D&D Commercial

[Megatron]

yeah, I've seen the commercial a few times on G4, definitely a WTF moment.

 

[StupidSmurf]

It's 'tardcore.

 

[Glyfair]

G4 used to be TechTV.

I used to have a horrible cable company. Our apartment complex was the only place in our state to even use them. When you called customer service you got someone's home answering machine (literally). The only saving grace was they had TechTV.

Eventually, the complex went to Comcast. While I've had your typical issues with the company, the service is 100% better (not even counting that I could now get broadband). Unfortunately, they didn't have TechTV. I was happy when I heard TechTV and G4 were combining....until I saw what the were doing to it.

As for the commercial, so far I've only seen the very end (where they show the book). From what I hear, it's about the level I expected for a D&D commericial.

 

[JVisgaitis]

I just saw it again, thought I'd give this a bump, see if anybody else has seen it.

Haven't seen it and I've been watching Call for Help. Oh well...

 

[KenM]

I don't have G4 anymore, anyone have a link to the ad online??

 

[Wycen]

On a related note, American Dad tonight had the son and his friends in the basement, playing some sort of game involving cards, at least 1 figure and elves, magic, and so on. Very DnDish, but they never said so. Just that he thought his son was a geek.

 

[Chaos Sword]

I'd like to see it. Any version on the net yet?

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Haven't been able to find it and I don't have a DVR.
WotC should put it on the net, they'd get ALOT more in the way of viewership from that act alone.

--fje

 

[ThirdWizard]

Aha, saw it during their coverage of the Tokyo Game Show.

It was far worse than you make it out to be.

 

[Samothdm]

Didn't see this mentioned anywhere else, but granted I didn't look *too* hard for it.

There was another series of commercials for D&D that aired during the "Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the (something) God" that aired on Sci-Fi a few weeks ago.

The commercials were done very much in the style of the "bumps" that air on Adult Swim. It saves them a ton on production because it's just a static image with some rotating type. Frankly, I think it's a better way to go rather than get a c-list director and making a live-action spot that looks terrible.

They've also done commercials for Magic: The Gathering during Adult Swim and used the "bump" style ads for that as well.