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I have a solution for dscruffy1 if his liberal translations are an issue. I know everyone's said it already, but the dialog in this game is so good.
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Atomikus posted:Generally you don't translate things literally, especially swear words; they lose a lot of their meaning that way. PS I like that the German spies have accents that are...kinda German? Like, if you're gonna hit the stereotype hard on the "every TH is a Z" front, but then none of the W's get changed to V's, I mean, go big or go home, right?
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Nov 24, 2015 04:06
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Time to continue our misadventures in the depths of Eastern Germany. Berlin By Night Scene 2/Polsy
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Nov 25, 2015 18:35
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This is not the worst library. That one's coming in the sequel. Although there is a fair bit of intel in there...
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Nov 25, 2015 19:01
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I dunno, this library seemed to have a bunch of binders on the shelves instead of actual books. Binders are lovely to shelve so it's the worst library for the poor guy who has to reshelve everything!
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Nov 25, 2015 19:31
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That dang alarm! If there's one thing that I really enjoy about the sequel, it's that the alarm does eventually turn off after a while, so if you're lost and trying to find that one last mission objective, you don't have the added irritation of that siren constantly blaring. I was never very good at stealth in this game.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:57
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Well, the sequel kind of goes around it because it has enemies respawning whether the alarm is on or not.
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And now we encounter the end of our adventures in Berlin. But who is that dashing Berlin By Night Scene 3/Polsy
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dscruffy1 posted:But who is that dashing Anyway, the the goat experimentation sounds funny but it's not as improbable as you may think. Neither is Eastern Bloc countries getting hold of Western goods and culture, actually - there was a whole black market running off the few people who had the permission to travel and smuggling was considered pretty much mandatory; an American film tape would be worth its weight in gold. Admittedly, Batman probably didn't make it that far. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Nov 27, 2015 18:18
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anilEhilated posted:My favorite character, that's who! Eastern Block countries weren't all the same in that regard. It was much easier to smuggle something into Eastern Germany or Poland than it was into Soviet Union (to the extent that people were smuggling poo poo FROM Eastern Germany and Poland into Soviet Union), so it's not implausible that they got their hands on Western films.
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Nov 27, 2015 18:40
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That was one of my favorite cutscenes in the game as well. I agree that the game was and still is pretty ahead of its time in the themes it covers and it only gets better. As unlikely as it may be, Kotaku did an excellent article on Cate Archer (although since it contains spoilers, I suggest giving it a look after the LP is over).
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Nov 27, 2015 20:30
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Usually references in media are pretty drat clumsy, but the Batman 66 reference was good in that it was funny even if you didn't know the source.
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Nov 27, 2015 20:51
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My apologies for interrupting the LP, but "Crookz: The Big Heist" is on sale on Steam for less than $10 right now. As Scruffy is the resident master of heist-related LPs, I thought I'd mention it. Thank you for putting up the "In The Lounge" music tracks. So many good memories.
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Nov 28, 2015 00:58
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I think it's telling how iconic the whole concept is when one immediately thinks of that movie when they hear about re-hydrating a person from powder, even if they're like me and didn't remember the bit about the heavy water. I always remember the world leaders first.
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Western movies were certainly popular in Poland. If you lived in East Germany you could even tune in to West German TV! Also it's CCCP in cyrillic, it's read as "SSSR". Or USSR, in English.
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Nov 28, 2015 13:53
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Morholt posted:If you lived in East Germany you could even tune in to West German TV! There's also the anecdote about teachers asking children in school what the clock counting down to the evening news on TV looked like to find out whether the family was watching "Westfernsehen".
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Hey, at least it worked. Right next to Germany all we had was a strictly illegal radio receiver in every other attic. It's kind of funny how the communists never got the connection between the huge boom of wireless communication enthusiasts and what they were using their home-made machines for.
