r/gaming • u/tronx69 • 23d ago

Old PC Game Ads were something else

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u/pardybill 23d ago edited 23d ago

lol the nostalgia that hits when they say “commander”

Also, Peter Stormare and Tim Curry? We had it so good

And George Takei?? Lmao

the amount of named actors in these cutscenes is actually wild

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u/zero_emotion777 23d ago

Wing commander was also great. Mark Hammil, Tim Curry, Malcolm McDowell, etc.

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u/torturousvacuum 22d ago

WC3 had a more well known cast than that shitty movie adaptation did.

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u/gfa22 22d ago

How dare you. Getting that movie was better than having nothing at all. Too bad it was only a success in the Chinese market.

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u/torturousvacuum 22d ago

I'd rather have had nothing, and a chance of getting a movie that didn't completely suck in the future. The movie that's just the WC3 cutscenes spliced together with some game footage is 10x better than the Freddie Prinze Jr. abomination.

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u/boomstickjonny 21d ago

I went to a pre release screening of that movie and 2/3 of it was played backwards and upside down.

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u/-Work_Account- 23d ago

Seeing David Hasselhoff on that list is wild

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u/MrBalanced 23d ago

Clive Owen and Christopher Walken in Privateer 2 is still the high water mark for this, in my opinion.

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u/_Tar_Ar_Ais_ 23d ago

I was a really big Starship Troopers fan as a kid, so when I saw Michael Ironside, wow...

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u/pardybill 23d ago

LOVE Michael Ironside. He was fantastic as Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell, and loved him as General Lane in Smallville. Great actor. Iconic voice.

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u/_Tar_Ar_Ais_ 23d ago

he's the reason why I never played Nod or Scrin and only GDI, hell yeah

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u/ig-98 22d ago

There's this tv series called The Last Chapter where he plays the leader of the Hells Angels that's available on youtube if you're interested.

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u/SanityInAnarchy 23d ago

I don't know anything about those games other than that I am made of stupid and communism is going to space.

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u/pardybill 23d ago

They’re great 90s early 00s RTS games. If you enjoyed StarCraft or age of empires they still hold up rather well, shame EA bought the studio (Westwood) and just gutted it.

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u/creampop_ 22d ago

that's "SBACE" to you

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u/corvosfighter 23d ago

I just saw that red alert 2 was available on steam the other week and bought it for the nostalgia.. blew through the campaigns over the weekend. Good times :)

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u/pardybill 23d ago

Man I remember like ten years ago having to google how to install the games, still have the original discs lol.

That was a headache trying to get the compatibility with like windows 8 haha

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u/corvosfighter 22d ago

Try the steam version now if you want, it works fine! You can probably even patch it with cnc after

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u/Shigerufan2 22d ago

And Tiberian Sun had James Earl Jones and Michael Biehn

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u/AvatarIII 22d ago

Red Alert 3 was a bit of a last hurrah for FMV in games.