ULLAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjDFMDpNp5k
>>11492501Still looking for a copy of this RTS. Good shit.
The soundtrack in the game. It's truly marvelous.
>>11492807https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrhAuiUU6fs
>>11492808Well alright I'll listen to it then
>>11492807>>11494045Well, other games don't really have a fair chance when this game contains remixes of a good rock opera.
>>11494109Don't you dare think that that's going to stop me from listening to it.
>>11492774Also has a few cool original units, like this machine specialised in telepathy. My only real gripe with Jeff Wayne's WotW overall is the tripod/machine designs. They are obviously, patently mechanical, while the main character in the book goes out of his way to emphasize the quasi-biological/musculatory style of moving the fighting machines were capable of. It's one of the aspects of Wells' technological imagination that still feels definitely alien and futuristic, so I'm not sure why the Waynepods stray so far from that.
>>11494910For the sake of the musical I can understand why he made them mechanical. When I was younger and read the War of the Worlds for the first time, I had already gotten knee deep in something called Battletech\Mechwarrior. The mechs there, while resembling mechanical creatures, have an underlying series of mechanical and plastic muscles that help move and retract limbs and legs, giving them an organic feel. I always figured thats how the Tripods moved, too.Still, I like his pods too, even if I always had my own thought in mind.
>>11492774ive got 2 copies but good luck trying to run them on anything past win2k.
>>11494943https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y11YM4LbHXk
>>11494943I've got an old WinXP machine, think it could run on that?
>>11492501Fun fact: War of the Worlds is completely impossible for Swedes to take seriously, since Ulla is a typical old woman name there.
>>11495736For all scandis, I think.
>>11494910>>11494928>They are obviously, patently mechanical, while the main character in the book goes out of his way to emphasize the quasi-biological/musculatory style of moving the fighting machines were capable of.To be fair, its considered futuristic by 19th century victorian era observers. It's still said to be rocking back and forth like a stool, so it's probably not going to look that sleek for modern observers. Jeff Wayne also had been planning a live show with a life sized mechanical representation of the fighting machine since the album was published, so a machine with no obvious mechanical parts would be harder to replicate on a budget.
>>11495959They shouldn't look like pic related, obviously. But they capture the spirit of what Wells was describing, at least according to him. The jointed legs here are still properly alien. Spielberg's pods weren't a bad attempt at modernisation while keeping the organic behaviour, imo.
>>11496262Yeah this is very close to what was described in the book. The joints of the fighting machines are made of electromagnetic plates because they're said to have never invented wheels (which is a ridiculous concept, Aztecs Incans didn't have wheel tools because they didn't have a practical use for them in their environment, but they still used wheels for toys). Spielberg's design looks too much like octopuses and the aliens were too generic. It's a boring soulless slop.
>>11496502>Aztecs Incans didn't have wheel tools because they didn't have a practical use for them in their environmentStop parroting this ridiculous cope.
>>11494928>>11496262The issue is that Wells was thinking on a level that even he didn't have the proper words for. The Narrator repeatedly describes the fighting machines and later the harvesting machines akin to 'hats' that the Martians can put on and take off at will that serve to augment the functions that their bodies could no longer perform adequately as they had atrophied while their heads/brains had gotten huge. They're wearing purpose-built exoskeletons, not operating a crewed vehicle. The artist of your pic got it better than the other guy that drew them like rigid water towers (that Wells even talks shit about in the novel version), like its 'arms' holding the Heat Ray are legit to what he described, but he just couldn't fathom that the legs were the same kind of limb. Speaking of the Heat Ray, when they use it on the people trying to escape through the river he managed to describe a microwave gun jacked up to 11 a little over a century before we made one for real
>>11496502>they're said to have never invented wheelsNot explicitly. The wheel is just nowhere to be found in their technology, and the narrator even says that a vastly more intelligent race not thinking of such a simple construction would be absurd.>Spielberg's design looks too much like octopusesThe design is not great from an artistic standpoint, I agree. But the behaviour is much closer in spirit to the novel.>the aliens were too generic. It's a boring soulless slop.No arguments there. Why did they abandon the classic big brained squid idea again?
>>11496591>No arguments there. Why did they abandon the classic big brained squid idea again?I can only guess because they didn't want the aliens to look goofy/hokey to ramp up the horror aspect of the story, which honestly isn't too bad an idea as a lot of the novel is survival horror as fuck. What was dumb to me is adding the two kids and making the Narrator//POV guy a shitty dad
>>11495736i never took jeff wayne's war of the worlds seriously because it's a gaudy 1970s rock musical. is the music fun? sure. the high water mark for the radio drama is the 1968/1971 wkbw version. i love the 1938 original but it is a bit on the older side and the second half is... lacking. i think the 1998 "97 rock" version is pretty good but some of the voice acting is... well, they tried.
Gonna make my own Tripod.
>>11496973Even the original story is a little hard to take seriously in the first half because of how everyone tries to act like the arrival of the cylinders is no big deal until people start getting burned alive by the Heat Rays, which was intentional on Wells' part.
>>11497378>everyone tries to act like the arrival of the cylinders is no big dealafaik the narrator meets people who react with disbelief to the martian's aggression
>>11492501The album is really cool, thanks for reminding us this exists every few months. The fact they made a game based on a rock opera will never not be an interesting footnote.How come nobody else is brave enough to make another video game or movie about War of the Worlds that takes place in the 1890s? The actual period it was written in is the most interesting setting since Victorian technology vs Martians is the coolest possible circumstance and Jeff Wayne understood that.
>>11498221I think he was just interested in a (somewhat) straightforward adaptation. That said outside of the aesthetic appeal two major things the original novel (and Wayne's adaptation) does that the contemporary adaptations never do is that the Martians mostly ignore humanity outright until they get in the way, and most importantly that our current and best weaponry can take down a fighting machine just fine, it's just that once we do kill one their immediate response is to delete fucking everything within like a five mile radius in retaliation. This seems to be a lot more digestible when our best tech is scattered artillery batteries and torpedo steamships, but both the 53 and the 05 film teams apparently couldn't fathom modern weaponry having the same limited but costly effectiveness so they just say "lol they have a force field we're fucked" and leave it at that. Kind of a shame too because as iconic as the tripods are, the Narrator does mention seeing a flying machine while he was trapped in the crater where the harvester was doing its thing, so you've got an opportunity for some still futile but interesting air combat as well before it all goes to shit
thoughts on the ps1 game?
>>11498221there was a WOTW movie made around 2005 in the 1890s time period; it wasn't the tom cruise movie. i've got a copy of it somewhere. it was made by someone who was way too close to the source material and wanted an almost 1:1 translation of the novel. the problem is that the novel, when translated to film, isn't that interesting.
>>11499558I know that one. Its one of the few instances of someone sticking too autistically close, just like you said. The movie is slow, and it suffers so much. The CGI is kinda laughable but it has a carm to it. Holy shit that movie is THREE. HOURS. It didnt have to BE that long.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9KAuCUGJQ
Always had two ideas in mind for the Tripods. Feral, and Upright. The Feral one looks more animalistic, two arms to the side and one in the back, like a creature crawling forward. Bipedal one is something youd see in that weird cartoon version, upright with its legs beneath it.
>>11499864And the othehr kind.
