I genuinely think A-list actors’ agents steer them clear of video games because they’re fearful people will extract game assets and use their character models in uhhh unauthorized ways. After all, thanks to Kojima we can see Conan O’Brien getting a blowjob from Geoff Keighley any time we collectively feel the need—forever.
Well, my counter to them would be that's just going to happen anyway, right? Life finds a way!
Speaking of Conan, I kept forgetting to post it during the Plague Tale discussions in here but Conan featured Requiem in the return of Clueless Gamer:
The opening is a pretty good recreation of me talking about these games to my wife, which is why I post my thoughts here so you all can roll your eyes at home. Now he just needs to
bring Bill Harder back for God Of War Ragnarok.
BTW, compare how much Conan has gone to pot from 4 years ago after the pandemic and going off the air. But he doesn't need to look youthful anymore, because
Conan's back... in pod form ("you traded my soul for pogs!?" is also a go-to line when I want to gently express my disappointment and exasperation in someone =)! I'm genuinely impressed Conan seamlessly made the transition to podcasting after like 35 years in TV doing 80's SNL, The Simpsons, and Late Night/Conan (uhh, that's all pretty legendary already). He's seemingly never going away and is actually really good on the pod, like there's no TV filtering process it all has to get through anymore, just Conan compulsively doing the bits he'd be doing anyway whether he was performing for an audience or sitting home by himself.
Anyway, I DIGRESS...
Yep. That's him. I didn't mind him too much the first time, but he pretty much abused me in the second and fourth fights. Maybe it was due to the difference in environment or to me just sucking, but I'll wait to see what you'll say after those encounters.
Well, I just blew threw them ALL last night (this guy is NOT a boss, he's a late game enemy), and I don't know why they didn't spread him out more but have you fight him like three times in a row at the end. It's not like you couldn't fight him with the "skunk" shotgun back in the early parts of the prison (that's still my go-to weapon for solving
big problems). Anyway, along with Plague Tale 2 this is like a counter-trend to pure boss rush games.
Those blind guys add another game to your list of games Callisto ripped off: Last of Us (clickers).
Thank you! There's so many I felt like I was missing as many as I could name. I added that, Mass Effect and The Thing to the list.
I enjoyed that section, as I like it when you're in situations that require stealth and silence.
Me too, but it was actually much easier and less scary once I realized I could just abuse stealth kills because even though they're loud as hell for effect they don't alert enemies via sound. I was killing dozens of these guys, sometimes practically bumping into the next one as I did.
I'm usually a total idiot with recognizing faces, so I couldn't tell who he was during gameplay even though he seemed familiar. I looked him up after I finished the game, so I didn't have such a distraction!
I had no idea he was in the game until I saw him on the ship at the start and he looked and sounded familiar, "Is that... Josh Duhamel?" Then I remembered there was some real life versus Unreal comparison shot of his face a while back and the pieces suddenly all fit.
Would love a Henry Cavill game! Maybe Witcher 4? But actually, classic Geralt voiced by Doug Cockle is just too good to replace.
Sadly he won't even be doing Witcher 4 on Netflix. Maybe they'll bring him back after the dust settles if he's not too busy with 40K. I have to give him credit, maybe he's doing the more heroic work of making passable video game related film & television rather than being a big actor appearing in games (
that's easy).
He's too busy being featured in another game:
Ehhh... but see? I guess he looks and sounds like he belongs. =)
Pretty sure he can do it. Proof? Here:
Well, I don't know where he's at since being diagnosed with aphasia, other than he retired from the screen. I don't know if games would be something less strenuous or exploitative since he was apparently not fully aware of all the acting work he was being signed up for previously.
I can't see Sly or Arnold in another game after chopping their heads off, slicing and dicing them, vaporizing them, and otherwise inflicting all sorts of horrors on them in Mortal Kombat 11.
Once again though, they did it, except Arnold was too lazy to even voice the dialogue but apparently did that shitty Predator game instead? Bleh.
Not bad choices, though in this case the distraction problem you mentioned will manifest strongly, at least for me.
Well, they'd make it a feature, like their status in real life would be intrinsic to the perception of the character, whereas Duhamel is basically playing a shady space trucker in Callisto.
You know who I'd like to play as in a game? Bryan Cranston. Maybe in a role that involves him going on an old-man espionage adventure ala MGS4 Solid Snake. Or Rowan Atkinson in a black-comedy thriller.
That's two very different desires! I think Cranston would be best deployed as a villain. I wouldn't be surprised to see him scowling on a Far Cry box some day like his comrade in Badness Giancarlo Esposito.
