The Outside Link Thread (All Your GAF, OA, SA, YouTube, etc. Links Go In Here!)

[Vizzys]

btw, that really reeks of viral marketing.

evilore is a huge mgs nerd

and hes admin, no surprises

[siamesedreamer]

Just downloaded Rick Ross' "The Boss"...shit kicks ass.

[MCD]

 :nuhuh

[Rman]

I'm a MGS fan and I even I think that's a bit much.  I get tired of GAF's hype sometimes.  These are just videogames, guys.

[MCD]

on the topic of gaf, che posted this earlier:

[youtube=425,350]FIzXh0HP72w&fmt=18[/youtube]


wish i have this talent.

[demi]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=303161

a 40 post OP, dear god 

BEBAS font

[siamesedreamer]

EPIC...GhaleonEB is prolly crying right now.

[MCD]

EPIC...GhaleonEB is prolly crying right now.

[Phoenix Dark]

i won't believe it until i see pics. you're probably another confused, tan white man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-European

do you honestly believe that I don't know there are black people in europe? seriously

[MCD]

i won't believe it until i see pics. you're probably another confused, tan white man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-European

do you honestly believe that I don't know there are black people in europe? seriously

i can't be sure with you PD.

[patrickula]

it does have a strong whiff of 'advertising', and a nice big team effort too...

still, i guess the precedence has now been set, anyone can now do a huge official advert-eque thread for any game and it surely won't be locked.

On looking paid shills and virals must be thrilled at the prospects regardles of what the intention is

If the people making that thread aren't being paid (and I truly doubt that they are)...  they should be
And letting these kinds of threads get made is kind of hazardous, too open to what could easily be marketing.  But I guess nowadays you get banned for saying a thread is dumb.

edit: oh shit dcharlie nice find   WTF is this supposed to be: http://www.globalstudio.com/ps3/

[MCD]

umm...evilore paid for that maybe?

[patrickula]

http://www.globalstudio.com/ps3/mgs4/banner.jpg
All the images in that thread are hosted there... Though the host website is pretty old and busted so it might just be that Mr. LeeRoy has a background in marketing that he's let fall by the wayside while he maintains the hosting.
If it was actual viral this would be awfully obvious.

[Narag]

http://www.globalstudio.com/cody/killzone-grenade.gif

http://www.globalstudio.com/cody/killzone-reload.gif

Maybe they're just hardcore sony fans! 

[etiolate]

[youtube=425,350]0M7ibPk37_U[/youtube]

je suis henri

[MCD]

http://www.globalstudio.com/ps3/mgs4/banner.jpg

why not add the native res

[patrickula]

m0dus is credited too, so I assume he did the graphics, though maybe it's a conspiracy with him, Bruce, and Evilore working together.  Evilore was awfully hesitant to allow too much criticism of m0dus' redesign  
m0dus seems like an OK guy though, if overenthusiastic and having some bad design tendencies sometimes.
Basch is credited also and he was on the front lines of the relentless Uncharted brigade, if memory serves.

[duckman2000]

bruceleeroy avatar

http://www.globalstudio.com/ps3/neogaf7.jpg

http://www.globalstudio.com/

Premium Agency Services

advertising, marketting....

they have a PS3 folder with neogaf avatars... weird.

you climb the mountain, we tell the world

probably just an honest mistake and all that.

The last time I saw this type of argument, one BenjaminBirdie made a royal ass out of himself by accusing someone who just so happened to be a good friend of mine in real life of somehow being part of a scheme to use the 360 RROD woes to gain advertising dollars. And for the record, if one was to look around my post history a few years back, one would probably find one or two game related images hosted on servers pointing to advertising and design companies, some of which I worked at, some of which I ran.

And really, this thing with accusing people of being paid shills, it comes a nudge too easy for some of you. Relax, at worst these are some very dedicated fanboys.

[MCD]

if all these folks are credited, yeah doubt it's paid.

[Narag]

if all these folks are credited, yeah doubt it's paid.

It very well could be free work they'll add to portfolios later.

Still there's this http://www.globalstudio.com/samples/uncharted.jpg

[patrickula]

Yeah, maybe they're just trying to get noticed 

[MCD]

he did that for a ps3 theme iirc.

[duckman2000]

Man, some of the stuff in that portfolio is pretty urgh.

[patrickula]

http://www.globalstudio.com/samples/killzone.jpg
Like I said before, if this guy isn't getting paid... he should be.

[duckman2000]

Really? For what, meshing images into predictable pieces? You don't need to hire people to get that done.

Bruce mentions in a previous thread that he does the PS3 stuff on companytime and it's not related to his job (around the Resistance time)

seems crazy that he'd then put all the images on the companies site, then again, as D2000 says, seems like he did the same

That was really never a problem for me. My work has never been based on hours spent at work, but the actual output. So in the past, I've been able to do anything except actual paid freelance work on company time, and on company servers. But it's been a while since I worked at a studio. This Globalstudios place doesn't exactly seem to be Burnett though.

[patrickula]

I guess you're right D2000, why pay for what insane fanboys will do for free. This guy is still suspicious, though I'm not calling it one way or the other.

[Crushed]

Heh, when I was at an MGS fansite a few years ago I once wrote a timeline of every deducible date in the series (known at the time), and it was about as long as that OP. 

Yeah, I wouldn't read too much into it. Dedication is a powerful thing.

[duckman2000]

I guess you're right D2000, why pay for what insane fanboys will do for free.  This guy is still suspicious though I'm not calling it one way or the other.

