Cheesy game designers "tighten up the graphics"

by Christopher Grant on Jan 11th 2006 3:15PM

Hilariously cheesy video game commercial featuring two bozos playing (testing? designing?) a video game. Their boss comes in, nonsense is exchanged about "level 3" and "tightening up the graphics." Hilarity ensues.

Just remember, if you want to work on video games, do not call this number!

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This isn't news it's a commercial for Westwood which has been around and made fun of for years.

"I wish I could be as cool as pink shirt guy"

I laugh everytime I see that CM... It's like every fanboy's wet dream. They're going to be so cool playing the game while working talking about tweaking the graphics and then this random chick comes over and says she needs another game designed and they feel sooooo important like "We rock! After we tighten up these graphics, we're going to go make another game and we're gonna spend all night playing it! Score!"

Man, as much as I would like to work in the game industry, I'm totally not that naive about what it's all about...

The guy in the pink shith with the curly hair looks like he has never used a gamepad before... check out his hand positioning.

i want to know where they found those other 2 members of Hansen!

"3. The guy in the pink shith with the curly hair looks like he has never used a gamepad before... check out his hand positioning."

thats not the only thing he's never used before....looks like he still lives at home

The show this commercial about once every 5 minutes on G4. Not that I watch G4. Which I totally don't. Seriously.

Personally, I like the guy twiddling with both analogs and not pressing any buttons.

I work in QA. I wish my life was like that.

"My mom said I'd never get anywhere with these video games!" This commercial is aired all of the time on G4 around here, I mock it constantly.

I love this commercial. It's been around a while, but it's hilarious! I mean, one would REALLY have to be naive about the way the gaming industry works to really believe the dialog.

"There's another game I need Designed"???? She says it like its homework! Being that they are holding playstation controllers, it would take more than just the two guy to make a game from scratch. Heck, bejeweled took more than two people.

It's hilarious that they have the nerve to show this commercial on G4! Its so insulting, even XPlay has made jabs at it.

I love how its not intended for people in texas or mass. thats funny, i guess the whole scam thing is illegal in those states or something.

Here buddy, let me help you out tightening those graphics:

graphics.tight++;

This commercial gives me an annurism almost everytime i see it, In fact, its like a carwreck, I just have to watch. I'm of to download it again for another 30 second dose of self deprication.

Haha,this commercial gets played like 20 times an hour here.

I love the newer one with the "crazy attitude rockstar chick" and the 2 guys (1 of which has an afro wig),that ones my favorite.

Yeah it does suck in Texas...

I had my heart set on getting a career in video games, and then I found out they won't let texans join.

Well, I had to go get a real job instead.

:(

Our QA testers don't have it too bad, granted the hours can be long but they get all the free snacks they want, pop is only a quarter, and we are not very corporate. If they get stir crazy we have full size arcade games, pinball, foosball, etc. You'll never see anybody walking around wearing a tie unless they are here for an interview. One guy used to wear bear slippers every day. :)

I think we would laugh out most people who came in with a degree from a company like this. Kinda like those horrific "Graphic Design/Multimedia" commercials that look like they were created by color blind monkeys using 3D programs from 1992.

Blue shirt guy looks like he is being electricuted.. and he isn't even pressing any buttons. Like he has had 20 red bulls or something.

Man these guys got hosed. Its 2006 and they are still working on a PS1 game. Look at the controller.

Haha. It's about time someone said something about this commercial. ... It's been driving me nuts for a few years now.

The thing that cracks me up the most is they make it sound like they are tightening up the graphics right there with the controller. Hmmm, I thought most games were created using PC's? Maybe that's why it takes so long to develop games, they only have 11 buttons to work with.

And Mom said I'd Never amount to anything!

I remember this commercial from last year on G4. They changed it after a while, I guess some poeple voiced their concerns that it was quite unrealistic with its whole "tightening the graphics" comment, and the commercial was later changed (With a shot from behind the lady) to say something like "how are the graphics coming?"

Either way, I always thought it was a stupid commercial. Riiight, need another game designed.

The worst part about this commercial is the...

"And my mom said I'd never get eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenywhere with these games."

It's terrible.

I love the idea of "tightening up graphics". I'm a graphic design by profession and I don't even know what that means. Is there some "Tighten" filter in Photoshop?

The Brown College one is just as bad Some skanky looking ho and a black kid with an afro and some boy racer type kid pretending to play video games for homework .It's so bad I want to call them up just to wind them up.There's also that other one with the loser with the ponytail.

What YEAR was this commercial made? The actors look like crowd-scene extras from "Full House" or "Saved by the Bell". WTF.

yeah, how is playing the game , tightening up the graphics?

"7. Personally, I like the guy twiddling with both analogs and not pressing any buttons."

Obviously he's tightening up the graphics in "We Love Katamari!"

They don't even explain what needs to be "tightened" up. Are the textures not aligned correctly? Clipping issues? They just imply that something is wrong with the game visually, but keep it a secret and the lady thinks that is fine.

SILLY

Hold on. This company is legit. In fact these people are not actors but are real QA and developers of quality games. They work for a company we all buy software from.

Its EA!

"Hurry Up, the stylist is coming in"

"Dude"

"We've just finished level 3, and we need to tighten up his perm hairstyle just a little bit"

This is old

These are school are bed enough...and what sucks even more is that when there are people who graduate from them, they use them to help sell the school.

I graduated from an Art Institute in Southern California and just about everything I learned was from either friends who helped me out and teacher who worked in the industry. Most of the teacher at all these school are complete jokes and the administrators are lying sacks of shit (pardon my language.)

The friends I made at that school that moved to work at some well known studios (Midway, Rainbow Studios, Shiny, Blizzard, etc.) all got there b/c most of the stuff they learned they either knew already, learned from friends or from the internet.

#33 - i'm in the same boat as you were fella, only it's with the art institute of toronto. we have like 3 teachers that are industry pros that we can go to for questions, and all the other teachers are absolute retards; most with no knowledge of what they're teaching - like they're reading out of the book to us and i get a sense that they're learning this all for the first time. the administration is full of fucking slimey crooks. makes me sick - but i only got a few months left. this had better be worth it in the end...

If you are in the Game Design program, I wouldn't put too much weight behind it. When it comes to getting a job at a game developer, your skills will help you more then a degree. Just make sure your skills are up to par otherwise you'll be using your time to improve them.

Cheesy game designers "tighten up the graphics"

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