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Here is Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve Corporation:
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Now here he is, as we’ve never seen him before:
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Seeing Gabe Newell shoot tons of dudes makes me giggle.
The character builder in Saint’s Row 2 (my review begins here) is phenomenal. Seeing this made me want to play through the game as Gabe. But someone already did that. Who else would be a good choice? You need people with a really distinctive visual look. Sure, you could play as Ben Afflek or Brittany Spears, but they’re not really iconic in the broad sense of having distinct outfits or silhouettes. Their faces are recognizable, but faces are hard to get right. You also want to make people who don’t make sense in the game world. It’s easy to make Bruce Lee (black pants and shoes, white socks, no shirt, begin game) but it’s not all that funny to see Bruce Lee kicking tons of ass. He’s Bruce “Hwaaaaah!” Lee, for crying out loud.
I might suggest:
- Yahtzee
- John Romero
- Current-day William Shatner. (Although it just wouldn’t feel right without the Shatner voice.)
- Mary Jo Pehl as Pearl Forrester.
- Lady Gaga seems like an obvious choice, but most of her look comes from her crazy outfits, which you wouldn’t be able to do in the game. The dress-up system has a ton of variety, but you can’t make an outfit from cookware, dead frogs, and sparklers, or whatever she’s wearing today.
- Bill Nye.
- The little girl from Lazytown.
- Teddy Roosevelt or Abe Lincoln
Further suggestions?
Ludonarrative Dissonance
What is this silly word, why did some people get so irritated by it, and why did it fall out of use?
Chainmail Bikini
A horrible, railroading, stupid, contrived, and painfully ill-conceived roleplaying campaign. All in good fun.
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
Pixel City Dev Blog
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
In Defense of Crunch
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
This was always my favorite Saint’s Row 2 video thanks to the great character creator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivd7J28Cu38&feature=related
Tweak the face a bit and you’ll have Johny Bravo!
Are we sticking to the realm of existing people or is someone like Guybrush Threepwood an option?
Ooh, the actor that played John Hammond, or perhaps Colonel Sanders while my mind is on old men in white outfits.
Larry Laffer. Or Lovage. Or whichever one is the old Larry.
I know it’s obvious, but still:
1. Shamus Young
2. Josh
3. Rutskarn
4. Mumbles
EDIT: Forgot about Reginald Cuftbert. And Regina Cuftbert.
Mumbles is not no good for the same reason bruce lee is no good.
Lack of shirt?
Umm…I wouldnt mind seeing Mumbles topless.
I was actually talking about Mumbles hitting people being nothing out of character for her,which was the point of the video above.
Yes to any of those!
Though I think trying to remake Regina Cuftbert in her bright yellow space suit might be fun. Never seen the Saint’s Row costume editor, is there something close?
Reginald actually might be the easier one to make… even though his outfit is that much more ludicrous.
Yes, it was obvious, but it needed to be said, so thanks for saying it. Though I guess Mumbles does not need this to get respected (feared) around here.
Stating the obvious. A heavy risk, but the priiize.
River Tam.
That is all.
For my money: Simon Tam. Much funnier.
Shepherd Book? We *know* he can kick ass after all, but we never really saw it much…
Actually, that’s not a bad idea. Of course, it does help that I saw the episode of Firefly last night where they deliver cows and Book ends up needing to go to an Alliance hospital.
Big damn heroes. Awesome.
Wash would be funny, different reasons.
I actually found a set of instructions on gamefaqs for making a character that looked like Summer Glau. The whole Regenerating Health thing in game makes much more sense when you’re playing as a Terminator.
What about Abbott or Costello? Ooh, or both if you’re playing co-op with a friend!
I demand that the next Spoiler Warning be Saints Row 2, and 2 of the crew are playing.
Seconded!
have you ever played it on PC?
its so so so sooo badly ported.
Well why don’t you just play it on a console? :p
Because that makes their horrible tech issues even more horrible, I believe
don’t own one, but i meant for them, can’t be a console game
I actually had almost no problems playing it on my PC; I think that, as long as you have one that’s decent enough, it can handle the rather mediocre porting.
