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My name is Bo-lo San-tosi

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Another entry in our “I can’t believe they left it out” series of retorts to the ABC’s Good Game, this time over their worst videogame voice acting top 5 from this week.

I’m not objecting because their list is weird and obscure but not as funny as this top 50 from Youtube:

I’m objecting because they completely omitted the recent, indisputable Absolute Worst Pick for 2010 – Just Cause‘s Bolo Santosi:


Don’t you practice your alliteration on me!

I know they’ve played the game, because they reviewed it a month ago. How was this brain-freezing atrocity not fresh in their minds?

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Game music

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

ABC-TV’s videogame show, Good Game, featured a segment on Monday about classic game tunes.

They picked a “top five”, featuring Halo, Zelda (Ocarina of Time), Final Fantasy VII, Tetris and the original Super Mario Bros.

Unsurprisingly in a list of only five, I think they missed some absolute corkers. Shadow of the Colossus for one (4:50 in the above video is just one catchy battle theme). Total Annihilation (one of the first full orchestral videogame soundtracks). Oblivion (Jeremy Soule again). The classic “Baba Yetu” from Civilization 4 (I didn’t realise until then the lyrics are a translation of the Lord’s Prayer!). The catchy Battlefield Theme. Okami. “Still Alive” from Portal (or played by me on piano here!) One of Katamari Damacy‘s many insane tracks? How about Splosion Man, or World of Goo, or Braid, or…

…well, your suggestions below.

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