Oddest use of Ireland in a video game perhaps?

SeantheMan · 31-07-2013 5:15am

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I do not remember that at all. What part of the game was it played in?

It's the end theme. After you save Otacon or Meryl, he drives out into the sunset with them on the back of his snowski :P , and then the credits roll and that's the theme and credits and video

Oh, for those who are bad at our language, the lady is singing in Irish.
The first words are "Ceard a tharla ?" - what happened.
And it goes on and on (an cuimhnight tu an tám nuair, a bhí tú sásta) can you remember the time that you were happy....etc

Skerries · 31-07-2013 8:06am

SeantheMan wrote: »

It's the end theme. After you save Otacon or Meryl, he drives out into the sunset with them on the back of his snowski :P , and then the credits roll and that's the theme and credits and video

Oh, for those who are bad at our language, the lady is singing in Irish.
The first words are "Ceard a tharla ?" - what happened.
And it goes on and on (an cuimhnight tu an tám nuair, a bhí tú sásta) can you remember the time that you were happy....etc

Bláthnaid Ní Chufaigh translated that for the game

Lu Tze · 31-07-2013 8:29am

Vaguely remember reading an interview with a guy working on some FPS years ago - he was irish and had included a bag of taytos on a table in random room in the game. Unfortunately cant remember the game. The article included a screenshot of it

Burgo · 31-07-2013 10:16am

The main character from the sabateur was Irish.
A pretty enjoyable game, all the accents were way over the top, I hope that was what they were going for in any case!

eireannBEAR · 31-07-2013 10:20am

were the feck were the ADR when all this dog fighting was going on over our skies!!!

Spear · 31-07-2013 10:27am

Ireland appears as a territory on the World of Tanks clan wars map:

http://worldoftanks.eu/clanwars/maps/

(no direct link to it, just the general map).

The in-game map it corresponds to is dark and dreary...

Doctor DooM · 31-07-2013 11:23am

Odin Sphere has a lot of Irish mythology lightly brushed along in it, along side other European countries.

The main theme has a "seanachi" version, so it's obvious this is deliberate.

Timmyctc · 31-07-2013 1:42pm

Ye should all Check out "Lords of the Realm 3" tis great craic RTS. Basically like a poor mans Total War but ye can play as Irish tribesmen. The campaign is called "Ard Rí na hÉireann" or maybe just "High King of Ireland" anyways. Great fun, awful accents but nothing quite like bating the Brits back out of the north and Uniting Ireland

lezflano · 31-07-2013 7:24pm

Colin Moriarty! Fallout 3 surprised no one mentioned him

eireannBEAR · 31-07-2013 7:32pm

Burgo wrote: »

The main character from the sabateur was Irish.
A pretty enjoyable game, all the accents were way over the top, I hope that was what they were going for in any case!

so why was he killing the nazi's again??:D

looks like a good game though.

brianregan09 · 31-07-2013 7:33pm

The McCreary's in GTA 4 were Irish too weren''t they and even had vague references to the IRA i could be wrong

Professey Chin · 31-07-2013 11:12pm

neaideabh wrote: »

I remember when I had the SNES, I got a lend of this racing game (can't remember the title) and there were different characters you could choose to race with!

Anyways, in the booklet that came with the game they had one character who was called Learner Driver or something to that effect and his profile picture was a goofy/clumsy looking fella. To my horror, his nationality was Irish!

I had a quick google for SNES racing games it but couldn't find anything like it in the initial list that I saw but will try again! Talk about insulting!

A character called Learner Driver reminds me of Micro Machines or something like that