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[Infinitron]

Then I went to youtube and remebered we're not in 1998 anymore...BRo, they just don't do that now...trailers are made of CGs, cutscenes and VA, they look like movie trailers. And they don't list a single feature, it's just 10/10, GOTY, MAJESTIC! and all that. In the end, we unnintentionaly made a "classic" trailer, that woudn't look out of place as one of those trailers inside demo CDs in the 90's/early 00's... I don't know about VD and Oscar, but I liked that, I think it fits the game nicely.

Reminds me of these

 

[felipepepe]

Reminds me of these

Spot on bro! I actually send that IWD2 trailer to Oscar to show how I though on doing the art at the start!

 

[RK47]

roguelike much, rk?

Not much. I hate that kind of game.

 

[revealer]

I died in the fist minute of watching that video.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

God, did I really type "fist"?

*checks thread*

Pfff. What an dumbarse I am.

 

[villain of the story]

Whoever the fuck The Smilingknight is on RPS, he should just stop posting.

Excellent trailer, btw. I would be completely blown away if I weren't already familiar with the demo. The tag line about ancient evil is so fucking killer.

I also think the game is in desperate need of a PR spin. People take it for a straight ancient Rome game and it's hard to blame them with all the heavy Imperial era imagery and the Latin names.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

People take it for a straight ancient Rome game and it's hard to blame them

What is it then, a gay ancient Rome game?

 

[General Maxson]

Whoever the fuck The Smilingknight is on RPS, he should just stop posting.

Excellent trailer, btw. I would be completely blown away if I weren't already familiar with the demo. The tag line about ancient evil is so fucking killer.

I also think the game is in desperate need of a PR spin. People take it for a straight ancient Rome game and it's hard to blame them with all the heavy Imperial era imagery and the Latin names.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Whoever the fuck The Smilingknight is on RPS, he should just stop posting.

Let me take a guess...

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/game-of-thrones-season-2.70835/page-14#post-2075714

 

[Wild Slop]

Basically a different variation on my previous in that its from another movie with monkeys.
*removed annoying white line. Prob happened when save as JPG.

Lacked the skill to convert this:

so settling with poster.
Damned washed out and photobucket messed with it too. Still enough to get whats what and had some fun making it.

 

[Marsal]

Is the message that only apes would play AOD, or am I interpreting it wrongly?

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Have you not read/watched 2001?

 

[Marsal]

Have you not read/watched 2001?

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

They learn from the black monolith.

 

[Marsal]

They learn from the black monolith.

 

[Wild Slop]

hah and thanks to you Sir ..oh, Gorilla. In 2001 those aren't really monkeys either, just a convenient coincidence that both the classic movies feature such.

 

[EG]

They learn from the black monolith.

Really? I guess I shouldn't have skipped the ape segments in the book . . . But why does the Monolith teach us to hate one another?

 

[RK47]

They learn from the black monolith.

you're not alone. I still don't get it.

 

[EG]

Spoiler

The Monolith is a sentient intelligence that interferes with the evolution of life in order to something something soul.

It caused our evolution (and the collapse of Jupiter) for the sake of making us (then them) awesome.

Then it decided to destroy us, before Boman-3000 put a stop to that.

 

[Marsal]

It looks like I'll have to put a /jk at the end of my posts from now on...

 

[Azrael the cat]

They learn from the black monolith.

Really? I guess I shouldn't have skipped the ape segments in the book . . . But why does the Monolith teach us to hate one another?

Have to say - 2001 is pretty much the only example I can think of where film > book. Mainly because the film knew to keep the ending vague - the book was still darn good, but the same author then went on in the sequels to explain the ending in the most mundane manner. I'm guessing it was because it wasn't a case of the film being adapted from the book - the film script was co-written with the book's author before the book came out.

Anyway, to answer your question, the idea isn't that the Monolith teaches us to hate each other per se. The Monolith brought forward an evolutionary jump, giving apes the first 'big leap' in intellect, setting the path for human evolution and civilisation. Intellect being what it is, this is immediately expressed in violence (in the film, the intellect jump is famously shown by one of the apes picking up a stick, playing with it for a bit, then realising it can be used as a weapon and throwing it at another ape). I.e. it's implying that violence was always going to be a side-effect of intelligence.

 

[Saber-Scorpion]

Hello Codexers. Serious entry here:

 

[EG]

Hello Codexers. Serious entry here

So many sandworms in Roman times.

 

[Wild Slop]

I know its over and much thanks for picking me. Does that mean we must to stop though? I don't know whether to put this in the GD propaganda thread or here.
Photobucket does what it does and messes around. So imgur:

I hope Dicksmoker doesn't mind the liberties I've taken. I got a kick out of seeing his name attached to his lovely quote on the ITS homepage.
*Fixed. Here is a smeared blank if anyone cares.