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What's the most British video game ever made?
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Given that the aesthetic seems very inspired by The Triplets of Belleville, it makes sense that it looks that way; but Level-5 was definitely going for British. Barring the fact that the third game takes place in London and looks very similar to the rest of the series, the weird focus on tea brews gives it away.
MrCunningham
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Classic Rare games revel in their British humour. Just about any of their games with written or spoken dialogue is like this.
Camp Freddie
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So you ask for a thread about British games, but Contradiction isn't mentioned until page 3. Care to explain that to me?
Andy Capp, Viz and Complete Bastard though...
Andy Capp, Viz and Complete Bastard though...
MrLuvvaLuvva
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It wasn't Rik Mayall (although it does look like him) it's Ade Edmondson, his Bottom co-star. Game was based on a book he wrote.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Be_a_Complete_Bastard
Was going to say this! I remember my brother playing it on our Amstrad CPC-464!
Once you're at the point of talking about a game made by a Japanese studio, inspired by a French film,that took place in "an amalgam of New York, Montreal and Quebec City", where the game that took place in London isn't even noticeably discernible in setting to those that weren't... then you're probably not talking about a game that belongs in a topic about "the most British video game ever made".
Also, anyone suggesting the anime JRPG's needs to leave.
toythatkills
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Anyone who has said something other than Everybody's Gone to the Rapture has obviously never played Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
There is none more British.
There is none more British.
whatevermort
Member
It's not stereotypically British, but I'd like to nominate Granny's Garden. If you are British and somewhere in your 30s, you know it.
I should change my answer.
Stifflip & Co.
From the manual:
I rest my case.
Stifflip & Co.
From the manual:
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The time: World War I is over. As yet, no date fixed for a rematch.
The place: Darkest Surrey, England.
The setting: Britain rules a mighty empire over which the sun - like
bad jelly - never sets. How could such a small island, permanently
shrouded in fog, become a great power, and George V the world's
largest private landlord? The answer lies in cricket.
For countless years British schools have conducted a gruelling regime:
cold baths, corporal punishment and over-cooked cabbage. It is a
regime the British do not escape, even in adulthood, except through
cricket; a game which can lead to as much as 5 days absense from home
or school. Even if played at home, it acts as a powerful anaesthetic.
Whenever possible the British leave their soggy island for good, hence
their pre-eminence as a seafaring nation. far from home they yearn
for the sound of willow against leather. But their contempt for
foreign languages (on the grounds they are 'foreign') and the
difficulty of translating terms like 'silly mid off' has forced them
to colonise other countries as the only way of persuading them to take
up the game.
Now disaster looms for the bowler and brolly brigade. The
contemptible COUNT CHAMELEON, Master of Disguise* and sworn enemy of
the establishment, is determined to suceed in his latest and greatest
dastardly plot. His sale of rubber goods through mail-order ads in a
civil service magazine, has led him to develop the RUBBERTRONIC RAY.
With it he threatens to neutralise the starch in wind-collars, loosen
stiff upper lips and generally relax moral standards - leading to the
collapse of The Empire. Worse still, it will radically and
unpredictably alter the bounce of a cricket ball.
This bounder must be stopped!I rest my case.
Absolutely The Getaway and the sequel Black Monday. I was pretty sheltered from British cinema and television when I first played this game...the lingo and slang alone was like hearing Latin at first. The US copy of the game even included definitions of what terms like "boot" equated to lol
Some more recent contenders are ironically by the same dev: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture or Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
Ah, educationals. Reminds of the God tier Look & Read show...and accompanying game
Geordie Racer was actually a Look and Read title as well.
SpinningBirdKick
Banned
Manic Miner
School Daze
Cannon Fodder
Sentinel
School Daze
Cannon Fodder
Sentinel
mdtauk
Member
Ah, educationals. Reminds of the God tier Look & Read show...and accompanying game
This is my school-time memory! Can't believe that someone else actually remembers it!
RecRoulette
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Churchill Solitaire.
Oh, get over yourself.
Wallace & Gromit: Grand Adventures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE_LAnRtNiY&t=43m00s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE_LAnRtNiY&t=43m00s
Came for this.
Third post, not bad. School Daze was the.first thing to pop into my mind too. Wish I understood it when I was younger, great game though.
Heh, I wasn't intending for that to be read/taken seriously... but really tho, how much sense does that make?
A game where you only play the British national goalkeeper. It also is named after a world famous World Cup goal scandal against the Brits.
Britain doesn't have a national team. Sorry as a Scot i have to make this very clear.
TheAngryInternet
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A Day in the Life, in which the disembodied head of Clive Sinclair completes exciting missions like "catching a train," "buying a copy of the Financial Times," and "visiting the pub," all on his way to Buckingham Palace to pick up his knighthood from the Queen.
EDIT: Actually, I'm changing my pick to Sensible Train-Spotting:
EDIT: Actually, I'm changing my pick to Sensible Train-Spotting:
Yep. It's probably not the most British game ever made, but certainly the most British game I played and enjoyed recently.Contradiction: Spot the Liar
Just look at the main character's face
Admiral Woofington
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Xenoblade Chronicles was hilariously British
petran79
Banned
they do in sports like basketball, volleyball, water polo etc
The Spectrum is drowning in these, understandably.
is my nomination
Yeah, it doesn't get more English than The Archers.
Wipeout 2097
The music and aesthetics made me feel I entered the club scene.
This is the correct answer.
LMAO
I was thinking Conker's BFD, as others have already posted, but it appears I just haven't played much games that are "British"-ish
sure if you want to call them sports ;p
I should change my answer.
Stifflip & Co.
"Darkest Surrey" is pretty great.
ZeroZeroQuatre
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And the world desperately needs a third game.
Please Monolith ?
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Southern Belle. You had to drive a steam train from London to Brighton.
Played Dragons Quest 8 last year and the english voice over was really british even the main characters like Yangus,Jessica and Angelo super british old bean.
Does anyone remember Viz the soft floppy one on the amiga?
Yes but not in football (the Olympics doesn't count). Never confuse the English team as being British. Us Welsh, the scots and the Irish (both north and republic) have to endure the horror of the English fucking press constantly going on about England all the time. Hell we only become vaguely british ever so often in the Rugby, all the other time we hate each other (six nations soon!).
Tomb Raider 3 moreso than the others too. Had Lara down in Aldwych and St. Pauls Cathedral as a bonus level.
QuantumSquid
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Killing Floor.
"You're all fur coat, no knickers, bitches!"
"You're all fur coat, no knickers, bitches!"
Messofanego
Banned
Aye I need tae try this game, Jack King-Spooner's newest one Dujanah about a muslim woman seems pretty rad too.To counter the rampant Anglo focus of this thread I'll say Beeswing.
