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"Sayings for Game Characters/Players"

Solid Snake: "If it moves, choke it."
Lara Croft: "If it moves, shoot it." (Cleaned up version)
Chris (Resident Evil): "If it's dead, kill it."
Colin McRae: "What tree?"
Jonah Lomu: "What opposition?"
Descent players: "What collision detection?"
Worms players: "Revenge!"
Z players: "Put the kettle on while the next level loads."
Gran Turismo players: "Just one more lap....."
Barbie Race and Ride players: "Did I really PAY for this?"

I just read 'Lock n loads' reply on here and he said

"Star Trek- Resistance is FURTILE

It's ment to be Futile but I had a good laugh at this!

lol :-)

Won't that be great! Dubbed games from Japan with FMV actors speaking out of time with their voices! It'll be just like at the movies! (Have you seen Who Am I?, thats hilarious!)

Lip synch is not impossible Grix. :-) With new advances in speech recognition software developers are working on a system of graphics being able to "speak" words. For example, the vowel sound "oh" would have a characters lips move into a ring shape and so on, thereby removing the need for adequate translation software when different languages are dubbed over for when the game reaches other countries. Still in its infancy, but expect to see this kind of technology being used in games in the next 3 to 5 years.

Another thing is lip sync. Impossible. Firstly, there is more than one language for the game, and secondly, actually... just the one. Yes.

And if you forge they are separate sentences and put them together it all gets a bit....well....dodgy!

But think on this a moment - Until recently games characters didn't speak as such, they just had speech bubbles. It must be so difficult for the developers to imagine how the character actually sounds and then get a voice actor (usually a very bad one) to do the voice. Imagine if they got it wrong? Sonic would have a gruff, deep voice and Lara Croft might be a tough sounding scottish woman rather than a plummy english one.

"I don't care what you smell, get in there!"
Han Solo to Chewbacca.
"Blast my metal body I wan't fast enough!"
C3-PO.
"Judge me by my size do you?"
Yoda to Luke.

It's the kind of game where you resque the dragon, steal the princess and kill the treasure...

For those of you who don't have the faintest idea what the h-e-double-hockeysticks I'm talking about, go buy a copy of "Kingdom O' Magic"...

You'll luuurve it..

- Take me, take me...
- But A Don't Find Ye Attactive...
- Take me across the lake...

(to the Bakers Island, where you let the small boy eat the large, ferocious ginger bread men)

- Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying euthanasia is everybody's cup of tea...
- Tea? Why, I'd love a cup of tea. I'll go put the kettle on...

(this is the point where you steal the small boy, sitting in the cage)