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In this latest mini episode we're talking about Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos, a childhood favorite on the NES composed by Tim Follin. Solstice released on the NES in the US and UK in mid 1990. It was developed by Software Creations and published by various companies in different regions. It's a challenging isometric puzzle platformer in the vein of games like Knight Lore and Lumo. Solstice only released on NES, but it did have a sequel on the SNES called Equinox. Tim Follin is a VGM composer that hardly needs an introduction. Master of VGM folk and prog rock and putting way more effort into game soundtracks than they usually deserved, Tim worked on games like Bionic Commando and Ghouls'n Ghosts for C64, Plok for SNES, Ecco the Dolphin for Dreamcast and a tons more games. More recently he's moved into game development with games like Contradiction: Spot the Liar.
WEEK IN GEEK: After avoiding the microphones for a week due to disaster-level weather, our hosts return with their Weeks in Geek. Andrew watched Cobra Kai, season 5, and finds it makes a bad movie good. D. Bethel watched people play videogames over on the Nextlander YouTube channel, where they work their way through the incredibly dated, but also incredibly daring point-and-click adventure game, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (aka Gabriel Knight 2). CHAPTERS: (00:00) Opening - We're Back - Weather is Evil - Dan's NOT a Nintendo Fan (06:16) Andrew's Week in Geek: Watching Cobra Kai, season 5 (27:40) D. Bethel's Week in Geek: Watching Nextlander play through Gabriel Knight 2. (48:21) Outro - D. Bethel is exhibiting at a show this weekend (49:26) Outtakes RELEVANT EPISODES: -"Premature Clapulation" (19 June 2014): Where our hosts talk about the history, legacy, and current state (as of 2014) of point-and-click adventure games. ----LINK: http://forallintents.net/episode-04/ -"The Tainted Lens" (28 April 2017): Where D. Bethel discusses his favorite point-and-click adventure game, LucasArts' Full Throttle, after it was remastered as Full Throttle Remastered. ----LINK: http://forallintents.net/episode-132/ -"Chekhov's Honk" (22 January 2021): Where our hosts talk about the first three Karate Kid movies. ----LINK: http://forallintents.net/episode-20210122/ -"Too Many Johnnies" (05 February 2021): Where our hosts have a big talk about the Cobra Kai series. ----LINK: http://forallintents.net/episode-20210205/ RELEVANT LINKS: -The trailer for the modern FMV game––one that leans into the absurdity of the genre––Contradiction: Spot the Liar! by Baggy Cat. -The first part of Nextlander's playthrough of The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (aka Gabriel Knight 2). -The original FMV intro to Resident Evil for the Playstation. INFO: -Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode. -Join our Facebook page -Social: Andrew - Twitter & Instagram, D. Bethel - Twitter & Instagram -Subscribe to our YouTube channel. FEATURED MUSIC: -"Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod ----Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae -"District Four" by Kevin McLeod ----Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four ----Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Games who ape films Who like films to be games Who make films like they're games Who make games like they're films Always should be something you really love You couldn't go anywhere in 1994 without Blur's classic, Games and Films, wriggling through the airwaves and into your ears. No other song captured the mood of the era better. Video games were rising, but wanted to get the credibility of films, while films were looking at the growing success of games and wondering if they should be keeping an eye on them. Games with bits of movies in them were the result. A lot of them were naff, but we still enjoyed them. The school playgrounds at the time became battlegrounds. The "filmers" of the time insisted that films are art and shouldn't be disrespected by these new "computer games," which to be fair was a common view of children up and down the country, likely the world, who had deep admiration for classic movies like Baby's Day Out and Problem Child. A fringe group, though, calling themselves "gamers," stood up for their exciting new hobby. Games didn't have to be art. They could be anything they wanted to be. Sadly, this rhetoric was paper-thin, with the "gamers" acting like complete pillocks over games that attempted to welcome newcomers. This clique didn't want these uneducated casuals coming in and having fun. Oh no. The gatekeepers had been self-elected, forever dirtying the term "gamers" with their insistence on all games requiring guns or things that weren't guns but acted just like guns. It was an age I'll never forget. Welcome to VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast: Ep.16 - Best game that uses that FMV that was all the rage in the '90s. Please do let us know what you think of the show – and if this is your first time listening, do go back to listen to the previous episodes. If you've got suggestions for topics, we'd love to hear them. If we don't come up with some new ideas soon we'll have to start just talking about current events, which no one wants to listen to. “What is VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast?” you ask while wondering if you were one of those video