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KittyEmpress posted: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!' But you also have to understand that it comes down to the director too. Nolan North got a bad rap because he kept using his normal voice in games, but then he does poo poo like the Penguin and that character in the Ratchet and Clank games and DOTA 2 and you wonder why voice directors don't have him do poo poo like that. With Grey Delisle a lot of people associate her with Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender and that's basically her normal voice but a bit harsher and dominant.
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Sylphosaurus posted:Yeah, I've never really understood the love that the majority of posters in this board has for her. It's almost entirely because of Mass Effect, I think. People get boners over their lady Shepard and it turns into weird fanboy love (see also: Laura Bailey and Troy Baker's good but uninteresting performances in Saint's Row). Personally I think she did a terrific job in the first Mass Effect but went downhill from there. I can't think of any other roles she's done that stand out as great. Jimbot posted:But you also have to understand that it comes down to the director too. Nolan North got a bad rap because he kept using his normal voice in games, but then he does poo poo like the Penguin and that character in the Ratchet and Clank games and DOTA 2 and you wonder why voice directors don't have him do poo poo like that. That's a really good point, yeah. Especially in Nolan North's case. It seemed for a long time like no matter what role he was in the director just said "Do the Drake voice!"
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Apr 1, 2014 21:27
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Jimbot posted:But you also have to understand that it comes down to the director too. Nolan North got a bad rap because he kept using his normal voice in games, but then he does poo poo like the Penguin and that character in the Ratchet and Clank games and DOTA 2 and you wonder why voice directors don't have him do poo poo like that. On that same note, Jennifer Hale knocks it out of the park in Bioshock Infinite. She didn't sound like her usual performance.
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^^^ Wow. She's in that game? Either I didn't notice or I didn't remember; been a while since I touched the game.Walrus Pete posted:(see also: Laura Bailey and Troy Baker's good but uninteresting performances in Saint's Row). Ooo. Bring in the cockney boss. Charles Shaugnessy or Robin Atkin Downes. Either. Both! marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 21:33
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Lotish posted:Ooo. Bring in the cockney boss. Charles Shaugnessy or Robin Atkin Downes. Either. Both! Which one of those was in SR2? Because he was fuckin' great. The gravelly-voiced replacement in 3 and 4 was good but it just wasn't the same.
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Raygereio posted:If you imported a save into Awakening where Loghain's a Grey Warden, he'll appear at Vigil Keep and say Grey Warden HQ ordered him to Orlais. So I reckon there's a pretty good chance he'll show up. The VO director for DAI mentioned working with Templeman on Twitter last week-ish (https://twitter.com/CabLivingstone/status/446682468309942272), so it seems a good bet. Steve Valentine also mentioned being back to do some VO, which Gaider confirmed was for Alistair: http://forum.bioware.com/topic/399000-the-dai-twitter-thread-vivienne/page-18?bioware=1&bwp=1 (I can't seem to link to the individual post, but it's near the bottom of the page).
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Walrus Pete posted:Which one of those was in SR2? Because he was fuckin' great. The gravelly-voiced replacement in 3 and 4 was good but it just wasn't the same. That was Shaughnessy, and I agree. Robin did a good job of imitating him but it wasn't quite perfect. Still the best voice.
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So, Bioware just added some merchandise to their store that I'm sure Dragon Age fans in this thread will appreciate! Don't read the URL. Seriously, it will ruin the surprise. Be sure to try buying it! 
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Generic American posted:So, Bioware just added some merchandise to their store that I'm sure Dragon Age fans in this thread will appreciate! quote:Garrus Vakarian body pillow SOLD!
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Generic American posted:So, Bioware just added some merchandise to their store that I'm sure Dragon Age fans in this thread will appreciate! That made me smile. Thanks, BioWare. Raygereio posted:If you imported a save into Awakening where Loghain's a Grey Warden, he'll appear at Vigil Keep and say Grey Warden HQ ordered him to Orlais. So I reckon there's a pretty good chance he'll show up. That's what I was referring to - and taking that tweet as a confirmation, I'm pretty happy - I always spared Loghain. Jimbot posted:But you also have to understand that it comes down to the director too. Nolan North got a bad rap because he kept using his normal voice in games, but then he does poo poo like the Penguin and that character in the Ratchet and Clank games and DOTA 2 and you wonder why voice directors don't have him do poo poo like that. Those are the kinds of voice actors I always welcome - where you sometimes don't even notice their work in games due to their range or the direction their given. I don't doubt that Hale has the chops, the problem is that every single VA director has probably said to her: "Do the femshep voice!" or something similar because that is all we get.
