Video: Seth Green pitches Dragon Quest IX to teens

Pretty funny! But it begs the question: WHY THE HELL IS SETH GREEN IN A HIGH SCHOOL LUNCH ROOM?! Dude, Seth, you're straight up ASKING for a pedo charge.

Ahahaha, I wasn't expecting her to take his advice.

Nice.

"Airborne's Seth Green"?!?

Seriously, "Airborne"?! Not "Robot Chicken", not "Family Guy", not "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", but "Airborne"?

I can't help but question if spending part of one's advertising budget on the Twilight audience for an old-school-style dungeon crawler is the best decision. Granted, maybe I'm wrong and this drives the game's popularity up among that demographic, but... it's kind of a niche series here in the United States.

Maybe if they'd highlighted the slash fic possibilities in the ad... Hmm...

Shouldn't be too hard to sell to tweens anymore. Didn't they change the tried-and-true battle system over to a mindless button masher, and the characters built into a story to a make-your-own random character customization. Sucks when something so original and great has to change for a few extra bucks. Well, at least we still have DQ I-VIII...

This smacks of 1990-style Nintendo advertising to me, stripping the "Japanese"-ness from the game so us dumb Americans will buy it and pretend we made it, because we're too self-centered to like anything made by any other country.

I actually liked the Japanese ad a lot better -- it's more simple and more effective. Plus, it's funny -- dude nearly drowned and his buddies are playing DQIX. It sells the product and has a situation memorable enough for the viewer to associate the game with the ad.

Seth Green's ad could be used to sell phones, cars, appliances, banks....it just so happened to sell a video game. It's too generic. I would think someone seeing the ad would be turned off from purchasing the game if they went by the girls' reactions.

If Nintendo really wanted to appeal to tweens, they would have gotten those kids from Twilight to be in the ad and play up the 'are they dating or not?' relationship with Robert Pattinson and Kristin Jackson. She gets mad because Robert has the new DQIX. She then gets her own copy and they are closer again....

This is why I don't work in advertising and get paid the big bucks....

People are looking too hard into these commercials.
Please understand people that the general populace doesn't deeply observe commercials. To them, they're small clips that either spark their interest or make them change the channel/make them keep walking.

Go ahead and go Westernization this and that, the fact is: It's a commercial in the US. And Seth Green is in it. It hardly means that tweeny boppers are interested - it means that people who like Seth Green go like "OMG! Seth Green!". But considering the fact that he's more of an obscure character compared to any other celebrity you could put up there, he fits more into the rather odd and random commercial.
Of course it isn't like the Japanese commercial. The Japanese commercial feeds to the Japanese audience. The commercial itself is a weird commercial to watch - most Western general populace wouldn't "get it" despite it being rather simple humor. They don't "get it" because Dragon Quest doesn't appeal to us as it does to Japan. If you replaced that group of men with celebrities, we'd find it too odd - too out of character. If we replace them with just anybody, we'd still find it too odd - and think it doesn't appeal to us. All-in-all, it's a commercial for them, not us. (if however, you're talking about gamers finding it more interesting, a commercial like that would fit more into random gaming blogs and video sites that aren't advertised anywhere else: WHICH IT ALREADY IS)


All-in-all: Chill out, if you're already interested in DQ, you know you're already getting it despite the commercial. For those who don't know or don't care: There's Seth Green. . . for some reason.

that was so random. was he suppose to be one of their friends or just sitting in the same table as them?

They could of just had him playing DQ9 like Nicole Kidman played Brain Age, Carrie Underwood with Nintendogs and Beyonce with Rhythm Heaven.

Both those advertisements are hilarious. Personally I wish my television had Japanese advertisements on during ad-breaks, because they kick-ass. I barely watch television anymore thanks to furniture shop ads with people yelling. Yes I do use the mute button, but I have just had enough of that garbage. I know what shops I won't be buying from in future and I don't give a stuff if their advertising is paying for the program I'm watching.

If that Japanese video aired as it is in the US I would buy the game on the spot.

Also, the hybrid Final Fantasy/Dragon Age music in the background was interesting.