Game) 0:00
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct 2:35
Crime Boss: Rockay City 5:48
Crackdown 3 7:04
Call of Duty 9:15
Fortnite 11:10
Guitar Hero 11:36
Far Cry 6 12:50
Dark Pictures/The Quarry 16:21
Gears of War 4 20:57
Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island 22:03
90s Athlete Games 22:54
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Cameos 23:59
50 Cent Games 24:02
Vin Diesel Wheelman 24:26
ARK 2 26:02
EXO Zombies 28:42
SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run 30:33
Christiano Ronaldo Subway Surfer Rip-Off 31:59
Halo 3 ODST/Halo 5 33:47
Good Casting of Celebrities 35:52
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (E3) 37:13
Mary-Kate and Ashley video games 41:16
Avicii Invector 42:04
Celebrity Endorsements in Gaming 43:10 
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It's almost like having major celebrities in video games is like a curse or something. That or maybe AAA developers spending more money on celebrities instead of using it on the game itself isn't such a good idea.
Escape from butcher bay?
@StrangeTICK32 I guess that would be considered an outlier. But considering how old that is, it came from a time when celebrity cameos were uncommon to rare and were actually good games. So it's a good outlier in a pool of bad.
It can be done right, Death Stranding showed games can have literal movie casts and be amazing.
@@skaraotzky9114same with cyberpunk
Def Jam FFNY is a great example of it done right. It had Danny Trejo and Snoop Dogg and many more rappers.
Fun Fact: The First ever celebrity to star/endorse a game was Henry Wrinkler in the Fonz arcade game by Sega.
Ello you
Hey Larry when are you going to do an episode of fact hunts on encyclopedia dramatica?!?!
Henry Winkler is a fucking national treasure
**cough** Larry? **Cough**
Bam was a skate boarder so his appearance in Tony hawk underground was valid
Some you missed:
- Bruce Willis in Apocalypse. Originally developed without a name lead, Willis was brought in to as a way to show off the game engine (which would later be used on the Tony Hawk games). The game ultimately failed to take off.
- The Katy Perry expansion pack of The Sims. Yes, this is real.
- Green Day: Rock Band. Not really the first choice you'd think of to do a Rock Band game on.
- Other celebrities who have promoted mobile games: Ryan Reynolds, John Goodman, Sharon Stone, Meghan Trainor, Kate Upton, Mariah Carey.
@@iaqhBoth the Katy Perry Sims and Green Day: Rock Band were physical releases. LGR even reviewed the Katy Perry Sims expansion pack, calling it the worst of the Sims 3 expansions. It was a physical copy.
I wouldn't say Green Day Rock Band is an "awful cash grab". It's just another serviceable Rock Band game in the myriad of rinse and repeat Rock Band titles. The same could be said about The Beatles Rock Band. The games appeal to particular niches:
- Fans of Rock Band
- Fans or The Beatles/Green Day
Black Eyed Peas were also in a Sims spin-off lmao iirc they re-recorded some of their songs in “Simlish” too
...also, Gorge romero & other actors, on Call of the dead (not really an awful cash grab ik)
@@Saymavennah shut up
To be fair to the characters of The Quarry, they are supposed to be a bunch of 18 year old camp councillors. They seem pretty believable to me
How? They don't sound like 18 yo kids, they sound like old geezers think kids sound
I thought they were college students
The Quarry has some great performances in my opinion, it’s supposed to be extremely corny as it’s not only supposed to emulate the cheesy 80’s horror films but they’re just obnoxious teenagers so they’re not gonna be over enthusiastic
Vin Diesel is actually an executive producer for Wildcard Studios, the creators of Ark.
Exactly .. they don't know that and it shows .. that's why him playing in ark 2 I'm kinda hyped about ....but in arkb2 he has to say the thing in order for me to buy lmfao
He also founded Tigon Studios which worked on games like Riddick and Wheelman, it's literally the point of the studio to have Vin Diesel in it
This right here 👏 seriously all it takes is a small amount of research and they would of found out this information.
I stopped watching at the point he brought up Wheelman and didn't even mention the fact that... Nevermind.
