What Dom Armato Thinks About Lair Of The Leviathan!
Hey guys!
My mini-interview with Dom Armato that follows every TOMI chapter is now live here at Alternative Magazine Online!
http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/10/06/mini-interview-%E2%80%93-tomi-lair-of-the-leviathan-what-does-dominic-armato-think/
You can also read our review here:
http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/10/05/game-review-tales-of-monkey-island-chapter-3-lair-of-the-leviathan/
Thanks for reading! If you want to check out an update on AltMagOnline, check below! It was our 6 month birthday this week and we have some announcements to make! Any comments on this page will also be up for winning some games from our friends at gog.com, so dont forget to include your email addy!
http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/10/02/site-update-a-word-from-site-creator-and-founder-martin-mulrooney/
Our latest interview was with Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie and director of Moon) so check that out here (http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/09/30/interview-in-conversation-with-duncan-jones-director-of-moon/), and of course the rest of the site as well if you wish! Cheers!
Feedback welcomed as always! (Also, we are still taking on new writers. Games can be provided, so PM me if you are interested. Must have strong writing skills, love games and films and be able to work to deadlines!)
My mini-interview with Dom Armato that follows every TOMI chapter is now live here at Alternative Magazine Online!
http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/10/06/mini-interview-%E2%80%93-tomi-lair-of-the-leviathan-what-does-dominic-armato-think/
You can also read our review here:
http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/10/05/game-review-tales-of-monkey-island-chapter-3-lair-of-the-leviathan/
Thanks for reading! If you want to check out an update on AltMagOnline, check below! It was our 6 month birthday this week and we have some announcements to make! Any comments on this page will also be up for winning some games from our friends at gog.com, so dont forget to include your email addy!
http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/10/02/site-update-a-word-from-site-creator-and-founder-martin-mulrooney/
Our latest interview was with Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie and director of Moon) so check that out here (http://alternativemagazineonline.co.uk/2009/09/30/interview-in-conversation-with-duncan-jones-director-of-moon/), and of course the rest of the site as well if you wish! Cheers!
Feedback welcomed as always! (Also, we are still taking on new writers. Games can be provided, so PM me if you are interested. Must have strong writing skills, love games and films and be able to work to deadlines!)
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He is an ace guy and I am really glad they got him back for the Monkey Island rebirth. Thanks for the kind words and I hope you enjoy next months interview!
(Rolf Saxon is amazing as George. I guess it is abit surprising when actors for games admit they don't actually play them. Could be an age thing? I recently did some voicework for Broken Sword 2.5 and when they release the english patch, like heck I'll be missing playing it!)
Id do the perverted stuff if it ment being in Monkey Island
Im a member of a site where you do that sort of stuff (they send you gigs everyday, depending on what youve listed as talents - as Australian I get a buncha emails every so often about accent work) but when I say Im a member, I mean Ima free member. You have to join to submit demo work and such, and thats quite a pretty penny to pay, but I think if your willing to do what comes your way it'd be a good way to make money. I think to make a living youd have to be like Steve Blum and do anything and everything, and invest in your own home Studio. Or move to New York and try and sneak into the Daily Show and talk Jon Stewart into thinking your corespondant material. "Opinion? I have one of those about EVERYTHING!"
I guess though everything boils down to money. Making a living off it must be quite the mountain to climb!
Very, very true. Things sometimes boil down to licensing work - at the end of the day, the voice who says "coming this summer" for some movie trailers will have a bit more spending money than the person who reads "available at these pharmacies" on the local drug store commercials. Still, I think it'd be one hellova job to do. If you can enjoy your work then the world gets brighter. My current job has me doing early morning shifts in a supermarket. World being brighter?? Its Daylights Savings time - the suns not even up yet, heh!
I love my site and I do it for nothing. To get a job in the future and be PAID to talk to Dom Armato about Monkey Island, or Duncan Jones about making Moon and his relationship with father David Bowie... that really is the dream!
I think it would be the same doing consistent, bill-paying voice work. What a great job to escape into another world every day, get paid well and still be able to come in and buy stuff from me at the supermarket and I wouldn't know who you are!
Wow... your tugging my heart strings, and usually only Johnnie Walker does that! What is your website if you dont mind me asking? I gotta go run a few deliveries that'll eat up.. oh.. hours, but I'd love to check it out when I get back.
All the links for the lastest stuff are at the top of this thread mate! Drop a comment on the announcements page and you could win some free games. Worth a shot!
Cheers mate, I'll give it a butchers hook!
Surely this CAN'T be the last time Dom takes the trip! NoooooooOOOO!
I might start reading this magazine.
Knowing that Dom loves where TTG are going with ToMI, I'm looking forward to the last two games even more!
