Like I said... whimsy.There was no shortage of personality to LittleBigPlanet, with its cutesy sack-folk and the general handmade arts-and-crafts vibe, but out of all of it, the mannered whimsy of actor/comedian/technologist Stephen Fry's narration was one of the defining touches of that game for me personally. Like oh-so many other tragic figures of public interest these days, is a pretty voracious Twitter user, and this morning the extremely British Fry tweeted that he's been recording new voiceover for the upcoming PSP version of LittleBigPlanet, confirming his involvement in the game in less than 140 characters. It's good to hear that they're not just recycling all the old PS3 audio, and Fry's description of a "lush voice-athon" gives some hope that it's a bit more than just revised control directions specific to the PSP. Thanks to Barnaby for the, uh, tweetip.
Like I said... whimsy.There was no shortage of personality to LittleBigPlanet, with its cutesy sack-folk and the general handmade arts-and-crafts vibe, but out of all of it, the mannered whimsy of actor/comedian/technologist Stephen Fry's narration was one of the defining touches of that game for me personally. Like oh-so many other tragic figures of public interest these days, is a pretty voracious Twitter user, and this morning the extremely British Fry tweeted that he's been recording new voiceover for the upcoming PSP version of LittleBigPlanet, confirming his involvement in the game in less than 140 characters. It's good to hear that they're not just recycling all the old PS3 audio, and Fry's description of a "lush voice-athon" gives some hope that it's a bit more than just revised control directions specific to the PSP. Thanks to Barnaby for the, uh, tweetip.
Stephen Fry has been using Twitter for a long time now, so saying that is a tragic figure of public interest is ... wrong. But he is a charming man (I'm a fan) :)
Twitter, twitter, twitter, twitter! Ugh, would this fad die a death already. Its nothing but self-obsessed insecure mongs posting flaffle about shoite as a way to validate their existence or some crap...like that.
The idea is good, but the way its wrapped up in this mawkish blanket of fakeness........just.......ewww.
"Twitter, twitter, twitter, twitter! Ugh, would this fad die a death already. Its nothing but self-obsessed insecure mongs posting flaffle about shoite as a way to validate their existence or some crap...like that. The idea is good, but the way its wrapped up in this mawkish blanket of fakeness........just.......ewww. "
For any fans of Stephen Fry, he was fantastic as the reader for the Harry Potter audiobooks on the UK side. Jim Dale performed the audiobooks for the US publishers. Personally I prefer Jim Dale's work to Fry's, but both are good. International book publishing is a strange world indeed. For Potter nerds, it may be fun to get ahold of both versions of the first Harry Potter audiobook and give them a listen back to back and see how different the experience is based on who is reading the book for you.
To put an extra note on the Harry Potter talk. Both readers were very conservative in the first book and they both don't really get into the characters until book 3 in my opinion (and yes I am a HP nerd!)
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