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Penny Arcade - Comic - Mulligan
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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Mind = Blown. o.O
That's cute.
Pins!
The joke is that no voice actor could do a good job with these lines because the writing in Destiny is awful and there is little/no explanation or context for anything. This was probably a big part of the reason why Peter Dinklage's voicework was mediocre, too.
That makes sense, thanks. It was just a bit hard to tell what I was supposed to be reading into North's expression in that last panel. Especially after how the G&T dialogue focused on the DELIVERY rather than the MATERIAL.
Then he was replaced by Troy Baker as the "must have" voice actor.
That's not a shoulder rub. Notice that Gabe doesn't actually say anything? That's because Tycho is just thinking out loud to himself while pushing Gabe's dead body into a wood chipper. Not pictured: the watch.
I'll be really sad if the updated voice seems to give a shit about what's happening.
Worst case: Fact Sphere.
Maybe a little bit of Space Sphere thrown in?
I see the trend, but I feel like I am one of like two people in games that balks at this trend. It's not so much that I have a problem with roguelikes in principal (although it is a rare one that actually appeals to me) or even a problem with the grudgefuck approach to game design (I, like many, love Dark Souls).
But there is a certain dogpile/bandwagoning thing that happens sometimes in games (see: the motion controller rush, the MOBA rush, etc) that just makes me feel like that Cheermeister scene from the grinch movie.
If you need acting, hire an actor.
If you need mo-cap, hire a mo-cap artist.
If you need voice-work, hire a voice actor.
Do not hire a celebrity just because they're a celebrity. The quality will suffer, and their heat will fade in ten years, and then you'll just be left with some poorly-voiced shit that cost you an assload of money.
Like in the recent MGSV video, there was a spot where a minor NPC is obviously being played by Troy Baker. Instead of thinking about what he was saying, I just went, "Hey, it's Troy again."
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There was one role that Nolan North surprised me in. He played the "bad guy" in The Last of Us. I think the character's name was David if I'm not mistaken. I totally didn't recognize him in that role. It wasn't till afterwards when someone told me it was North that I even knew it was him.
I also like to play spot the voice in animated shows, most often with Steve Blum(Wolverine and the X-Men, pretty much everything). I usually yell Steve Blum! when I hear him, but it doesn't actually distract me from his work.
He is also every other thug/soldier in Arkham Knight, I'm curious if it is possible for him to talk to himself, since the dialog seems to be somewhat random.
:monocle!:
Edit - I have misread as pointed out below.
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I guess Destiny just reached pretension critical mass?
I always had the impression that the AI names like Guilty Spark and Mendicant Bias were supposed to be semi-random designations put together from lists of variables. Think of the way the X-Com remake generates names for missions: "Operation Dark Chant, "Operation Morbid Star," etc. They don't really mean anything but they sound kinda evocative and cool. And the Covenant have trappings of a religious cult so it makes some sense for them.
I won't defend the UNSC ship names too much although I will say that some cultures have ended up creating what we might consider pretty poetic names for their military equipment. Look at the some of the meanings of WW2 Japanese warship names on this page. Kagero mean "glimmering spring air." Oboro means "Mist Veil Through Which Only a Shade of the Moon is Visible." I guess those are better than Pillar of Autumn since they actually mean something and damned if I know what a pillar of autumn is, but they could just as easily be accused of being over-poetic and un-military.
Halo was always a sci-fi shooter with latent, light fantasy-mystical trappings. Destiny just turned the fantasy-mystical stylized aspects up to 11. The problem was the Halo universe has pretty robust backstory and world-building, and Destiny has close to none.
As for the starship names in particular, I suspect some influence from how Iain Banks' Culture names ships (or rather, how the ships name themselves).
It's absolutely a reference to Banks' Culture novels and the way their ships name themselves. Which is hilarious, considering the whole 'gravitas' running-joke.
You seem to have (understandably) misread his comma as an appositive when in fact he was using it as a series.
He's not saying "Think about From Software's recent output, which is a game called Darkest Dungeon, and that kind of stuff."
He's saying, "Think about (1) From Software's recent output, and also (2) Darkest Dungeon, and also (3) etc etc that kind of stuff."
I don't blame you for the misreading, though. It is definitely a good example of a vague comma. I thought the same thing at first and had to stop and read it again.
I doubt anybody else here reads Schlock Mercenary but some of the ship names in there also seem like fairly clear Banks references, especially Post-dated Check Loan/"Petey" and the way
What about Broken Wind?
I would be fine with them doing more of these. =D
Yeah that too, I probably forgot about it because I've found the last couple story arcs pretty impenetrable, to be honest.
Wow, I completely read over that comma. GG, eyes.
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