Some scary Halo 3 marketing in Korea

No wonder Halo and Xbox stuff in general falls flat in the far east.

They could pick almost any random gamer to do a more effective job of marketing.

umm no, they have wacky shit like that all the time over there, they eat this shit up

@2 i agree with this. They love this stuff. I'm not saying americans have superior taste in entertainment, just very different between two cultures. Look at gaming, they love all that pokemon and dance dance revo stuff, they're addicted to it. And look at their love for hentai porn, that shit is pretty F'd up.

Have you guys seen of the eastern game shows? They're so out-of-whack and hilariously stupid, so this marketing campaign doesn't suprise me.

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Korea is FUCKED... UP...

@3 Hentai is japanese. The word and the actual cartoons. Hentai is how sex education is done in japan. Cartoon porn basically. Graphic and detailed enough to explain sex but no actual nudity. True story. Koreans /= Japanese.

That's real open-minded of you Fontez.

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Master Chief punching the dinosaur has meme written all the hell over it.

Why don't they just show someone falling flat on their face dead after playing Halo 3 for 72 hours straight.

That should peak their interest.

"Hey I could die playing that game? Sweet."

someone ytmnd this, please - the dinosaur-punching bit.

WTF!!

Awesome, now that's a Master Chief you can party with.

Me - "Hey Chief, wanna get baked and punch some zoo animals then bake cookies and play DDR?"

Chief - "Affirmative"

wtf

Now its just a matter of time till you can buy used masterchief underwear from vending machines.

I can't wait to punch dinosures in the face in Halo 3.

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oh wow #12, 14, 17 you guys are to fucking funny....LMFAO!!!!!

Halo 3 is forever shamed.

This makes me not want to play any videogame...

Ever...

This deserves the biggest WTF i've ever typed.

I would expect a more corporate blog as xbox360fanboys to be more cautious with the way they handle such contents. This looks nothing like an official Halo 3 marketing campaign and seems far more like an extremely grotesque example of a youtube style UCC content. WTF are you on about sizing up an entire country based on this?

The video you see here is a viral ad and it isn't supported by microsoft korea although the video is linked to an external website.

This is the official Halo 3 website in Korea. You can check out it's marketing consistency with other regions
http://www.halo3.co.kr/main.html

When it's completely retarded that people do in Asia that Americans aren't used to, the culture is messed up.

But when it's something completely retarded that people in America do as well (dressing up in costumes of their favorite video game and/or anime characters is the first example that comes to mind), things are viewed a little differently. They're fools, but the entire culture is never labeled "messed up."

Of course being judged by a country whose promotions include slapping the logo on a burger and french fries (obesity, anyone?), where a show like American Idol is constantly number one and whose gaming industry is controlled by politicians who have probably never played a game in their lives essentially renders all these judgements meaningless outside these borders. I find the video amusing just like the next guy, but the context it's put in is fairly, well, stupid. I would have expected it on some other blog, but I'm surprised I found it here.

While we're on the topic of analyzing other cultures, this is pretty much the only country in the world where killings and shootings are constantly linked to video games. How "messed up" is our gaming culture, then?

Seriously? Seriously? ... Seriously?

Wow... I've seen more professional commercials for pawn shops.