Comments on: Narcissus Speaks: Nameless Mod Released

By: T. Slothrop

T. Slothrop — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:40:04 +0000

This is easily the greatest mod ever made in terms of ambition and realisation. Seven years and it shows. I comment so late after the fact if only that another will be just perceptibly moved by this endorsement that they’ll try it. It even supersedes Deus Ex in several areas and we’re talking about mother fucking Deus Ex.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:58:23 +0000

Ahahah yes I see. I suppose that’s an unfortunate coincidence. I’m afraid you can’t :)

By: Quietelk

Quietelk — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:01:18 +0000

Yeah I’d hope you’d find the poster at least a little funny for the writing. “Wanted (alive and happy) for the murder of El Cid” is a joke that should make sense to anybody, even if they don’t know who El Cid is.

Yeah my “problem” with that poster is that it offers a c1000 reward… which neatly co-incides with the 1000 creds I needed to buy a subway ticket… so I wondered for about five seconds if I could go out and arrest this guy for the reward…

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:00:25 +0000

Oh wow. I’m so glad that this is out at last.

By: Tei

Tei — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:11:57 +0000

I suppose, only other mod is this massive… Nehara (with his 3 hours long movie) … and anyway, this could be even more massive.

By: Larington

Larington — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:56:24 +0000

One of the things thats really impressed me about this is the voice acting, perhaps because the speakers are actually familiar with the setting by involvement in its creation, it rarely if ever feels like lines read from a script. I’d go so far as to say the voice acting I’ve heard in this thus far is quite a lot better than in say, Fallout 3.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:43:20 +0000

By: Pointman

Pointman — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:55:59 +0000

Like in one of the bars there’s a poster offering a reward for doing nice things to a guy who killed a well known flamer on PDX… even without knowledge of this, you might find the poster a little funny.

Glad you liked it, since it’s my face on that thing :P

By: JC_Phoenix

JC_Phoenix — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:00:31 +0000

TNM is really very rarely esoteric and ‘meta’… It does refer to itself a few times, but most of the time those are pretty funny and sometimes even include the author of said article here.

As for PDX specific jokes, I only noticed like 3-5 throughout the whole game(Granted I mostly just lurked on PDX in the more recent years) and often times it is an incredibly minute detail. Like in one of the bars there’s a poster offering a reward for doing nice things to a guy who killed a well known flamer on PDX… even without knowledge of this, you might find the poster a little funny. The bottom line is:
You have to remember this project is 7 years old, when it started 7 years ago it might have been a big esoteric in joke all about radishes, boats, and NO U! but over these 7 years the story formulated into a believable, fun, coherent world- which every once in a while draws on events from the forums to bring forth the funny. It all comes down to the writing really… Really good writing can make just about any setting work.

As for voice acting…. I am curious as to which characters people thought had bad voice acting? Sometimes the ‘bad voices’ might actually just be excellent acting. The board guests, “noob” types, etc. are supposed to be sort of whinny and annoying. Also since it’s a forum the occasional geeky voice might be expected. There’s nothing like you’d expect to hear from a 10 y/o on Halo, or guys pretending to be females. The worst I noticed is that sometimes you can vaguely here some reverb or mic sounds, and sometimes the pitch/tone of some characters might change slightly for 1 or 2 lines.( like the voice actor had a sore throat or something the day they recorded the lines.)

As for jokes, “getting it” and stuff: It’s a fan made mission, not…. The Malkavian mod, or “what a shame”, or Deus Ex:The Recut, or The Yahtzee song. I think TNM just came out at the wrong time, Deus Ex “humor” has been on the rise recently. So when some people hear the premise they just lump it in with the rest, and then wonder why the game is so serious and doesn’t assault you with jokes, crazy shit, and humor right from the beginning and all the way through. TNM is not a humor mod, it’s a huge total conversion, and mission mod which is motivated by humor. Basically, it’s like…. don’t expect humor>>>>>plot/mission/gameplay… More like Humor=plot/mission/gameplay.

Sorry for the long write up, I just tend to ramble a lot….

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:53:48 +0000

The spider article is one the viewpoint of which I share to a great degree. It seemed highly appropriate to include it :)

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:49:33 +0000

Heh, same here. They asked if they could use it aeons ago, but I’d completely forgotten until someone mentioned it the other day. (I’m in another DE mod too – Zodiac, I think – along with a few other PCG writers. In name only though.)

By: Dr Snofeld

Dr Snofeld — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:46:24 +0000

I noticed a bit of flavour writing early on in a magazine in game from a certain Richard Cobbet. Something about spiders. That was a nice suprise.