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[–] 50 points 4 months ago (21 children)

Years ago there was an rpg based around skittles. Yes skittles. It was a banger, fun as hell. It also flopped because absolutely-fucking no one wants to play an advertisement.

Listen here EA - the world fucking sucks, no one is fucking happy. Can you just focus on making fun fucking things and not take a giant enshitification all over the one things most of us have to keep us from being on top of a water tower with a high powered rifle? Can we have ONE FUCKING THING??!

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Weirdly enough, there’s been A FEW of these types of games that were based either on a specific product or a specific brand, and they were for the most part, weirdly well done for the times they released in and actually sorta fun.

    Off the top of my head, Pepsiman for a specific product and the whole lot of Lego games if we’re talking about a whole product line.

    I think that whole genre is called advergames

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Those Xbox burger king games were legitimately fun....

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    The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It's actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it's just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do'urden that I never use them.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Hell, 7up had a platformer. Wasn't a bad game

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago*

    The best game that was just an advertisement was Chex Quest. But, I mean, they hired some teenagers who loved Doom to make the game and gave them little to no oversight other than "explain what a healthy breakfast is and include Chex cereal." So they just made a kick-ass Doom clone that only marginally advertises the cereal.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    The packaging for the game really tried to hide it was an advertisement game. Title is Darkened Skye which says nothing about it being a skittles game.

    Apparently the singular of skittles is "Skittles" according to that game

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