this tweet has a clip from a podcast with one of the developers talking proudly of using AI voices (and is in a thread with a clip of example VO from the game if you haven’t heard it):
i didn’t notice any of the weird pronunciation/enunciation stuff that’s in the clip above this one in that twitter thread and took the “off kilter NBA Jam voice” energy to be an intentional aesthetic choice …. didn’t think it was because they’d done this. real fuckin buzzkill
sometimes putting a post in drafts is like freezing your wife's body in hopes that someday they develop a cure
"off-shore" bank accounts only apply to accounts held entirely on boats, oil platforms, hoverbases, etc. island nations no longer count, they clearly have shores upon which the bank accounts are
It’s been ten years! We started Abnormal Mapping in October of 2013 with an episode on DmC: Devil May Cry that probably doesn’t hold up but is in many ways still the format we have now, a decade later. It’s been a wild adventure, and I churned through being like three different people since then, but we’re still going!
Hundreds of games further down the road, we have our new episode this month, as we play the peerless icon of video games: Shenmue. Was really happy our dear friend and Shenmue superfan Dia Lacina could join us for this episode, as we dream of the life one Ryo Hazuki is walking away from, and bask in a game full of wonder.
I hope you enjoy! If you haven’t listened before, this is a great episode to get in on. If you’ve been listening, thank you for all your support over however long you’ve been with us.
