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This is a weird thing to call out, when there's so much else to talk about (price, specs, etc) buuuuuut- Check out the gameplay video partway down the page, wh
by andy_xor_andrew 3mo ago
This is a weird thing to call out, when there's so much else to talk about (price, specs, etc) buuuuuut-
Check out the gameplay video partway down the page, where the two people are on the couch playing Cuphead. Right under "Your Steam library in more places."
It's just... a real clip of real people playing a real game and reacting in a real way. It's funny. I know it's stupid to call out, but how many exaggerated versions of this scene have you seen before? And Valve is smart enough to say "Let's just film two people playing a real game and snip a nice, realistic reaction shot from it."
- abustamam 3mo agoThat's basically how I looked playing Cuphead with my wife except I think there was a bit more swearing coming from her
- bowsamic 3mo ago[flagged]
- imustbeevil 3mo agoI'm not sure I understand, I'm just seeing a very clearly staged 2 second clip of product usage and reaction like you'd see in any commercial.
- draw_down 3mo ago[dead]
- debugnik 3mo agoThis one is admittedly very natural compared to how cringey they usually get in gaming ads. Which says more about the industry than about this particular clip.
- rustyminnow 3mo agoIn any other commercial they'd be laughing and grinning ear to ear with their fakest smile instead of wincing from dieing in Cuphead. Definitely still staged but refreshingly so.
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- orphea 3mo agoNah, I have to agree with andy^andrew. This is how staged reaction looks like: https://www.residentialsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/iStock-1451109044-scaled.jpg https://www.residentialsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/0... The Steam's clip is actually nowhere near like that.
- PaulHoule 3mo agoIf you're good at acting you can go up on stage with somebody you met two weeks ago and people will believe that you're family. It's funny how it works. I took an iPhone selfie of myself as the character that I go out to do street photography as and my wife and my son say "you staged that!" but then I hand out my business cards with it and everybody else tells me it is a great photo.
- redox99 3mo agoIf you sampled 100 steam players at random, it would look nothing like that.
- poly2it 3mo agoNo average pilot.
- MagicMoonlight 3mo ago[dead]
- boca_honey 3mo agoYeah those people are definetly not a realistic sample of the average Steam user. I wonder why they chose them in particular.
- skupig 3mo agoMaybe you're out of touch, they pretty much look like the typical young nerd from Seattle.
- hellosputnik 3mo agoIsn't it ironic that you used anecdotal data as a rebuttal to anecdotal data?
- skupig 3mo agoNope! That's just how a normal conversation works.
- dathinab 3mo agoto some degree that is the whole point IMHO there isn't a realistic "typical gamer stereotype" anymore sure you can pick any of the past stereotypes and will find people like that, even many, but it's not "most" or even "a slim majority" Games, and with that Steam, have spread through all of society and Steam is the most wide spread platform for it. So whatever anecdotal data you have based on your local environments selection bias is probably not "overall representative", just a slice of one of the many many different kinds of people playing games bought from steam.
- raincole 3mo agoI don't get it. It's a quite typical commercial clip. Just perhaps less dramatic. What's special about that clip?
- Zenbit_UX 3mo agoI wasn’t going to say anything until I read this comment but that clip of the gameplay and the clip of the two people playing are not from the same source. The one showing the gameplay has a tower of books or possibly a jenga tower on the coffee table that doesn’t exist when seeing the gamers. It’s just editing magic and stitched together to have exactly the effect elicited by your comment.
- malfist 3mo agoThe books are beside the TV, not on the coffee table. You can't see them in the second shot.
- Zenbit_UX 3mo agoAh, I think you’re right. That aside, there’s still no evidence of continuity between the two shots and I’m a cynic.
- dandellion 3mo agoThey're two separate shots that's for sure. I mean, otherwise you'd see the other camera taking the shot from the opposite perspective so...
- uni_baconcat 3mo agoJust scroll a bit further, you can see more clips just like any other commercial shots from a studio set. I don’t think that’s a point you can praise Valve.
- xdennis 3mo ago[flagged]
- nearlyepic 3mo ago> Are you referring to the clip of the transsexual and the lesbian? Certified “gamers when women” moment
- pferdone 3mo agoWhat does identity or sexuality have to do with it you fucking moron? These are people! People play games.
- amatecha 3mo agoThey're humans playing games, so yeah it's a realistic representation. Anyone can be a gamer.
- ValveFan6666 3mo ago[dead]
- nobody_r_knows 3mo ago[dead]
- redsocksfan45 3mo ago[dead]