This video is as sloopy and cash grabbing BS as majority of projects shown here.
Yeah, the lack of research and ignoring basic info is a signature rocketsloth move. Gotta churn out that content.
I think cyberpunk did it best. Keanu is literally the most critical character, hes in it alot, and he genuinely loves being johnny
Yeah but the fact that they gave death stranding a pass was disappointing to me
@ooferrell no i think death stranding also gets one. Norman reedus is friends with kojima and they were already working on silent hills together. Silent hills id say wouldve fit in with it tho but death stranding no.
Idris Elba also did really well in Cyberpunk. Genuinely loved his character
I never bought the game because of Keanu, as much as I like him (and he is good in the game). I don't buy any game cos of a `celeb`. Ever.
@@MartinOReilly-mb4um You didn't buy the game because it had a celebrity?
The way you pronounce El-P is crazy
I’m losing my mind
Bruh I had to google his name for 5 minutes to decide if it was an L or I and if I've been saying it wrong for 8+ years...
I'm super saddened by stuff like this or like when RUclipsrs butcher city names so badly that they aren't even taking into consideration that maybe they should hear someone else pronounce it before they go with their version of it. Like, I'm of the opinion that if you're gonna do a full video on a topic, the least you can do is watch a video about the things you put into the video to be accurate. Waukesha was a particularly butchered one in a video I watched recently. Dude said it wa-oo-keisha. It's said was keh shaw
I came to the comments due to that, haha. I love Ei-P😂
LP, like records. Vinyl@@BogBoi
Some good examples of celebrity castings are Sylvester Stallone and Peter Weller returning to voice Robocop and Rambo. They had genuine care for these characters that built their careers and gave a amazing performances that was almost like they never left. John Cena as Peacemaker in MK1 sounds like he's having a blast and his line delivery is hilarious. Willem Dafoe in Beyond Two Souls gave a great performance as well and acted his heart out. Matt Ryan as Edward Kenway in Assassins Creed 4 was also a great performance. Imo its when they hire the best actor or celebs with prior experience for their character it ends up working
Speaking of MK1, I will never understand why they made Nitara voiced by Megan Fox…it was so bad
Insane bolt is crazy 😭😭
The Kurt Cobain stuff in Guitar Hero led to legal issues and controversy when it happened
Hence why the celebrity cameos in WoR were just voice work (Gene Simmons of KISS as the Demi-God of Rock and the entire band of Rush for the 2112 section).
As I should be ... I never new they said that.
I'm late to comment but I died during the "Insane Bolt" part, you guys... Lmao.
Fun fact, MJ was an avid gamer and fan of Sega, he composed some tracks for Sonic but wasn't credited for them directly.
20:35 It's not just that they don't care. It's because video games are still looked down upon in the eyes of Hollywood actors. So when they get hired for these jobs, they just see it as a silly little side-gag that they don't have to be serious about.
Which I don’t get why; gaming is arguably more lucrative than overall Hollywood
@@FlexedNooseBecause the get payed for their performance and that's it. Unlike in Film/movie bussiness were the recieve royalties for the stuff they appear, the profit that a game makes goes directly to the publishers pockets.
Now let's talk about the good ones. Putting the president into the map "Five" in Black Ops 1 will forever be one of the coolest moments in CoD. That cinematic that rolls before the map loads is one of my favorites
god tier game that had so many good memories it saddens me they couldnt recreate the feeling.
Black Ops 1, 2, 3, and 4, Advnaced Warfare, WWII, and Infinite Warfare all had a great cast of celebrities in the Zombies.
that doesn't count lmaooo 1) none of them were voiced or endorsed by the people they were playing and the obvious one 2) it was not a cash grab, those characters were all part of the cold war era which the map and time is based around lmaoo i mean i get what you mean i loved jfk and castro but this is a dumb example
Call Of The Dead was in the same game and actually had celebrities in it
Ah yes I love how they got JFK to voice his own character
Will Smith’s zombie game is literally just another game in the tencent folder of “use the same ui and gameplay from our other games so we don’t ever have to improve the ui or gameplay”
I’m kind of surprised sloth didn’t talk about nick cage in dead by daylight since he is in the game as himself because he daughter plays it and he thought it would be cool to be in the game
Nick Cage is a National Treasure tho..
