• TheDrink [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    C&C had such great mechanics, it's a shame it also came from the "every non white character has a really offensive accent" era of voice acting.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      3 days ago

      I think except the TIberium Wars series, both Red Alert and Generals had offensive steriotypes, Red Alert 3 is pretty much a cartoon, the US and Soviet portrayals are pretty funny though. The Japanese one is just offensive, even though they are Imperial Japan.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 days ago

        Complete with George Takei as Emperor of Imperial Harajuku and a school girl commando iirc. Also I think the Nazi Star Wars lady and The Anti-Vax lady were in it.

        • Redcuban1959 [any]
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          3 days ago

          The Nazi Star Wars lady was the Soviet sniper, I forgot who the anti-vax lady was. Some players used to joke saying Yuriko was the long lost Japanese daughter of Yuri from Red Alert 2. Btw, Red Alert 3 felt really fucking weirdly horny for no reason, Red Alert 2 had sexual jokes but both men and women were dressed in Sci-Fi armor and clothing for most of the time, even Tanya had a modest look. Tim Curry, JK Simmons and David Hasselhoff were pretty funny

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            3 days ago

            Jenny McCarthy. Let me double check it was her. Yeah. McCarthy portrayed Tanya.

            And yeah, weirdly horny. Red Alert I was reasonably straight. II got goofier. and then III was just horny cartoon ridiculousness.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              3 days ago

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRPcICB-iY

              Yeah, this promotional video, compared to the RE1 intro.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QB9BSuwrbQ

              RE1 was always fun. "What if Einstein went back in time and merked Hitler so WWII didn't happen?"

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91eoGZOcwo

              Fucking lol the Allies aren't wearing Nazi uniforms but aren't not not Nazi uniforms. Tanya's not wearing a shirt, but, like... she's not wearing booty shorts either.

              The series also gave us the Hell March which we should probably bring back as a theme song because it's so fucking good.

              I wouldn't mind seeing FMV cutscenes come back. They were always fun. Usually very campy, which was the right mood for many games.

            • Redcuban1959 [any]
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              3 days ago

              I think Red Alert I was supposed to be a serious prequel to the first Command and Conquer game, the one about Tiberium and Kane, the only silly thing in that game was Stalin dancing in London. I have absolute no idea why EA did that to III, only to kill the entire franchise some years later.

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                3 days ago

                The later games really seems to lose the sense of what made the early games work so well.

            • Redcuban1959 [any]
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              3 days ago

              Gina Carano as Natasha Volkova

              I think she also did the voice acting for the character. Her ingame model and FMV looks nothing like the Art used in the game.

              • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]
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                3 days ago

                I mixed up the characters, I was thinking of nova from star craft. Speaking of star craft the cargoplane lady had a cute voice

                • Redcuban1959 [any]
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                  3 days ago

                  Lani Minella as Dropship Pilot

                  She is also the original voice of Rouge the Bat, that plant girl from that Sonic Mario Party game (Sonic Shuffle?), Luke from Proferssor Laylon, Poison from some final fight game, Isabella "Ivy" Valentine from Soul Calibur, literally half of the koopalings, some anime called Burn-Up Excess and Geneshift, Sindel and Sheeva from Mortal Kombat, and a game called Illbleed that also has the same guy who used to be Sonic's voice.