Agreed. it’s got a few issues (I can’t turn off reflective water, REALLY) but besides that it’s quite playable
doesnt run well at all on mine, what CPU do you guys have?
pretty sure its not my GPU thats messing it up
I call your Abbott and Costello and raise you Charlie Chaplin.
EDIT: Or Bela Lugosi.
What about a character from another game? I’d love to see someone like Kratos running around if the editor allows it.
1. Jack Thompson. Naked. Bonus points for sending him some violent screenshots and a link to that Gabe video (seeing how he’s “regulating” Valve now).
2. Robert Kotick
3. Santa Claus
4. Batman (Just for Mumbles)
5. Obama
6. Elmer Fudd
7. Angry Video Game Nerd
8. Nostalgia Critic
9. The Scout
10. Carl Sagan
11. Charlie Brooker
12. John Romero (bonus points for completing the whole game with a katana)
13. Chuck Norris (bonus points for completing the whole game with fists)
14. Joker (The one from Normandy)
15. Dr. Evil
16. Mario
17. The Soup Nazi
18. Mister Miyagi
19. Vladimir Putin
20. Old Spice Guy
… you can play this game all day!
1) Ah yes, playing as the laxative of gaming, what an excellent idea. Better be careful though, he might try and sue you, then file gay porn to prove that all gamers are perverts
1. Weird Al Yankovic
2. Captain Crunch
3. Colonel Sanders
4. Patrick Stewart
5. Harrison Ford
6. Bob Barker
7. Gene Simmons
8. Sephiroth if possible, but probably without the wing.
9. Niko Bellic
Gordon Freeman
Alfred(Batman’s Butler)
Jade(from Beyond Good and Evil)
Christopher Walken
Bruce Willis
Abraham Lincoln
Nikola Tesla
Ash Ketchum
Vault Boy
Ugly Shepard
Adam Sandler
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Doc(Back to the Future)
Peter Moleneux
Serious Sam
Duke Nukem
Kratos
Rick Astley
And yeah, those are what I suggest.
Oh my God, watching Doc Brown kicking gang ass would be EPIC.
Weird how no one said bill gates yet.
Tss, tss, tss. The obvious choice here is Richard Stallman. With two katanas.
I second this. He is the Chuck Norris of computer science.
Steve Ballmer. Does Saint’s Row allow you to use chairs as weapons?
“But boss, Ultor owns all the property from the river to the west end – how are we going to muscle our way into the market?”
“Developers! Developers, Developers, Developers! DEVELOPERS! Developers, Developers, Developers! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! YES!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE
I would sell a child to see Linus Torvalds on a murderous pixelated rampage.
STEVIE WONDER
that is all
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Ghandi
Buddha
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Colonel Sanders
Tyra Banks
Oprah Winfrey
J. Alexander
Eddie Izzard
Gallagher
It would be fun to try this with Steve Jobs. I think he has just unique enough a look that you could pull of an instantly recognizable avatar like the video above does.
Introducing Apples new product: iAmKickingYourAss
They already have the iAmTakingAllYourMoney so that is a logical extension of the product line.
Well this explains why Half-Life 2 Episode 3 hasn’t some out yet.
Doctor Horrible or Albert Einstein!
Totally Einstein. Always wanted to watch old Al kick some heads.
If you’re going to go Dr. Horrible, I’d go with Captain Hammer.
I once made Faith from Mirror’s Edge (she’s much more fun once you unlock the Infinite Sprint from insurance fraud missions and the Ronin fighting style), and you can also make a reasonably convincing Dr. Kleiner. I knew someone who made The Crow, Nathan Drake, and a scarily accurate rendition of “Weird Al” Yankovic.
Any one of the Doctors from Doctor Who.
Bwahahahaha! David Tennent in his nerd glasses and suit gunning down punks. oh god… its actually quite the frightening thought o_o
New idea.
The Mythbusters
Yes. This must happen.
