Old Man Murray Vets To Make Portal Funny 49
Via Joystiq, an article at the GameInformer site generally about Valve's upcoming plans for Half-Life, Team Fortress, and Portal. In that article, they mention that some of the writing for Portal is being handled by veterans from the Old Man Murray site. From the article: "When you have that style of game it could just be very stale and very dry. It's just puzzle solving and you could put in a little techno music in the background and leave it at that. But we thought it would be much more interesting if we introduced this idea of the narrator. The original idea came from the training room in Half-Life 1 where you had that voice that was talking to you and whatnot. She was a little bit cynical, but not nearly as so as the voice in Portal. The writing for that is being done by Chet [Faliszek] and Erik [Wolpaw] who used to be Old Man Murray. They're at Valve now and one of their first projects they've been tasked with is to do the writing for Portal. So if you were a fan of Old Man Murray you're going to be a fan of that voice in Portal because it's the same wry cynicism."
I'll Bite (Score:1)
Re:I'll Bite (Score:4, Informative)
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You should have just said 'RTFWA'
It should no longer be acceptable, in this day and age, for people to ask questions that are answered in a wikipedia article for that particular subject.
Re:I'll Bite (Score:4, Funny)
Please...think of the karma whores.
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I guess I was just looking for personal opinions.
Thanks for the links everybody, and the instant surmise of clear retardation; I guess it's much easier to paste a few hrefs into a box than to string a few sentences together expressing ones own understanding.
\flameoff
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go read google news then, troll.
the 1st comment was an obvious critic to the editor. it's the most hermetic reference i've ever seen. and a two word description in the news body wouldn't have hurt.
If you're fine with weak news, accept weak comments (specialy if you don't get them
Re:I'll Bite (Score:5, Informative)
http://web.archive.org/web/20020528011342/http://
or if that doesn't work, pick a link from:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oldmanmur
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-BbT
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BTW - read the "news" section from front to back.
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[Insert post about how *blank* is not funny] (Score:1)
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w00t! (Score:5, Informative)
Allow me to present Exhibit A: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html [oldmanmurray.com]
Ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case.
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I hope there are minigames like Alien vs. Child Predator or that you get to play Mayor Haggar on a mission from the devil.
I can see it now:
"Oh, a sewer level. I guess this is the point where the developers said 'fuck it, I'm out of ideas. Let's just have you go through a sewer.'"
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So I went to check out this site, and in there I found this gem:
So he's can't tell an Indian from an Arab from a Muslim from a Hindu from a hole in the ground. But that's ok, because bigots need to grieve too. When he's not in the throes of nationalistic (-white) symbolic pain, I'
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(b) sometimes on humor sites the webmasters will write articles that consists of several jokes [wikipedia.org]. It might be edifying for you to further research this phenomenon.
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Well I'm taking away a different lesson - when a gentleman with a proven track record of making adolescent jokes about people's ethnicity like "Jewy Jewenstein", happens to make one that only appears, we must assume, to stem from ignorance, well then that's funny. On the other hand, when an unknown person from another country makes a joke about a landmark tragedy in a foreign country without a previous record of doing so, then that's not funny. I suppose the moral of the story is to develop a reputation for
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I don't think that's true at all.
But hey, don't let me get in the way of your misplaced feelings of self-righteous indignation.
Can you turn it off? (Score:1)
Crates! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Crates! (Score:4, Insightful)
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Gooder and gooder (Score:1)
Sarcastic Narrator? That's (not) new (Score:2)
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We're excited because we're big fans of Old Man Murrary, and we're happy to see Chet and Erik putting their writing talents behind a game. We don't care whether sarcastic narration is ground breaking for not, but thanks for your "this isn't new, this is no
Umm, no. (Score:2)
That said -- if I'm looking for goo
Jumping on the bandwangon (Score:2)
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Oh, baby! I can't wait!
You will never be the crate master! (Score:1)
From the people who brought you cut scenes (Score:2)
Now, from the people who brought you the Long Cut Scene - the Sarcastic Narrator.
This could get old really fast. Especially if you have to listen to the same narration every time.
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The voice is funny already! (Score:2)
Psychonauts (Score:2)