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

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    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

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        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.

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            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.

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          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.

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        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

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            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.

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        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.

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        Batman Begins (2005) had an all-star voice cast from the movies:

        • Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
        • Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
        • Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard/Ra’s al Ghul
        • Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes
        • Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow
        • Tom Wilkinson as Carmine Falcone
        • Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
        • Tim Booth as Victor Zsasz
        • Mark Boone Junior as Detective Arnold Flass
        • Ken Watanabe as Ra’s al Ghul (decoy)
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        Bruce Lee was in Bruce Lee in 1984, if you really want to get down to it. And he wasn’t even the first.

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        There it is. This was a big deal at the time because it wasn’t just voice acting but a character built around his likeness too. The game was meh

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          The game was kickass for a kid who loved all kinds of weird action games! I probably shouldn’t try it again and ruin my memories of it.

          But a top down shooter where you could fire in different directions than you were walking was revolutionary for a kid who had mostly played metal gear solid on his new PlayStation.

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              Not surprised. But I had never seen a game like that by then. And very rarely after too. Most recent one I played was… Alien Swarm, I think? I loved that one too.

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                To be fair, they were often arcade games which required two joysticks. I had a game for my Amiga that I don’t remember the name of that used the keyboard to do it.

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        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.

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      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.