Whether it’s Patrick Stewart in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sean Bean in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, or Terrence Stamp in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, there are quite a few examples of huge title hollywood actors displaying up in video video games, and it’s all the time an thrilling little shock to listen to a well-known voice that isn’t Troy Baker. But typically, there are cameos or visitor starring roles that aren’t even notably properly marketed. Did , for instance, that Lynda Carter of Wonder Woman fame performed each feminine Nord and Orc NPC in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?
But what’s the greatest recreation that options certainly one of these shock visitor appearances, cameos, easter eggs, or whatevers? To discover out, we consulted a high panel of non-experts within the type of podcast common Tom Orry (my boss), Owen O’Donnell from The Infinite Review, and in his first ever look on our present, Richie Morgan: videographer, podcaster, twitch streamer, and Greggs Liker with a faithful cult following within the Scottish gaming podcast scene. Despite this spectacular CV, Tom is livid with me for as soon as once more filling the podcast with my mates.
To discover out if he was flawed to doubt me, you’ll have to look at or hearken to The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 70, conveniently accessible on this very web page!
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Spoilers forward for these of you who simply cannot spare 38 measly minutes of your time to search out out what folks stated within the above programme that we spent hours and hours making for you.
Tom Orry
Tom basically tried to argue that it was a shock when Master Chief confirmed up in a Halo recreation.
Owen O’Donnell from The Infinite Review
Owen selected The Lost World: Jurassic Park Special Edition on the PS1, which I feel you may all agree is a wonderful selection, provided that the key cameo in query is Jeff Goldblum berating you for bothering to play the sport.
Richie Morgan
Richie went with the James Bond 007 Action Pack on ZX Spectrum, making it probably the oldest recreation we have ever had submitted on the present. Everyone on the present this week is sufficiently old to recollect when video video games got here on audio cassettes: the identical ones you could possibly play in your stereo. Usually in case you did this, you would be subjected to the horrendous bleeping and screeching of information because it sounds when encoded onto an analogue audio medium. Back within the day, a number of recreation publishers took benefit of this technological quirk in an effort to bundle additional audio content material onto the tape, so for instance one facet can be the place the sport is saved, and on the opposite facet you’d have some type of tie-in audio drama, a message from the programmers, or a studio recording of the sport’s theme music.
It’s an interesting look again at forgotten expertise, and it is a development that continued properly into the 90s, as video video games began being distributed on CD-ROMs, their soundtracks would typically be encoded on the identical disc as audio, playable in an everyday stereo CD participant. This is how lots of people first received into The Prodigy, as their greatest hit “Firestarter” was the centrepiece monitor on WipeOut 2097 on the PS1. This led to lots of people, myself included, buying the next album, turning The Prodigy from an uncerground membership sensation into an enormous mainstream act.
Anyway Richie did not win as a result of Spectrum video games have been all bathroom.
“What is the Best Games Ever Show?” you ask? Well, it’s basically a 30-minute panel present the place folks (Jim Trinca and associates) determine on the perfect recreation in a selected class. That’s it. It’s good. Listen to it.
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