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Krowley posted:Mordin's voice is modulated though, isn't it? I don't watch animes or whatever so I don't follow or even recognize these voice actors they typically use but I don't think the guy naturally talks like a frogman. 
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I have not seen any mention of it in this thread, so I thought I'd share this:quote:The game will feature five major regions – Fereldan, Orlais, The Free Marches, Nevarra and the Dales. Locations have their own ecosystems and economies, and by disrupting these – by killing bandits and dragons, say, or making certain resources scarce – you can change the environment in various ways. Since enemy levels don’t scale with your own, this might help provide a reason to come back to areas visited previously. From here: http://games.on.net/2014/03/dragon-age-inquisition-will-have-40-endings/ Some thoughts about the regions: Nevarra: Visiting the home of the fabled dragon hunters sounds good, and having Cassandra in your party will probably make for all kinds of interesting political machinations, considering that the Nevarran king is old and childless, and his heir is his also childless and only slightly younger brother. Succession crises are some of my favorite crises! (Except if I'm involved in one myself in CK2 of course). The Nevarran mages are also rumored to dabble in necromancy, and the Nevarrans apparently believe the souls of the dead enter the fade and replace a fade spirit. The connection to a tear in the fade might be too obvious, but I bet we learn quite a bit about the overarching threat there. Free Marches: Discovering how much of Kirkwall is still standing will be nice. Other than that I'm not too interested in the region, it hardly mattered in DA:2 anyway. Orlais: Biggest empire on Thedas and seat of the Chantry. We will probably get involved in the Templar/Chantry/Circles conflict. I'm not sure that I'm looking forward to that. But Morrigan is supposed to be in Orlais so that could be quite interesting. What scheme did she come up with this time? Fereldan: A return to where it all started, I'm stoked. The Dales: Ancient homeland of the elves. With the connection between the Eluvian and Morrigan and the fade, this could be the place to enter it to seal the rift from inside?
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Mar 31, 2014 11:52
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Torrannor posted:Discovering how much of Kirkwall is still standing will be nice. Considering how hosed it was BEFORE the Fade was spilling out into the world, I can only imagine the state it's in now. But if we have the option of putting that city out of its misery once and for all I doubt anyone will choose not to wipe it off the map.
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Mar 31, 2014 13:31
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While constantly meeting previous characters has been kind of dumb, I like the idea of revisiting cities and areas from the previous games, as long as they're not the primary focus and there's still plenty of new stuff to see.
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Mar 31, 2014 13:43
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This is the first I've ever heard that Mordin was a different VA and noticed no difference in the game when I played it.
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Mar 31, 2014 13:47
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J Bjelke-Postersen posted:This is the first I've ever heard that Mordin was a different VA and noticed no difference in the game when I played it. William Salyers (Rigby from Regular Show) did a hell of a job with that one.
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Mar 31, 2014 14:12
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J Bjelke-Postersen posted:This is the first I've ever heard that Mordin was a different VA and noticed no difference in the game when I played it. It's very much one of those things where if you didn't hear people (including the original actor) getting mad about it at the time then you wouldn't even have noticed a difference in game.
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Mar 31, 2014 14:53
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Hank Morgan posted:It's very much one of those things where if you didn't hear people (including the original actor) getting mad about it at the time then you wouldn't even have noticed a difference in game. Wait, the reason for the VA switch I heard was that Michael Beattie had prior commitments and was unable to do ME3.
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Mar 31, 2014 15:24
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VAs I would like to see/hear: Simon Templeman. He's a superb VA, and sadly have not landed many big gigs recently, so I would the doubly pleased to see him get some headliners (even if DA:I turns out bad, it is going to be a big title). Only drawback would be, that it is really very hard not to hear Kain speaking each time..... come to think of it, maybe that is not a drawback after all. Grey DeLisle. She is working hard to dethrone Jennifer Hale as my favourite female VA. Not quite there yet, but that is mainly because she does more TV stuff than games. Xanthe Elbrick: Have only heard her as the female inquisitor i SWTOR, but she made a hell on an impression there. Courtnee Draper: She did good work in Bioshock Infinite. Would be interested to hear more from her. And while we are at it, throw Troy Baker in there for good measure.
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Mar 31, 2014 17:07
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Deltasquid posted:This. If nobody had told me I wouldn't have noticed, and I still barely do. Matthew Mercer is a dracula and is stealing Troy Baker's life essences, don't fall for his ploys
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Mar 31, 2014 17:16
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GhostBoy posted:
Did you miss the rather large role he played in Origins? And I imagine that being a cast member on a network TV show (The Neighbors) for the past two years probably eats up a good amount of time.