game gatekeepers back in the 90s - you might have been. It's OK. Kids are mostly awful. Hopefully you grew into a more reasonable person. Anyway, this podcast, which is why you're on this page, is essentially a 30-minute panel show where people (me and some others on VG247) decide on the best game in a specific category. That's it. It's good. Listen to it. We've got some details on the show's content below (if you want to get a refresher before heading to the comments to make a wonderful, considered post or don't want to listen but do want to know what games we picked), so if you want to avoid spoilers, don't scroll past this warning. W A R N I N G The best game that uses that FMV that was all the rage in the '90s This is the topic of Episode sixteen of VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast. Here's a rundown of who picked what. Tom – Realms of the Haunting I'm not interested in FMV games so bad they're good, or just FMV games that are just a few clicks now and again. Realms of the Haunting combines very impressive video sequences (for the time) with a super ambitious FPS-point-and-click-adventure set-up that was truly ahead of what most studios were doing in the mid '90s. A superb game. Alex – Contradiction: Spot the Liar As you'll hear me argue in this episode, Contradiction: Spot the Liar is a classic. Yes, it's a bit crap, a bit rough, and has cinematography and acting that would be happily at home in an extremely low-rent daytime TV soap opera - but that's sort of the point. It's a charming labour of love, with both utterly diabolical and delightfully wonderful acting performances that deliver a fairly fun and fanciful interactive murder mystery. It's no Her Story, like, but it's a great example of what I think is one of the best elements of FMV games: when they're slightly cheap, slightly crap, but brimming with Hollywood ambitions. Don't just take my word for it, either - in user reviews, it's the third-highest rated game in the FMV category on Steam - even above Her Story. It isn't as good as that game, to be clear - but that's not the point. It's just wonderfully mad. I love it. Kelsey - Immortality Immortality is Sam Barlow's latest FMV game, and it's one that sets itself apart from the genre when it comes to production quality and execution. As you attempt to get to the bottom of whatever could've happened to actor, Marissa Marcel, there are countless secrets to uncover. It's a game that has you questioning everything, all the time. In fact, it's somewhat exhausting, but this is an FMV game where the player is more involved than ever before, and every emotion you experience feels intended by design. Come back in a week for another episode of VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an FMV mystery game designed by VGM legend Tim Follin. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be HARD DRIVIN! Donate at Patreon to get this bonus content and much, much more! Follow the show's host on Twitter to get the latest and straightest dope. Check out what games we've already ranked on the The Big Damn List, then nominate a game of your own via five-star review on Apple Podcasts! Take a screenshot and show it to us on our Discord server! Intro music by NORM. 2022 © Hardcore Gaming 101
We review the Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg and discuss the Square Enix sale of Tomb Raider and Deux Ex studios and IP, plus we also discuss NORCO, Trek to Yomi, Contradiction: Spot the Liar, Rogue Legacy 2 and Halo Infinite: Season 2.
#10 "Try it once."Roundtable 2017.01.30 Our 10th(!!!) episode has your nice hosts teetering on the edge of not-so-niceness as they each describe something they just don't get (or don't quite like) in gaming, and hope the other two can bring them around. Watching Games 0:01:28 Mark LaCroixGamingIRLEVO Fighting Game TournamentThe Controversial Dichotomy Between Sports and eSports - Jesse Aaron, Huffington PostAchievement Hunter - Rooster TeethThe Best of Modern Warfare Mythbusters - Defend teh House, YouTubeContradiction: Spot the Liar! - Giant BombHer Story"On Let's Plays" - That Dragon, Cancer Narrative in Games 0:13:00 Stephen McGregorNarrativeLudonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock - Click NothingHow many times can you enter the cell? - Batman: Arkham Knight - YouTubePortal 2 - funniest quotes - ultrasoftcore, YouTubeThe Stanley ParableBrothers: A Tale of Two Sons - Ending - Epilogue - YouTube Board Games 0:29:27 Martha MegarryTabletopDungeon! (created by Martha's dad, David Megarry)Animal Town Games: Save the Whales, Dam Builders, Nectar CollectorEvolutionStar Trek: AscendancyPuerto RicoPandemicFlashpoint
Rupert Booth shares stuff and things about FMV Games, his favorite type of character to play as an actor, and his thoughts about things and stuff. In the second episode of Terrorific Talk, I talk to Rupert Booth, who plays Jenks in the FMV game Contradiction: Spot the Liar, and who plays Chief Dupont in the upcoming FMV game The Shapeshifting Detective. Have you heard...Rupert talk before? If not, then do so. He's a delight. Meet Rupert: twitter.com/rupertbooth Brandykins' YouTube: youtube.com/brandykins Brandykins' Twitter: twitter.com/brandykins1982 Brandykins' Instagram: instagram.com/brandykinsontwitch Brandykins' Twitch: twitch.tv/brandykins Terrorific Talk Twitter: twitter.com/terrorifictalk
Have you seen THIS? No, really, have you seen this? Because it's very good.
