spacetrucking

When I click the PM icon, I get this:

Wiki 

• Have you seen the Guild Wars 2 page ? That's insane for a game that's not even in the Beta yet.  http://www.giantbomb.com/guild-wars-2/61-21223/
• To accompany the GW2 page, the ArenaNet page is equally well done:  http://www.giantbomb.com/arenanet-inc/65-306/
• Ninja Gaiden - impressive game, impressive page:  http://www.giantbomb.com/ninja-gaiden/61-21876/
• Everybody loves (old) Dante so might as well shine some light on him and his last outing:  http://www.giantbomb.com/devil-may-cry-4/61-6681/  http://www.giantbomb.com/dante/94-309/

Blog

• Another thought provoking piece by Sear -  http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/sear/do-games-need-to-be-fun/30-62233/ 
• More MMO talk here in this ahooded figure blog. Innovation is the most lacking and the most desired factor in the MMOscape at the moment  http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/ahoodedfigure/design-innovation-in-mmorpgs-still-a-dirty-word/30-61889/
• Dick jokes. Apparently you like 'em! You like 'em a lot! :P http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/zombiepie/begun-the-alias-wars-have/30-62073/ (sarcastic recommendation if you didn't figure that out already)

Lists

• Campy voice acting has it's charm -  http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/thehideousshrew/greatest-videogame-acting-ever/46-16223/
• It's nice to see people appreciating games for a change -  http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/skrutop/games-that-pleasantly-surprised-me/46-1928/
• I like Lydian_Sel's lists dedicated to Mike Patton and Reuben "Dante" Langdon. He's got dedication -  http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/lydian_sel/surprise-youre-dead/46-16009/ &  http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/lydian_sel/showtime/46-14217/

Reviews

• ME2's Shadow Broker DLC is arguably the best piece of DLC any game will get this year and this review does it great justice:  http://www.giantbomb.com/mass-effect-2/61-21590/user-reviews/?review_id=16502
• NeutralX2 thinks Amnesia is the creepiest game ever made and makes a strong argument for it:  http://www.giantbomb.com/amnesia-the-dark-descent/61-30087/user-reviews/?review_id=16696
• I can say Tebbit chimes in with his opinion on the game but I'm not going to do that. Nope.  http://www.giantbomb.com/chime/61-29186/user-reviews/?review_id=16724
• I like when people review smaller, lesser played games. It's hard to find a second opinion on these and user reviews can actually shine light on hidden gems:  http://www.giantbomb.com/space-invaders-infinity-gene/61-27556/user-reviews/?review_id=16672

" @HandsomeDead said:

" @Hailinel said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" I don't think it's fair comparing a modern game like Matroid: Other M, a game which is the latest in one of Nintendo's main franchises and so expected to have high production values to decades old games. "

Bad voice acting is bad no matter the era."

Yeah, but expectations are completely different. Resident Evil was one of the first games to have complete voice acting and House of the Dead 2 is an arcade game from a decade ago, neither of those are expected or even required to have stellar voice acting but when you reach 2010 and take a 20ish year franchise, try to modernise it by fleshing out the character of Samus and then have bad voice acting, it's a different thing entirely. "

Maybe they weren't required, but the voice acting in those old games was still terrible.  It doesn't matter what the games' budgets were or where the priorities were placed during development.

• Nova Shepard - Realist Infiltrator with a heart of gold. She couldn't afford saving the Council and appointed Anderson as the new head instead. She brainwashed the rogue Geth but the Rachni were too big a risk. She doesn't trust the Illusive man. Total floozy. Slept with Garrus & Kaiden and flirts with every crew member. 
• Joanna Shepard - Girl scout Sentinel, savior of the Council, leader of the Anti-Cerberus Movement. Chose the lesser of two evils and saved the separatist Geth. Always loyal to Liara but close buddies with Garrus and Legion. 
• Adrian Shepard - Hardass Soldier, racist bastard - hates all aliens. He never misses a chance to commit genocide or punch reporters on TV.  Fits in perfectly at Cerberus. He was the reason I made this list. Love interest are fellow space bigot Ashley and Tali (who is no longer part of the flotilla)
• I also created a couple of Jane Shepards to tool around with Adept and Vanguard skills but gave up after an hour. Not having a carry over sucks. No Wrex = No dice.

Here is the full voice cast from the credits. I'm terrible at pop culture so I'm not sure if I'm missing some hidden celebrity here.  

@Artemesia:  Are you sure it was Steve Blum ? It wouldn't be surprising in the least but I can't find his name in the credits.

" @Killjoi said:

" You know those kickass cinematics Blizzard makes ? Mr. Kotick wants to pack those into a 90-min reel and sell it to you as a theatrical release for $20~30. [News Story]   
  
These are his words:

If we were to go to our audience and say we have this great hour-and-a-half of linear video that we would like to make available to you at a $30 price point or $20 price point, you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever. Within the next five years, you are likely to see us do that. Now that may be in partnership with somebody; it may be alone. But there will be a time when we capitalize on the relationship that we have with our audience. 

Since Blizzard & Activision have our credit card information, Kotick thinks we have a more "direct relationship" with them. Furthermore, he believes "an extremely high percentage" of players would be willing to go to a theater to watch the same cutscenes again.
 
I don't know what are they on at Activision but their executives never run out of Machiavellian ideas or headline worthy quotes. This is a baffling proposition in a world where entire games are put on YouTube even before release date.PS: Thanks Activision for making my stupid little list possible. "

Nowhere in Kotick's quote does he say anything about re-packaging Starcraft cutscenes as a movie. He says that there is over 90 minutes worth of cutscenes in Starcraft 2 which he only brings up to explain to a bunch of business people that they have a team and the talent in place with the capability to release that amount of content and he believes if they released 90 minutes worth of material as a movie, it would be very successful and if they charged 2-3 times as much as a theatrical release it would make more money than any other theatrical release.   The implication of releasing previously released game cutscenes as a movie is made entirely by the writer for Gamespot. It's also worth nothing that he doesn't reference anything in his article. This isn't even news, really. It's pure sensationalist garbage, taking a couple quotes out of context (the quotes are from a business conference said to a bunch of business people), putting a bunch of words in his mouth and then spinning it all back to "gamers" who they know will get all worked up and post links to the story all over their competitors forums. Also, how many time have people have asked when Blizzard is going to make a movie? This isn't crazy or even arrogant. It's a response to what people have been saying about Blizzard for years. I remember seeing the first trailer for Warcraft 3 almost 10 years ago and thinking Blizzard should make a movie. "

If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, take it out of the game, and we were to go to our audiences for whom we have their credit card information as well as a direct relationship and ask, 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?', my guess is that ... you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever.

You know those kickass cinematics Blizzard makes ? Mr. Kotick wants to pack those into a 90-min reel and sell it to you as a theatrical release for $20~30. [News Story]
  
These are his words:

If we were to go to our audience and say we have this great hour-and-a-half of linear video that we would like to make available to you at a $30 price point or $20 price point, you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever. Within the next five years, you are likely to see us do that. Now that may be in partnership with somebody; it may be alone. But there will be a time when we capitalize on the relationship that we have with our audience. 

I'm so glad you guys decided to address the biotic issue at higher difficulties. Also, Stasis was one of my favorite abilities in Mass Effect 1. I loved chain CC with throws, pulls, stasis and singularity. It reminded me so much of a Jedi Consular in the KOTOR games. Now I can finally get back to that Adept run on Insanity. 
 
Do you guys have anymore DLC planned for ME2 ? Or are you "not talking about it right now"...