The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Norgy]

I broke down and bought it out of nostalgia.

The world looks great. I haven't done much yet, except breaking out of the sewers.
As I have a couple of days off, one of the perks of working night and weekends, I will probably try to see if I can reach Kvatch and get slaughtered there.

[Tamas]

Managed to exit the sewers before my kid woke up. Looks nice.

It's weird, and I wonder if it is a sign of being old that when I launched Awoved and started the tutorial sequence I was like "oh no, not a cookike-cutter FPS RPG again" and quit quickly, while I actually enjoyed replaying the Oblivion tutorial section for who knows how many-eth time

[The Minsky Moment]

And yet you failed Partick Stewart every time, leaving him to die as you went out to frolic in the grass.  You monster.

[The Minsky Moment]

Expedition 33 also released today, also on Gamepass first day release.

[Syt]

After 25 years, PS1 game Breath of Fire IV is now on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/de/game/breath_of_fire_iv

[Tamas]

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

[Syt]

Isn't it on game pass?

[Tamas]

Isn't it on game pass?

I have a toddler

[Grey Fox]

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

It looks like gritty dark Persona 5.

[Duque de Bragança]

After 25 years, PS1 game Breath of Fire IV is now on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/de/game/breath_of_fire_iv

Cheaper than buying the PS1 game on disc for sure.  Enhanced port, though, nice.

[Syt]

Looking at the cast of Oblivion on IMDB ... everyone remembers that Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart are in the game.

I had totally forgotten that Lynda Carter aka Wonder Woman was also in it (Female Nords and Female Orcs), as well as Terrence Stamp as Mankar Camoran.

And I never got very far in Skyrim's main quest, so I never noticed that it had Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer. 

[Norgy]

So far the remastered Oblivion is impressing me.
Coming to Cloud Ruler Temple for the first time was almost as good as it was in 2006.

[Solmyr]

Looking at the cast of Oblivion on IMDB ... everyone remembers that Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart are in the game.

I had totally forgotten that Lynda Carter aka Wonder Woman was also in it (Female Nords and Female Orcs), as well as Terrence Stamp as Mankar Camoran.

And I never got very far in Skyrim's main quest, so I never noticed that it had Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer. 

ESO also has a ton of famous actors: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Voice_Actors

[Syt]

IMHO Fallout 1 had one of the most surprising "wait, what?" casts at a time when this was not quite the norm yet.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134648/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm

Richard Dean Anderson
Keith David
Brad Garrett (Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond)
Tress MacNeille (Dot on Animaniacs, many roles across Futurama and Simpsons)
Kenneth Mars (Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein, King Triton in Little Mermaid)
Ron Perlman
CCH Pounder
Tony Shalhoub
David Warner

Plus a host of veteran voice actors:

Jeff Bennett (Johnny Bravo), Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh across many versions), Clancy Brown, Charlie Adler, Tony Jay (Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame), Kath Soucie (Lola Bunny in Space Jam, plus Rugrats, Futurama, etc.), Cree Summer (Penny on 80s Inspector Gadget, and many more), Frank Welker (original Galvatron and prolific since 80s).


Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim also have a bunch of voice actors showing up on Veep - several are from the DC area where Bethesda are located.

[Josquius]

A weird one I learned recently is up and coming B list British comedian Harriet Kemsley voiced the main villain in Dark Souls 2 for some bizare reason.