Cuz that would go against the narrative of celebrities in games being bad
@@chetsidewinder5519lol get over yourself buddy. Wahhh the video has a certain narrative. Like no shit that’s the point.
insane bolt is absolutely wild
“E aye P” 😂
It’s L P my man 🗿
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El Producto, named himself as the product of multi culturalism
27:06 "It's Vin Diesel?! They're adding Family to Art?!" 😂😂
If I hear talk about Vin diesel saying the thing at all during the campain...take my money. What they fail to mention is the cronicals if Riddick. Which was a good game and he's perfect playing this role in ark2
@@ooferrell The character he's playing as was a established character in the first game. And they butchered him just to suit him for Vin Diesel.
He is, in fact, 'not' a perfect role for ARK 2.
@@conner4385 I 100% agree
@conner4385 but if ark 2 doesn't have a campaign mode...I'm a already not interested
@@ooferrell ARK 2 wont have a campaign mode.
The story will be told more than likely akin to Genesis-2, via missions/quests that're instance based. (teleport you into a new part of the world where you wont be bothered by other players. Akin to doing a GTA5 heist.)
Rocket sloth could do well in the sloth rocket… as in stocks? Rhymes with stock market? I’ll get my coat and leave.
No. Hang that coat up and sit your as down.
It was funny.
hearing them talk about Exo Zombies while having no idea what they're talking about hurts my soul
21:20 Bro really just pronounced El-P's name as "ee-ai-pee" 💀💀💀
In my opinion, the only peak celebrity game is Def Jam Fight For NY. Released in 2004 it's probably the most ambitious game ever made and its ahead of the time.
Facts
Yes ... and even danny was in that game as well ..
Tony Hawk had Jackass, who are SKATERS.
Michael Jackson's Moon Walker had a lot of input from MJ, including help making the MIDI music of his songs, input on level design and it starred Michael Jackson. It didn't just have a likeness on the cover. It's a good game and MJ had a love for SEGA with him being involved in the initial music for Sonic 3 (though they say the removed or changed it up before release) and him doing a ton of promo work.
Gods, I'm old.
That's how John Malkovich always talks.
The Quarry was one of my favorite games that year.
Man, The Quarry is amazing.
Been loving watching this channel. Never condense these videos. Love the honest convo at the end of every video and it’s a joy hearing you both discuss the theme of the video after talking about big key points. Just wanted to share positive vibes!!
"E I P" cmon man
This channel is awesome, and the 'lowercase' series is one of the best on RUclips. Great stuff.
I do like this channel and I like the conversation of and all 38:42 but they're very biased towards with a consider Celebrities in a game cash grab. They kind of showing their lack of knowledge in my Opinion at least
@@ooferrell In every video it seems they either get something wrong, describe something horribly or just have very odd takes on things. I still like the videos they put out, but I've given up pointing out mistakes etc. because they keep doing it anyways - or I get destroyed in the comments for pointing out any issues. So, it is what it is now lol
E "eye" P 🤦♂️
same bro. I laughed so hard hearing this guy butcher his name
Vin diesel does fit into ark because the whole story of ark is that someone's put a bunch of humans onto biome dome to protect them from extinction
Fun fact about The walking dead survival instinct. It's actually canon to the show and it's takes place before Daryl meets up with the Atlanta crew before the actual show begins.
27:12 adding dinosaurs to fast and furious is exactly what the next few movies are about
Didn't expect Vin Diesel to be in ARK like that. It'd be hilarious if they had a way for him to drive just a real RAM TRX instead of a normal dinosaur as a mount. Maybe DLC, or mods.
Kevin Spacey being in Call of Duty is just cursed
I disagree with the idea that supermassive only started using known actors in their games with their newer anthology games. Until Dawn had multiple popular actors featured.
discovered ur guys' channel this week and been enjoying ur vids. keep up the good work u two
He’s an unlock-able companion when you romance Jada smith during the main campaigns
Nice one. XD
I like your format the way it is so far, new sub thank you!
