A lot of things have changed since then. There is now the internet (and lag) instead of phone-to-phone connections and games have come quite a long way. The Command and Conquer franchise, has, however, hung on and about every other iteration or so we both buy it and relive those old dial-up days. These days the games have multi-million dollar budgets and name actors doing not only the voice over, but "cut scenes", where the game stops and a cinematic scene plays out to advance the plot of the game.
I just got hit up to do a customer satisfaction survey of this last game, and among the other elements I was asked about was this question:
Oh, those poor, poor actors. Mr. McKenney has assured me this will be part of the interactive features of the "Satan Hates You" DVD package.
Excellent.
ReplyDeleteCarl Lumbly and Natasha Hen-whatever are pretty successful actors too. At the mercy of being critiqued by gamers. That's a low blow.
ReplyDeleteTrue, amysue, but the newest version of the game is about to come out and from the looks of it, perhaps preemptive acting ratings/safeguards should have been put in place.
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That was awesome. True porno quality acting. So you actually see the actors during the game? It's not just voiceovers?
ReplyDeleteahh how i miss playing that game...i should find it and upload it to my computer again. maybe i will finally become a decent player and not have to yell at the screen when i get scared the other team is going to beat me. yeh...i'm that sad.
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