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  1. Posted

    I wonder if anyone hated the voices and just played CoMI with just the text on...

    I loved the voices in CoMI. Especially Earl Boen as LeChuck, and Denny Delk as MURRAY! I really liked Dominic Armato as Guybrush as well, he was perfect. I pissed myself when I read some idiot claim they messed it up by making him a "whiny American idiot". Guybrush is a whiny idiot! In an American game!

    The best Mario voice, obviously, was Bob Hoskins.

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    I gotta agree man. Crusade was awesome.

    Yay, someone with sense! Thanks for supporting me, Miffy!

    the only semi-recent rival I can think of was that horse chase in Mask Of Zorro where he's picking all the soldiers off from behind.

    *Shut up, Miffy, shut uuuup.* I don't know this guy.

  9. Posted

    If you (attempt to) read the mess of replies to that Ron Gilbert post, you'll probably extrapolate this anyway, and indeed I'm sure most people in the world know this by now, but I'm going to say it quickly anyway as noone else has bothered:

    Ron Gilbert was partially inspired by the original POTC Disneyworld ride when creating Monkey Islands 1 & 2, so it's no surprise that the movie shares similarities with the games.

    I also agree with Thrik, though, that it's more than likely that many of the film team were influenced in turn by the games.

  10. Posted

    *recalls The Last Crusade and almost vomits*

    Are you crazy? Last Crusade is a brilliant film! It's funny, exciting, inventive. Brilliant acting, stunts, direction, script, setpieces, score. It can't quite touch Raiders, but by going on a lighter tack it sets itself apart from the first film, and so doesn't have to match it.

    Frankly, the tank action sequence near the end which Spielberg manages to sustain for about 20 minutes, moving effortlessly back and forth between action, laughs and emotional moments, justifies the film on its own.

  12. Posted

    If someone here is in the industry, who knows someone who knows someone, can I also make a few requests?

    Can we have Toonstruck 2 as soon as possible, please?

    And can Sam And Max Episodes get the original voices back and not suck, please?

    Ooh, and a really good Back To The Future game would be good.

    And can I have a job?

    And an Idle Thumbs game too, if you fancy it.

    Gibbage plug here.

    Thaaaaaaaaanks!

  13. Posted

    Yeah yeah, I've played BTTF 2 & 3 on the megadrive, and they were atrocious. But surely we can come up with something better than Probe Entertainment and Image Ltd (if my excellent research skills are to be trusted).

  14. Posted · Edited by bbX1138

    I had the great fortune to watch Super Mario Bros, and read the Wing Commander 3 novelisation in the same week a while back Both hilariously godawful, of course, although I suppose they both had tough source material to convert to a different medium.

    SMB had a great cast though - Hoskins, Leguizamo, Hopper, Fiona Allen, Lance Henriksen, Fisher Stevens (blacked up in Short Circuit to play the Indian scientist) and even Dan Castellenetta as the narrator.

    WC3 was intensely dull, and the authors had about three adjectives in use throughout. Kudos for the 'war is shit' vibe throughout, though.

    The only good game-to-film adaptation I've seen is Silent Hill which, although it had a completely superfluous desperately-searching-husband thread (demanded by idiot Hollywood producers in order to insert male characters) and the occasional clunky dialogue line, was absolutely terrifying. the CG was fantastic, the monsters scary, and the main plot intriguing. I really felt like I was stuck in the head of an insane person for two hours.

    Perhaps it succeeds because in this case, a hugely faithful move to screen, including direct transposition of dialogue and music, actually feels like a good fit. It's no wonder most adaptations are shit, it's incredibly difficult to take even the best film ever and translate it into an equal and representative gaming experience.

    It got me thinking about film-to-game adaptations, though, and my favourite film of all time in particular. How would you make a Back To The Future game? I can't think of a single satisfying way to reproduce the wonder and excitement of that franchise in a video game.

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    Noone's mentioned Akira yet (unless I missed it). Is that too obvious? I really liked it.

    Also, Perfect Blue. Really crazy 'it's a dream, no this is the dream, no this is the dream, no this is the dream, no this is the dream, no this is the dream, no this is the dream, no this is the dream' structure, pretty cool.

    Oh, and I really liked Samurai Jack, but I flicked through the Ronin graphic novel, and realised Frank Miller could probably be justified in stealthily sticking a katana up Genndy Tarkovsky's ass for pilfering his plot.

  16. Posted

    Samantha is usually funnier.

    Every episode I've seen, she's been the weak link. Sub-Chris Morris/Ali G VTs sink this programme, along with the faux-pundits they get into the studio. They could almost cut this down to a 15 minute bit with Jon Stewart and leave it at that...

    Still, great stuff from the senators. You wonder how America gets so het up about video games, until you realise it's just people like this.

  17. Posted

    Have you guys seen Wondershowzen (spelling?), that this clip is from? It's brilliant. If you're in the UK, and have freeview, it's played on TMF around 10pm. I think it's MTV originally, so most likely all of America has heard of it...

    I'm surprised YouTube has let these clips on, seeing as the programme's still going, and they've got a DVD out...

  18. Posted

    Nic Cage for Rorschach, I say. He can do ugly and ginger, he's got the right physique and the laconic drawl.

    I thought the V for Vendetta movie was okay, but everything, especially the politics, was simplified to the point of being facile, I thought. And V was too humanised for my taste.

  20. Posted

    I didn't realise for ages that the AI in Hal-Life only becomes impressive on the highest difficulty setting. I was really annoyed about that, as I'm not that good a games-player, and I would have struggled to get through on that setting, without using the quick-save key to the point of breaking the game (I only allowed myself to use it when Valve forced me to smash crates for minutes at a time).

    Couldn't they have kept the AI high on all difficulty levels, and just adjust the AI health levels or whatever? I'd rather be impressed and scared by the AI whilst thanking my lucky stars I can dispatch them with a single shotgun blast to the face, rather than never get to experience it.

    Perhaps Black Mesa can fix this for me!

  22. Posted

    Attempting to lineate this circular argument...

    The author claims that the suggested detail of HL1 is superior to the paraded detail of HL2, and yet isn't HL2 the more elliptic of the two? In HL1 , we know what is happening, why and how. In HL2, we are presented with a world into which we have awoken confused and horrified. We know nothing outside this city/state (in HL1 we can assume the outside world is oblivious and contemporaneously regular) of the world order, and inside it only what we gather from incidental detail. Surely that is the strength of HL2, hailed by critics as setting it apart from its contemporaries moreso than its graphics and other qualities?