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Bogwitt posted:That made me smile. Thanks, BioWare. I couldn't remember the name, but she plays Rosalind Lutece in Bioshock Infinite. Did anyone play Broken Age? How was her performance as "MOM"?
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Spikeguy posted:I couldn't remember the name, but she plays Rosalind Lutece in Bioshock Infinite. Did anyone play Broken Age? How was her performance as "MOM"? I remember - which leads me to think she certainly has the chops. But knowing BioWare and their fanservice (read: the cesspit that is the BioWare forums) fetish, if Hale does pop up in DA:I, I doubt it would as anything else other than a femshep tribute. Which would suck. EDIT: vvv I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure she hasn't been in any Dragon Age. Chuf fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 22:09
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Spikeguy posted:I couldn't remember the name, but she plays Rosalind Lutece in Bioshock Infinite. Did anyone play Broken Age? How was her performance as "MOM"? I thought it was pretty good. I mean, she still sounds exactly like Jennifer Hale but it sounded like Jennifer Hale convincingly voice acting a Mom-computer so  I don't think Hale can change her voice much when compared to someone like Nolan North or has quite possibly never been asked to, but she voices emotion and inflection very well. Trishka may sound like Shan but you better believe she will kill your dick.
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On the topic of saving Loghain, does anyone in the beta know if it's possible to carry over choices in Awakening even if you sacrifice yourself at the end of Origins, now that The Keep exists? I always wanted to do a run where Alistair marries Anora, Loghain's recruited into the Wardens then you kill yourself, but the fact that it locks you out of transferring a save over to Awakening always stopped me. It's really odd too, as you could play an Orlesian Warden, but it still wouldn't let you bring a save over. It was such a strange design decision that I always wondered if my game was bugged in some way.
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Spikeguy posted:On that same note, Jennifer Hale knocks it out of the park in Bioshock Infinite. She didn't sound like her usual performance. Troy Baker is basically the new Nolan North too. Everyone wants him to do generic white guy voice (and hes got a fantastic normal voice, but it doesnt need to be in everything), but hes finally getting roles like the Joker in the upcoming Batman game.
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KoB posted:Troy Baker is basically the new Nolan North too. Everyone wants him to do generic white guy voice (and hes got a fantastic normal voice, but it doesnt need to be in everything), but hes finally getting roles like the Joker in the upcoming Batman game. Are you loving lying to me because Joker needs to not be in Arkham Knight is this april fool's I'll kill you.
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I thought that Mark Hamill was already "the" Joker voice. I guess he might be doing something with Star Wars right now though.
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Kibayasu posted:I don't think Hale can change her voice much when compared to someone like Nolan North or has quite possibly never been asked to, but she voices emotion and inflection very well. Trishka may sound like Shan but you better believe she will kill your dick. The girl's got range, that much is certain. I used to have a video on my YouTube favorites list of an interview with her (during the MGS4 buzz) where on request, she pulled out this crazy little kid voice that was jarring as hell to see come out of her, directly after doing her stereotypical "Jennifer Hale as" Naomi voice. But sadly, it was taken down quite awhile ago apparently and I can't seem to find a copy.  So I'd definitely put her in the same category as Steve Blum- maybe not in skill or the amount of range, but in just being pigeonholed into That One Voice. Generic American fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Drifter posted:Are you loving lying to me because Joker needs to not be in Arkham Knight is this april fool's I'll kill you. Sorry, I dont keep up on batman games, it was the last one "Batman Origins." Hamil decided to not continue voicing the Joker.
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Yeah, I remember an interview or something saying that Hamill saw Arkham City as his farewell to the character.
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Fojar38 posted:I thought that Mark Hamill was already "the" Joker voice. Hamill retired from doing the Joker since doing it for so long was starting to wreak havoc on his vocal chords. And someone having a recognizable voice doesn't make them a bad voice actor, holy christ people. Just because I can tell someone is voiced by Liam O'Brien or Sam Riegel or Khary Peyton (who never seem to pop up in Bioware stuff, oddly) doesn't mean they're putting in a bad performance.
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She's also Fall-From-Grace and Deionarra in Planescape. Sounds kinda like her Basila but nothing like Shepard.
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CottonWolf posted:Loghain's recruited into the Wardens then you kill yourself, but the fact that it locks you out of transferring a save over to Awakening always stopped me. It's really odd too, as you could play an Orlesian Warden, but it still wouldn't let you bring a save over. What? I was able to import a "Ultimate Sacrifice" save into Awakenings, which was totally retarded but worked. Has this changed in some patch? Was I high?
