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The Australians sound like a somewhat crude english accent and a medieval peasant.
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So basically an Australian?
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May 15, 2014 07:34
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Finally caught up with this. What an enjoyable learning experience, all those things I've missed despite playing the game back to back three times. I hope you might do the other games in a similar style at some later date Bobbin.
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May 15, 2014 08:09
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The thing about the voice acting is it's not just bad accents, it's the delivery. The conversation in this episode with the Aussie barkeep is one of the better political commentaries in the game, but the delivery, cadence, inflection, and so on are just bad. He's delivering these great lines in a bad Aussie accent, poorly.
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May 15, 2014 08:11
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Paramemetic posted:The thing about the voice acting is it's not just bad accents, it's the delivery. The conversation in this episode with the Aussie barkeep is one of the better political commentaries in the game, but the delivery, cadence, inflection, and so on are just bad. He's delivering these great lines in a bad Aussie accent, poorly. "Regarding your systems, I AM your physician." The game may be exceptionally rough in some areas, but on the other hand, I'd still have to say that Warren Spector spent what money he had in all the right areas.
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May 15, 2014 09:02
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:"Regarding your systems, I AM your physician."
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May 15, 2014 18:14
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The terrible voiceacting is actually pretty endearing in its own way, just like the plethora of other unintentionally hilarious things in the game.
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May 15, 2014 18:18
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The reasons are probably very simple: Lack of time and money, and this leads to a lack of direction and re-takes.
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May 15, 2014 18:22
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Cerebral Bore posted:The terrible voiceacting is actually pretty endearing in its own way, just like the plethora of other unintentionally hilarious things in the game.
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May 15, 2014 18:23
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Someone somewhere mentioned that JC and Paul have the same voice actor, which is crazy to me. The guy can clearly act, so what's with the "...Sure.  "?
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May 15, 2014 18:25
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This game was from the age when bad voice acting was the only kind of voice acting video games got.
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May 15, 2014 18:28
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Jay Rust posted:Someone somewhere mentioned that JC and Paul have the same voice actor, which is crazy to me. The guy can clearly act, so what's with the "...Sure. You say this like he was anything other than utterly in character.
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May 15, 2014 18:29
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edit: gently caress.
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May 15, 2014 19:37
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J.theYellow posted:The voice actor is Jon St. John, who also voiced Duke Nukem. I don't know why people keep saying that. The VA is Jay Franke and the only other thing he's notable for is being on a 90's TV show called California Dreams.
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May 15, 2014 19:44
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There are a couple of good voice acting jobs peppered here and there. Bob Page's is good.
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May 15, 2014 19:49
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Most of the HK voice acting is apparently done by one-time voice actors. Possibly Chinese expats with no acting experience?
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May 15, 2014 20:44
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Xander77 posted:Most of the HK voice acting is apparently done by one-time voice actors. Possibly Chinese expats with no acting experience? Or possibly just Ion Storm employees who happened to volunteer to do the voice acting, like Origin did back in the day.
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May 15, 2014 20:52
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^^^ this guy knows whats upXander77 posted:Most of the HK voice acting is apparently done by one-time voice actors. Possibly Chinese expats with no acting experience? More possibly some well-intentioned texas natives who worked in Accounting at ion storm whom the designers press-ganged into a sound booth and told to "talk asian"
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May 15, 2014 20:53
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Willie Tomg posted:More possibly some well-intentioned Texas natives who worked in Accounting at ion storm whom the designers press-ganged into a sound booth and told to "talk asian" It's actually a mix of both. Maggie Chow is voiced by Carolyn McCormick, who also did Janice Reed, Anna Navarre, and a dozen incidental characters, but a lot of the incidentals in Hong Kong are voiced by folks named Ann Chi, Chung Jen, and James Lin.
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J.theYellow posted:Jon St. John  "but yeah I've heard that one several places, not really sure how it got started. Probably wikipedia fuckery.
