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[AwesomeNinjaPowers]

I swear that's Brian Blessed P) doing the voice over at he beginning under Graham and Paul's gigglegasmic snippits.

Also I think the developers forgot to animate the characters face >D that or early Botox was not a success.

That and nobody made one nice buns joke. I'm so dissapointed

 

[Hithlain]

You know, why IS that always step one?

There should be a study.

 

[SultanP]

Jesus Christ. It's incredible how much crap you guys throw at people for either not knowing who Brian Blessed or Stephen Fry is.

Edit: Not that I'm defending Graham and Paul, I'm just annoyed that the comments for this one somehow became four pages consisting of little else than people shouting BRIAN BLESSED, and either acting offended or genuinely being offended at a joke.

 

[Graham_LRR]

I'm just annoyed that the comments for this one somehow became four pages consisting of little else than people shouting BRIAN BLESSED, and either acting offended or genuinely being offended at a joke.

That's why I was getting so snippy earlier in the thread.
I know you weren't defending us, but thanks all the same for saying what I was also thinking.

To them, I put forward the argument that regardless of who the narrator is (and how rad that person may be), he still sounds like Ian McKellan during that section of voiceover.

And furthermore, Brian Blessed is known for (as has been made abundantly clear in this thread) his Booming Voice of the Ages[TM], which, and I can't stress this enough, he is not using while narrating this scene.
So... why are you all so offended again?

 

[BloodyOne]

The first gag kept me laughing enough for the entire video, not to mention all the others.

 

[YourAverageJoe]

You know, I can easily excuse not joking about Brian Blessed, but why the fuck is it always the forces of Hel? Seriously, they're a neutral party in the whole Æsir/Vanir/Jötnar political mess.

 

[EricKINGS]

"Apparently we're on a boat."
"Don't you ever forget."

Spoiler: I'm ridin on a dolphin, doin flips and shit. The dolphin's splashin, gettin everbody all wet.

El Oh El

Classic.

 

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

You know, I can easily excuse not joking about Brian Blessed, but why the fuck is it always the forces of Hel? Seriously, they're a neutral party in the whole Æsir/Vanir/Jötnar political mess.

Same reason that it's always Nazis [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/6972-Extra-Punctuation-On-Nazis]: it's easier than researching and explaining mythology that's less well-known, or coming up with brand new ideas. Game developers have a tendency to give the bad guys, their organisations and their countries obviously evil names, even if it doesn't make sense in the context of the game. In this case they probably just said "Clearly, the bad guys have to come from Hel; that's why it's called Hel, right?" and ignored the actual mythology.

I was wondering; what's the line about "meeting them at the ??? gates, where their numbers would mean nothing" a reference to?

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Damn!. The mystery behind my username is uncovered!

OT: Nicely done guys, got several laughs out of me.

 

[Jenova65]

What?! How dare you insinuate that the great Brian Blessed is trying to imitate Ian McKellen.

I bite mine thumb at ye, sirs.

I was just about to say that exact thing! apart from the thumb biting bit, that's just weird.

Add me to that, I'm very near speechless (not the thumb biting though)
Edit - people may be miffed cos Brian Blessed is 15 kinds of 'more awesome', than Ian McKellan ;-) and one of England's most beloved actors.
I guess it would be like saying that Elvis Presley was impersonating Cliff Richards
Just an educated guess there of course.

 

[mekashiyu]

First time I watched this was before I'd played Prince of Persia. Having since played it and now re-watching this video, the "she just cleansed the fertile ground" quip sent me reeling. Awesome. XD