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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 40667, member: 3864"] Damn, back in the saddle to show everyone how to ride....with [I]Crusader [/I]no less! Random Notes! [LIST] [*]The Captain "Maybe Crusader" Silencer has never impugned copyright; that's what the *red* is for. (Big "Shockmaster" vibes tho) [/LIST] [MEDIA=youtube]Fahljd_0xjA[/MEDIA] [LIST] [*]I got into PC gaming a bit late compared to the consoles I grew up with, but I also saw the ads in Computer Gaming World and thought "Man, DeLorean!...is a really unique automobile." [*]Someone's selling the game complete in box on Ebay, has some pictures of the inserts.[ATTACH type="full" width="191px" alt="1737004341803.png"]13033[/ATTACH] [*]Today I learned that PC Zone review is written by the creator and writer of [I]Black Mirror[/I]. [*]"I'm a professional amateur, after all" Strong contender for Best Line of the Article. [*]Just a gorgeous ass game, especially for '95. [*]"Gia-" ....[I]Biggun's: Resident Helmet[/I]? [*]Between this and Wing Commander, Origin were so far ahead of the pack in using FMV, they'd moseyed on over the horizon. [*]Robocop is right, the vibes are definitely, uh, Verhoeven-esque. [*]Having clandestine elements when your guy is as red as the devil's dick is *maybe* peak comedy, and I love it. [/LIST] [I]*electronic rasp* "Are you the informant?" "Um-Yeah, you must be Captain *looks down at scrawled note on hand* The Silencer? They um, they said you would be...red. Hi."[/I] [LIST] [*]There's something special about games that enable choices like this. When they do it well, you feel so much more rewarded for having done things "your way". It was definitely the coolest thing about PC games to me initially, the sprawling freedom of things like [I]Fallout [/I](which clearly took inspiration from [I]Crusader[/I].) [*]Okay so in fairness to immersive sims, people leaving passwords and keycards laying around has absolutely been my experience as a working adult. [/LIST] Because of my useless brain, I was compelled to look up more about [I]Crusader[/I]; the official guide/cluebook includes notes from the project lead, Tony Zurovec, where he lists his inspiration as having been "playing a game for the Apple II called [I]Castle Wolfenstein[/I]." Zurovec also clarifies that "The fiction was always meant to be a political statement", going on with a couple paragraphs about the game being inspired by his fears of the World Trade Organization which had opened on January 1st of that year, 1995. Oh, shit, he also dubs the protagonist with multiple titles; they were initially an Enforcer, before becoming a Silencer, and who is in the context of the games plot, The Crusader. He invokes poetic license, and insists he knows nothing about the Captain The Silencer; his motivations and thoughts are for the player to interpret. (It's at that point he writes like a dozen sentences speculating motivation and history...and it's pretty much Robocop. So, yeah.) There's also a section with Beverly Garland, the Art Director, detailing a sort of "retro art deco revival style" for the government buildings of the game. The FMV's on the other hand, had a more hands-off "Everyone go crazy and see what works" group project approach. She insisted on toilets in the game, "We do have bathrooms in [I]Crusader[/I]", and was proud of being maybe one of the first games to do so. (Actually, I don't know who the "Archie Bunker on the toilet" of video games is, there's a future google search.) For the Crusader himself, she did keep getting the feedback "Oh, his helmet looks just like Boba Fett." Apparently that drove her nuts, and she kept insisting the T-shape of the helmet visor came from Spartans, not Mandalorians. "If I hear somebody say one more time that it looks like Boba Fett, I'm going to scream." Also the red is a "macho, cool, sports car color", that more importantly made the Crusader stand out against everything in the environment for visual clarity. Personally I only ever played about five minutes on a computer that was woefully unprepared for the experience, with a very faint mental note to retry it one day. Having read this, I think that day is here...or soon, I dunno, shits crazy right now, but it's getting a much firmer mental note. Fantastic piece, as always! [/QUOTE]

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