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Mar 31, 2014 17:16
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I think the guy who voiced either Pinky or The Brain would really help set the appropriate tone for a game like this.
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Mar 31, 2014 17:16
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Generic American posted:Counter-point; the voice actor for Garrus literally talks exactly like the character all the time, and he looks nothing like a bipedal dinosaur-birdman. Not hearing it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa7niDlKw-8&t=1m19s
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Mar 31, 2014 17:20
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Try this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_DFt-lmHk
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Mar 31, 2014 17:28
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I wouldn't trust this guy to water my plants were I on vacation and not try to roll a leaf up and smoke it. He's looking sketchy as gently caress, like a high Woody Harrelson.
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Mar 31, 2014 17:30
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EightDeer posted:Wait, the reason for the VA switch I heard was that Michael Beattie had prior commitments and was unable to do ME3. He definitely wanted to do it, but was not brought back for reasons unknown. He encouraged people to support campaigns to bring him back and poo poo, even. Never heard what the story was there. Relevant to topic, despite that terrible bit of writing about Vivienne a page or so ago, I'm still moderately excited for Inquisition. Dragonfall was a hell of an RPG, Divinity: Original Sin and Wasteland 2 are shaping up nicely, and Pillars of Eternity looks amazing, so I'm not chomping at the bit for a stellar RPG. Give me companions with a lot of interaction and the usual stellar BioWare voice acting, and so long as combat is solid and weighty, and the overall story isn't complete poo poo, I'm good. Mass Effect 3 was a mess at times, but I still loved the game, almost entirely because of the companion interaction, and that's kinda why I loved DAO, as well. Give me friends and big poo poo to kill with a big loving budget to make everything pretty.
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Mar 31, 2014 17:40
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Also try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_cSxH_JwxY
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Mar 31, 2014 17:54
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CommissarMega posted:Also try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_cSxH_JwxY Kinda I guess, but there's no way I would've recognized his natural un-edited voice as Garrus if it wasn't pointed out to me.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:02
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He mostly likely changes his voice slightly for acting roles, a lot of actors and politicians (if we're going to be redundant) do that. Also to perhaps protect himself from being overwhelmed by underwear hurled at him.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:19
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CommissarMega posted:Also try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_cSxH_JwxY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3zz9qNM7I Tell me more about chicken strips, Garrus. 
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Mar 31, 2014 20:21
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Generic American posted:C'mon, goons, I expect better of you. How was neither of those links this one? this is epic my friend.
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Mar 31, 2014 20:33
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DrakePegasus posted:Considering how hosed it was BEFORE the Fade was spilling out into the world, I can only imagine the state it's in now. But if we have the option of putting that city out of its misery once and for all I doubt anyone will choose not to wipe it off the map. Calling it now that the fade tear explosion event thing which your inquisitor is the sole survivor of starts in Kirkwall due to the giant blood funnel they never made use of in DA2
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Drifter posted:I think the guy who voiced either Pinky or The Brain would really help set the appropriate tone for a game like this. Rob Paulson might be a little busy being a Ninja Turtle again, but I have no idea how you can book Maurice LaMarche when he's loving everything these days. A surprising amount of bit voice work in Adventure Time, Doc Doom in all the ancillary Marvel Disney cartoons, and who knows what else in Simpsons for just 2014. VVV: I would pre-order this game for a guaranteed plot opening that allowed me to watch Kirkwall be ground zero of the fade rip. Give me a satisfying destruction of that vile city and I don't care how much of a let down being an Inquisitor is. Crabtree fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Mar 31, 2014 21:13
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DotyManX posted:Calling it now that the fade tear explosion event thing which your inquisitor is the sole survivor of starts in Kirkwall due to the giant blood funnel they never made use of in DA2 That could be pretty cool. You're marching in there as part of the Exalted March that got called down because of DA2's shenanigans, and then the whole city blows up. Because gently caress that city.
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Lotish posted:That could be pretty cool. You're marching in there as part of the Exalted March that got called down because of DA2's shenanigans, and then the whole city blows up. Because gently caress that city. I'll be pretty disappointed if that isn't the case; it would be a great apology to DA fans to just level that loving place in the first 5 minutes.
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Generic American posted:C'mon, goons, I expect better of you. How are neither of those links this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2CwIfTuoA Not the Bud Light commercial? For shame.
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GhostBoy posted:Grey DeLisle. She is working hard to dethrone Jennifer Hale as my favourite female VA. Not quite there yet, but that is mainly because she does more TV stuff than games.