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StashAugustine posted:She's also Fall-From-Grace and Deionarra in Planescape. Sounds kinda like her Basila but nothing like Shepard. I think my point was missed - her latest voice acting has been really bad and samey, not the old stuff. I even pointed out that Bastilla in SWTOR sounds more like FemShep than it does Bastilla from KOTOR1. She clearly had a lot of good and varied voices, but nowadays all of them are Femshep.
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Furism posted:What? I was able to import a "Ultimate Sacrifice" save into Awakenings, which was totally retarded but worked. Has this changed in some patch? Was I high? My understanding is you import the conditions from the world but then you have to make a new warden.
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Lotish posted:My understanding is you import the conditions from the world but then you have to make a new warden. So my game was bugged. That explains a lot. It never let me import any sacrifice saves. DA2 would take them fine, it was just Awakening. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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I don't even think you need to pay Liam O'Brien to record VO at this point, have him voice all of the male PC voices.
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CottonWolf posted:So my game was bugged. That explains a lot. It never let me import any sacrifice saves. DA2 would take them fine, it was just Awakening. I must have encountered the same bug, because I could never import an ultimate sacrifice save into Awakening either. I actually got to that point on two separate occasions, having forgotten the first time I tried to do it which in turn actually demotivated me from playing through the expansion. My great hope for Dragon Age Keep is that it will allow these world states that I wanted to have but weren't supported by the save transfers at the time.
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CottonWolf posted:So my game was bugged. That explains a lot. It never let me import any sacrifice saves. DA2 would take them fine, it was just Awakening. I mean, full disclosure, I never did it myself either so I could be full of poo poo and Furism could, in fact, have been high.
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Unless it really was a bug that has since been fixed, the Orlesian Warden is only ever used when you do not import world states. In every other case, no matter what decisions you made in the main game, you play as the original Warden, and Ultimate Sacrifice endings do not (or at least, should not) "lock" anyone out of Awakening- when used for an imported save, the Warden is just magically assumed to have survived with no explanation given. From what I remember, it was a conscious choice by Bioware so that players who did make the sacrifice wouldn't "be stuck with some new character" while everyone else got to play with their old characters.
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How can Hamill do Skips voice on Regular Show without hurting himself?
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Generic American posted:Unless it really was a bug that has since been fixed, the Orlesian Warden is only ever used when you do not import world states. In every other case, no matter what decisions you made in the main game, you play as the original Warden, and Ultimate Sacrifice endings do not (or at least, should not) "lock" anyone out of Awakening- when used for an imported save, the Warden is just magically assumed to have survived with no explanation given. From what I remember, it was a conscious choice by Bioware so that players who did make the sacrifice wouldn't "be stuck with some new character" while everyone else got to play with their old characters. This is what I remember happened when I imported by game into Awakenings.
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KittyEmpress posted:I think my point was missed - her latest voice acting has been really bad and samey, not the old stuff. I even pointed out that Bastilla in SWTOR sounds more like FemShep than it does Bastilla from KOTOR1. She clearly had a lot of good and varied voices, but nowadays all of them are Femshep. Always figured that was deliberate as playing SWTOR with Hale's interaction gave a 'Mass Effect the MMO' feel. Think it is the directors who all go 'give me Femshep!' as Bioshock Infinite / D3 proves she has the range. Heck, just look at Laura Bailey (Kira in SWTOR / Jaina in WOW) on how good / bad VA can seem to be cause the directors are good/awful.
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member001 posted:Always figured that was deliberate as playing SWTOR with Hale's interaction gave a 'Mass Effect the MMO' feel. My favourite silly Jennifer Hale performance is the character she played in BG1 where she's speaking horrible mangled old English in a weird French accent. God knows what they were thinking.
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Furism posted:This is what I remember happened when I imported by game into Awakenings. Huh. I'm second guessing myself now. Maybe I just presumed that it was importing the ultimate sacrifice endings as dark ritual endings, because that's so ludicrously dumb.
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Dales:Exalted Plains. Released today. Probably a lovely resolution because I'm tired and sick. You can go look at the better one here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152296734209367&set=a.302584369366.143286.8101714366&type=1&theater I don't want another bloody screenshot, Bioware, I want a loving release date! *dramatic sigh*
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Fojar38 posted:Goddammit my PC won't be able to run that will it? Well this game is coming to the 360/PS3 so you can probably run it on medium.
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KoB posted:Well this game is coming to the 360/PS3 so you can probably run it on medium. Hopefully it'll be as well optimized as ME3 too.
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