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Dire FFE Intercom videos

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:34 pm
by Captain Hesperus
I'd heard rumours about actors in the 'live action' intercom messages in Frontier: First Encounters being at best 'wooden' and at worst, downright awful and I wondered if there was any truth to the rumours. Well, after a lengthy, well quite lengthy, well okay a couple of minutes, search on YouTube I unearthed these:

Part 1
Part 2

Barf buckets at the ready....

Captain Hesperus

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:53 pm
by LittleBear
Nice find!

I watched the first one, but I need to take a break. My intelligence circuits appear to have melted.

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:57 pm
by Captain Hesperus
LittleBear wrote:
Nice find!

I watched the first one, but I need to take a break. My intelligence circuits appear to have melted.
Yeah, I had to drag Stepan away from the monitor. He thought that they really nailed the characterisations....

....but this is from a navigator who took three hours to find his way from his quarters on 'B' deck to the bridge on 'A' deck.

Captain Hesperus

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:14 am
by another_commander
Oh God. This is awesome. These videos are priceless for their comedy value alone.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:32 am
by Hoopy
I remember the gaming press was very excited at the time as it was pretty much the first game to have any FMV (Full Motion Video - hmmm... can you get part motion video then??)

I remember being distinctly underwhelmed...

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:32 pm
by Captain Hesperus
To be honest, I think the denizens of this board could do better than that.

Captain Hesperus

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:42 pm
by JensAyton
Hoopy wrote:
I remember the gaming press was very excited at the time as it was pretty much the first game to have any FMV (Full Motion Video - hmmm... can you get part motion video then??)
Yes. They produce a lot of it in Japan. :-)