Blake Griffin: I want to be in RAGE (the video game)

[dmoney1980]

http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/29431521

 

[TechBoyJK]

awesome

 

[AMDZen]

awesome

Why is that awesome?

I think this is dumb as shit

 

[Numenorean]

why is that awesome?

I think this is dumb as shit

uh

TIGER JUMP!

 

[TechBoyJK]

Why is that awesome?

I think this is dumb as shit

Did you actually drink a gallon of water just so when you piss in people's cheerios it splashes in their face?

 

[dmoney1980]

I think it's one of the cooler video game commercials out there

 

[AMDZen]

Did you actually drink a gallon of water just so when you piss in people's cheerios it splashes in their face?

I'm just curious why this could be awesome or possibly add anything to the video game at all. Surely you think so, so you could explain why.

This is a game about post apocalypse mayhem, like we will experience the day after tomorrow (hopefully), this isn't NBA Jam 2011. If it was, that would be awesome.

I love how their reasoning in the article is that he doesn't just dunk over a car in this one, he dunks over a "tiger"

Seriously, anyone who doesn't think that was the lamest dunk in the history of dunks is crazy. It was marketing crap, he had won before he even did anything. He could have missed the dunk in the competition and would have won. Not that he would have missed though, since every NBA player in that competition could have made that dunk.

 

[TheFamilyMan]

It could possibly be that he resembles a post-apocalyptic denizen? His eyes are kinda fucked up and off-kilter a bit and he just has a kind of 'mongoloid' look to his face...just sayin'...

 

[dmoney1980]

I'm just curious why this could be awesome or possibly add anything to the video game at all. Surely you think so, so you could explain why.

This is a game about post apocalypse mayhem, like we will experience the day after tomorrow (hopefully), this isn't NBA Jam 2011. If it was, that would be awesome.

I love how their reasoning in the article is that he doesn't just dunk over a car in this one, he dunks over a "tiger"

Seriously, anyone who doesn't think that was the lamest dunk in the history of dunks is crazy. It was marketing crap, he had won before he even did anything. He could have missed the dunk in the competition and would have won. Not that he would have missed though, since every NBA player in that competition could have made that dunk.

Isn't that the point? It's not NBA JAM and he has no idea that it's a FPS. I'm pretty sure that if it was NBA JAM he'd be in it......

 

[AMDZen]

I guess the commercial is funny, I just don't get the marketing strategy behind it.

 

[dmoney1980]

I guess the commercial is funny, I just don't get the marketing strategy behind it.

No worries man, it's Friday and the end of the world is upon us! I think that they wanted to change it up by putting an athlete into a video game that has nothing to do with a sports

 

[TechBoyJK]

I WANT TO BE IN RAGE!

enraged! ??

That and I think it's a shout out to one of the most influential game companies of all time. He's one of the NBA's prodigies, and in most situations, game companies have to beg and pay athletes to make camios. In this situation, it's reversed. He's begging to be in it, mostly because it's ID.

 

[QueBert]

I'm just curious why this could be awesome or possibly add anything to the video game at all. Surely you think so, so you could explain why.

This is a game about post apocalypse mayhem, like we will experience the day after tomorrow (hopefully), this isn't NBA Jam 2011. If it was, that would be awesome.

I love how their reasoning in the article is that he doesn't just dunk over a car in this one, he dunks over a "tiger"

Seriously, anyone who doesn't think that was the lamest dunk in the history of dunks is crazy. It was marketing crap, he had won before he even did anything. He could have missed the dunk in the competition and would have won. Not that he would have missed though, since every NBA player in that competition could have made that dunk.

The actual dunk didn't win him the contest, it was the build up. He bought out the choir and had Kenny preaching. The dunk itself was only mildly entertaining, but the performance was good. With that said this commercial isn't that great, I don't understand why he's even in it. Would make some sense to me if I had read stories about Blake being a gamer or something. He just seems out of place.