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Fuzz
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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 08:29
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Anyone else excited about this game? I for one can't wait to drive around Australia running over bandits and crafting stuff.

The only thing I don't like about it so far is that they made Max an American. I don't mind Americans considering most characters have American accents in games but Max is an iconic Australian action man. Australian, not American.

I figure they might of done this to attract a larger audience in the US, not that it wouldn't see there.

I hope Max in the new movie coming out is Australian.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 10:07 Edited at: 19th Jun 2013 10:09
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Quote: "they made Max an American."

In my humble opinion Avalanche Studios takes something well known, such as [Operation Just Cause, the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama] and turns it into some kind of flag-waving propaganda. Now they have canceled your character's origin to make him an american. That's all just weird.

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I don't like Max being American either - the movies had a certain Aussie quality to them. Like the dude with the microlight thing, it's conceivable to think that he might own an aircraft but no toothbrush, because he's Australian . The whole story is about the desert eating up the country, I guess they could just say that the same thing is happening in America.

It doesn't surprise me really, I mean that World War Z was largely filmed in fricken Glasgow!. Film makers are obviously trying to save money. Travel costs to Australia are very high, and the UK government probably don't take much money for filming rights compared to what it would cost to shut down a street for days in New York (or wherever it's supposed to be set).

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 18:15 Edited at: 19th Jun 2013 18:25
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Quote: "they made Max an American"

And there goes any interest I had in this game. Prepare yourselves for another generic shooter, boys.

What the hell are they doing!? Who the feck are they trying to appeal to by making him American? People who have never seen the films!?? If this theoretical American audience hates everything that's not American then they wont want a Mad Max game unless they don't know what it is! Great use of a licence, dumb idiots.

If they are going to change something so fundamental as the setting, in a retarded and pathetic attempt to appeal to a larger audience, then they sure as hell are going to strip out anything unique about it and produce the most generic COD/Borderlands clone known to man.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 18:36
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American or Australian, I don't think it would really make a difference.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 18:39
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To me it is a major sign of how they are approaching the project.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 18:49
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mayhaps - or mayhaps not, we really cant tell until later now can we?



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Online petition!
Teh Internetz doesn't like the idea of an Americanian Mad Max either.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 19:14
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It matters to me. Why ruin the character?

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 19:50
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I forgot that Mad Max was Australian, so I won't notice.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 20:02
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Anyone who isn't worried about it, should make time to watch the new Total Recall film. I'd write some stuff about it, except my brain is completely void of any recollection of any entertainment value in that movie. It's as if my memory of the remake of Total Recall has been recalled and replaced by 2 hours of staring at Colin Farrell's rediculous eyebrows.

Now, the original movie I could recite like the biggest nerd on the planet - it's awesome, and it's made twice as awesome because the remake is so forgetable.

Call me an old fart, but any Mad Max film or anything should be set in Australia and star Mel Gibson. If it's good enough for a 20 year old film series, it's good enough for the instantly forgetable waste of time that would be Mad Max USA. It'd still be terrible, but at least it could look it's fans in the eye. Mad Max is some of my favorite films, I even like it's retarded cousin Waterworld - I really don't see why they bother if they aren't gonna do it right, it's not worth our attention really.

I watch a lot of movies so I've built up a backlog of disdain for Hollywood. Hell, I don't think I've really enjoyed a movie since Gran Torino.

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Total Recall was remade to match the book. I haven't seen it, my TV is broke.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 22:40
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Mel Gibson is American anyway, so they screwed up the original films way before the game in that case, if everyone is crying over an American voice actor they need to time travel and get an Aussie for the role xD
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Didn't you guys know? Video game characters are supposed to have American accents.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 23:07 Edited at: 19th Jun 2013 23:26
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Quote: "It doesn't surprise me really, I mean that World War Z was largely filmed in fricken Glasgow!. Film makers are obviously trying to save money."

Ironically Mel Gibson moved filming of Braveheart to Ireland to save on production costs, it's expensive to film anywhere in Scotland. Also ironically he gave the story of William Wallace the full Hollywood treatment and it doesn't resemble the facts at all.
As said, Mad Wallace, sorry... Mel Gibson, was born in the States and is an American citizen.

It's rumored any new Mad Max films will star Brad Pitt and be filmed in Ireland with an entire cgi cast of extras.

