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[Akiller]

 

[TheMoon]

This should be called Uncanny Valley: The Thread.

Wow.

 

[Cronen]

David Bowie: The Thread.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

The model they used for Eli was actually a homeless dude that was hanging out in front of the Valve offices.

Breen is the spitting image of my father-in-law, it's freaking me out.

A lot of images don't work anymore, but David Bowie is in every video game

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=371406

Still one of the best threads this hive of scum and villainy has ever birthed, bar none.

 

[Tomodachi]

Anna Torv - Nariko from Heavenly Sword
Same voice actor, face loosely based on hers I guess.

 

[big_z]

152 posts until someone mentions bowie. how can you call yourselves gaffers. shame.

 

[TheCobraTwister]

 

[mclem]

A 'kind of' one, since it wasn't official.

The base *texture* for Karl Fairburne in SE1 was - IIRC - a somewhat modified Ben Affleck. Only the texture, here, not the full model.

Unless it was Jude Law, but I *think* we used Affleck in the end. The modifications were heavy, anyway.

 

[Nesther]

The only character I felt was suited to his face and benefitted from his image being used. Detain and the Shadow of Mordor lead both look really odd.

The Advance Warfare protag always gave me a huge case of uncanney valley, never liked when they showed him on-screen. Something was off.

 

[Guymelef]

Kristen Bell.

 

[Dabookerman]

Karl Ernst Rasch Crysis 3

Nazi face melt aka Wolf Kahler

OH!

 

[Dimitri LH]

152 posts until someone mentions bowie. how can you call yourselves gaffers. shame.

Hes been mentioned since page one post 22, he got pics on post 152.

Do the Pirates of the Caribbean cast count in Kingdom Hearts 2?

 

[Charlouie Jonesman]

Karl Ernst Rasch Crysis 3

Nazi face melt aka Wolf Kahler

Little known fun fact: This guy voiced Revolver Ocelot in MGS1's german dub.

He's not very good, but compared to all the other VA's still one of the better ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxx7263d_U

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

If the characters are modeled after real people, why do some of them look so bad?

 

[JNT]

Arnold Vosloo in Boiling Point

 

[Mr. X]

A lot of hostesses in Yakuza series are models or something.

 

[TheMoon]

If the characters are modeled after real people, why do some of them look so bad?

Uncanny Valley.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Something was lost in transition here

 

[CheezyMac88]

Advanced Warfare

 

[MrCunningham]

Time to go way back....

El Oscuro from the original Rise of the Triad is Commander Keen creator and original id founder Tom Hall:

 

[Beardz]

4 pages a not even one mention of this!?

 

[Easy_D]

The model they used for Eli was actually a homeless dude that was hanging out in front of the Valve offices.

Wait, they lined up half of G-Man likeness face. So that's why he looks so off, his face is perfectly symmetrical

 

[ShaunBRS]

Charlie Brooker was one of Hitler's guards in the Sniper Elite 3 DLC.

 

[Rolodzeo]

We need more David Bowie.

Also:
David Bowie is in every videogame ever.

 

[Phreakuency]

4 pages a not even one mention of this!?

Because that isn't the actor that played him...

 

[Evilisk]

Mark Vanderloo

I gotta say, Mark Vanderloo actually looks kinda hot

Which is weird because I always thought Commander Shepard looked pretty damn goofy tbqh

 

[Antagon]

Talking about David Bowie:

He really did play a character in Omikron, was the voice actor and did part of the soundtrack too.

 

[MrCunningham]

We need more David Bowie.

Also:
David Bowie is in every videogame ever.

But Leon was just a young Leonardo DiCaprio from Titanic:

Code Veronica also had another Leonardo DiCaprio named Steve Burnside.

 

[YesConsiderably]

She looks much different in-game, but the CGI Leliana from one of the Dragon Age trailers was modelled on Alexandra Stein.

 

[Charles Alan Ratliff]

Still havent heard her speak english.

Stefanie Joosten did a Let's Play for Outlast: Whistleblower with GirlGamerGaB.

 

[UnrealEck]

 

[Axial]

The Viper man played Max in the third game? Mind blown.

 

[MrCunningham]

The Viper man played Max in the third game? Mind blown.

Viper man (James McCaffrey) is the voice of Max Payne for all three games. But he was also the face model used for the third game.

He really did play a character in Omikron, was the voice actor and did part of the soundtrack too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gURTP21tPWw

 

[BumblebeeCody]

Charlie Brooker was one of Hitler's guards in the Sniper Elite 3 DLC.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?
No fucking way!

 

[Hubbl3]

I always thought that Madison Paige's face from Heavy Rain was modeled after Maria Ozawa.

Madison Paige

Maria Ozawa

 

[Kain]

There was one of these for FF too. Proof that FF and MGS are the definitive videogame series.

 

[Kinyou]

Sonja Kinski as Zoey in Left 4 Dead

(And yes, she's related to Klaus Kinski)

 

[Harlequin]

Crystal Dynamics used a face scan of Megan Farquhar as a base for Lara Croft in their reboot (they modified it quite a bit, though):

I also think that Rubi Malone's face in WET was based on her voice actress', Eliza Dushku (not sure, though):

 

[Phreakuency]

I always thought that Madison Paige's face from Heavy Rain was modeled after Maria Ozawa.

Again, she had a real actress/model play her and have her face based on.

 

[Overside]

 

[Parsnip]

Gideon Emery as Blackburn and Glenn Morshower as Agent G in Battlefield 3. It's the first game where I saw so many recognizable faces, that I remember anyway.

And now Emery is also in CoD AW as Gideon and I find that endlessly amusing.

 

[Darkangel]

Mass Effect 2: Miranda and Michael Jackson

 

[Canklestank]

Pretty obvious, but worth mentioning. Heidi Klum in Everything or Nothing:

I still get the theme song for this game stuck in my head from time to time.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

We don't talk about this one

Spoiler

not because I don't care for Jessica, it just felt incredibly shoe horned in and it was really weird.

 

[Ohmygoditsjrod]

It was weird when I was watching Battlestar Galactica and Starkiiller showed up. They did such a good job I instantly recognized him.

She looks much different in-game, but the CGI Leliana from one of the Dragon Age trailers was modelled on Alexandra Stein.

Oh wow... I'm going off GAF now to do some... research.

 

[Loxley]

I'm pretty sure this wasn't official, but Rockstar clearly based Nico's design on Russian actor Vladmir Mashkov's appearance in the movie Behind Enemy Lines:

 

[DapperSloth]

We don't talk about this one

Spoiler

not because I don't care for Jessica, it just felt incredibly shoe horned in and it was really weird.

What game is this from? And why do we not talk about this one?

 

[Kinyou]

I always thought that Madison Paige's face from Heavy Rain was modeled after Maria Ozawa.

Haha, that's a fun idea but Madison was modeled after Jaqui Ainsley

I'm pretty sure this wasn't official, but Rockstar clearly based Nico's design on Russian actor Vladmir Mashkov's appearance in the movie Behind Enemy Lines:

That one is pretty funny because Infinity Ward also clearly took inspiration from the guy's appearance for a character in Modern Warfare

So you end up with Nico in a Call of Duty game

 

[Z O N E]

In that case..

Call of Duty seems to have been going this route for awhile now.

Brandon Routh only did the voice acting for him.