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[Bobad]

Magnus_The_Red wrote...

Simon Templeman should be the voice of MaleHawke. Think of how awesome the "evil" dialogue would sound with his voice.^__^

Would be cool, however I think Sovereign would be better, his VA work as Harbinger was fantastic.

[Behindyounow]

Magnus_The_Red wrote...

Simon Templeman should be the voice of MaleHawke. Think of how awesome the "evil" dialogue would sound with his voice.^__^

Hell yeah.

[Riona45]

Cynical Being wrote...

Hawke is going to have an English accent..? Maker.. Help us all. 

Well, it fits in with the setting as established thus far.  What's the problem?

[Hellebore5000]

I didn't think DA2 was in Ferelden(English sounding) though is it? I thought it was far away. I wouldn't mind hearing more Orlais frenchy accents. I don't think I could handle the main character sounding like Antivans though, unless we get to joust some windmills.

[Darth_Ravor]

GothmogII wrote...

I'm assuming, given Hawke is going to be set-character, that the dialogue/voice system and such is going to be handled much the same way as in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. Mainly the player picking a response and the PC saying the lines.

And also assuming that BioWare will be providing at least a modicum of customisation (and gender selection, hopefully) as they say. It only serves to speculate as to who the voice actors are going to be.

As a suggestion: I think you should look up Mr. Nathan Fillion again for the lead male role. I believe he's worked with BioWare before, playing the woefully underused Gao the Lesser in Jade Empire. And personally, I can think of no other actor better suited. From what I've seen of him, he's quite adept at playing heroic characters or villainous characters, and seems perfect to play a PC that changes depending on the player's whim.

For the female Hawke, I had to think a bit on it, I don't know if BioWare plans to use the wonderful Ms. Jennifer Hale again, although I doubt it given her role as Cmd.Shepard. Then I think, why not Grey DeLisle? I think back and remember her work as Annah in Planescape Torment, and think she'd make a great Hawke.

Still, just a thought anyhow. I'm sure this kind of thing has already been dealt with. 

ive heard of all the names u threw around! i think nathon fillion would sound pretty inconvincing as a evil char. but grey DeLisle would be PERFECT in my opinion, though J. hale would be my natural 1st choice. for male hawk.... maybe Sam Witwer?

[Brockololly]

I've mentioned this before, but Ian McShane needs to be in this game- some how, some way. That man has a a voice with some gravitas.

[joriandrake]

David Tennant (Doctor Who), Mark Hamill (for Mosely from Gabriel Knight), Leah Remini (Grace, GK among other things), Michael Dorn (Worf from ST, also Dr. John from GK, already voiced Uvenk in ME2),
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (is simply a must, for too many reasons to list), Jim Cummings (lot of good stuff, including Star Wars voicing, Babylon 5, the voice of Marburg in Alpha Protocol, already voiced in DA and ME), Bruce Boxleitner (TRON, Sheridan from Babylon 5, would love to hear his voice for a companion or a leader character),
Rolf Saxon (Broken Sword voice of George), Hazel Ellerby (Nico from BS), Max Grodénchik (Rom from Star Trek), Joseph D. Kucan (Kane, C&C, now that Bioware is owned by EA too this should be possible), John de Lancie (Q from ST and many more good stuff),
Lexa Doig (Andromeda, ship avatar, wouldn't mind a character looking like her neither), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Dylan Hunt from Andromeda), Keith Hamilton Cobb (Tyr Anasazi from Andromeda), Michael Shanks ( Daniel Jackson from Stargate, ect, Lexa is his wife so maybe if you hire one you get a doublepack),
David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay from SG), Bridget Regan (Kahlan from Legend of the Seeker), Bruce Spence (Zeddicus from LotS, and more),
Christopher Lloyd (the Doc from Back to the Future, Fester from the Addams, Drew from Toonstruck, would be great to have his voice as he is old he may die soon and then we miss out on the chance, would love to have a Toonstruck 2 too), Forest Whitaker (Lian-Chu from Dragon Hunters, and more),
Rick Jones (Gwizdo from Dragon Hunters series), Emma Thompson (Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet among other things), Lani Minella (too many to list), Jon St. John (Jack Keane, Drakensang, Spellforce 2, Duke Nukem)


these people would be good for either main character voice or NPC voices


EDIT: and I call upon the Bioware team to remember these names if not for Dragon Age than one of the other games

Modifié par joriandrake, 01 août 2010 - 06:21 .

