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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/12/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    I don't know about this guy but he probably can't be worse than Craig. To be fair it's not entirely his fault, more the writers that decided to mix up the Bond franchise too much.

    Being used to much more suave witty Bonds and then having Casino Royale dumped in your face is just disappointing. It's been too modernized, losing that classy fantasy element the previous Bonds had. New Bond doesn't even quip at all. Near the end of CR he shoots a guy in the face with a nailgun and doesn't even go:
    "That nailed him" before straightening his bowtie.

    Made me die a little inside. #jamesbond
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    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Couldn't he just hair at the bad guys? Doesn't even need a weapon, just that haircut.
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    Edited by Jonn at 11/11/09 10:34 PM Jonn was starred Jonn was unstarred
    Image of busterbluth busterbluth
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    You're one of those fancy lads! #jamesbond
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    Image of osteofight osteofight
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Are you sure it's not a Dr. Who game? #jamesbond
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    Nudgenudge promoted this comment osteofight was starred osteofight was unstarred
    Image of Nudgenudge Nudgenudge
    11/11/09

    @osteofight: what would be a Doctor Who game, in fact?

    A point'n'click with a gazillion instances of "use sonic screwdriver on (insert stuff here)?
    A Tardis racing game?
    A fighting game where the opponent always has a chance to surrender before the fight?
    Doctor Who Hero, where you remix the different versions of the theme song and add samples of "OH YES!", "Fantastic!", "Brilliant!", "Allons-y!", "Molto bene!" and "I'm so sorry"?
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    Edited by Nudgenudge at 11/11/09 4:27 PM Nudgenudge was starred Nudgenudge was unstarred
    Image of tim rogers tim rogers
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    oh god! are they franchising bond games? fahey, plz contact activision / bizarre and tell them that i have written maybe sixteen literature-quality james bond fanfiction novels since age fourteen and i will gladly write stories for their future games ok???

    (85% srs) #jamesbond
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    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: I think I would only play a Bond game if it were written by you, so you can add that to your sales pitch.

    Instead of side quests, it will have tangents, and lots of them.

    And about half of the reviews for the game will simply consist of, 'Too long, didn't play.' #jamesbond
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    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: God, really. I agree with doubtful in that I would 100% rather play a Bond game written by a fan than one written by a focus group. #jamesbond
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    Image of pashaveliki pashaveliki
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: post links on Kotaku. I am a huge Bond fanatic (namely the Fleming originals) and would love to read them/give you feedback. #jamesbond
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    Image of colewheeler colewheeler
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: you have your novels to share? peeked my interest. #jamesbond
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    Image of Svend Joscelyne Svend Joscelyne
    11/11/09

    @colewheeler: Silence you fool, posting them online will devalue them! Tim needs a bargaining chip. #jamesbond
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    Image of dahaka dahaka
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: tl;dr #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment dahaka was starred dahaka was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @colewheeler: "piqued my interest." FIXED #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment Lordd_G was starred Lordd_G was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @doubtful: They will be beautifully written but the vocabulary will be too much for most of their target audience. #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment Emulated was starred Emulated was unstarred
    Image of Guat Guat
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Yo Adam, I'm really happy for you, I'ma Let you finish, but Sean Connery was the best James Bond of all time! #jamesbond
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    Alessar promoted this comment Guat was starred Guat was unstarred
    Image of subnet6 subnet6
    11/11/09

    @Guat: Close but not quite.

    Sean Connery IS James Bond. James Bond IS Sean Connery.

    All the rest were/are simply actors playing a role.

    That being said, Daniel Craig was fun in Casino Royal but outstayed his welcome in Quantum of Solace. I'll be glad to give this new chap a go. Here's hoping he can pull it off. #jamesbond
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/11/09

    @subnet6: It's the director. Really is it. GoldenEye Rules.
    Casino Royal Rules.
    Martin Campbell knows how to direct Bond movies. #jamesbond
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    subnet6 promoted this comment MrPliskin0 was starred MrPliskin0 was unstarred
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    11/12/09

    @MrPliskin0: Great point. I totally didn't realize he had done both. And yeah, Quantum of Solace had massive problems even outside of Craig who just seemed lifeless in it. #jamesbond
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/12/09

    @subnet6: No, that was the good part, he was lifeless; Bond was depressed and hell bent on revenge (you see that at the end when he drops the neckless.)
    The crappy thing was that the next director decided to try and be Michael Bay and blow stuff up while trying to have a crap story to make up for it.
    The whole of the movie is just a big setup to the uber villain, perhaps Dr. No #jamesbond
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    11/12/09

    @MrPliskin0: Shoot, now I'm gonna have to rewatch it to see if his lifelessness was more than I thought it was.