I may see if I can get some Telltale staff for interviews as well to do a big celebrationary week or something on AltMagOnline, with like an interview a day, once it is all over. Will have to look into it!
Again, lots of you have visited, but remember unless you leave a comment on the announcements page, no chance of winning any free PC games from one of our digital download friends!
As well, any ideas on who else you would like to hear from involved with Monkey Island? (Apart from Dom Armato and Alexandra Boyd of course!)
Any word of an English release date, eh eh eh?
Nice one, you're quite the resource man.
One last question. Are you the real Marty McFly?
Thats alright, 10am here, only JUSt escaped work. (Curse you, early starts.) So eh, I might have a relaxing drink too. Its 5pm somewhere in the world...
And yeah, thats what I meant by systems. I've got the whole kit an kaboodle: 360 has Banjo Kazooie, PS3 has Final Fantasy and Wii has Mario, Metroid, Zelda and Smash Brothers... and theres not one of those things I cannae live without!
Great Scott! You've cracked it!
Haha on a serious note, I'll let you know what Mindfactory say when they get back to me, asap!
Haha its after midnight here... time for bed! Been a loooong day.
Sounds cool about the consoles
Xbox and Wii are something I only see through my gf and mates... although I do have a gamecube!
The rest of you, get commenting on the announcements page so I can give you some free stuff already
Writer? Careful, or I'll make you read my Fanfics profile (and as Ive grown older, stories have gone from sappy to racy.. or so Im told.) I'd like to say its a skill I developed in collage but that'd just be a lie. But anyhow, sounds good. Chat some more later then.
Shame about the film Public Enemies though, I was a bit worried when I wrote my review that I was the only one that thought it was poor; luckily, feedback on my review has been surprisingly positive and in agreeance! (Even more so than when I ripped Transformers 2 to pieces)
Think it helps because people know I am not bias... a few months before I had done a big Michael Mann article describing him as an auteur and explaining what made him so good. Could have easily rattled off a positive review for Public Enemies, but screw that! I tell people the truth (or my opinion of the truth) even if it hurts
Aww shucks, you'll make me blush. And agreed, comments and reviews are the lifeblood of authors, they say. Of course to be a good author, you need to know when to toe the line about making things personal. (I ommited in that Arkham Asylum review how I may have injuried my hand a wee bit from punching the seat out of frustration with things like the Shock and Awe combat challenge.)
Couldn't have agreed more though when it came to Public Enemies. The poster is still up at the movies here, complete with the cool zoot-suit-esque tommy gun look.. and I know there will be more of Depp going "You'll be mah girl..." than there will be gunfighting. On the flip side, Valkyrie was a movie I was dragged to and I found it pretty interesting. And gamecubes are little monsters of entertainment! Still have mine hooked up in the spare room. I should really remember to check if my Paper Mario disc is in there..
What is this site, I must look into it,as I love voice acting, and acting in general.
Yeah, you don't edit the bios persay but you edit the boot/command file depending on your OS, I had to do it to play the game myself. You gotta do a fair bit of restarting to turn the CPU's on and off, but it's the most painless way
http://masolution.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-use-only-one-core-of-multi-core.html
I love my gamecube Takun! Still ahead of its time, and I haven't really seen the Wii surpass is visually THAT much!
I dont think the Wii has added anything, visually wise. A bonus because on a nice simple TV, the GCN's graphics were some of the sharpest I've ever seen, but with a composite Hi-Def cable on a widescreen tv, the wii actually loses some sharpness. (But then, so would a Gamecube on a bigger screen.) Still, the motion capture's add a new element of play. I'm looking forward to nabbing the Metroid Prime Trillogy to see if theyve incorperated some of the wii-mote functions, like the handle/combination door locks.
Afraid not from what i've played of it, you don't even use the nunchuck for the grappling hook, still worth buying though if you love the Wii-mote control scheme
Cheers mate, that answered that. I was curious about if they might have replaced some of the low-shielding (power beam) doors with the safe combination style movements, or at the very least use the nunchuks throw to launch the grapple. Is it one long game, or can you access all 3 titles from the get go? One last thing, I heard the only main thing theyve added is the Friend voucher/point system of trading with people to unlock bonus extras for the first 2 games. That true? If it is, Im knotted, cause Im sure I dont have the same guy I traded mine with..
They're 3 seperate games all accessable from the main menu, the first two aren't really shined up at all graphically either, it really does show, but as always the gameplay shines through. Multiplayer in Echoes is still there as well, no online functionality though.
As for the fancy schmancy online features, I honestly couldn't tell you, most of the Wii's online stuff outside of Mario Kart for it's simplicity really doesn't interest me to be honest, there is some sort of vouchery friend thingamabob in there though, sorry couldn't be any more help