2:25 - OpenAI Creates Dota 2 Bot That Beats The Pros (https://openai.com/the-international/) 11:52 - Contradiction: Spot the Liar (http://store.steampowered.com/app/373390/Contradiction__Spot_The_Liar/) 21:16 - Path of Exile: Fall of Oriath (http://store.steampowered.com/app/238960/Path_of_Exile/) 35:27 - Nidhogg 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/535520/Nidhogg_2/) 47:30 - Observer (http://store.steampowered.com/app/514900/observer/) 52:58 - Universim (http://store.steampowered.com/app/401980/The_Universim_Demo/) 55:18 - Darkwood (http://store.steampowered.com/app/274520/Darkwood/) 1:07:01 - Sonic Mania (http://store.steampowered.com/app/584400/Sonic_Mania/) 1:28:34 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (http://store.steampowered.com/app/414340/Hellblade_Senuas_Sacrifice/) 1:40:12 - West of Loathing (http://store.steampowered.com/app/597220/West_of_Loathing/) 1:50:03 - Ask Roundtable (Thanks Jerry!) 1:55:50 - Nick's Weird Games
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, diese Woche sprechen wir über ein Genre, das eigentlich in die Vergangenheit gehört: die 90er mit ihrer CD-Rom-Revolution. Damals erlebten so genannte FMV-Spiele - Titel, die heftigen Gebrauch von gefilmten Videos machen - ihre Hochzeit. Doch auch heute gibt es sie noch, die buchstäblichen "Video-Spiele". Wir haben uns vier aktuelle FMV-Titel angesehen: The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, Late Shift, Contradiction: Spot the Liar! und The Bunker. Das Spektrum der Spielerfahrung reicht dabei von "interaktiver Film" bis hin zu "Krimi-Adventure". Wie uns das FMV-Quartett gefallen hat, welche Kritikpunkte wir haben und Erkenntnisse wir gewannen - all das und noch viel mehr gibt es in knapp über zwei Stunden Podcast. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. P.S.: Wer hören will, wie Sebastian und André mehr über das Thema "FMV in den 90ern" sowie die Ära der ersten optischen Medien in Spielen sprechen, der kann genau das bald tun. In der kommenden Woche erscheint eine Altbierfolge mit genau diesem Inhalt - für Patreon-Backer ab 1 Dollar im Monat. Mehr Informationen gibt es unter www.gamespodcast.de!
This weekend, we get good and mad about genres that just happen to be from the decade when we were kids/teens, that get stomped all over. Genres like the 3D platformer and the FMV. Why? Because some people on the internet are besmirching the good name of our dearest Banjo and/or Tex. Don't worry, we have plenty to say about newer games as well! Discussed: Yooka-Laylee, Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Psychonauts, FMV Adventure, Tex Murphy, Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within, Wing Commander 3, Contradiction: Spot the Liar, C&C: Red Alert 3, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Uncharted 2, Nier: Automata, Life is Strange, The Uncle Who Works at Nintendo, Caprica
Notre avis sur le jeu d'enquête en FMV Contradiction : Spot the Liar! (iOS, Windows, Mac), le jeu de survie The Flame in The Flood (Xbox One, Windows, Linux) de The Molassess Flood, le cas des jeux "sans pause" et le reste de l'actualité de la semaine (Star Ocean 5 en occident pour cet été, une suite spirituelle à Hotel Dusk...).
Bobby interviews Contradiction: Spot the Liar director Tim Follin about what it takes to make and FMV game in 2015!