EVE General Discussion

What the hell was that? I'm not sure if they were selling the game or life insurance. For fcks sake, McDonald's has more exicting commercials. "Well pilot, what are you waiting for?"

I'm waiting for you to show me something interesting!

Here's my script for the GREATEST EVE VIDEO IN HISTORY:

[Station interior. A man in a black bondage-wear flightsuit stands at the staion window, his back to the camera. In the background you hear an electric guitar tearing up some totally awesome jam].

VOICEOVER: (Super serious guy voice) Someone once said: "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind." (Dramatic pause) Whoever said that crap probably played WOW. He certainly didn’t play Eve. In Eve, you collect eyes in a jar of urine by your bedside.

(major screaming guitar riff)

[Outside the window spaceships are exploding, a body come slowly tumbling towards the window where the guy is standing]

VOICEOVER: Okay, that's not true. Yet. Urine jars will be added to the aurum store 'soon'. F*** you anyway.

[Outside you have more explosions and lasers and children screaming. The tumbling body hits the window with a sickening thud, the face is all mashed against the glass but you can still see he looks like Justin Bieber. The eyes pop out and float there waiting to be added to someone’s jar. Then, even though there is no gravity in space, the body slides down and out of sight leaving a bloody smear on the glass]

VOICEOVER: That’s how absolutely bad-ass eve online is. And if you are not playing it it’s only because you are a flaming homo, and the only kind of pirate you will ever be is a butt pirate. (guitar wails like a cat being squished in a vice)

[The guy at the window turns, he is grinning like a lunatic and you see he totally has no eyes!]

Eve Guy: In space you don’t need eyes cuz the overview blocks your view anyway!

[The camera pans down and you see he is holding an electric guitar. He is the one who has been rocking out this entire time! He drops into a major heavy guitar shredding crouch and starts whipping his hair as he jams, then the window behind him explodes and he goes flying out into space still shredding! Then a Rifter flies by and hits him and the body explodes like it was packed full of explosive awesomeness]

VOICEOVER: Eve Online. Now with collectable eyeballs.

[fade to black]

Fin

I like the eyebrows, they have character rather than some generic ~~MAYBE SHE'S BORN WITH IT?~~ (I think not) look. I like the voice of the actress as well, it's powerful. Aura makes even a capsuleer feel small and naked. Well, I suppose the invisible audience capsuleer in the video was in fact naked.

I don't like the script, however Could have done much more, and actually I think that for a new player it might be a little confusing. The whole transferable consciousness, new cloned body thing doesn't require a lengthy hour-long lecture, but very little of the concept was mentioned in the video aside from waking up "disorientated". Why are you waking up? What's the deal here? The rest of the script was rather underwhelming as well, and there weren't enough spaceships going boom to compensate for the lack of information. Also, yeah, that's pretty much the way it goes, but I still think that real actors interacting with a CGI background look awkward. It's not even the real person image over a CGI backdrop that's the problem for me, it's the acting part, but that one is very hard to do right, even as far as big name cinema is concerned...

Also, the word "disorientated" reminds me of something one of my professors in grad school said, half jokingly, half seriously. When writing a paper and confronted by a choice of a word and a longer word that's synonymous, choose the latter. Heh.

Disorientated is the British spelling/pronunciation (originally from a French word) of the US slurred and lazy variant disoriented. Meaning: Confused. To lose one's sense of direction.

It appears in all English dictionaries (as opposed to US-English) and the word has been in use since (at least) circa 1704.