Instead of things that make me drink in the most wretched way, it makes me drink in a spirit most gay. imokaywiththis,jpg
STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THIS VIDEO. Unless you're like giving CPR to a baby, in which case finish up, but then WATCH THIS VIDEO IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS. ALL 8 MINUTES OF IT. If you like lengthy, Old English-style epic poems about heroes, or if you just like videos about men who wear suspenders without shirts pile-driving gods from outer space, this will absolutely be the best thing you've seen all week. Infinite thanks to Phillip H. for the tip
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While the subject matter was suitably epic (in the academic sense on top of the cliche internet sense), my English degrees demand that I point out that there is nothing "Old English" about this. The meter and rhyme (while quite good) are more of a 19th century artifice. Indeed, rhyming poetry was a fashion imported to England by the Norman French along with many other continental conventions. Real Old English poetry (e.g. Beowulf) was alliterative verse rather than rhymed, but since its brief resurgence in the 14th century, alliterative verse has pretty much died out. There, I've gotten it out of my system.
......... Holy crap. This.... this is just epic. Dammit Bricken!!! How do you find this stuff?!
There is but one quote that comes to mind here: "Your sins lay heavy upon you, defiler of souls! By holy law you shall be obliterated!"And of course epic music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
It isn't often i see Valkyrie Profile related things. I suppose its nice that every time i do, they are sufficiently awesome. This pleases me. Thank you, Rob.
Damn it, now I want Mike Haggar as a einherjar. Move over, Arngrim, there's a new crutch-character in town.
Well, that's pretty much the rule for professional attire, and Haggar IS the mayor, after all.
The lover of epic poetry within me is quite impressed... he kept to a pretty good syllabic pattern throughout and the rhymes weren't all that forced.
That's probably the first time I was looking forward to the credits and didn't see them. This was truly epic.
As one who turned down deaths allure, I feel a kinship that is sure.
He stands for right,with all his might.
his quest must end,to hell shall send,
mad gear and all,it's head shall fall.
awesome. I felt all rhymey after watching that.
after rereading this I want to point out this is a shitty "poem" i just wrote. just wanted to beat everyone to the punch.
nice video, but i thought his accent and laugh got a little too hammy at times. then again, this is a video about Mike Haggar...
It spent too much time in heaven, and as a result didn't get to FINISH THE GAME.
I wanted to hear about Mike beating up that wheelchair guy.
So this pretty much is the greatest thing ever.
Also, HIPSTER TIME: I wanted Mike Haggar in fighting games before it was trendy. (I wanted him in SF Alpha)
I like the original opening to Number of the Beast better. This new one is way to long, and I kept waiting for the song to start......
Best mayor ever....
On another note, this just reminds me how much I wish they'd put all the old Final Fight characters in a SF game instead of one or two here and there.
They've all shown up in a fighter at some point, so it's inevitable now. Even Maki had a moment in CVS2.
How about a new final fight game?
They had their own fighter, Final Fight Revenge, though it was made by the US branch of Capcom and supposedly wasn't that good.
As for a new Final Fight game... Well, the US branch of Capcom tried that as well, with Final Fight: Streetwise for the PS2. It also supposedly wasn't that good.
We'll probably just have to keep see Final Fight characters trickling into other Capcom fighters, though roster expansions could eventually get a good count into a single game (the way the Street Fighter Alpha series eventually had four Final Fight characters, or five if you count the handheld versions adding Maki). Though crossover games aren't likely to build a huge number of Final Fight characters, Haggar is in MvC3 and Poison is going to be in Street Fighter X Tekken.
Where the hell do the get the music for these things? Is there a Public Domain Uber-Epic Orchestral Film Music Archive that I am unaware of?
This person has the EXACT intonation when he speaks as one of my closest friends, but a completely different accent. It's giving me weird vertigo-like sensations of confusion.
