Voice Acting

[DrLove42]

I got curious cos of a comment on a video and IMDB'ed Bioshock Infinite (a game I STILL haven't finished (tomorrow hopefully)) to look at voice actors. Its amusing to me how many people voice the same characters.

Dewitt in Bioshock is voiced by Kai Leng from ME3 or Alex Mason from Red Faction Guerilla
Daisy Fitzroy is voiced by Ashley Williams from ME-3 or Oracle/Barbara Gordon in Batman Arkham Asylum
Rosalind Lutece is voiced by Sarah Palmer from Halo 4, Fem Shep from ME, or Aayla Secura from Clone Wars
Slate is voiced by the Didact in Halo 4, or Harbinger in ME2

Its just amusing how the same voice actors turn up everywhere and you never connect them....

[Psychosplodge]

Claudia Black turns up in a lot of stuff.

And I'm pretty sure I've heard some anime VA in games but I can't think who at this moment in time.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Claudia Black was in Uncharted 3, Gears 3, Mass Effect, Dragon Age (yummy Morrigan), Crysis, God of War, and Diablo 3.

A lot of stoof.

[alshrive]

Nolan North does a lot;
Desmond Miles in the Assassins Creed Games
Nathan Drake in Uncharted
The Penguin in Arkham City
Dr Edward Richthofen in COD
and many more

[Mr Mystery]

Yet none of them are Peter Cullen. And thus fail.

[DeadPanda]

Optimus Prime and Eeyore :) amongst others.
Transformers was a big thing for me as a kid, when Peter voiced Prime in the movies it gave me goose bumps.

[DrLove42]

Meanwhile this months big release (DC's Injustice)

Jennifer Hale turns up again as Hawkgirl
Adam Baldwin (Jane from Firefly) is Green Lantern...

[Mr Mystery]

DC's Injustice? You mean that game that should be World War Hulk, but is bizarrely full of DC Characters?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I was too busy being Deathstroke.

[DrLove42]

I've never enjoyed fighting games but the story intregies me

And I don't think its World War Hulk as much as it is Civil War

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Surely Batman should win all of the fights if he has preparation?

He has a counter to every DC villian and hero!
Kryptonite Gauntlets
Yellow Batsuit
A suit that emulates green energy
A lasso like Wonder Woman's
etc

[Mr Mystery]

I've never enjoyed fighting games but the story intregies me

And I don't think its World War Hulk as much as it is Civil War

Superman goes mental because his wife and child are killed? CHECK!

Arranges arena punch ups? CHECK!

That's world war Hulk right there.

[eldargal]

More games need more Ali Hillis.

[scadugenga]

Claudia Black was in Uncharted 3, Gears 3, Mass Effect, Dragon Age (yummy Morrigan), Crysis, God of War, and Diablo 3.

A lot of stoof.

That's because Claudia Black is a goddess.

[DarkLink]

Same thing happens in anime. Most dubbed anime have practically the same cast of voice actors, primarily determined by which of a limited number of studios did the dub.

[Psychosplodge]

Same thing happens in anime. Most dubbed anime have practically the same cast of voice actors, primarily determined by which of a limited number of studios did the dub.

Apparently it's easier to voice games as the programmers make the lines fit, where as for anime they're generally re-dubbing something from a foreign language and have to make the lines fit existing animation.

[Wolfshade]

Claudia Black was in Uncharted 3, Gears 3, Mass Effect, Dragon Age (yummy Morrigan), Crysis, God of War, and Diablo 3.

A lot of stoof.

I knew I recognised Morrigan's voice, the person from Farscape!

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Yep. :D

[Brakkart]

Surely Batman should win all of the fights if he has preparation?

He has a counter to every DC villian and hero!
Kryptonite Gauntlets
Yellow Batsuit
A suit that emulates green energy
A lasso like Wonder Woman's
etc

As detailed in the classic Mark Waid written JLA storyline Tower of Babel where Ra's Al Ghul steals Batman's JLA Protocols and uses them to take out the JLA as one part of a very clever plan to take over the planet. It was altered somewhat and animated as Justice League: Doom. In the comic Ra's takes out the JLA in the following manner:

Martian Manhunter: Hit with a nanovirus which alters his epidermis so that it will ignite on contact with air, thus turning him into a living torch. Fire renders Martians powerless.

The Flash: Shot with a special bullet that induces a spasming fit at superspeed. Flash later relates that there were whole days when he prayed to die and is shocked when told that he was only affected for just 27 minutes!

Green Lantern: Psionic suggestion while he is sleeping that he is blind, and his ring is placed on his finger, so that his own willpower renders him blind because he believes himself to be so.

Aquaman: Hit with a dose of modified Scarecrow Fear Gas to give him acute hydrophobia, which means he begins to dry out rapidly and suffer the effects of chronic dehydration.

Superman: Exposed to a modified form of kryptonite that turns his skin transparent so that sunlight leeches directly into his muscles which is pure agony.

Wonder Woman: Shot with a nanobot that puts her into an artificial reality where she is faced with an opponent who is her equal in every sense, her exertions during this fight are imagined, but they are felt for real by her actual body.

It is a very good story.

[Mr Mystery]

Same thing happens in anime. Most dubbed anime have practically the same cast of voice actors, primarily determined by which of a limited number of studios did the dub.

It's also one of the reasons I've never really taken to anime. The voice acting is usually so utterly flat. First one I saw doesn't help either, in that it was the non-dubbed Akira. Which is awesome. Unfortunately, it's so awesome, it's hard for other anime to meet my level of expectation....

[Psychosplodge]

Gungrave, Trigun, Hellsing, and code Geass.

Some of the better selections.

[Mr Mystery]

Gungrave, Trigun, Hellsing, and code Geass.

Some of the better selections.

Might give them a whirl, as long as there's not 'my head is now bigger so I must be shouting, because the raised level of my voice clearly isn't enough for the audience to tell'. Or that bloody sound effect so many use whenever someone is leaping around. Gets right on my pip.

Which is a shame, because I have nothing against anime as a form of film. I just find it really hard to enjoy.

[Psychosplodge]

They all do a bit shouty but that's the nature of the genre.
Think Hellsing was the first anime I sat down and watched properly...and now I go to animecons...:eek:

[Mr Mystery]

But do they overly animate the shouty? If so, it's a no from me I'm afraid :)

[Psychosplodge]

Possibly in gungrave or trigun? but I'm not entirely sure I follow...

[Mr Mystery]

When the shouter is shown with an inflated head and gob. Instead of you know, just having the character...well...shout, which serves perfectly well the rest of the time.

[Psychosplodge]

Not generally then, it's more done with perspective rather than messing with the characters.

[DarkLink]

It's also one of the reasons I've never really taken to anime. The voice acting is usually so utterly flat. First one I saw doesn't help either, in that it was the non-dubbed Akira. Which is awesome. Unfortunately, it's so awesome, it's hard for other anime to meet my level of expectation....

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is my favorite TV show, period. And that's competing with stuff like Game of Thrones (though if Game of Thrones keeps up the pace, it'll be a toss up). Just get past the first kinda kiddy episodes, once you hit the real plot FMA Brotherhood is epic. It also avoids the DBZ scream-fighting pretty well. In fact, the characters tend to get into debates during their fights that are not only engaging, but are actually the glue that holds the show together, kind of like how Agent Smith and Neo had plenty of philosophical arguments in the Matrix.

There are some pretty good ones on Netflix, too. Darker than Black is a super-powerered spy show with a very figure-it-out-yourself plot (which I personally really like) and lots of cool fight scenes, and Baccano is fast paced non-linear 1930's inter-gang fighting. On a train. With immortals.