Idris Elba, who stars in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, sees a future where films and games converge.

  • @Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world
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    772 years ago

    Kristen Bell was in Assassin’s Creed II and that was 14 years ago… Fuck I feel old.

    But still, it’s been slowly happening for quite a while

      • Cylusthevirus
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        192 years ago

        Sean Bean also voices most of Civ 6 and it’s glorious. Say what you will about it from a mechanical perspective but I can’t find fault with his voice lines. He gets to read some of the greatest quotations from history and for the most part he nails it.

          • @Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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            62 years ago

            Might just be me enjoying Nimoy in most everything, or maybe ta just that Civ 4 is still the best of the series, but I really liked his lines in that one.

            Lots of memorable ones but “the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy” always sticks out as one of my favorites.

        • Granite
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          72 years ago

          Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean were both in Oblivion. here’s the thing for me, they were playing characters who were not meant to look like the actors.

      • @nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        I often see people shit on Keanu Reeves for wooden acting in Cyberpunk, but I honestly thought he was great as Johnny. Knocked it out of the park imo

          • @ante@lemmy.world
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            42 years ago

            I mostly agree with this. I really enjoyed the more insightful, introspective Johnny and there wasn’t enough of it. With that being said, I’m a few hours into Phantom Liberty and it seems that we get a lot more of the meaningful conversations with Johnny.

      • @leftzero@lemmy.ml
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        22 years ago

        TESIV Oblivion is 2006, Tachyon The Fringe is 2000… 1994’s Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger has a whole IMDB page, with the likes of Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, and Malcolm McDowell playing main characters.

        And there’s earlier games with less stellar casts, like 1991’s Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum. Actors in games have been a thing for quite a while.

      • @beefcat@lemmy.world
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        62 years ago

        Ron Perlman provided opening and closing narration for all the numbered Fallout games.

        And Fallout 1 was very much a “budget” title for Interplay, so it’s not like the studio was just splashing money around because they could.

    • Davel23
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      82 years ago

      This kind of thing has been going on for at least 30 years. One of the earliest examples is Night Trap starring Dana Plato. You may not know who that is, but anyone who grew up watching Diff’rent Strokes certainly does. If you want a more mainstream example, look at Ripper from 1996 which features Christopher Walken, Paul Giamatti, Karen Allen, Burgess Meredith, David Patrick Kelly, Ossie Davis, and John Rhys-Davies.