AV Club: Before Quantic Dream broke through with games like Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain, the French studio bet it all on an ambitious debut that, despite some commercial success, has largely been forgotten. That game was 1999’s Omikron: The Nomad Soul, a strange mishmash of genres and fourth-wall-shattering concepts from the mind of David Cage, still the studio’s public face and creative leader. Besides being the game that led us down the perilous road to Beyond: Two Souls, these days, Omikron is best known for the role David Bowie played in its development and story.
Did David Cage, Quantic Dreams and rock icon David Bowie predict the omicron variant? Some people seem to think so.
Lol. Ridiculous.
Humans can be amazing sometimes. The other times they can be very stupid to believe nonsense.
Love the game though. Still got it on Dreamcast.
I remember reading the previews for this game and being excited and then it came out. Oof. No wonder Quantic Dream gave up on gameplay and made interactive movies instead.
"I’ll just leave that right here..." otherwise known as, I never research shit and fire off the cuff and assume. Yawn.
The the Greek alphabet is so cool that one letter can became a name of something, a videogame and a deadly vírus, omicron, or a test version of a game, beta, or a pre build of a game, alpha, a cluster in mass effect like rho.
Phil Campbell discusses his work on numerous projects, from Tomb Raider to Beyond: Two Souls, and working with Brando and Bowie on The Godfather and Omikron: The Nomad Soul respectively.
Here's a bit more on Brando from Campbell that was left out due to lack of time:
"I had been sitting just letting him get on with performing," Campbell said, "and maybe I should have stepped in sooner. It wasn't until he actually encouraged me to step in, with something like, 'If it's s*!t, say "Marlon, that was s*!t - do it again!",' that I did. I never told him his reading was s*!t, though!
"By the end of the session we we getting on famously!" he added. "He told me what a 'nice fella' I was and we talked casually about a few things, including playing the Bongo drums!
"Early on, I had asked him about the legend of pushing Kleenex into his cheeks to get the voice and he told me to not believe everything I read. Later on, of course, he actually did that during our recording - he pushed Kleenex into his cheeks to try to once again achieve 'the voice'! Unfortunately, it tended to actually make the sound of the lines more muddy and incomprehensible.
"Based on what he said on the tapes, Marlon Brando really enjoyed the process, and performed the script without any disputes or opinion!!!
"Ultimately, I feel proud and humbled to have written Marlon Brando's final script - and to have been sole witness to his final performance."
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Now that is writing. And just as my hope that there ever could be any real journalism in games media was dwindling away. Recommended read to everyone. The piece itself is interesting and entertaining. But at the very least this should be reference for People as to how good a gaming related article can be.
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Ah I loved that game. Brilliant the way you could jump into different people