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Personally I'd like to see Jo Wyatt and Camilla Luddington in it. The voices of female Hawke and Lara in the Tomb Raider reboot respectively. Comedy option, just have Jennifer Hale and Steve Blum voice literally everyone.
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Bogwitt posted:I'll be pretty disappointed if that isn't the case; it would be a great apology to DA fans to just level that loving place in the first 5 minutes. I have had just about enough of that city. I don't want to see it just leveled, I want to see the Fade T-bag it a few times before it does get wiped. only then will I be content
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Apr 1, 2014 13:20
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Would really enjoy Hawke's DA:I involvement to be him or her as the new viscount of Kirkwall, only it's somehow even worse. Fitting for the character.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Would really enjoy Hawke's DA:I involvement to be him or her as the new viscount of Kirkwall, only it's somehow even worse. Fitting for the character. Only as long as there's that NPC standing in the same place complaining about how long he's been waiting to see the viscount, even well past the point where there was no viscount to be seen.
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MildShow posted:Did you miss the rather large role he played in Origins? And I imagine that being a cast member on a network TV show (The Neighbors) for the past two years probably eats up a good amount of time.
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Leelee posted:Question: After Jennifer Hale's performance in Diablo 3 she can just stick to Mass Effect because holy poo poo it was bad.
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SAARIAN posted:I have had just about enough of that city. I don't want to see it just leveled, I want to see the Fade T-bag it a few times before it does get wiped. only then will I be content Yes, yes! We must see the nameless, faceless NPCs suffer before their ultimate destruction... only then will our revenge upon DA2 be complete! Mwahahetc Leelee posted:I loved Simon Templeman and I love Jennifer Hale. It would be awesome to hear them in the next game. These two are some of my favourite voice actors - without Templeman, I'm not sure I'd ever be as sympathetic towards Loghain as I am and Hale was of course exceptional in Mass Effect but the problem is that their voices are so distinct. Hale pops up in lots of games and whilst that's great for her, every time I hear her in a different game my immersion (yes, yes my immersion!, I know) is broken a little bit because instead of talking to a new character, I'm talking to Jennifer Hale. The same is true with Templeman; when I came across his small roles in SWTOR, instead of engaging with his characters I immediately thought: is that Simon Templeman? Cool! As much as I enjoyed their work, and as cheesy and awful as this is to type, what I really want to see is new, interesting voices that are unrecognisable to me. Though of course, I'd love for Loghain to turn up in Orlais as a Grey Warden, being snooty about the frenchies.
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Bogwitt posted:Though of course, I'd love for Loghain to turn up in Orlais as a Grey Warden, being snooty about the frenchies. Raygereio fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 20:50
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I'm really tired of Jennifer Hale, after playing SWTOR. I'm not sure if she just doesn't try to have a range or if she legitimately lacks one, but every Jennifer Hale voice in that game is the same one. Even her Bastilla Shan cameo voice that shows up for 3 lines sounds more like Commander shepard than Bastilla. Hell, David Hayter sounded more distinct and different compared to his other roles, and people claim he's a bad VA.
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Apr 1, 2014 20:58
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He's not a bad voice actor at all. His Snake voice isn't his voice at all, he's acting. His Old Snake voice was weird, which is probably where the backlash comes from and it's part people trying to defend the sleep walking Keifer Sutherland voicing Big Boss now in the upcoming game. But yeah, Hale is a bit over-used and they don't really direct her to use a lot of range for the character she voices. That Jedi master lady is basically Bastilla 2.0 and from what I understand she doesn't have any real traits other than "completely perfect", which makes her infinitely less interesting as a character.
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Oh yeah, Hayter is a really good VA in my opinion. He has a good range, he just got a lot of backlash for that old snake stuff that makes no sense.
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KittyEmpress posted:I'm really tired of Jennifer Hale, after playing SWTOR. I'm not sure if she just doesn't try to have a range or if she legitimately lacks one, but every Jennifer Hale voice in that game is the same one. Even her Bastilla Shan cameo voice that shows up for 3 lines sounds more like Commander shepard than Bastilla.
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If your voice acting is so stale and similar between games and characters that I can go 'oh that's *voice actor*' then that's kinda bad. I mean when I found out one of the Jedi was David Hayter, I was like 'woah, really? Never would have guessed that!' Edit: Grey DeLisle was the female bounty hunter voice apparently, I didn't know that. I liked that VA, so I approve of her being in DAI as requested earlier. Also Jo Wyatt, voice of FemHawke and FemAgent is pretty good, bring her back as something other than Hawke. KittyEmpress fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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