Sorry about the delay on this. The plan was to judge it last night, but there were – er – unavoidable delays. In a pub. Sorry. However, I’ve judged the competition and selected the winners, turning this into a very Dragon-agey day indeed. Hopefully they’ll have their copy of the Dragon’s Age Direct2Drive shortly. The standard of entries were high. Many people did copies of famous people. Many people did copies of us. Many people did seemingly completely normal fantasy characters, with bios, which is very sweet. Some people did things which make me genuinely disturbed. Some of them are winners. But which ones? Click, to discover.
What I most love about J Lewis’s genuinely freakish creature – and there were a lot of actual distended faces – is that it looks like an actual creature rather than a slider-bar road-crash. Also, just imagine playing through the entire game with this character. Imagine the sex scenes.
Hnggh.
Anyway – yes, there were a lot of famous people doppelgangers. Some of them even looked like their famous person. But only one of them actually based it of RPS-fave Klaus Kinski. And he was Peter Eriksson.
Watch Wrath of God, everyone.
Anyway, Harrison Sullivan made Dick Cheney.
It doesn’t really look much like Dick Cheney, but it amuses me that Dick Cheney may be reading this and thinking “Wait… they think I look like this?”
Yes, yes, you do.
Anyway, sometimes the simple ones are the best. Baranga Vlad does…
Well, “Michael Jackson would’ve looked at the age of 70. Or something” to quote Baranga. I suspect not any more.
Finally, in an overkill special H. Promogal was the only person to actually have a crack at all four of the hivemind in game. I especially like that they’re bloody awful replicas of us, and about as insulting to each of us as Dick Cheney’s is to his.
Jim as a 40-something coronary case.
John having not just eaten all the pies – but injected them into his fat cheeks.
Actually, this looks worryingly like an uncle of mine back in Cannock.
And – er- Alec’s long-chinned brother.
Well done all the winners. Also, all the losers, because in many way, you are a winner. Just not in a getting-a-free-copy-of-Dragon-Age way.
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They’re all pretty awesome, the MJ one is freaky. The fact they’re actually decent makes me happier that I never got around to submitting my ‘Dwarf with an amusing nose’, as it was terrible.
Haha, very good entries indeed. I send in a character myself and feel no shame to have been beaten by these … guys. Especially Klaus Kinski is very well done. I bow before you, Aguirre.
Haha, I actually burst out laughing at the RPS trio with guest star Alec.
Pic of John could be modified into a Jack Black pretty easily.
That Michael Jackson is spot on.
I maintain that Alec’s is a monument to photorealism!
(thank you very much :) )
Oh wow. Mine failed so bad in comparison.
J Lewis’ is just astonishingly well done. Congrats.
Well if everyone else is sharing…
I love the portrait mode for the ridiculous expressions, like so: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/James.Manwaring/Screenshots#5400406101034191970
Trying to do Fyodor Dostoyevsky might not have been the best idea either…
The last four pictures were hysterical. Which sucks, since I’m supposed to be doing smart stuff here at work, not laughing at alternate dimension RPS men. Bravo!
I was promised a human Tall Nut.
Where is it?
Well it turns out I’m a winner in a not getting-a-free-copy-of-Dragon-Age kind of way. Anyway if you want to see they’re here: –
http://www.thenewflesh.co.uk/tall-nut.jpg
http://www.thenewflesh.co.uk/tall-nut_face.jpg
http://www.thenewflesh.co.uk/wall-nut.jpg
http://www.thenewflesh.co.uk/wall-nut_face.jpg
I did Wall-Nut as well and I think they work better as a pair. I couldn’t get Tall-Nut’s all important eyebrows right so it was kind of a failure but I’m still quite happy with him. Happy enough to play through the game with him when I get it.
Hrm. Can we have a Peoples’ Choice category please? Because this would be mine.
Thanks, I feel all warm and fuzzy now. :D
I am so suprised, happy and honored to have won. This has completely made my day! Thanks RPS.
You made a seriously freaky creature right there. Congrats!
The only thing I can say is Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahahahaahah
Congratz to the winners and kudos to Kieron for making the article spit-my-drink-all-over-the-screen funny.
I am so happy that H. Promogal did that Kieron! Love ‘em all! Also, John’s could easily be changed into Jack Black or Hurley from Lost.
I’d still like to see the female equivalents of RPS done. ‘Cos, y’know….we all secretly do.
Congrats to the winners! These are quite splendid (oh god I still see that JLewis creature when I close my eyes please help), and now I feel bad for whinging about the limitations of the character creator.
Ah well. The wife made me promise not to buy it until she’s finished her PhD anyways. :)
I think I might’ve once seen that uncle on a train…
Also I find it worryingly contradictory to the first 15-20 years of my life that the word Cannock actually creates a small surge of pride in me…
As someone who frequented the Cannock McDonalds, braving both deer and chavs, because it was the only place within a roughly 50 mile radius late at night, I have a strange fondness for the place too.
And the Chase’s popularity as a dogging venue cannot be overstated. Makes one proud to be Staffordshirian.
I meant the only place to get food. Not the only place at all. Staffordshire’s not quite that weird.
I’m a little disappointed that they caved on normal. Making easy easier is fine, easy should be the “guided tour” mode for any game after all, but I don’t think normal being somewhat challenging is anything that requires correction.
Gah, somehow this ended up in the wrong thread. Too many Dragon Age articles today! :)
Klaus Kinski – brilliant! If only you could have your avatar BEHAVE like him, too.
That was a big surprise that my unlike-likenesses failed to win!
