19th April 2005, 9:00 AM
Well yeah it's not so bad in Pikmin or whatever (even though I really doubt whatever aliens are on that world have those brand names...). I just don't want to see it in Zelda. And yes, in Splinter Cell some of the product placements detract from the game. A billboard with a logo really isn't that bad. A medicine cabinet in a bathroom with a product isn't bad either. But, when you actually take a whole MOMENT in a cinema scene to focus on a completely pointless and storyline irrelevent product placement, you have gone too far! It's like in a movie when they actually FOCUS on the brand name of the phone the super cop is using. Don't DO that! I don't CARE!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)