PC Colored Glasses
Coding Horror did a great little story on the Evony ads you have probably seen floating around. They look like this:
Take a look at Jeff Atwood’s post above and look at the progression from relevant to outright lie. And in case you are wondering, this is what the game actually looks like:
I don’t see any semi-nude women… maybe they’re indoors or off servicing the “lord.” All 16-bits of them. At that resolution it’s what, maybe 4 pixels per breast? Like some sort sexy tetris side boob. If you blur it enough it could be sexy, nothing hotter than a Gaussian filter.
Where is the subtlety, the romance, the raw passion? As lord of a kingdom I don’t want women just throwing themselves at my feet. I want to do what all great lords have done, I want to subjugate the populace and pillage what I want, women included. It’s a good thing I’m not a feudal lord, I’m pretty sure if I tried to kidnap my fiancee from the streets she’d beat the piss out of me.
Personally I think the ads should have gone a different route. It’s all about truth in advertising:
*Jack pot.