28-01-2005 22:32									#1
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http://games.slashdot.org/comments....71&cid=11502605

quote: Brian: I'm glad somebody liked and and remembers these. They were the most fun thing of the whole project to create. Whereas so many of the games I've worked on have had me "playing historian", Alpha Centauri was a perhaps unique chance to "play philosopher". We found a voice talent agency, I think it was in New York, that specialized in international talent, and intensively screened for accents. We tried to find the most genuine accents possible (Santiago was played by a Puerto Rican, Lal by an Indian, we had a real Russian, and the closest to James Earl Jones' voice we could find for Morgan). A great memory of the project is the day we brought in a voice actor to play the drill sergeant and he led us in a rousing round of "Deirdre's Got a Network Node" (which is the version you hear in the game).

The voice-acting is really one of the most memorable parts of the game. Kudos to the team from me.

	28-01-2005 23:06									#2
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Do you think Brian appreciates that there are creepy fans like us stalking him about the internets?

Good find

	29-01-2005 00:12									#3
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Hey, I am not stalking him about the internets. He's the one who invaded the back porch of my hang-out.^-^

	29-01-2005 00:42									#4
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the drill seargant guy was cool.

I miss voice overs and wonder movies. What was civ3 thinking?

	29-01-2005 01:22									#5
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"Deirdre's Got a Network Node" actually makes some people drop their jaws in amazement and ask afterwards "What was that?"

	30-01-2005 00:09									#6
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a little humour in a game never hurt anyone . Like the South Park reference.

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quote: Originally posted by mart7x5 "Deirdre's Got a Network Node" actually makes some people drop their jaws in amazement and ask afterwards "What was that?"

*Is guilty of not paying attention to speech in the game*.... (some of it's too hard for me to understand, since i'm hearing impaired...)

So where can I find this?

	30-01-2005 05:19									#8
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one of the special project movies. I forget which one.

There's a few humorous ones in there. As I mentioned the south park Cartman one. And the other one mentioning the size of the cyborg's special enhancement.

Then you have the "freaky" SP videos. I never turn the videos off. I usually space through them. But if it's one I hadn't seen in a while, or one I particularly enjoy, then I'll watch it again.

	30-01-2005 05:33									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident one of the special project movies. I forget which one.

No it's when you build a... network node!

	30-01-2005 05:59									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Maniac No it's when you build a... network node!

my lack of SMAC knowledge is an embarrassment. There is only one solution to that. Yep, play more SMAC.

	30-01-2005 08:29									#11
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I'll have smacx next week-end.

So this week I'll study like hell to take some advance.
Because when I'll install the game on my pc, I will play 6 to 12 hours by day.

What is actually not good for my homeworks and papers to write.

lol

	30-01-2005 17:58									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident And the other one mentioning the size of the cyborg's special enhancement.

I'm not sure if that one counts as a really odd-ball one. I mean, a marching song about Deirdre turning things on and Morgan duplicating South Park are not things you'd really expect in a "real life" Alpha Centauri.
But some bored, Spartan soldier scrawling a naughty limerick on a wall is something I could actually imagine happening.

	30-01-2005 19:19									#13
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I really liked the voices thingy when I started to play SMAC in the UK while studing there...when I came back to Spain, I bought it and SMAX without a thought. The thing is, it was all in spanish...altough the voices are not bad (actually some are quite good) I still prefer the english ver.

	31-01-2005 02:18									#14
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It's fac8.mp3 in the voices dir, by the way:

quote: I don't know but I've been told, Deirdre's got a Network Node. Likes to press the on-off switch, Dig that crazy Gaian witch! -- Spartan Barracks March

	31-01-2005 23:05									#15
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quote: Originally posted by WotanAnubis I'm not sure if that one counts as a really odd-ball one. I mean, a marching song about Deirdre turning things on and Morgan duplicating South Park are not things you'd really expect in a "real life" Alpha Centauri. But some bored, Spartan soldier scrawling a naughty limerick on a wall is something I could actually imagine happening.

I dunno, sexually demeaning the enemy, or the enemy commander, is pretty typical for marching songs. It's a morale thing.

Cf. "Yankee Doodle Dandy". This was a British taunt, until they lost. Then it became an American taunt back at them, i.e. "Yeah, this bunch of whoremongers whooped your butts, too."

GFC

	01-02-2005 07:53									#16
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Don't forget the movies...

Ascetic Virtues, hey, is that the pope I saw, or was that just another old dead guy?

And then there's the dream twister, man, I didn't know Asian people looked like that...

Oh, and don't forget the Planetary Datalinks, with all the anarchists...

As for quotes, most are actually pretty dang good, especially the ones by Yang...

	01-02-2005 08:20									#17
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Didn't I notice Osama bin Laden in one of those movies?

	01-02-2005 18:42									#18
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Hehe, in the opening movie there is a guy praying who looks like Bin Laden...

I agree, the voiceovers, movies and all the "fluffy" things were amazing and gave SMAC a unique sense of atmosphere and personality that I'm yet to find in another TBS game.

	02-02-2005 03:32									#19
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...which could be why this community is still around, X years on.

	02-02-2005 08:08									#20
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50 years from now, we'll still be playing SMAC and windows 98...

	02-02-2005 18:17									#21
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Oh no, at least one of us must have become a miljonaire by then and order a developper to create SMACX II, SMACX - the Sequels, and SMACX - Transcendence Hereafter!!

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You never know, Wal-mart just might do the job...

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quote: Originally posted by mart7x5 "Deirdre's Got a Network Node" actually makes some people drop their jaws in amazement and ask afterwards "What was that?"

i believe that kind of marching chant is called a cadence in the US military, it helps to keep time "I dont know but of been told, Navy wings are made of gold" is one you might remember from the film "An Officer and a Gentleman"