The Rockstar Ethos

[Concept]

Look at it this way Chad. The basts 'up north' may have created the finest single-player freedom-sim of this generation, but we created two of the finest arcade racers, biking sim, and were responsible for one of the greatest Sega ports in the last four years.

PGR 2.
Burnout 3.
Moto GP.
Outrun 2.

Beat that Jib.

[Chadruharazzeb]

Bravo Mr Concept, bravo!

[JibberX]

I dunno, I've done Salmon, Water, Jockstar... I suppose maybe something to do with the Loch Ness Monster, he could like, eat you and stuff, to shut you up. Remember the Romans...?

Who the heck else is in Scotland anyways?

[Concept]

...

Hills?

[Chadruharazzeb]

We have water in England as well, Jib.

Who the heck else is in Scotland anyways?

Only Rab C Nesbit these days.

[JibberX]

Courtousy of http://www.visitscotland.com/aboutsc...?view=Standard

The Thistle

Gaelic

The Saltire

Whisky

St Andrew

The Burns Supper

The Honours of Scotland

Highland Games

The Kilt

The Stone of Destiny

Tartan

The Bagpipes

That basically covers it.

[Jakeway]

I fear the only way to resolve the English - Scottish debate is to go to Rockstar and do a head count on the staff.

[Robster]

......and find find 20 englishman doing the ground work and a scottish managing director


As for the original topic of this thread: let me get this right - you are saluting a marketing strategy??

[FreQstyle]

Hats off to Rockstar in the way they've handled San Andreas: A very smalldrip feed of images, no hype, just the public expectation and hope that they deliver on the promise of bettering the excellence of what they have produced before.

More like hats off to you for avoiding all the hype.
I guess you've not visited IGN over the past couple of months.....?
(not that I'd blame you mind).


And if RS have been deliberately drip-feeding us the info - maybe it's not so much a clever marketing strategy, but more like there's not actually too much too hype about it. It's GTA - just like the last one. And the one before that.

Sure, there's a few more minigames and it's even bigger than previously - but it's no great leap forward by any stretch of the imagination.

[Paul3704]

A marketing startegy that appears to deliver on it's promises, which is a nice change.

I don't remember GTA3 having much pre release advertising and hype, but when it came out, people were really blown away, me included.

[Darwock]

GTA3 was a total sleeper hit. Vice City had massive amounts of pre-release gossip, I won't say hype because most of it was in the style of fake websites and stuff that said nothing about the game.

San Andreas has really just crept up as well, a couple of TV adverts in the week of release is hardly a huge marketing campaign.

[Jakeway]

Remember Pre-Oder at game and get a San Andreas BANDANNA!



then you can be just like the guy on the right kids. I cant wait to see some snotty kids running around with them on.

[Robster]

A marketing startegy that appears to deliver on it's promises, which is a nice change.

I don't remember GTA3 having much pre release advertising and hype, but when it came out, people were really blown away, me included.

You missed my point Paul:


Its a marketing strategy, thast it. Its not important - Do you work in Marketing??

[Ady]

And if RS have been deliberately drip-feeding us the info - maybe it's not so much a clever marketing strategy, but more like there's not actually too much too hype about it. It's GTA - just like the last one. And the one before that.

Sure, there's a few more minigames and it's even bigger than previously - but it's no great leap forward by any stretch of the imagination.

From what I've played, I'd say that's about right.

[Darwock]

Not much of what we talk about on here is important. I can bet if they'd have hyped it up even more and the game failed to live up to it, there would be a million topics about the overratedness - and nobody would be getting asked if they worked in marketing either.