The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Syt]

Patches, the nefarious swindler that appears in most FromSoftware games (Souls series, Bloodborne, Elden Ring), is voiced by a guy who among other things narrated UK preschooler cartoons.

Fallout New Vegas had a bunch of Star Trek alumni - Michael Dorn (Worf), Rene Auberjonois (Odo on DS9), Wil Wheaton, the guy who played the Section 31 agent in DS9, Richard Herd (Adm. Paris on Voyager), James Horan (mysterious blurry "future guy" in Enterprise) plus Fred Tatasciore who has since voiced Shaxs on Lower Decks - plus others that had one off roles. From Galactica we have Michael Hogan (Col. Tigh) and from Babylon 5 Robin Atkin Downes (Byron in Season 5; his name is listen in F:NV credits as Robin Atkin "Don't call him Byron" Downes ) and Andrea Thompson (Telepath Thalia Winters). It's  very cast in that regard.

[Razgovory]

Fallout 1 is the first game I really noticed famous voice actors in a game.  I was just 16 or 17 so I remembered several voices from cartoons (hey that's Darkwing Duck!), and voice acting in games was still fairly new.  Only about a dozen characters had voice actors in that one.

[Grey Fox]

French versions of games coming out of Quebec has many of our regular TV/film actors doing voice over. Sometimes I will watch a show with actors whose voice I hear in the game I'll play later.

[Josquius]

Somebody tell me if I should bother with Expedition 33. Especially how anime-like it is. I can't stomach anime.

I've not played it but it does sound rather good from all I've heard.
Not getting anime vibes at all. It's French.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Anyone try the Master of Magic remastering?

[The Minsky Moment]

Somebody tell me if I should bother with Expedition 33. Especially how anime-like it is. I can't stomach anime.

I can't stand anime normally, although I did like the FFVII remake when I tried it out so judge accordingly.

I'm about an hour in on Expedition 33 and it has taken over as the GP game I am playing for now. It plays using JRPG mechanics and it is clearly influenced by that genre but it is a European team and it takes a more mature approach; I found the dialogue a bit less cringey than the usual JRPG fare.  The character models look like the stylish Parisians they supposedly and anachronistically are, dressed in fin de siecle fashion, but not freaky anime. The opening setting seemed more influenced by Bioshock Infinite (a personal favorite).  I like the concept and setting. Enough to be interested in playing on just to see how the story plays out, which is pretty rare. I think it's worth trying out the intro and 15-20 minutes into the first act to see how you like it.

[Tamas]

Thanks Minsky and Josq

[Solmyr]

Anyone try the Master of Magic remastering?

Tried it some time ago. It's basically mechanically the same game with updated graphics. So while it can feed your nostalgia, game mechanics have come a long way since the 1990s.

[Grey Fox]

Thanks Minsky and Josq

 

[Tamas]

Thanks Minsky and Josq

 

Sorry! I have never played Persona

[Josquius]

On persona Metaphor Refantasio despite the dumb name looks good too.
Though my time is limited and buying atlas games within a few years of release is an error.

[Grey Fox]

It took 20 years and 100 hours of game play but I've finally beat Pokemon Pearl's end game bosses.
(On the original hardware)
 

[Josquius]

A interview on the silly controversy around AC shadows.
Nothing revelatory. Just a chat with the historic consultant Professor Sachi Schmidt-Hori.

https://boundingintocomics.com/video-games/assassins-creed-shadows-outrage-west-japan/

Though one part amused me

"But for Asian men living in the West, this game perfectly fitted their narratives – including that Asian females in the Western world are complicit in erasing the existence of Asian men. And because of my last name they assumed I was married to an Anglo-American."

Clarifying "Well, he's actually biracial," she then recalled, "Still, they would post on Reddit and say things like 'oh my god, this b–ch, she has the gall to prioritise her white husband's last name over her maiden name."

"It's something that only Asian men would really pick up on, and it's very interesting," the professor noted. "I mean, the real reason why my name is hyphenated this way is when I tried to do it as Hori-Schmidt it just sounded like 'holy s–t'. So I decided I would just do the other way."

[Oexmelin]

I had missed the news of Polygon's sale to Canadian sludge farm Valnet.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

No one is going to miss them.