Anyone remember Brad Pitt in "Snatch' where he played an Irish tinker, they actually used subtitles for an American audience to understand what he was saying, he nailed it so perfectly.
I don't think it matters much when it comes to voice overs and it seems like people remember Mel having an Aussie accent in Max when he didn't.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 23:26
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Quote: "Mel Gibson is American anyway"

His family emigrated to Australia when he was twelve. If the American voice actor they hired also emigrated to Australia when he was twelve then that's fine.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 23:29 Edited at: 19th Jun 2013 23:46
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He's a voice actor, he can likely fake it, if it was really that necessary, many can do it very successfully, I dont care if he's from Pakistan and emigrated there when he was twelve.....whatever

There aren't many native Americans or Australians around for that matter. The world is full of mixed ethnic communities to the point it's a farce to think of using locals in games...senseless nitpicking. It's only theatre and illusion....so who cares so long as it's only a storyline? If it was all based on fact I can see the point.

This is a local shop for local people....

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 23:46 Edited at: 19th Jun 2013 23:47
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@Rolfy - I'm talking about the character being Australian, not necessarily the actor. I just wanted to point out that Mel Gibson is hardly an alien to Aussie culture.
Max is an established character, so it would be odd to change his nationality now. I actually wouldn't mind if they reworked the character, just not a bloody American! Everything is bloody American, nothing against Americans its just freaking dull. Now you've mentioned Pakistan, dammit, I want to see a Pakistani Mad Max! I'm really really really bored of generic, white, Caucasian males with brown hair. I can look at one of those in the mirror whenever I like. At least Max being Australian is a bit different.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2013 23:48 Edited at: 20th Jun 2013 00:06
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Quote: "Now you've mentioned Pakistan, dammit, I want to see a Pakistani Mad Max!"
Ya made me laugh out loud with that one....a Glaswegian Max would be even better.

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I can see that point where the character and the setting should be Australian, maybe they should call it 'Mad Marvin', still who would have guessed that Hobbits would come from New Zealand.
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I'm really really really bored of generic, white, Caucasian males with brown hair. I can look at one of those in the mirror whenever I like"
Yeah they all look alike to me too

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mmh, he does have a point



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It's rumored any new Mad Max films will star Brad Pitt and be filmed in Ireland with an entire cgi cast of extras."


I'm one of the few who dont mind CGI at all if its done well...but THIS sounds so ridicoulus I can hardly imagine it.



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I watched all the mad max films with my dad as a boy and didnt even know it was supposed to be australia.

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Mad Max: Fury Road starring actor Tom Hardy (English) as Max, is currently in production, Mel Gibson has a cameo role.

Quote: "I'm one of the few who dont mind CGI at all if its done well...but THIS sounds so ridicoulus I can hardly imagine it."

NOT CGI, this is Glasgow when rumour spreads of free Irn Bru and fish suppers.


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It's worse when the Americans change history, like when the Americans made a film about Enigma the code-breaking machine. In the film the Americans capture the machine, but the British actually captured the machine.

And also, what about Oldboy?

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Quote: "If you haven't seen the film you must see the Japanese version."


You mean Korean?

I agree with the American thing. Nowt wrong with American protagonists, but a character is capable of having a national identity. Once you remove that it can lose some of its charm, given the majority of action heroes are American, so it does get boring and kinda generic. Not to say there aren't decent American action heroes, so I don't think John McClane would have the same charm if played by a Chinese man.

Having said that, I would prefer a Pakistani Madmax to an American one, it'd be different and refreshingly so.

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Quote: "John McClane [....] played by a Chinese man."

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He he, that is the best ad lib on TGC.

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Glad you liked it. Lol

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Heaps of my friends signed the petition. I hope something comes from it.

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Mad max not an Aussie?! Somewhere deep inside me a feel an urge to make them spin the wheel.

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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/mad-max-will-have-aussie-protagonist-after-all/
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I just came to post that link, Thraxas. So glad haha

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The irony is this game will probably end up being banned in Australia.
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Banned, reworked, released with American voice overs along with all blood and weapons removed.
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EPIC REVIVAL
kind of

http://uk.gamespot.com/mad-max/videos/mad-max-soul-of-a-man-gameplay-reveal-trailer-6411423/



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Looks like another pile of generic, soulless crap to me.
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I think that it looks ok. Problem is they are taking prime meat and turning it into sausage. There isn't enough prime meat around to waste on sausage. They should be looking for good quality fresh meat and cooking it properly in a nice sauce... cause they make a pretty average sausage

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Disappointed that the voice over was American but the game looks pretty sweet.

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Quote: " Problem is they are taking prime meat and turning it into sausage. There isn't enough prime meat around to waste on sausage. They should be looking for good quality fresh meat and cooking it properly in a nice sauce... cause they make a pretty average sausage"


hmmm... You just made me hungry. I think I will have meat for lunch and tea today.

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Quote: "Looks like another pile of generic, soulless crap to me. "


Yeah! I looks fantastic...sure...but I dont feel anything. Seems to be a license vehicule.

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