Imagine if they done this as spoiler warning two player so you could have adam and jamie :D
A bit late to discussion, but I just did a playthrough with Jamie Hyneman. It really is hilarious seeing Jamie shoot tons of dudes. The likeness isn’t perfect- the customization actually doesn’t allow for his degree of mustache- but it’s good enough to be instantly recognizable. I think I might try making a similar video.
Sarah Palin.
That is all.
For Sarah Palin, follow the directions here. Ignore the screenshot, it actually does look like her in the game and is fun to play. And, consider all the tweaks I offer in the first two comments.
Yessss.
Ridiculously inappropriate characters for Saint’s Row 2, you say? Like this:
http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/images/fan_art/dongs_2_dongs_harder.png
Warning, may cause urgent and severe need for Brain Bleach.
What about Jay or Silent Bob?
…Betty White?
Abe Vigoda
Gandhi.
Or… Dr. Horrible. I don’t know.
Considering what Gandhi ends up doing on every Civilization installment, I`d say we should rule him out for the same reason we rule out Bruce Lee.
Everything is better with NPH.
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Also, on the other side of the pond:
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
Benjamin Disraeli(dat pointed beard)
Other reasonably badass political figures:
Lukashenko(president of Belarus)
VI Lenin
Georges Clemeanceau
Nelson Mandela
Hell, if you have time and wiki, you can find alot of visually distinctive people from history.
Jim Carry, anyone?
Harry Carey!
I’d kick your ass for a tasty hot dog! Hey heeeeey!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnTNYZITspg&feature=related
Hm, Chris Farley and David Spade?
Hillary Clinton?
Any of the ladies from The View?
Or for that matter, how about some media figures? Bill O’Reilly, Anderson Cooper, Jon Stewart, etc.
I wonder if Yahtzee just one day found there was a Wikipedia entry of him one day and part of his brain blew open. I mean, what do you do when you’re just some kind of Internet celebrity and someone bothers to take the time to organize such a thing? Encyclopedia Dramatica is one thing, but actual Wikipedia?
It doesn’t help my self-esteem that he and MovieBob aren’t much older than me, and while they’re doing all kinds of awesome crap with their lives I’m stuck in a cubicle farm wondering how the Heck I’m going to boost readership of my blog outside of my circle of friends.
Bah humbug and all that.
Meanwhile, I shall see what sort of information pops up when I Google “Shamus Young”.
I cannot believe I get to say this one(!):
Mr. Rogers. Mr. Freakin’ Rogers, winner of the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, cardigan and all. Someone MUST do this.
Barring that, hmmmm… would a Grim Reaper be possible? I second the Betty White, too, though I was thinking Miss Marple myself. (What? You didn’t read Agatha Christie’s books? Ok, think Little Old British Lady Detective who sits and knits. And give her automatic weapons. muahahahahaha…. just make sure her gloves match her shoes, ok?)
Mr. Rogers seconded; my favorite suggestion so far.
This suggestion makes me a little sad, as did seeing him in the Ultimate Showdown. Fred Rogers was very opposed to violence in the media, and he was such a good and gentle man that I think it’s worth respecting his memory in this regard.
Hitler
Charlie Brown
Ozzy
Castro
Pee Wee Herman
Ernest P. Worrel
Bruce Cockburn
Simon Pegg
Harry Potter
Gandalf
Would that be Ozzy Nelson or Osbourne? Personally, I’m hoping you meant Nelson because that would be HI-larious!
I meant Osbourne, but you’re right. Nelson would be ridonculous.
Myeah, the cc is quite versatile in SR2. Such a shame the actual game handles like a hyperactive pig.
I’m voting for George Carlin, nothing better than gunning down punks as a self-admitted old f*ck.
Gabe Newell: Bonafied OG
Well, Yahtzee makes sense since he loves the game for it’s utter silliness. I also recall his story about visiting Valve, where Gabe took him to a shooting range. Figures.
I know that a group of LPers called the Freelance Astronauts made a character called “Dongs” REO Speedwagon (sorta their version of Reginald Cuftbert but replace Chaotic Stupidity with As Ugly As Character Editor Can Go) that has to be seen to be believed (same said with Dongs Shepard) only to scratch it out of abject horror and create Link instead.
http://freelanceastronauts.com/images/fan_art/dongs_2_dongs_harder.png
How about Jonathan “Gabe” Gabriel or Tycho Brahe.