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This is how CCCP is read: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Vncudu4iW8 Which I think makes the "English" pronunciation of CCCP in the game positively hilarious
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Nov 28, 2015 17:40
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Both of these scenes are pretty short so I'll just be putting them together for this video  Unexpected Turbulence Scene 1/2/Polsy
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Nov 29, 2015 17:47
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The Scottish guy has got his priorities right. Way back when I played this game I kept shooting the parachute guy and failing several times before I guessed what I was supposed to do. Nowadays I actually pay attention to instructions in games. 
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Nov 29, 2015 18:11
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Stealing a parachute while having a running gunfight in freefall? This game knows how to set up an action-spy setpiece.
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Nov 29, 2015 18:16
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Oh, the debriefing to come....
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Nov 29, 2015 18:44
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Please be full of hay, please be full of hay! Even in a game as full of great one-liners as this one, it stands out.
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anilEhilated posted:Please be full of hay, please be full of hay! It wasn't full of hay. 
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So we can assume that the Scotsman there works for H.A.R.M., right? Which would mean they knew about another one of our missions and just waited for the right moment to get involved without having to deal with the Russians. That's how I'm seeing it so far.
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It's been explicitly stated we have a mole so that's a pretty safe assumption (does rule out Bruno, though). I wouldn't speculate much further since we haven't really met all of the characters yet.
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Nov 29, 2015 19:36
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Every video makes me want to play this game for myself, but I can't. gently caress legal limbo.
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Nov 29, 2015 19:46
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Worthy of note that it's possible to miss the guy entirely and fall through the roof of the barn yourself. I don't remember where I read this, but apparently you can time it just right so that the cutscene bugs out and drops both the goon and Kate through the roof at the same time. Never tried it myself.
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Oh hi, its NOLF, one of the first games I cut my teeth on FPSes, and it will always hold a special place in my heart.  Its basically Austin Powers the video game.
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Among the intel items there was a roll of film you missed (near the guards talking about parachutes); the text signaled someone was taking secret photos of Kate while she was changing her dress.
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I played this game a lot ago, but is funny as ever
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Klaus88 posted:Its basically Austin Powers the video game. This right here is why I never played this game originally. People would describe it as that, and I immediately dismissed it because the Austin Powers humor is obsessed with pointing a giant finger at its own jokes instead of just letting them be funny. But this game? It simply does something funny and moves on. This game isn't Austin Powers the video game, it's Austin Powers done right.
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Felinoid posted:This right here is why I never played this game originally. People would describe it as that, and I immediately dismissed it because the Austin Powers humor is obsessed with pointing a giant finger at its own jokes instead of just letting them be funny. But this game? It simply does something funny and moves on. This game isn't Austin Powers the video game, it's Austin Powers done right. I starting replaying this because of the LP and it's more Get Smart (with a dash of Top Secret!) than Austin Powers.
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So, we got clonked in the head and lost the scientist. Smithy is going to blow a second gasket.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Smithy is going to blow a second gasket. That counts as a success in my book 
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I'm rear end at stealth games, but I can't help love this game. It has style and humor. That No True Scotsman joke was just delightful.
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After this mission I had a strange bug where I could bring the MPL you use when you're falling, which is fun.
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LoseHound posted:I'm rear end at stealth games, but I can't help love this game. It has style and humor. That No True Scotsman joke was just delightful. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason that villain exists. Like, the only reason Colonel Sanders is named that in Spaceballs is so Mel Brooks could have someone say "What's the matter Colonel Sanders, chicken?" and someone in Monolith wanted to make a dumb logical fallacy joke and here we are.
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Kibayasu posted:I'm pretty sure that's the only reason that villain exists. Like, the only reason Colonel Sanders is named that in Spaceballs is so Mel Brooks could have someone say "What's the matter Colonel Sanders, chicken?" and someone in Monolith wanted to make a dumb logical fallacy joke and here we are. There's also the classic Bond villain's right-hand man who almost always is an incredibly strong walking stereotype of some nationality.
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