The "Surprise" Trailer for Black Ops 2 had FPS Russia in it as well as Robert Downey Jr. I actually wrote a report about its marketing success for a college class, awesome to see you mention it!
Yay new video! No calls or texts for the next 46:46
Remember when everyone complained about CoD putting thier cosmetics behind lootboxs and everyone said they should just be able to buy the cosmetic?
this man Luke has a framed picture of Call of Duty Ghosts in his apartment, absolutely unhinged
honestly the endings to these are always the funniest thing ever. dont change how you guys produce your content. it is fire just the way it is. thank you for another banger video fr
the twenty one pilots concert in roblox was all for the fans, i think it was also to promote their new album. they themselves even played the event and disguised themselves as “tog and jogg” and interacted with fans through the game. super super cool on their part.
I find it funny that both the rock and Vin Diesel were in video game movies about driving that were supposed to be movies and never came out and both are in the Fast and Furious series
I believe vin diesel is also voicing a character in the animated Arc show that was SURPRISE RELEASED like a week ago. 💀
Yoo Insane Bolt , so glad I found this channel !
You forgot Sims 3: Katy Perry’s Sweet Treats and the Sims 3: Showtime Katy Perry edition LMAO
-Apocalypse Starring Bruce Willis (PS1)
-Rise to Honor Starring Jet Li (PS2)
-Shaolin Style Starring Wu Tang Clan (PS1)
and a bunch of Jackie Chan Games to boot...
If I see a `celebrity` being advertised to try and make me buy a game, I especially switch off and wait. There's a reason they shove a `celeb` in there- to try and make you buy something that's very probably not very good. That money wasted on a `celeb` could be used to make the game better.
Speaking of Michael Jackson, space Michael in space channel 5 is wild
Not only that but he was a secret character in Let's get ready to rumble 2
Usain Bolt actually trialled at 2 football clubs but wasn't offered a contract. So as much as Elija was definitely confused he was less wrong than you might think
Also I think the Tony Hawk games giving Bam Margera and the Viva La Bam/Jackass people some story is fine bc like Bam had already been a playable character in most of the games and it was probably his idea to bring everyone else in
Yes, Ark has a story lol. A new resource called element came to earth on a meteor and started the conflict that created the Arks.
Man Crackdown 3 hurt, the first is a masterpiece and the second one was a spit in the face. I was hype for Crackdown 3 yet EVERY piece of information I heard about it for the DECADE it was in development was a red flag.
“Every inch of the environment is destructible, it’s routed to a cloud server running 24/7 to compute all the data”
My brother in Christ, I cannot imagine how they thought this was possible enough to ANNOUNCE. When they finally DID implement it into the game, it was secluded to a shitty PvP mode where none of the environments have textures and it’s just a holographic arena 😭
Go go Beckham looks actually pretty goofy and fun ngl
I also really enjoyed the outro that was hilarious
this video was very synthesized, and to the point, thank you!
No, this was amazing!!! Don't go back on track, stay off track! Love you guys!
Oh yeah, I bought a copy of Shaq-Fu for $6 and I have never regretted it
i think the rock’s black atom is the only reason we got black atom as early as we did in Warner Smash Bros
Bam and Wee Man were professional skateboarders at that time and Steve-O, while not being pro, was also a pretty good skater so it makes sense to have them in the game. Also THUG2 looked to be heavily inspired by Thrasher’s King of the Road contest that has a lot of Jackass style challenges
Sam Jackson in GTA San Andreas is Legendary
INSANE Bolt the soccer player is absolutely wild.
Here's a weird thing about farcry 6 Danny Trejo stuff for some reason instead of treating it like a Regular actor in a video game since he plays himself they had to license his likeness, and now you can't even play the missions. Because I guess it just wasn't worth paying for it for more than a year.
8:34
It's not free if you pay for Netflix, LOL.
Keanu,idris,refused, and evry artists/celeb in cyberpunk killed it
When it comes to Ark 2, it seems that it was originally gonna be a story driven game but after all the fan backlash it seems they are changing it back to what Ark 1 was like. So Vin Diesel probably will get shifted to the side.
