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Man this sounds amazing !
I must have it
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I'm in the middle of Chapter 5 at the moment and really enjoying this game. I'll save final opinion until i've completed it, but I have to say something about the voice acting.
Many people have said how good it is, and for the most part I would agree, but it has (so far) featured two of the absolute worst English accents I have ever heard. I literally cannot believe that those people got paid to do what they did, or that they were not re-done as soon as someone heard them! |
05-24-2010, 04:33 AM | #126 |
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An instant classic,underrated somehow..
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The problem is that most people outside of the UK don't actually have any idea what authentic British accents sound like. They get their ideas of what English voices sound like from American tv. I've just grown to accept that the English accents in games will generally be godawful. The irony is that when you get an authentically English game like the Lost Crown, with authentic English accents, the voice acting gets roundly panned by people who don't bat an eyelid at the fake English voices heard in most games. |
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05-25-2010, 01:33 AM | #128 |
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I take your point on that but I think that many English accents in games are OK. Of course many of them aren't going to deceive a British native and I have the same resignation to that as you do and it doesn't really bother me.
Most of the british accents in this game weren't too bad, and in the first game they were OK too (the question of delivery aside), but Tom and the housekeeper whose name I forget at the moment were absolutely laughable! Having said that it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the game and I would agree with the site review that it was a good game but not quite brilliant. Also in the Lost Crown although the accents were fine (obviously!), it was Mr Boakes' delivery that was... well... perhaps not universally acclaimed! |
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Finished the game. Anyone know how to unlock the minigames and photos in the Extras menu? I can replay the videos, but that's it.
EDIT: Found the answer. You have to take lots of pics with the camera during the game. I usually skim the manual in the box, but I downloaded BM2. Last edited by Fien; 05-30-2010 at 03:40 AM. |
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I'm almost to the end of this magnificent game, and this is a near perfect adventure game in my eyes, it has reminded me why I fell in love with these games in the first place. One of the best games since Early Broken Sword and the Gabriel Knight games. <3
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I,m surprised by the positive reactions. This is a game comparable to titles like Art of Murder and similar eastern european or german games that's always get bashed in this forum. The difference is polish, nothing more.
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Finished finally!
I'm not sure I liked this game as much as the first one but that said, I think I'm burned out on adv game playing at the moment. Honestly, it didn't seem as creepy to me as BM1 nor did it capture my heart the same way. I don't know if that's because I've played so many games since BM1 and I'm burned out or Darren's story didn't grab me the way Samuel's storyline did. I'll play the next one because I have to see it through. I'm not really sure why but I felt some of the puzzle's were make work puzzles and that bored me and bothered me all at the same time. I loved revisiting BM1 places but it was sad all at the same time. If you played the game you know what I mean.
I liked the game and will play the sequel if and when it comes out. Did I love it, not sure, maybe I need to finish Darren's story all the way through before I decide that. It's all so tragic in many ways...perhaps that's why I feel the way I do.
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Hey, I liked that! (I've got to be the only one who actually liked the voice acting...)
I'm excited to play "Black Mirror 2" when the price goes down. When you say it's not as good as the first one, can you give examples (without too much spoiler) of how it's different?
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I thought it was some of the best voice acting I have heard in a long time. I usually get bored with characters and have to skip dialogue due to tedium but I clicked on everything and listened to everything Darren had to say. You arent the only one
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