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Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There it is. This was a big deal at the time because it wasn’t just voice acting but a character built around his likeness too. The game was meh

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emptyother@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The game was kickass for a kid who loved all kinds of weird action games! I probably shouldn’t try it again and ruin my memories of it.

But a top down shooter where you could fire in different directions than you were walking was revolutionary for a kid who had mostly played metal gear solid on his new PlayStation.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Games have been doing that since Robotron: 2084 in 1982.
  
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  - emptyother@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not surprised. But I had never seen a game like that by then. And very rarely after too. Most recent one I played was… Alien Swarm, I think? I loved that one too.
    
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    FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    To be fair, they were often arcade games which required two joysticks. I had a game for my Amiga that I don’t remember the name of that used the keyboard to do it.
    
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