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The Bar For Cutscenes Has Once Again Risen, Thanks To Phoenix Games...

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Radius

Member
Gagaman said:
On all these Disney knock off cartoon 'games', the only stuff Phoenix actually does is the puzzles, menus and the dubbing. They've all been licensed and made into 'games' from this german animation studio's cartoon DVD line up: http://www.dingo-pictures.com/index.html
In fact I don't think Phoenix even do the dubbing as on that website it says they have a separate company that does dubbing for them.
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Well, that explains how they can produce so much shovelware in such a short time span. Judging by the summaries given on the animation studio's site I assume that they are handling the English translation themselves.

BTW: There are even more of such trash-publishers, the next worst one being Blast Games: http://www.blast-games.com/en/default.asp Their games are also disturbingly bad and mostly based on licences no one cares about anymore (Dr. Doolittle, Jumanji, Home Alone, Lassie). I bought their Xena game out of curiosity and it shocked me how bad games could be in (then) 2007. In terms of gameplay, sound and even graphics it managed to be worse than the Xena games from 1999. The entire speech in the game consisted of the name "Gabrielle", some grunts and a pitiful excuse of Xena's scream. Every room in the first two levels was square-shaped and had nothing in it except for 1-2 torches, vases or enemies. The game still terrifies me...but see for yourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emM9V6Zi4KM
 
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splattergnome

Member
Ferrio said:
Soccer Match even better in german

http://www.dingo-pictures.com/soccer.htm
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At least they have sound effects and more than one voice in the German original.

Dingo Pictures said:
Animated Movies
Production, Dubbing, Storyboard

You want to produce an animated film for a special topic?

Or you need the synchronization and dubbing of an existing movie into other languages?

Please contact us. We take over the complete production, beginning with the film script up to the finished DVD.

By co-operation with worldwidevoices, we can do dubbing into nearly every needed language.
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I think NeoGAF needs to save up and have its own movie made in German, dubbed into English, and then maybe even licensed by Phoenix Games for one of their puzzle games.
 
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Sharp

Member
Radius said:
Well, that explains how they can produce so much shovelware in such a short time span. Judging by the summaries given on the animation studio's site I assume that they are handling the English translation themselves.

BTW: There are even more of such trash-publishers, the next worst one being Blast Games: http://www.blast-games.com/en/default.asp Their games are also disturbingly bad and mostly based on licences no one cares about anymore (Dr. Doolittle, Jumanji, Home Alone, Lassie). I bought their Xena game out of curiosity and it shocked me how bad games could be in (then) 2007. In terms of gameplay, sound and even graphics it managed to be worse than the Xena games from 1999. The entire speech in the game consisted of the name "Gabrielle", some grunts and a pitiful excuse of Xena's scream. Every room in the first two levels was square-shaped and had nothing in it except for 1-2 torches, vases or enemies. The game still terrifies me...but see for yourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emM9V6Zi4KM
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That game looks approximately ten times more stunning visually as the Phoenix games, plus it actually seems playable. Much better than Phoenix's output.
 
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Danielsan

Member
Truely amazing. :lol
I picked up the Dutch accent straight away, one of the worst accents around.
Judging from the voicework and the "quality" of the "games" I'd say it's probably a small group of students haveing a laugh while robbing the wallets of uneducated morrons stupid enough to buy this kind of crap. :lol
 
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Bren McGuire

Member
Radius said:
Well, that explains how they can produce so much shovelware in such a short time span. Judging by the summaries given on the animation studio's site I assume that they are handling the English translation themselves.

BTW: There are even more of such trash-publishers, the next worst one being Blast Games: http://www.blast-games.com/en/default.asp Their games are also disturbingly bad and mostly based on licences no one cares about anymore (Dr. Doolittle, Jumanji, Home Alone, Lassie). I bought their Xena game out of curiosity and it shocked me how bad games could be in (then) 2007. In terms of gameplay, sound and even graphics it managed to be worse than the Xena games from 1999. The entire speech in the game consisted of the name "Gabrielle", some grunts and a pitiful excuse of Xena's scream. Every room in the first two levels was square-shaped and had nothing in it except for 1-2 torches, vases or enemies. The game still terrifies me...but see for yourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emM9V6Zi4KM
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Good lord, the disc aftertouch....:lol :lol :lol
 
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Iam Canadian

and have the worst user name EVER
Agent X said:
It's like the video game equivalent of listening to Vogon poetry.
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But Vogon poetry is only the second-worst poetry in the galaxy and this is much worse than that.
 
N

neopokekun

Member
They did put Destiny Island from Kingdom Hearts on the Peter Pan cover.
destinyisland.jpg

peterpanbig.jpg
 
K

koam

Member
Hahah it's one guy doing all the voices, and if you see the peter pan video, he also does the girl's voice
 
S

STG!

Member
The VA and animation together is pure lulz.

SovanJedi said:
In all seriousness, there is one game on their site that I like the look of: Ocean Commander

*bunch of images*

It may play like garbage, but for 8 quid I'll give it a whirl.
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Agreed with the others, it's puzzling how decent this looks... :eek:
 
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Infernal Monkey

Member
Jive Turkey said:
So awesome. So very awesome.


Do you have that Camelot game? I'd love to see that.
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Nah. I saw it in EB once, but it was like $40 so I quickly backed out of the store with a horrified look on my face.

FortNinety said:
BTW, I desperately need to catch a glimpse of the cut-scenes from this game...

sonofthelionkingbig.jpg
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Never seen this one around either. :( Seems it has the same goon characters from Animal Soccer World/Dalmations/God knows what!

Of All Trades said:
Holy shit is the bottom of the disc blue? As in, it's on a CD?
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Yeah, some are on the traditional PS2 blue CD's, newer ones just seem to be plain non-fancy usual CD-ROMs. Their budget probably doesn't allow the luxury of blue dye anymore.
 
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