Great character here, and he even got to show off a much broader range of his acting chops on the original “Shogun” miniseries from this same year.
Little sample of when he’s first introduced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iW-QGjyIUwHe also played Paladin in the FMV Wing Commanders, Atreides General in Dune 2000 and did voiceovers for Quest for Glory. And now i feel very old.
Oh man, now I’m excited to get to Quest for Glory 4 in my play through. I played 3, and 4 as a kid.
I never played that exact series, but loved those Sierra, LucasFilm, etc, adventure games.
Something weird later happened though, in that (without my knowing it) they got ruined for me when all those Flash games came out that streamlined the interface down to point-and-click, with the main character no longer appearing on screen. Obviously most of those games were vastly less complex, but they were also more instantly rewarding and faster-moving in general.
I later started to fool around with the excellent, public domain SCUMM project, which collects dozens of those old Sierra-style games, and figured I’d have a blast with Monkey Island and others, but sadly, they were now too tedious to entertain me. I just don’t want to have to spend minutes or hours slowly walking from one place to another to solve a certain puzzle or whatever. That said, gameplay videos are very entertaining for me-- watching someone else do all the manual walking around, and letting me skip past the boring bits.
I must say, the Quest for Glory games look really good from over here.
it is still very good if you can tolerate point and click game design of old.
Yeap, he did a tonne of stuff before “Gimli,” including game voiceovers.
I guess I forgot about Dune 2000. I was a fan of the original '92 game, and bought the remake. All kinds of awesome video snippets they crammed in there, which was pretty impressive for fitting on a single CD I think it was. I forget if the actual gameplay differed, though.
Dune 2000 was great and it still has quite active online community if you want to deathmatch and it laid the foundation for an updated mechanics of the generational one-two punches of C&C Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2. God, prime Westwood wasn’t fucking around.
I’m a fan of archers & ranged units in tactical games, so of course I loved those… uh, blue faction (“Ordos?”) missile-tanks. They were absolute toast against immediate threats, such as fast units and other tanks, but if you put a little platoon of them together they could be borderline-unstoppable. Just auto-firing away at all threats.
Except! The missiles would get confused sometimes, or lose their original target, and hilariously hit one of the other missile-tanks in your group. I thought it was pretty funny how a platoon could either wipe out half the map or occasionally itself, lol.
C&C mechanics at its “finest”. Check out DORF - it’s a modern C&C style strategy.
Thanks for the rec. I don’t really play RTS’s anymore, but it looks very good. Nicely detailed art and all…
The genre fell by the wayside after Starcraft 2 and most strategies went either MOBA (makes sense because that’s where the money are at) or Total War route. So there are not that many oldschool RTS especially the C&C style. But given how well the remasters performs - the demand is definitely there and it brings a lot of hope, especially given how boomer shooters are now a legitimate FPS subgenre.
