Dr_MechanoEU

Yeah they are, they're actually non-copyrighted sounds which is why you hear them everywhere since nobody has to pay a fee to use them.

You buy the CD collections but that's more for convience than anything and those Sound Effect CD collections (the professional ones) are freaking MASSIVE.

Let me put it this way, my college was fortunate enough to have an ex-professional sound designer as a teacher in media studies and he bought in a mere 10th of his collection, about 40 CDs, there were atleast two whole CDs dedicated purely to door relate sounds. They had an ungodly number of sounds of doors opening, closing, slamming etc. at various speed, various materials.

A lot of the games noises are from stock industry sound CDs.

The Police chatter has showed up in virtually every single show involving the police in some manner and in several games (the version we hear ingame is a shortened version of it, the original Grand Theft Auto had the full 2 minutes-ish version of it).

This is why you can often hear sounds from other games in movies, the Doom door sound crops up quite frequently for the same reason as do a lot the sounds from Quake.

Does the game feature a crafting/gathering system ala most fantasy MMOs?

If so technically you could completely screw with the game using out of game knowledge unless they're physically limited into what they can and cannot craft.

I mean sure gunpowder isn't exactly easy to make and it's highly volatile but with the right chemical knowledge plus a local friendly blacksmith crafting copper sphere outer casings, a tailor making parafin soaked fuses of various lengths you could really screw the game over by become "the mad bomber who bombs a midnight" in a sword only fantasy game.

Of course if it lacks a gathering and crafting system then you're pretty much out of luck.

Actually I like to call this the 'Christoper Reeve' problem.

The problem being that Reeves was so iconic and played the role so damn well that every other actor who now takes on the role as Superman is always going to be measured up to him.

The Christopher Reeves problem also extends to such things as "any animated version of the Joker not voiced by Mark Hamil" on the same note, "Any animated version of Batman that isn't voice by Kevin Conroy" "any none Frank Welker voiced Megatron". There are some actors who just freaking nail the role and are so iconic that anyone else following them is in for a tough ride.

He wasn't the first person to play Superman but he has been the only one to really nail the role in live action.

is it possible that Staff could also get chainsaws...

something like this...

Iconic in my mind, yes Superman: The Quest for peace is bloody awful but that's down to the script more than anything.

As I've said several times he has been the only actor that can play both Clark Kent and Superman, some actors can play one or the other but none have matched him for both.

Bah you Americans!

My first computer was the good old British Spectrum.

Fond memories of games taking 20-30 minutes to load with screeching sounds from cassette tapes.

We also had the Commadore Plus/4 which was the business version of the Commadore 16.

See back then what the local council use to do was every 2-3 years they'd dump all their old computers in a skip out back (even if they were working) and upgrade to the latest hotness in computing, my Dad, working for the council at the time just took one of the ones he knew worked out of the skip and brought it home.

Popular games:
Fire Ant.
Treasure Island (which was completed and one deeply peeved mother about only getting a 'congraturations' type screen..in her words, "Not even a picture of boat! Come on!")
Thrust (with simulated gravity fields...oooh!).
One game about a Rhino in a space suit in a mine...god knows what that one was called...been so long.
Jet Set Willy.
Skool Daze.

Now I think we had Elite on there but that may have been a later computer.

It is a CoH T-shirt.

Funny story which some will remember, there was an internet Seller that made a copy of the shirt and tried to flog it off as a 'Mr Sweatpants' shirt not realising the logo was actually owned by NCsoft.

Some enterprising forum goer noticed this and posted a topic about it, NCsoft legal team pounce and pounced hard on the guy and the website he was selling through, forcing the website to withdraw his ability to sell the T-shirts completely.

Not read the whole thread but has someone suggested a Water blast/fire manipulation Blaster called 'Smoke on the Water'?

Sorry but I think good old Dr Q needs a revamp before any of them.

It didn't just get the title 'worst taskforce in city of heroes' for no reason, it earned that damn title.

When four hours is considered a 'good run' you know something ain't right.

Atleast Synapse will take you...what...hour and a half at most?

Gah it's really annoying me now...saw the film I mentioned above years ago (like 8-10 years ago) at some ungodly hour of the morning on Channel 4...wish I could remember its name.

Damn it...Beet got there first.

But yes there is HP Lovecraft themed Christmas album as linked above.

Ooh here is an idea, how about a movie based on the Cats of Ulthar?

Kitty protagonists, evil villains get their just rewards (by being eaten alive by said cats)..it's all there, fun for the whole family!

Hmm i imagine the other problem is that a lot of HP Lovecraft work is a 'downer'.

There are these big, unknowable things that drive a man insane simply by looking at them, they cannot be defeated once arisen by mortal man and the universe is a cold, horrid place that finds humanity insignificant.

Pretty hard to do a blockbuster based around that I suppose.

One thing did surprise me that it wasn't included in the film.

The talking bomb from the book.

But then IIRC (loooong time since I read the book) this was too did with the other insectoid species that were the allies of the bugs that actually had a developed and understandable language.

I enjoyed the movie but one scene always irked me. The knife throwing scene, the book version (where the soldier doesn't get his hand pinned to the wall) is basically saying to the soldier, "sometimes you can't use a nuke...or worse, your gun, so you've got this as a backup or when the situation requires it", which just makes a whole lot more sense than the version in the movie.

I know the line, "You wouldn't use an Axe to spank a baby," was used.

Edit: Also another vote for the CGI series actually being quite good, strange that a spin off series from a dumb action film is actually pretty good.

Of course the key answer to this is

"because it's public domain and so we don't have to pay someone to use the liscense."

Hell I'm surprised that mainstream hollywood hasn't caught on to the internet fuelled HP Lovecraft boom going on at the moment since his works are also Public Domain in both the US and the UK.

It had music by Queen in it and led to the most kickass music video ever...your arguement that the movie was bad is invalid

Admit the Third one was fairly terrible...even if they did FINALLY include the mecha suits from the books in it.

First one was ok, the second one was a bit crap and the third one was terrible.