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A sort of follow-up pic to my previous piece of The X-Files: The Game fanart: [link] I figured I should keep the same style as I had it 7 years ago.

The old PC X-Files game is one of my favorites, though its replay value is crap, so I only dig it out once every 3 years or so. When I do, though, I always enjoy it.

Okay, inspiration for this pic: As Agent Willmore, you go through a heck of a lot of crap that can get you killed throughout the game, especially at the end. At this point, depending on how well you treated your detective partner, Mary Astadourian, you either get romantic interest out of her or outright disinterest. Your case leads you out of the Seattle area, and she shows concern for you before you leave. Then you take off to Alaska and can get killed at least 10 different ways, and it's darn easy to die, too. One of the death segments involves them digging up your bones and confirming they're yours, her face showing a cool but heartbroken reaction.

So, yeah, when you beat the game and come home alive, they end with the note that you did a good job, she insists on meeting you at your apartment to deliver some case files, and in the pouring rain, you get told you're not out of the woods yet. Roll credits.

Dammit, where's my meet-up scene? Why, in my head, of course! She'd be damn happy he's alive. Case files, my butt. Things go wrong and you die from getting shot, from getting chased and THEN getting shot, getting shot some more, getting shot even more, getting killed by an infected Mulder, getting killed by an infected Scully, getting shot by a disloyal partner, Cook, getting irradiated by Cook, helping an infected Mulder and getting irradiated, getting shot yet again by Cook, and that's not to mention all the ways you can lose without dying.

I tried to mimic Willmore's apartment as best I could, but for a game made in 1998, the resolution was kinda low, so I sorta improvised on a lot of things, including the book titles, hehe. Some are just generic titles, some make cracks at the gameplay. For instance, the teal one is titled "Why Handcuffs Are Useless." You get a lot of items in the game, but as far as I know, you never actually use those.

I spent twice as much time on the background in this pic as on the characters. It was good practice. Some imperfections, but it happens.

Willmore and Astadourian are ©Chris Carter, or something. Yoshi is Nintendo's. I really wouldn't have made them yoshies this time around, but I thought continuity would be a good idea.

Description
A sort of follow-up pic to my previous piece of The X-Files: The Game fanart: [link] I figured I should keep the same style as I had it 7 years ago.

The old PC X-Files game is one of my favorites, though its replay value is crap, so I only dig it out once every 3 years or so. When I do, though, I always enjoy it.

Okay, inspiration for this pic: As Agent Willmore, you go through a heck of a lot of crap that can get you killed throughout the game, especially at the end. At this point, depending on how well you treated your detective partner, Mary Astadourian, you either get romantic interest out of her or outright disinterest. Your case leads you out of the Seattle area, and she shows concern for you before you leave. Then you take off to Alaska and can get killed at least 10 different ways, and it's darn easy to die, too. One of the death segments involves them digging up your bones and confirming they're yours, her face showing a cool but heartbroken reaction.

So, yeah, when you beat the game and come home alive, they end with the note that you did a good job, she insists on meeting you at your apartment to deliver some case files, and in the pouring rain, you get told you're not out of the woods yet. Roll credits.

Dammit, where's my meet-up scene? Why, in my head, of course! She'd be damn happy he's alive. Case files, my butt. Things go wrong and you die from getting shot, from getting chased and THEN getting shot, getting shot some more, getting shot even more, getting killed by an infected Mulder, getting killed by an infected Scully, getting shot by a disloyal partner, Cook, getting irradiated by Cook, helping an infected Mulder and getting irradiated, getting shot yet again by Cook, and that's not to mention all the ways you can lose without dying.

I tried to mimic Willmore's apartment as best I could, but for a game made in 1998, the resolution was kinda low, so I sorta improvised on a lot of things, including the book titles, hehe. Some are just generic titles, some make cracks at the gameplay. For instance, the teal one is titled "Why Handcuffs Are Useless." You get a lot of items in the game, but as far as I know, you never actually use those.

I spent twice as much time on the background in this pic as on the characters. It was good practice. Some imperfections, but it happens.

Willmore and Astadourian are ©Chris Carter, or something. Yoshi is Nintendo's. I really wouldn't have made them yoshies this time around, but I thought continuity would be a good idea.