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Am I the only one who thinks the Bloodstone titles were [xx]censored[/xx]e?


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#1 DominicGreene

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 01:23 PM

It seems that a lot of people like the Bloodstone titles, but I'm finding it extremely difficult to figure out why.

First off, the title song is horrible. The instruments sound computer generated, just the whole song sounds corny, especially when Joss Stone says "AHHHHHHHHH dddoooooon't care, if I livvvvvvvvve, oooooooor if AH DAAAAIIIIII."

The worst part of the titles were the animations. Horrible camera movements, the animation of the bodies looks incredibly fake; hell at one point, the aston martin clips the diamonds, which is an extremely lazy technical error to make. Aston Martin chasing a Lamborghini (with diamonds!) on a light blue background? Bond fighting random bad guys? A helicopter shoots diamonds at a big diamond which explodes into more diamonds? Bond enemies exploding into more diamonds? Diamonds encompassing ladies with random machine guns? Then at the end Bond just walks and shoots nothing. I seriously think a 7 year old designed these titles and animated them.

Does anyone else feel the same? Why do people like this?

#2 Matt_13

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 01:42 PM

Not to mention that diamonds played no significant role in the game whatsoever. I don't mind them. For a Bond GAME, they are pretty good. At the same time, I don't think any of the games have had a bad title sequence (barring the Bond theme intro of Agent Under Fire). I think it fits in with the rest.

#3 marktmurphy

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 04:16 PM

It's fine for a game.
It's not a Lamborghini.

#4 x007AceOfSpades

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 07:22 PM

It's a video game, play it and move on.

#5 Chief of SIS

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 07:23 PM

For a VIDEO GAME song, i'll take what I can get. We're spoiled. If they didn't have one, we'd whine. As far as the credit's animations, I feel very few were loving them. It was just nice to have a Bond-esque openner.

#6 DominicGreene

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Posted 30 June 2012 - 08:48 PM

I guess you guys are right.

#7 PeteNeon

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:07 AM

For a VIDEO GAME song, i'll take what I can get.

Will you... take it all?

B)

#8 Trevelyan 006

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 03:11 AM

Not to mention that diamonds played no significant role in the game whatsoever.


Yeah...
I don't know if I was ever able to make that connection either.

#9 Miles Miservy

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 01:08 PM

Diamonds are "Blood Stones"
relative to the death & violence brought on by the lucrative diamond trade.

#10 The Dove

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Posted 02 July 2012 - 07:28 PM

The title graphics are fine to me...I liked the Aston skidding across the bed of diamonds...now the song itself is [censored]...Joss Stone has a horrible singing voice...

#11 Walecs

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Posted 24 September 2012 - 03:46 PM

The song is stupend, it also includes Bond theme.

#12 Joey Bond

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Posted 24 September 2012 - 05:10 PM

Diamonds are "Blood Stones"
relative to the death & violence brought on by the lucrative diamond trade.


Plus isn't Nicole Hunter also some diamond/jewelry designer? Weak connection I know.

I actually liked the theme. Since it was for a game and not for a movie they went with something safe, very Bond sounding, even threw parts of the Bond theme in there. This wouldn't have worked if it was for a movie, people will say it's predictable and doesn't give anything new. For a game, though, I would say it's better than the other original tunes (Everything or Nothing, When Nobody Loves You). The titles do feel cheap and very much a Casino Royale rip-off, replacing cards with diamonds, but I'm sure the game developers had way less budget than the film producers.

Overall, it still looks good enough for me. The same way some people pretend Everything or Nothing was Brosnan's 5th Bond film, I like to think of Bloodstone as Craig's 3rd Bond film, filing the gap between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall- it came out in 2010 so it would have kept the 2 year gap going.