Sad news in the Pokemon community: Madeleine Blaustein, the voice of Meowth, passed away from an illness last week. She was 48.
Blaustein loaned her voice to Team Rocket's scheming feline from episode 32 of America's Pokemon dub up through episode 421. She was Meowth for the first eight movies as well.
Blaustein's family declined an autopsy, so there's no official statement on what caused her death. She passed away in her sleep after a short battle with a stomach virus.
Blaustein contributed significantly to the voice acting community and has featured in dozens of anime dubs, including Yu-Gi-Oh, Sonic X and One Piece.
Relevant trivia: Most Pokemon in the anime simply communicate by saying their name in different octaves ("Pikachu! Pika pi!"). Blaustein's role was significantly more involved. Unlike the vast majority of his species, Team Rocket's Meowth has a full vocabulary. He taught himself human speech in order to impress a female Meowth. She wasn't impressed.
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
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R.I.P may god be with you
R.I.P
May GOD forgive her !
I always thought it was a guy who did the voice. She was obviously talented. =( R.I.P
That's Right
R.I.P