Chez Geek - 4PM Saturdays

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:48 pm

This weekend 01/10 (yay for palindromic dates)...

Demo/preview day. We've been playing FAR too many demos of far too many PC and constole games, not to mention playing about with some online previews of upcoming CCG releases - and so, we'll be ranting about what's good and what's not.

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:50 pm

Urban Dead a Massive Multiplayer Online Survival Horror Game.

I've recently been roped into it and its amazingly fun, with a large amount of resources available to players online, such as:

Maps of the city and Zombie horde tracking.

Well worth a go - especially as it costs nothing (yay) and the well designed action systems mean that a few minutes a day gives you a full experience. Plus its very dial-up friendly.

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:46 pm

Elder Scrolls News wrote:

BETHESDA GAME STUDIOS TAPS TOP INTERNATIONAL HOLLYWOOD TALENT TO VOICE THE UPCOMING
THE ELDER SCROLLS® IV: OBLIVION™ VIDEO GAME

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to Feature Voice Performances by Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, and Terence Stamp

September 30, 2005 (Rockville, MD) - To create the perfect tone and timbre for its upcoming epic role playing game, The Elder Scrolls® IV: Oblivion™, Bethesda Game Studios announced today an all-star voice cast of British stage and screen legends. Developed for both the Xbox 360™ videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC platforms, Oblivion is one of the year's most highly-anticipated games and sequel to the best-selling role playing game of 2002, Morrowind®.

Leading the lineup is Patrick Stewart, playing the role of the Emperor. Stewart is best known among genre fans as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men feature films.

Providing the voice for the Emperor's lost son and heir to the throne is Sean Bean. Bean skyrocketed to the public's attention as Lord Boromir in the Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. While Oblivion will be his first video game role, Bean is well known for starring in a variety of films, including memorable roles in National Treasure, Goldeneye, and Patriot Games.

"Oblivion is something unique, an epic entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before," said Bean. "I decided this was a project I really wanted to work on creatively and I hope fans of the game enjoy the results."

Terence Stamp will lend his talents to the game's heavy plot, a sinister force bent on the destruction of Tamriel, the game's geographical setting. Stamp starred in Star Wars: Phantom Menace as Supreme Chancellor Valorum and as General Zod in the legendary Superman films. Oblivion is Stamp's first foray into voice work for a video game.

"Having never done voice work for a video game before, I really had no notion of what to expect," said Stamp. "Bethesda did a great job in providing the tone and theme for the character and it was fun to give life to the villain in the story, who is a very thoughtful man from a different line of kings who seeks to realize his own vision for the empire."

Bethesda had previously announced that Lynda Carter would also be lending her voice talents to the game. Best known for her starring role as the crime-fighting superhero, "Wonder Woman," in the hit television series, Carter has appeared in more than 50 television shows and films, including this summer's hits, Sky High and Dukes of Hazzard.

"We wanted to work with voice talent that really captured the emotion and drama of the game's story," said Todd Howard, executive producer for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. "Quite honestly, we wrote the parts with these individual actors in mind. It's an honor to have them lend their talents to the project."

As the next chapter in the highly acclaimed and best-selling Elder Scrolls series, Oblivion is a single-player game that takes place in Tamriel's capital province, Cyrodiil. Gamers are given the task of finding the hidden heir to a throne that sits empty, the previous emperor having been killed by an unknown assassin. With no true Emperor, the gates to Oblivion (the equivalent of hell in the world of Tamriel) open, and demons begin to invade Cyrodiil and attack its people and towns. It's up to the player to find the lost heir and unravel the sinister plot that threatens to destroy all of Tamriel.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has not yet been rated by the ESRB.

Wow - just look at that voice acting line-up...

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:57 am

And yes, the X-Box 360 roadshow is free.

Geek from Geek and the Freak · **Joined:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:00 pm **Posts:** 17

Nice to see that the gaming community finally getting the voice actors it deserves. I can imagine Patrick Stewert and Sean Bean being pretty good.

To date, it has seemed the majority of voice actors in video games have been either professionals from theatre or people that seemed to have been gotten off the street.

Hopefully this will propel the Elder Scrolls series into the "good voice acting video game series" list. Which so far comes to a total of one : the Legacy of Kain series.

And before you argue, I said Good Voice Acting, didn't say the plot, gameplay, or control system had to be good.

microwave_popcorn · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:25 pm

I vote Max Payne for best bad voice acting. "It was a V, a poison slogan with a thousand meanings"

yes, I'm paraphrasing, Excuse me for having enough of a life to not memorise the opening level of my game.

Forum Joe · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:12 pm

Geek from Geek and the Freak wrote:

Hopefully this will propel the Elder Scrolls series into the "good voice acting video game series" list. Which so far comes to a total of one : the Legacy of Kain series.

I nominate the Grand Theft Auto series, which has had Frank Vincent, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Madsen, Kyle Maclachlan, Ray Liotta, William Fichtner, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, Danny Trejo,
Gary Busey, Ice-T, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Penn, James Woods, Chuck D., George Clinton, and Axl Rose, amongst many others.

Geek from Geek and the Freak · **Joined:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:00 pm **Posts:** 17

Forum Joe wrote:

I nominate the Grand Theft Auto series, which has had Frank Vincent, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Madsen, Kyle Maclachlan, Ray Liotta, William Fichtner, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, Danny Trejo,
Gary Busey, Ice-T, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Penn, James Woods, Chuck D., George Clinton, and Axl Rose, amongst many others.

Ah whoops. That completly slipped my mind. Who did Dennis Hopper play?

Forum Joe · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:30 pm

"Steve Scott" in Vice City.

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:04 pm

Sadly, I must now reveal my shameful side.

I am a complete Sean Bean fan-boy. The man can do no wrong. Even the most terribly written roles he can transform into a great character.

Forum Joe · **Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:45 am

I agree, completely. I nearly fainted when I saw that first Lord Of The Rings trailer when I saw him coming over the mountain ridge!

Also loved him in Ronin, and Patriot Games...

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:30 am

Alright people - for anyone interested, some of the crew from Chez Geek will be heading out to Glenorchy Village cinema at 7:00pm for the Doom movie.

Woo.

microwave_popcorn · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:18 am

Anders from Chez Geek wrote:

Urban Dead a Massive Multiplayer Online Survival Horror Game.

Kevan Davis - the Graaagh guy? What is it with this guy and zombies?

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:22 pm

There is no problem with Zombies.

Anders from Chez Geek · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:46 am

This week on the show:

Zombies. In all their forms. Just why are they so popular and funny?

Featuring:

The Doom movie.

Zombies (Widescreen edition).

Urban Dead.

And all manner of other zombiriffic materials.

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