[joriandrake]

David Gaider wrote...

KennethAFTopp wrote...
Nolan North!

I loved him in Uncharted 2.

Sadly I don't know how he does for English accents. The problem with American actors like him and, say, Nathan Fillion is that if you hired them they either have to sound like themselves or... they'll sound like someone who's trying on an English accent, and maybe sound completely different from the reason you wanted them in the first place. I mean, my nerd-crush on Nathan Fillion knows no bounds-- but can you picture him doing an English accent?

I guess we could always make him an elf. But I dunno.

StreetlightEagle wrote...
I want genuine English people doing
it. No more of that "what's goin on ere gov'ner" **** pulled by a lot of
npc voice actor's trying to be English. No matter how good they are at
voice acting, American's cannot pull off any British accents well
enough. Their forced accents either sound like the Queen or the Artful
Dodger and I don't want either of those for Hawke

This is why we do the majority of our voice recording in England. With real, genuine English actors (well... some of them are Scottish or maybe Irish, I don't think we're picky). Steve Valentine is an English actor working in LA, of which there are a few (thankfully). But those "fake accents" you're referring to are, 99% of the time, quite real, thank you.

this post reminded me of this

www.youtube.com/watch

[Phaelducan]

Quick technical question for those that know about sound engineering (I know two things about it.. and yes Jack left town).



Would it be feasible to adjust pitch/modulation/tone on a Voice Acted main character with this many lines and have it sound realistic across the board while actually allowing for legitimately different sounding main characters?



I envision a slider option for voice similar to facial features, but as stated I know absolutely nothing about how feasible that would be.

[joriandrake]

Phaelducan wrote...

Quick technical question for those that know about sound engineering (I know two things about it.. and yes Jack left town).

Would it be feasible to adjust pitch/modulation/tone on a Voice Acted main character with this many lines and have it sound realistic across the board while actually allowing for legitimately different sounding main characters?

I envision a slider option for voice similar to facial features, but as stated I know absolutely nothing about how feasible that would be.

In Phantasy Star Universe this worked, I like the idea

[DarthValo81]

Phaelducan wrote...

Quick technical question for those that know about sound engineering (I know two things about it.. and yes Jack left town).

Would it be feasible to adjust pitch/modulation/tone on a Voice Acted main character with this many lines and have it sound realistic across the board while actually allowing for legitimately different sounding main characters?

I envision a slider option for voice similar to facial features, but as stated I know absolutely nothing about how feasible that would be.

I like that as well.  

I've read somewhere in one of these posts that Hawke sounded a bit like Cailan.  That I don't like.  AT ALL.  It may not be true and I hope it isn't but I couldn't play one playthrough as say a sarcastic, witty rogue Hawke and then have the same prissy british girlie-man voice for a PO'd surly warrior Hawke.  That's why I hate the voiced protagonist in these kind of games.

I wonder how technically demanding it would be to have the voice an option.  The character can still lip the words if he has to but instead of a 'gist' of what you're going to say, let me read the whole damn sentence.  Best of both worlds.  Not going to happen I know, but it would please me greatly.

[Phaelducan]

Valid point about the nature of the main character not being represented by a static voice actor.



For example, it would have been awesome for Bioware to add distortion and even a slightly (VERY slightly, no android-Shep please) mechanical tone to Renegade Shepard's in ME2 to reflect the modifications to the tissue from stress. Don't like the changes to the voice? Medical Bay upgrade to "fix" the stress damage would fix the voice as well.



Cool concept, but again, how difficult would that be to implement?

[joriandrake]

Phaelducan wrote...

Valid point about the nature of the main character not being represented by a static voice actor.

For example, it would have been awesome for Bioware to add distortion and even a slightly (VERY slightly, no android-Shep please) mechanical tone to Renegade Shepard's in ME2 to reflect the modifications to the tissue from stress. Don't like the changes to the voice? Medical Bay upgrade to "fix" the stress damage would fix the voice as well.

Cool concept, but again, how difficult would that be to implement?

no clue, but Phantasy Star Universe character creator did include voice costumization very good, atleast the PC version, no idea about the console

[marquiseondore]

I wonder if Hawke will sound younger or older to reflect the passage of time.

[PSUHammer]

DSerpa wrote...

Bruce Campbell.

Make it so.

