Comments on: FMV Hell – Nightmare Review

By: dynamite.thirteen.productions

dynamite.thirteen.productions — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:53:00 +0000

No joke, I watched this review, and then two days later my best friend texted me and told me to come over for game night. Guess what her and her boyfriend had just bought?

I think what Spoony neglects to acknowledge is that the game is SUPPOSED to last 45 minutes at least, which is why so much of the game is chance, to stretch it out to the last minute. When we played, we literally went to 58:57 before someone won.

Atmosphere/Atmosfear is the perfect name for what it is, because the real fun of the game is to get sucked into the atmosphere, to interact with the Gatekeeper and personalize the experience. Also it’s a great drinking game. Take a drink everytime he calls you a maggot, if you get startled when he appears, says black hole (not if you’re doing shots, you’ll die of alcohol poisoning), etc. Also it is best with 4-6 people.

Sadly it doesn’t have much replay value, which is a real shame because I really enjoyed it. Mostly because I was kinda drunk.

By: Devin Parker

Devin Parker — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:22:00 +0000

Apparently I must have constructed some mental blocks to protect myself or something, but as you were reviewing this I remembered that I had, indeed, played this once when I was younger. Only once, of course, but it was with a bunch of other teenagers, and I remember laughing quite a bit. I also remember all of us making fun of the way the Gate Keeper pronounced the ‘Blagole’, too. I wonder if it was the game itself that made me block it from my memory, or if something else traumatic happened to me that night that I’ve blotted out…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Sigh. Why make a board game based on a gimmick like this? Surely someone must have realized the game has no replay value.

The funny thing is, if you transplanted this concept into today, it would work a lot better. A console board game would be weird, but at least the gatekeeper could be halfway randomized and there could be some atmosphere. Hell, maybe you could figure out some weird way to get a DVD or Blu-Ray to have an interactive, randomly generated game master.

But a VHS tape? I mean, really? One that relies on jump scares and general assholery, and plays out the same EVERY TIME, with no skipping? And you give every card a time on the tape so the game ALWAYS PLAYS OUT THE SAME WAY, with very little randomization?

Aaaagh. I’m going over to Spoony’s Battlestar Galactica vlog. That game was fun just to watch!

By: Bill Hiers

Bill Hiers — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Gatekeeper vs. Dragon Master from Dragon Strike would be an epic battle of snark.

By: Chris D

Chris D — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:45:00 +0000

Billy Dee was in Command and Conquer 3 and tim curry was in Command and Conquer red alert both had just hammy as hell performances especially tim curry with a russian accent hahaha

By: lurkeriatipsos

lurkeriatipsos — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:41:00 +0000

A “blagg hoe” sounds like some kind of ancient Scottish gardening tool.

By: adamsr

adamsr — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy featured George Takei, Walter Koenig and WILLIAM SHATNER! That wasn’t the game that Spoony showed a clip from, though.

By: Dragons_Dusk

Dragons_Dusk — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:04:00 +0000

also Wing Commander Series

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:30:00 +0000

What about Biff?

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:56:00 +0000

Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell were in the Wing Commander series.

Tim Curry was in some Frankenstein game. He was also in Gabriel Knight 3, but I don’t think that was really an FMV game. (GK2 was, but he wasn’t in it, despite being the voice of the main character in the first game.)

Christopher Walken was in Ripper and Privateer 2, both of which Spoony has done videos of.

Not sure about Williams or Takei, though.