Or even their real-world counterparts Mike Krahulik or Jerry Holkins
… The really scary thing is that for some reason, I could TOTALLY see Gabe Newell doing all of those things. O.o He just has the “really sweet, affable guy who’s secretly hiding a TON of pent-up rage and unresolved issues that’s just waiting to snap and go on a rampage” look in that first video.
Bill Murray
Gandhi II
Linkara
Bill (L4D)
Mr Bean (Rowin Atkinson)
Gandhi <<< definitely Gandhi! as it would be the largest dichotomy ever to see a pacifist played in Saints. XD
Oh god, it’s Civilization all over again.
Also, am I the only one who imagined that Dane Vogel was Jack Thompson for a second?
“black pants and shores” = “black pants and shoes“
Hmm…well, here’s a few:
1: Basil Fawlty
2: Rimmer (from Red Dwarf)
3: Joey Tribiani
4: Larry (from the Leisure Suit Larry games)
5: Lara Croft
6: Stephen Hawking
7: Marcus Brodey (of Indiana Jones fame)
8: Hugh Hefner
9: Dana Carvey as the Church Lady of SNL fame
10: Charlie Sheen
I was going to say Hawking myself, but not sure if the character creator could handle the crime-fighting robotic exoskeleton.
Forget Rimmer. It would be way cooler to see Cat running wild!
Prince Charles
Vladimir Putin
Che Guevara
Henry Kissinger
For some readon many political figures seem to have rather distinctive looks.
The Vladimir reference made me think of another historic Russian: Grigori Rasputin
Don’t forget Gorbachev. Of course, he’s only distinctive with his prominent port wine stain, which I’m not sure you could manage in SR2’s character creator.
Dick Van Dyke. perhaps too old for most people around here. Very thin, long distinctive face, and almost always the nicest guy in anything he was in.
Dick Van Dyke isn’t too old for anybody. OK, maybe if you count his three self-titled TV shows but there’s not a kid anywhere (or if there is, I don’t want to know about it) who hasn’t seen him in “Mary Poppins” or “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
I’d vote for the entire cast of the Golden Girls.
You can’t do Gaga-esque weird stuff with the clothes but my husband played the entire game as a 13-year-old cat girl. Rethink that helicopter ride with a pre-pubescent cat girl (well, she was short adult height but no extra curves or protuberances)saying “This is our city. We can do whatever the *^$# we want.” It’s creepy. Really, really creepy. Possibly even creepier than Something Positive’s entire Cat Girl Con story arc which I can’t be fussed to link because I hate Randy’s archive system.
Catgirls ARE creepy:
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11162008.shtml
I cannot believe that Gary Gygax wasn’t mentioned yet!
Pro Tip: Saints Row II cutscene are a whopping 78% funnier when your main character is female. None of the motion capture is changed in any way, shape, or form. She sits with her legs wide open, and wrestles an 8 foot, 500 lbs of muscle man to death. So find yourself the tiniest, most petite woman you can think of, stick her in a dress, and watch the hillarity unfold.
Plus, her singing along to the 80s radio station is awesome…
Scanned rather quickly, so might have missed it…
Did nobody suggest any of the Doctor Who doctors? Especially #4 (Tom Baker) with his iconic scarf!
Wow – cool! I don’t remember the character editor being that versatile. Then again, it’s been awhile since I’ve played SR2 … and, dammit, this makes me want to load it up again.
As my 5-year-old might say, “Curse you, Aqua-Shamus!!”
I made Raul Duke from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” I only wish there had been an appropriate voice.
…but a bitch ain’t one
I played through this whole game in co-op with a friend of mine, and we went through a whole slew of characters along the way. I’d say the best duo we put together was Walter and the Dude from The Big Lebowski. Seeing them riding tandem on a motorcycle while Walter shoots a pistol over his shoulder is just crazy enough to be plausible.