I'm not going to make a call either way because there's really no way to know for sure, but I've posted in many of the same threads Bruce here has posted in, and I think he's just a genuine video game fan who happens to work in advertising. Primarily, then, on the Sony side of things, but marketing? I doubt that. If I ever got a wild hair up my ass to actually dedicate some time and effort on creating design and PR pieces for games that I really like, I'm sure it'd look insanely suspicious too.

[patrickula]

http://www.globalstudio.com/portfolio.shtml
There's a 2003 copyright plainly visible on this page, so it kind of does seem like an old domain he's kept around.  Weird shit, sure, but the site's doesn't look like one of a hep viral marketeer.

edit: I have to wonder what the bandwidth costs are gonna be

[fistfulofmetal]

I said WOW @ the MGS4 official thread.

[pilonv1]

It's times like this we need a smiley with the mouth slightly ajar and one eye twitching.

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=303161

a 40 post OP, dear god 

You've got to be kidding me. 

[pilonv1]

and evilore claims it like it's some grand feat

[MCD]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11379098&postcount=363

Seriously, why do they pay for marketers when forum guys do it for free?

 

[Robo]

I like the new, bitter sporsk.

[Bildi]

It's times like this we need a smiley with the mouth slightly ajar and one eye twitching.

(Image removed from quote.)

and evilore claims it like it's some grand feat

That made me vomit a little too.

[Himu]

lmao mgs4 thread

[Grecco]

So Gaf has shills working for it now to make threads?

[duckman2000]

p.s. they need to go in and remove all the "WOW THREAD OF FOREVER" as it's basically ruined the point of the thread! lol.

Seriously. It's the official thread of internal admiration and public masturbation over the great feats of NeoGAF at this point.

[fistfulofmetal]

you guys are waaaay to cynical about Gaf stuff.

It's a cool thread. What's the big deal?

[etiolate]

Am I the only one who reads this thread to marvel at the obsession with gaf?

[Narag]

Am I the only one who reads this thread to marvel at the obsession with gaf?

Nah, that's what initially got me reading this thread. It was pretty bitter when I was just lurking.

[Robo]

Am I the only one who reads this thread to marvel at the obsession with gaf?

Absolutely not, but one of the few it would seem.  Really, I wouldn't mind seeing this thread locked and all GAF talk abolished entirely, but I suppose it's a natural thing for a forum offshoot, and I certainly wouldn't want to see any enforcement on the issue.

[Pharmacy]

that mgs4 thread is pretty fucking epic

i love making ops

edit: his text formatting is fuuuuuuuuuuucked up

[Tieno]

It's very fitting for MGS. No brevity or succinctness, no sense of self-control or self-censure. Just a shitload of text and graphics.

Pretty, but it's an overlong overwrought OP. Just put in the most important info in one post and link to some good websites for more info/videos, make some pretty graphics, put in some funnies...Like the NG2 thread.

[MCD]

I dunno, if you think about it, if nowhere else, official threads for games should be where massive shows of dedication are completely appropriate and welcome.  If I liked the MGS games and was looking forward to the new game, that "OP" would be like manna from heaven. 

And if you don't want to read it, hey, it's 40 posts long, you can skip to page 2 and be sure all you missed was the OP and ten people going "WAAAAU".

old man, that's no fun.

we like our conspiracy theories.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

If anyone wants to know how to do a real "official thread" OP, then take a look at the one over at GAF for Ninja Gaiden 2.  Now THAT'S how you do it.  Genius.

I've got next to no interest for either MGS4 or NG2, but at least the NG2 thread was fun to read.

Other than that, people can take their thread banners and graphic laden "official threads" and shove 'em straight up their asses.

[AdmiralViscen]

John Daker

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=303161

a 40 post OP, dear god 

Hollllyyy fuck

I like how Blu Ray PR makes the OP


aaaaaand holy shit you weren't exaggerating.

[Powerslave]

omg............... That really is looking for some e-cred.......omfg

[AdmiralViscen]

Did Himuro pay back Ichi before he decided to spam the forum today?


And this is awesome:

[APF]

Multiplayer Pong via iPod Touch

[youtube=425,350]3LdpmxHE7VU[/youtube]

[demi]

[youtube=425,350]WdZC3jqxRdE[/youtube]

Soulja Boy goes to Japan, buys PlayStation 3 games, becomes official sponsor of NeoGAF

[APF]

Republican Veepstakes '08: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24672458/

[hyp]

Soulja Boy goes to Japan, buys PlayStation 3 games, becomes official sponsor of NeoGAF

fool actin' like a million yen is a lot of money.     "yo ima buy japan with this right hur"

[Beezy]

Soulja Boy wants to be a game developer and loves the game industry but he has no idea what those FLAGSHIP games are? Fuck that distinguished black fellow.

Seriously?

[Himu]

Soulja Boy goes to Japan, buys PlayStation 3 games, becomes official sponsor of NeoGAF

fool actin' like a million yen is a lot of money.     "yo ima buy japan with this right hur"

isn't 1 million yen 100,000 dollars?

[hyp]

$10k according to an online currency converter (and souljaboy himself).

[Himu]

well nicca has 10k on him like it's nothing

that's pretty cool. i hope he gets robbed.

and smh @ putting me on ignore hyp

[hyp]

well distinguished black fellow has 10k on him like it's nothing

that's pretty cool. i hope he gets robbed.

and smh @ putting me on ignore hyp

i dont have you on ignore fool! 

[Himu]

then why aren' tyou on my aim list! this is weird!