Saw this one on GamePolitics.com. Oh, how ironic!
Posted by Shawn Handyside on June 26, 2008 · 4:51 PM |
Categories: Bad Ideas, Health & Fitness, Irony, Political, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Video Clips · Leave a comment () 39 Comments |
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Pure win
Hehehe, Ownt.
Why doesn’t that happen to Snake?
‘Cause in the NES games, cigarettes saved his life.
This makes up for the wolf joke. Almost.
Only thing I can say about this:
wat.
This is an awesome commercial.
That was a damn expensive commercial. Though it is a little funny, it is kinda stupid how a cigarette suddenly kills him. Was that his first smoke? Was he smoking in a toxic environment? Did he remove his oxygen supply to smoke? Was he sabotaged with cyanide-laced smokes? I mean, even smokers don’t just cough and die, they get cancer. Why couldn’t he get cancer like everyone else and then die from it? Then again, they would have to do a whole “20 years later” and he’ll be in a hospital bed still holding his gun or something.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a smoker and I do not promote smoking in any way. I just think it is a perversion and makes video gamers look stupid with this kind of exaggeration in their form of media.
“im solid snake, and i approve this message *lights one up*”
Uh, last time I checked cigarettes took away health but gave you EVE. Totally worth it. I needs my fist o’ lightning.
@SpiralCocktail
….SHUT UP….
Isn’t this a free country where i can decide wich religion i want, what I can say, or, hell, whether or not to smoke without it being oppressed or questioned by others?
@SpiralCocktail
He contracted the fastest case of lung cancer the world has ever seen.
Oh, and it sounded like Snake. GDit, Snake, stop being a joykill. You’re not allowed to smoke just because your cells are decaying at an alarming rate. >:{
did he use a rocket launching spartan laser to destroy that ship?
The HUD looks like Master Chief’s. You know, if only the Covenant knew this, they could have just brought with them a pack of Marlboros instead of all that fancy plasma garbage.
he he he that was great let me get mah weed and watch bit again jk jk
I would totally buy that game….
His ammo counter stops going down after he pulls out the rocket launcher. And is the kill counter in the lower right really necessary?
ummmmm……. HA!
4/5
So…how many hours until Jack Thompson finds out that this ad is going around? And how many hours until he rails against it?
@Red
Awesome.
i would love to play that game…
The money these people go through to state the most obvious of facts.
@MonkeyP1P
It is a free country where people can freely express their opnions about, say, ciggarates.
@Caelun Niveus
Wouldnt it be funny if the kill counter went up 1 when he died from the terror cig?
@Pigeon Army
Hopefully, not soon.
I thought ol’ Jack was bogged down with that misconduct stuff.
@ Pigeon Army. He was probably already attacking it even before it was made. He senses it!
Rofl very well made xD
They shouldve had that somehow instead of the loadscreen warning :P, it’s so much better. 5 stars
@Ham Sandwich
…BITE ME…
Snake? Snake! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!
Haha! Great commercial.
The unnoticed irony here is that soldiers are the only people for whome there are health benefits for smoking. They were standard issue in WW 2 I believe (and it’s not worth looking it up for Halolz.com, sorry guys.) In high stress jobs, like any where you are getting shelled on a daily basis, lung cancer isn’t your greatest condern and anything that can let you deal that stress was likely to save your life.
It would be irresponsible to say an argument like that one anywhere around impressionable children though as they are likely to miss the point. But I don’t think this commercial is going to influence people’s smoking choices. Anyone so impressionable that they would be swayed by this kind of add is also impressionable enough to fall for “it’ll make you cool” so really it was a waste of money.
@Rayza B
Jack may well be bogged down with misconduct hearings, but since when did anything stop Jack? He’s like the Energizer Bunny of idiot lawyers -- he just keeps going and going and going and going…
Initiate Halolz Flame War Mk III
Haha, I Kinda Laughed At The Commercial, But, Damn, It Looks Expensive.
I SEE WAT U DID THAR
haha, nice, good commercial. and im not going to lie guys, it was well made, but it really probably wasnt that expensive. oh and
@SpiralCocktail, “BITE ME”, really? did you really just reply with that? its a commercial, they were jsut trying to make a point to people!
Was expecting an MGS4 smoke-jokes again XD, But this is just as good.
Horrible marketing ploy. Did they even think before they made this? Seriously. What percentage of gamers smoke? I’ll give a rough estimate: 2%. Fucking horrible idea for a no-smoking ad. PR Team Fail.
I’ma send this video to… some game company that would make this game… and then buy it when it comes out.
This commercial disappointed me so much when i first saw it. It was stupid how he takes one puff and dies. What would have been REALLY funny is if it showed a sniper looking through his scope and seeing the smoke, then shooting his head off.