    But even so, James Bond.......depressed? Really? Whose idea was that? The guy eats misfortune for breakfast and washes it down with a Martini. #jamesbond
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/13/09

    @subnet6: That's the point, this is what made Bond no longer care; remember this is a restart, not so much the Bond we know.
    I think 006 said it best; the only thing Bond knows with certainty is Loyalty. He is loyal to his country and to himself; Loyalty To The End.

    'Loyalty to the end, it means devoting yourself to your country.' ~ The Joy. Metal Gear Solid 3 #jamesbond
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    11/13/09

    @MrPliskin0: And I've heard that rationale before. To that I say, as long as we get our James back, I'm fine with a few movies exploring the back story of what made him what he is. But at the end of it all, he damn well better be James Bond again. :) #jamesbond
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/13/09

    @subnet6: I agree. #jamesbond
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond

    Aww jeez is this going to be like the Eighth Doctor situation again? (Doctor Who TV Movie his only appearance) #jamesbond
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    11/11/09

    @(Starman) Mudkip : Actually, that actor did a number of 8th doctor radio plays/audio dramas. #jamesbond
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    Image of WonkersWatilla WonkersWatilla
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    This is both good and bad.

    Good: the dev team can be more creative with the game and characters instead of following a relatively strict guideline established by a Bond film.

    Bad: Activision is totally going to make this a yearly franchise. #jamesbond
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    Image of spannu spannu
    11/11/09

    @WonkersWatilla: "Yearly"? You gotta think bigger than that. We need a Bond for every season! #jamesbond
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    Image of Paradox me Paradox me
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Sean Connery.

    It can't hurt to dream. #jamesbond
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    Image of ninjaDance ninjaDance
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    I don't mind this so much. As much as I like Daniel Craig, it's generally a good thing when companies are given artistic license with a concept instead of trying directly follow a movie, or even one actor's portrayal of a movie character. #jamesbond
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    Image of Chirotera Chirotera
    11/11/09

    @ninjaDance: Everything or Nothing turned out to be a pretty solid game because of this - though that game still used Brosnan. #jamesbond
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    Image of DexterMoon DexterMoon
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    He doesn't look like James Bond at all, but oh well... #jamesbond
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    Hey_Blinkon approved this comment DexterMoon was starred DexterMoon was unstarred
    Image of Hey_Blinkon Hey_Blinkon
    11/11/09

    @DexterMoon: Your right. He doesn't look like Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Daniel Craig, George Lazenby, or David Niven. There can be only ONE Bond, as we all know. #jamesbond
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    Image of EU_dig EU_dig
    11/11/09


    @DexterMoon: He does kinda look like Ian Fleming's portrayal of 007, just younger. #jamesbond
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    Image of Advent Chaos Loves You Advent Chaos Loves You
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    I can't say Im the biggest fan of oo7 movies, but when I saw Casino Royale with Daniel Craig, I was in love. I've yet to see Quantum of Solace, or play the game, but it's on my big long list of things to do.
    I wasn't comfortable with Craig as Bond in the begginning, but he grew on me pretty quickly, he's awesome c: #jamesbond
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    Image of Strangelove Strangelove
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Wow, that guy looks like a douche. Really, they need to stick with Daniel Craig.

    Although maybe if the game is developed outside of the sphere of the movie release, they'll actually make a decent game. Quantum of Solace's demo, though, seemed pretty cool, but it's definitely a bargain-bin pickup for me. #jamesbond
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    Image of Lake Somerset Lake Somerset
    11/11/09

    @Strangelove: "Wow, that guy looks like a douche. Really, they need to stick with Daniel Craig."

    Wow. Demanding Daniel Craig must really make this guy a total waste... which says a lot. #jamesbond
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    Strangelove promoted this comment Lake Somerset was starred Lake Somerset was unstarred
    Image of Strangelove Strangelove
    11/11/09

    @Lake Somerset: @ColinStein:

    I turned off Quantum of Solace about 15 minutes after renting it, but Casino Royale is by far the best Bond movie (save for the parkour crap in the beginning) and one of my favorite movies of all-time.

    Craig is also good in Munich, which is an awesome movie. #jamesbond
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    Image of FeatherNET - Live in Canada FeatherNET - Live in Canada
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Don't you bloody dare touch the James Bond series after your last half-assed attempts or so help me god I will murder you with a spoon. #jamesbond
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    11/11/09

    @FeatherNET - Live in Canada: quantum of solace was the first activision james bond game i thought. #jamesbond
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    Image of FeatherNET - Live in Canada FeatherNET - Live in Canada
    11/11/09

    @shouryuuken: What do you know, the rest was EA. Shows what I know. I still don't trust Activision with a James Bond title. #jamesbond
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    Image of Last Face Last Face
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    He looks like a Bond to me anyways. #jamesbond
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    spannu promoted this comment Last Face was starred Last Face was unstarred
    Image of spannu spannu
    11/11/09

    @Last Face: Yeah, he seems to have a similar attitude to the older actors. He also seems to be genuinely interested in it, so hopefully if it sucks it's not his fault. #jamesbond
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