As I said in the original article, announcing the competition, I attempted to create the Star Trek captains, due to Janeway being a voice in Dragon Age. My rather hopeless attempts are here http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1926/rpsdragonagecompo.jpg
Not even my picture of Picard giving the finger helped my cause. Having said that, I think the winners are far more deserving then my half-arsed (quarter-arsed?) attempts.
Stupid me. I made a perfectly normal character thinking that it would be unique compared to the other entries. It was worth a shot. I figured there’d be a bunch of entries with the slider bars smashed to the extremes.
That’ll learn me.
OH GOD I WON! I love you guys!
I made the Michael Jackson face. Here’s an even more Michael Jacksonish pic of it: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mc4xtk&s=4
Hm, I guess now I’ll just keep an eye on my mail, right?
Yeah that is what I’m doing, don’t suspose any previous comp winners could shed light on the procedure. I’m not expecting anything till monday but still :)
YaY I won! Love you all! Woot! Lol it is not right I’m this happy :3
40-year-old Jim makes a passable Dan Aykroyd.
Congratulations to the winners!
I may be quite downtrodden, seeing as my entry lost, but just looking at him always puts a smile back on my face. 8D
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x192/Stupoider/petermolyneux.jpg
Hahah, very nice, congratulations winners.
Alec isn’t *too* bad. I think Jim’s avatar actually looks a lot more like John, though. ¬_¬
Were the winners ever announced for the Ashes 2009 competition? It ended in August.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/29/another-uk-competition-ashes-09/
These are great. Well done everyone.
My entry was this try at a sort of Steven Tyler look-alike.
Here’s my entry (I figured there were quite enough “hot, young elf chicks” out there already, so I figured I’d do something entirely different. ;)
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs51/f/2009/307/6/5/RPS_contest_entry_by_deviantFrosty.jpg
I see the flaw in your creation: it lacks the beard!
Haha, I almost made her bald at first, just to make a point to the dwarf-women with beards faction! ;)
hahaha!
This is some fantastic stuff! I didn’t play around with the character creator too much, but I guess now I will!
None of the other winners have got anything yet right? I dont mind waiting at all but just checking :)
Hahaha, that no-nose Jackson looks awesome. The face reminds me of that Planet of the Apes girl monkey though, especially the mouth. :p
Nice compo RPS.
Beastbaron – not yet.
PHeMoX – I was thinking about that too!
Thanks alot, not expecting anything till monday at the earliest tbh, not that i mind to much still plowing my way through stalker :)
Just checking in again, no one else has got their’s yet right?
Nope.
Now I truly understand what “patience is a virtue” means!
Lol, I’ve been trying to resist the urge to spam F5 my hotmail all day at work
Still nothing :-(
Still nothing :-(
I wonder if something went insanely wrong with the prize. Or with D2D’s award winning support.
I e-mailed Kieron on Wednesday and recieved an email back that that we should be recieving it by the end of the week (Friday or Sunday, I assumed Friday but not sure now as it wasn’t specific), I suppose that you could send one as well, just so it doesnt seem that I’m the only one moaning :P I’ll send another one of tonight if it hasn’t arrived I think.
Sent another email tonight, said he would follow it up again, no reply. But i sent it at like 4.30 so he may not have caught the D2D uk people…or something. I dunno bit bored and tired of waiting atm. If it come it comes if it doesnt it doesnt is quickly becoming my attitude tbh. /sadface
Thx to Kieron Gillen for following up quickly and stuff he has been cool tbh.
Also shouldn’t it be “Opine, Away!” not “Opinion, Away!” Although it would depend whether how it was meant. “Opinion, Away!” would make sense in a “Bombs, Away!” coming from the author of the post. Whereas “Opine, Away!” is more like the RPS editors giving the poster permission to post.
Im so bored.
You’re not alone; I’ve not gotten any messages from D2D since the contest ended. Perhaps things will be resolved on sunday. And maybe I’ll have power tomorrow,, hurricane Ida took it out yesterday so I’m currently stealing bandwidth from a friend.
The earliest we’ll get it now is proberly monday since I doubt whether the nice people at D2D work weekends, certainly not sundays……
So still no games for any of the winners?
Yeah, still no games…
No game still right?
Beastbaron: Someone else asked me about this. Was horrified to hear they hadn’t gone out. Chased the guy, who said he believed the US had sent them out. He’s chasing it too.
KG
Recieved a code for the game today, but after some exploration of direct 2 drive I’ve no idea how to actually redeem it. If anyone can point me in the right direction I’d appreciate it.
You have to make an account, then buy the game (put it in your basket), then go to check out, then somewhere near the top there’s a rickbox for “redeem voucher” (something along those lines). When you tick that a texbox appears for the code to go in.
You still have to enter valid payment stuff, annoyingly.
(It still didn’t go through for me, said it needs to be authorised by a customer support person or something like that, so I’d be interested to know if yours goes through ok…)
You have to make an account, then buy the game (put it in your basket), then go to check out, then somewhere near the top there’s a tickbox for “redeem voucher” (something along those lines). When you tick that a textbox appears for the code to go in.
You still have to enter valid payment stuff, annoyingly.
(It still didn’t go through for me, said it needs to be authorised by a customer support person or something like that, so I’d be interested to know if yours goes through ok…)
Ach, sorry for double post, didn’t think I’d clicked so corrected typos. Now my shame is laid bare.
I found the tiny checkbox and entered the code Kieron Gillen emailed to me but it said; “Your coupon or discount is not valid for the product in your cart.” The result was the same for all of the possible Dragon Age versions Direct2Drive offered. :<
Should be : http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/8677/product/Buy-Dragon-Age:-Origins-Digital-Deluxe-Edition-UK-Download
(I’m still getting nowhere though)
An uncle back in Cannock you say? Interesting, I lived down the road from Cannock (Burntwood) until 3 months ago.