The best part about this suggestion is that one of my favorite Neverwinter Nights mods was a Bruce Campbell soundpack for my PC.  It was AWESOME!

"Come get some..."

or

"Yo, She-b*tch....let's go."

Modifié par Hammer6767, 01 août 2010 - 04:31 .

[joriandrake]

Wait a sec, who was the guy who voiced Minsc? I would LOVE to hear his crazy rambling again

[bzombo]

David Gaider wrote...

KennethAFTopp wrote...
Nolan North!

I loved him in Uncharted 2.

Sadly I don't know how he does for English accents. The problem with American actors like him and, say, Nathan Fillion is that if you hired them they either have to sound like themselves or... they'll sound like someone who's trying on an English accent, and maybe sound completely different from the reason you wanted them in the first place. I mean, my nerd-crush on Nathan Fillion knows no bounds-- but can you picture him doing an English accent?

I guess we could always make him an elf. But I dunno.

StreetlightEagle wrote...
I want genuine English people doing
it. No more of that "what's goin on ere gov'ner" **** pulled by a lot of
npc voice actor's trying to be English. No matter how good they are at
voice acting, American's cannot pull off any British accents well
enough. Their forced accents either sound like the Queen or the Artful
Dodger and I don't want either of those for Hawke

This is why we do the majority of our voice recording in England. With real, genuine English actors (well... some of them are Scottish or maybe Irish, I don't think we're picky). Steve Valentine is an English actor working in LA, of which there are a few (thankfully). But those "fake accents" you're referring to are, 99% of the time, quite real, thank you.

get cary elwes! he is, after all, the only robin hood who speaks with a real british accent!

Modifié par bzombo, 01 août 2010 - 04:24 .

[joriandrake]

AwesomeName wrote...

Cynical Being wrote...

Riona45 wrote...

Cynical Being wrote...

Hawke is going to have an English accent..? Maker.. Help us all. 

Well, it fits in with the setting as established thus far.  What's the problem?

I suppose nothing. Maybe my distaste for accents will fade through DA2.. Is that confirmed though? Hawke will have an English accent?

"distaste for accents" LOL??  Do you speak with no accent then?  How is that even possible?

English-english is basic, everyone else speaks in dialects or with accents

[Riona45]

Hellebore5000 wrote...

I didn't think DA2 was in Ferelden(English sounding) though is it? I thought it was far away. 

It's true that DA2 is mostly set in the Free Marches (apparently).  But we've been told that Hawke IS from Ferelden, specifically Lothering.  Therefore, it makes sense that a character who lives in Ferelden would sound much like the other people who live there.

[Hellebore5000]

Riona45 wrote...

Hellebore5000 wrote...

I didn't think DA2 was in Ferelden(English sounding) though is it? I thought it was far away. 

It's true that DA2 is mostly set in the Free Marches (apparently).  But we've been told that Hawke IS from Ferelden, specifically Lothering.  Therefore, it makes sense that a character who lives in Ferelden would sound much like the other people who live there.

Oh thanks I missed that.

And to the person before the quoted post: People with no accent = people from Arizona. My husband has 0 accent and it sounds creepy to me =p

[Haexpane]

joriandrake wrote...

David Gaider wrote...

 

This is why we do the majority of our voice recording in England.

With real, genuine English actors (well... some of them are Scottish or maybe Irish,

I don't think we're picky). Steve Valentine is an English actor working in LA, of which there are a few (thankfully).

But those "fake accents" you're referring to are, 99% of the time, quite real, thank you.

this post reminded me of this

www.youtube.com/watch

I've been to London, EVERYONE there is faking the accent.  It's like going to Boston MA.  The accent is noticable because everyone is faking it, 100% of the time.  But unconsciously tho...

I used to live in boston, I lost 95% of my accent in 10 years.  Once you are not around people using the accent, it fades.  This tells me that we speak like others, it's natural to just start to sound like them.

in short ALL ACCENTS are faked!  

That being said, watched a Farscape Episode last night, it was a Jothee heavy episode, needless to say my girlfriend HATES that Jothee clown.  He belongs on Dawson's Creek not Farscape!

[WhoKnew]

Oh my, Nathan Fillion is a favourite of mine. I'm a massive fan of Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and a meh fan of Castle. When I realised he was in Jade Empire I was thrilled. I think I'd even have to do a playthrough as a male if he were male-Hawke's voice actor.