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May 15, 2014 21:08
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Willie Tomg posted:
Edit: Bobbin Threadbare posted:It's actually a mix of both. Maggie Chow is voiced by Carolyn McCormick, who also did Janice Reed, Anna Navarre, and a dozen incidental characters, but a lot of the incidentals in Hong Kong are voiced by folks named Ann Chi, Chung Jen, and James Lin. Xander77 fucked around with this message at 21:36 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 21:13
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Zeniel posted:There are a couple of good voice acting jobs peppered here and there. Bob Page's is good. Of all the things, he pops up repeatedly in baffling dog-based children's educational shows
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May 15, 2014 21:23
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Prenton posted:Of all the things, he pops up repeatedly in baffling dog-based children's educational shows
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May 15, 2014 21:37
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Well I guess that at least proves that he was played by an actual actor. It certainly sounds like some of the extras in Hong Kong are played by native speakers, but they're delivery is so wooden it kind of gets lost amongst the NPCs that are clearly not. I always liked this part of the game, it almost feels like you've left a long tutorial or something and now you're finally untethered from UNATCO and the real game has just begun.
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May 15, 2014 23:55
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Also helps that there's a few things to explore in Hong Kong that aren't very apparent.
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Sam Hall posted:"You mechs may have copper wiring to re-route your fear of pain, but I've got BALLS OF STEEL Man I'm imagining this in my mind and it is so. Goddamn. Funny.
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May 16, 2014 02:27
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the party drug of the future looks to be neo-opium. everyone sounds like they're hosed up on heroin.
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May 16, 2014 03:43
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I could swear I've heard that "Rhetoric. And you believe it?" line in a different, but equally terrible accent somewhere else in the game.
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May 16, 2014 05:40
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One of the conversations between NSF guys on Liberty Island contains the line "Rhetoric. Always more rhetoric." Could that be what you're thinking of?
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May 16, 2014 05:44
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Prenton posted:Of all the things, he pops up repeatedly in baffling dog-based children's educational shows Honestly, this is probably Deus Ex canon.
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This is an amazing LP and I'm actually seeing new stuff from NPCs I apparently never talked to after changing some things, but I don't remember seeing the bum singing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" in the videos?
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George posted:Honestly, this is probably Deus Ex canon. 
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I've been waiting to do this week's corner from the very beginning. It's noticeably longer than normal, but I believe it's worth your time to have a listen.    Handouts: Captain's Log Final Words Map of the Helipad Map of the Market Map of VersaLife Known misses: The non-crate breakables in the large sampan have goodies inside. Bobbin Threadbare fucked around with this message at 18:55 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 16:57
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In the sampan engine room, you can break open those tiny packages inside the locked chest for more credits and a few vials of zyme. Kinda frustrating, since most of those packages you encounter carry nothing at all. Most people tend to overlook it, but sometimes it does pay to break everything in sight. There's also a similar package on the canal map outside a door that carries, of all things, a pair of binoculars.
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May 19, 2014 17:45
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When I finish with the final Hong Kong mission, I usually bonk into that grocery store guy before leaving Canal Road. I never could figure out that at some point he would tell you that Maggie Chow killed the former Red Arrow Dragon Head before you even see her, much less look at her secret MJ12 base. That's such a long secret that even Tracer Tong outright shows you were to go to find it as a mild tip. Unless I'm confusing it for the Canal Road map secret as well.
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May 19, 2014 18:15
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Erwin the German posted:it does pay to break everything in sight. That's better 
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Erwin the German posted:In the sampan engine room, you can break open those tiny packages inside the locked chest for more credits and a few vials of zyme. Kinda frustrating, since most of those packages you encounter carry nothing at all. Most people tend to overlook it, but sometimes it does pay to break everything in sight. There's also a similar package on the canal map outside a door that carries, of all things, a pair of binoculars. Also, the three baskets at the front of the boat have swords in them.
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On the subject of the literature corner (which you narrated with such adorable enthusiasm  )... Christ, does anyone have such crazy ideas as this anymore? Between Lovecraft's imaginative horror and the boundless optimism of SF in the 1930s, it's kind of a shame that the actual cosmos seems (with a cursory glance, that is) so barren and lifeless, and that related literature has come to match that.
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TapamN posted:Also, the three baskets at the front of the boat have swords in them. Basically, break everything breakable on the boat, just to be on the safe side.
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 What the gently caress did I just listen to. Borth Last and First Men and Starmaker sound insane with all the evolutions of man and planets and whatnot, but maybe that's just from you shortening the stories. Definitely sound like they are worth a read though. Also, the canals look really boring, but I suppose that you can just skip them if you don't feel like trying to explore a giant water area in a game where you'll probably be swimming at a slow pace.
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