Johnny Hardstaff -- Future of Gaming

[Fruckert]

I think my brain is melting.

[pollyfog]

hardstaff

giggidy

[yourlilemogirl]

D: wtf did i just sit through?

[thecrazydiamond27]

The lesson is:

PLAYSATION 2 IS FUCKING WITH OUR FLESH, OUR BRAINS AND OUR MACHINES. AND WE LOVE IT.

[enistoja]

It all makes sense now

[lostenmusic]

This would totally make people play their PS2s a lot more, I mean, since they're never going to sleep again.

[nhdaniele]

To me this is one of the most inspiring videos ever made in these ten years. There's something of James Graham Ballard in it.

[BikerTrashWolf]

... Seriously? I hope sony didn't pay in advance. I was hopeing it would start to make since at some point but it somehow kept getting worse.

[kninja41]

Why does SEELE want to destroy the Sony game machine?

[ACluelessKid]

Why can't Sony make legit promos, like Sega or Nintendo? Every promo they have for their consoles is a creepy mind screw.

[hippiechik95]

One word: MINDFUCK

[MrSwiket]

VIDEO GAMES

[MagnaCentipede]

Polybius?

[MoonBabyhowl]

fuck is this?

[ggamer23]

What did I just watch.

[TheDgdc]

I would NEVER play this shit

[OnlyVideoGuyOnEarth]

I think there's a 'whatisthisidonteven' on every johnny hardstaff video. Perhaps that's the starting point for his blueprints

[Jasonbobdude]

But... But... I just wanted to play Persona! ;_;

[TecDax]

Okay...but what am I supposed to buy?

[myaccount4favorites]

What is this I don't even

[ChibiVegito]

I like how some of the Japanese characters in the subtitles were harassing/eating each other. :p

[TorahikoOoshima]

I really like the visual style in this. Interesting story, too.

[DoomWagonOfDeath]

NOPE.



[DoomWagonOfDeath]

NOPE.

[Chamillionare64]

nightmares......nightmares everywhere.

[KurosanNitebird]

Ah shit... The brain damage caused by this must be irreparable.

[MaggotBrainy]

Neat!

[0iNV]

Assistant Producer: David Lynch

[chumbukket]

If all commercials were like this suicide rates would triple, guaranteed.

[theratking]

Corporations control the world and use video games to sedate the masses. The people finally get pissed off and start fighting back by hacking the game systems and using them creatively to disrupt all sorts of stuff (airports, buildings) Ironic that gamers would ever actually rebel against their masters.

[player7860]

the reason this is vastly different to the hisory of gaming is because sony fucked him with the paymen for hi vid so he made this as a sarcastic backlash against sony... wich was hier intention all along and they loved it. so kind of egg on his fce :X

[MisterMittens]

what is this i dont even

[jddaman1337]

This is why I love the PS2.

[lostenmusic]

...What was this advertising again?

[Resdim]

This is way better than almost any video Ive seen tripping before.

[RandyLahey911]

This was fucking brilliant in 2001(?) when I was getting stoned and its fucking brilliant when Im getting stoned now. It made me buy a PS2 of course

[DarkPieman]

The Sony Playstation 2 is a video game system.

[EatWave]

@DarkPieman It is/was a videogame system with a built-in DVD player much as the PlayStation 3 has an internal BluRay disc player,good for watching Halo Legends,The Super Mario Brothers Super Show and hardcore gay porn alike as this 'helpful' infomercial (or whatever this was) made so abundantly obscure. I can understand the need to clarify that point as this thing could end up confusing someone who worked on the machine as to what it is!

[EatWave]

Maybe the gay porn clip at 6:50 was meant to promote the PS2's DVD player capabilities?

[EatWave]

The Sony Playstation 2 was one of the most successful console game systems ever released so...I guess that this ad actually worked...somehow.

Will wonders never cease? If you put this ad to continuous loop,the answer is no.

[jer3my95]

was that porn at 6:50 ?

[jer3my95]

i dont gte what this is and the audio is shitty too

[Jimkaider]

The Last Starfighter was prophecy.

[hoopjammer]

It's about the future one world government realising that people are individuals that they can't contol. Because PS2 allows them to think for themselves they are a threat. I remember working on this and that's the brief I was given.

[DrakeTain]

This was amazing.

[theEx0du5]

PS2 overrode the collective psyche that had been trained us by secret corporate hegemony. With threesome action and guts. Or something.

[instantshine]

I felt weird.

[Estellchan]

Did they forget that were trying to promote a product!? They mention the PS2 a couple of times but most people are just going to remember how trippy this is.

[Charonchan]

What the fuck.

[weylin6]

can someone explain to me wtf just happened? The audio wasn't all that clear on some parts, I don't get it

[Newbpwng]

loads of shit and rubbish in this video.!!!

[RMACDUDE]

what is this?

[thekhenthul]

I was expecting something else... rename it please...

[Swico]

Man! is no one working On virtual reality games?

[JinRenegade]

I got a few ideas on what this video were about, but overall it doesn't make that much sense.

[CplDrew]

rubbish :)

[nhdaniele]

Beautiful

[BigGeoff666]

It's not anything to do with the "inside" of a gamers mind.

Read the description and you all will understand it.

[xChrisBoulterx]

Really, this isn't about anything much.

[buffalosouljar]

I am studying this animation for a critical review in my animation context unit at university. I have watched it several times now - and it seems like a encumburance of the mind and what goes on inside gamers minds.

[morganic88]

great work... commercial but truely inspired... rock on

[teawead]

I would be very happy if I could only know what the fuck this is.

[mushp]

Imagine an alien invasion taking place in the future. Countries are take down and the human race is pitched up against aliens who encase themselves in a machine. All we have left is poor quality radio transmissions to co-ordinate ourselves. For years we have 'toilet-trained the developed world's population' to fight via means of gaming. It's too late to blame someone for our incompetency. We have failed to protect ourselves.

Tha was what it was about for me ::)

[SleepyDirty]

I got the opposite meaning - Gruppe 8 is the alien conspiracy group running the world's governments. PS2 was developed as an insurrection tool against the alien invasion, and Gruppe 8 found out too late. It ends with the Earth's commander having to tell her overlord what happened.

[countrybluegrass]

@mushp

lol artfags miss the point again

[AzemOcram]

@mushp I took it as the PlayStation 2 was invented using technology of an advanced alien civilization. The portal from which they took the technology was left open in order to manufacture more PlayStation 2 consoles or to make them work. I agree with everything else about interpreting this bizarre video.

[nhdaniele]

@mushp I think better that technology evolution has reached a level that you can't distinguish from our body. Is organic, just like Cronenberg's Existenz.

[M4gaBe3tch]

what?

[ashbrg]

my hero!

possibly Hardstaff's best work to date.

[stargazzerr]

"we have toilet-trained the developed world's population to sh*t in their own backyard..." lol

[IdleHandsStudios]

wow, this is scary and intense, i loved it

[rakking]

Fierce!

[Garbaniuz]

wtf