Still better than payday 3
The funniest one to me is Marshawn Lynch being in black ops 3
“Insane bolt” 🤣🤣🤣
The Rock Band/Guitar Hero entry really shouldn't have been in there, and the excuse about the Wikipedia page's questionable decision to list Kurt Cobain as part of the cast really doesn't justify its inclusion.
Rock Band/Guitar Hero is, if anything, kind of the most appropriate game possible to have celebrity tie-ins.
Actually that "side mission" where you kill Conor McGregor isn't a side mission, It just happens during the main story during the moon mission, but it gets no significant attention so people often miss it. I missed it the first time. Also call of Duty infinite warfare had Aaron Hamilton, a NASCAR driver a part of your crew. Also quite random
The Quarry is fantastic and much better than any of the Dark Pictures Anthology.
Definitely could’ve done more searching but Band Hero 100% has those Celebrities in game as models, same with Kurt Cobain but obviously he didn’t model for the game himself.
There was a game that we never got that the entire selling point of it was Snoop and the fact that it had one of the most prolific gangster movie directors I believe that the entire reason we never got Fear & Respect was the director's passing away
Since you always ask, no. Please, please DO NOT do away with the looser structure in the second half. What you've been doing lately is great. I love the flow of your show, keep doing what you're doing.
Didn’t even talk about how vin diesel was in the chronicles of riddick escape from butcher bay on the original xbox. I seem to remember that game being pretty fun 😂
The same thing I said the lack of knowledge is showing here
He went to the devlopers to get the game made, rather than the other way around.
Seeing Celeb cameos in games is an indicator to stay away. Learned that years ago.
I can't believe that you forgot about one actor in The Quarry, Ted Raimi of Evil Dead 2 and Darkman
Buck in halo 5 was a last minute decision when the character you follow in 4 va had to do something else because scheduling.
I swear to god I've seen that model for Sherry from Undawn in another different game somewhere before.
forgetting about snoop dogg being an announcer for cod ghost is a crime
The lack of the mention of Nic Cage in Dead by Daylight ..
I played the hell out of the first two spy hunter games on my ps2 when i was a kid. You would think more people knew about them
Keith David in saints row was pretty hype I thought 😂
Insane bolt LMAOO
That is the wildest thing I’ve ever heard 😂
Far cry 6 was amazing, and blew my mind after 4, not even counting 5.
Anytime a celebrity is in a game, it's gonna be ass
i would love to see that zombies video, the podcast type bits at the last half of the videos recently have been my favorite parts and both of you just seem to have great personalities
nathan fillion plays a dude called sergeant Reynolds in halo 3 just like in the show
There have been some announcements from the studio behind ark that the vin diesel sequel is basically either not happening or on what is essentially permanent hold? They instead basically rebooted the first game on modern consoles.
To be fair Will Smith hasn't had the best reputation in recent times.
Not that it'd help save the game regardless.
I watched the Undawn gameplay once from one guy’s channal, and I forgot that the game was even about zombies. In fact it felt like zombies where only there barley half the time. I saw more girls randomly singing like a Disney Princess more than I saw any of the zombies before I lost interest.
Please correct me if I’m wrong and I just got the wrong impression.
Bro Vin Diesel HAS to be Doc Brown, jacked Doc would go so hard
Why are we giving Cyberpunk a pass when they used Keanu Reeves and their credibility from the Witcher 3 to market an unfinished, buggy, broken mess?
The Quarry is so much better than Little Hope. Little Hope has so many plot holes and a laughable ending you can see coming a mile away. I legit guessed the ending as soon as the prologue ended and the new characters showed up. It's like a middle schooler got their short horror story made into a mid-budget game.
Screw Little Hope. The Devil in Me is pretty bad too. Man of Medan and House of Ashes are fine, though.
Stranglehold with Chow Yun Fat is the all time best game of it's ilk
16:00 the motorcycle you get from the Danny Trejo is OP in my opinion the mini-gun chews through cars.