WILL OLDHAM'S ADVENTURE

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Best RPG

Will Oldham's Adventure
Albin I/O Studios (PS2, PC, Mac)

Okay, this is a weird RPG. It takes some getting used to. If you are into platformers where you get to blow up space stations this is not for you. But there is something really special and unique about this game. Basically you are the musician Will Oldham, also known as Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and someone has stolen your beard, which makes you very, very sad. You have to go on tour and play concerts and talk to different NPCs about getting different parts of your beard back. The concert cut scenes are well-rendered, and the game graphics are top-notch (they use the Unreal engine). The NPCs are really pretty good, and include P.J. Harvey (be REALLY careful when she invites you up to her apartment), and (spoiler alert) Johnny Cash, who has some good advice on finding your beard, and the Renderers. I also liked that, once you go through the game once, you can play it again as a cinematographer, a big ol' bear, or a racing horse, although to be honest game play doesn't differ that much when you play as different characters.

There's going to be a MMORPG version soon, which I can't wait for, because the idea of thousands of Will Oldhams sharing a world together online is pretty amazing. I'm also looking forward to two other games from Albin I/O that are supposed to come out later this year: The Wrens: Escape from New Jersey, where you play a hard-working band trying to balance your careers with a demanding travel schedule, and The Longest Winter with the Long Winters, where you play an indie rock group trying to survive in an infinite nuclear wasteland.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

ROFFLE

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Thank you for rescuing me, but the beard is in another castle.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

haaa!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

The beard is in another PALACE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

worst game ever.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I saw him yesterday (with Matt Sweeney), he looks/sounds great. About half of that new record is great on first listen.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, I am envious of your ability to remember things correctly.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

smoke less one pot

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, I am envious of your ability to remember things correctly.

I was making a funny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/images/b/billy_bonnieprince/greatest-palace-music.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

haha okay I get it now. I R TEH SHLOW.

Will Oldham is from Louisville, innit?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

yes. like hstencil and drew daniel and britt walford.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know Dre Daniel was from LouEVIL!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

yeah he went to the same high schoool as me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Go Wyverns!

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

britt daniel is the best drummer in the history of music... on "washer" he was getting almost a full count deep behind the beat and it wsa a glorious thing.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

also i had no idea he sang so much and played "don, a man".

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Tell us about Slint.

I was going to go.

― Milo Smiley (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

You mean Britt Walford?? (Britt Daniel is the dude from Spoon.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I have Slint tix for two weeks from today!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

GYGAX LOVES SPOON

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Help The Aged.

― Milo Smiley (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

haha, yes britt walford.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know if Will Oldham recently shaved his beard? I saw someone in Louisville on Saturday in some sort of Japanime novelty store on Bardstown Rd. who looked A LOT like the Bonnie Prince except sans beard.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I doubt it because:

A) He doesn't live in Louisville
B) My friend saw him live in Tokyo on Saturday

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

That about settles it then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

What if I said he was perched atop a shelf of pseudo-Sanrio stuffed animals, strumming an acoustic guitar and warbling about dark clouds and loneliness?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

(He wasn't, though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

i would say that Jason Molina of songs:ohia needs to GET ONE LIFE if this is what he's reduced to.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

And that's when Devendra walked in:
http://www.uwm.edu/People/jacobej2/images/devendra_banhart.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

superwolf is good

― del griffith, Friday, 29 October 2010 01:45 (fifteen years ago)

fuck yeah bro, love that shit...

― underrated joe perry project albums i have sold (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:37 (fifteen years ago)

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