I'd rather someone else gets on it haha. Actually I remembered the Yakuza studio. They always bring in famous (in Japan) actors and the results are pretty cool!
Oh yeah, you may have noticed I quoted your last missive about Yakuza and Judgment but passed out without writing that I'm always looking hard at those Judgement games when they go on sale. I also got
Like a Dragon as a free game but didn't get into it. I take it it's worth whatever effort I need to put in?
True. As I mentioned in my post, I didn't once feel the horror anyway, not like how Resi delivers it anyway. I'm not sure what is the particular missing aspect here. Maybe they should have added a stalker enemy, like RE2make's Mr. X or RE8's Lady D?
That's what they should have done with the aforementioned non-boss, since that's basically his role, just in the most rudimentary fashion (like a lot of stuff in this game; feels like it's from an old developer that hasn't made a lot of games the past decade =).
But, I don't think that solves the scarcity of scariness. It's all about atmosphere and empathy and ramming jump scares down your throat every other minute actually has the opposite effect. It should be scariest between the scary stuff happening, and maybe it is by default here since that stuff is kind of a letdown (I'm not dreading anything). Plus, it doesn't walk the walk, this isn't survival horror, it's a slow-paced action game. It's not scary when you're basically encouraged and given the means to exterminate everything anyway.
Yeah, it was a fun cocktail, though it could have used that particular flavor that it can claim for itself.
Yeah, they tried distilling all these exciting, iconic properties into one and somehow ended up homogenizing it into a familiar yet completely bland experience.
Yeah that came across as weird to me too. Even more than GoW's default option of dodging with X, which I changed to O right away.
Same, which was great, actually. I had a hard time adjusting to GoW 2018's combat but this fit like a glove. I don't even remember if it was that different or if it's just like riding a bike now.
Why not? I was just mentioning that Horizon didn't win anything in the GA, iirc.
That's sad, they should have recognized it with
one of those redundant GoW awards, "Best Cinematic Open World WRPG!"
I'd have given it best narrative or whatever, since they clearly worked on that, though there's a debate between if that's a pure story award, or if there's also an execution/presentation element, in which case GoW indeed did it better.
Now this brings back memories! Mostly of my parents worrying about my, ahem, behavior on the streets of Liberty City (and Vice City after it)
Brings to mind the immortal MC Hawking lyric,
"GTA3 is like The Sims to me..." I got that game literally the same day after getting my wisdom teeth removed and just played it for months straight, if not years. I didn't even need the pain meds they prescribed me. =)
Something like RE2 remake I do enjoy but that's a complete re-imagining rebuilt from the ground up by Capcom. I mean it would have been cool to do to it what they did to RE1 and keep the gameplay style as intact as possible, but it was still great.
Yeah, the top two Resident Evil games might both be RE2, and as I've said the RE2 remake pretty much gives you the perfect encapsulation of the series, past and present.
I am a bit iffy still on ultra realistic faces even when it comes to stuff like that though, even Death Stranding at times, which I think did that style of face capture the best, had issues. It's something in the way they render teeth and open mouths that is really off-putting to me.
Speaking of RE, the giant, perfect teeth on the Baker's come to mind, though they're
supposed to look scary, so it works!
I do miss when the face/body rendering and animation arms race gave us stuff like this:
https://twitter.com/dreamboum/status/1226610123000467457
Wow, at first I was coming at that thread with the attitude of a haughty little killjoy, but by the third or fourth picture post I'm like, "Daaaaaamn, they're right, that looks better than anything from back then!"
All that aside, why did they do this to Satsuki?
Yikes! I swear my mental image of him is still the model in the bottom image from the original and how I thought of him during the remake... Either I didn't really get a close look at him or I might have thought that was a different character!
Oh and I'm 99% certain I brought this one up before, but this sucks major ass:
Well, when you put it that way, I can't really say you're wrong.
I just really hope that From is way more hands on if there is a Bloodborne remake at some point.
Nah, I doubt it, if anything they should squash it so it doesn't step on
BloodIIborne (it's happening, I swear)!
I’ve heard nothing but good things about Ueda and his games. SotC looks amazing, and I can’t wait to play it.
I'm sure it's already on the list, but The Last Guardian is amazing as well in it's own right.
The first GTA game I played was San Andreas, and that was in college, so my parents had no say.
Now as an open world California simulator that one I truly lived in for a while;
it's like The Sims to me. Except for stealing commercial jetliners, etc.