I've always preferred Meer as I found Hale has a tendency to overact. I always felt like she was being for more intense, emotional or even flat out loud than the scene required.
That said, she murdered Meer at the end of Mass Effect 3. He sounded tired. She sounded on the verge of death. Absolutely stunning performance from her there.
Femshep vs MaleShep Voice Acting
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#227
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 01:08
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Vhalkyrie wrote...
Brandon Keener would have been an awesome male-shep. Part of the reason why I love Garrus so much is because of him. Compare Keener or Sheen to Meer. Would Joker have been nearly as wise-ass without Seth Green? Since this is a video game, emotion primarily needs to expressed through voice. Otherwise, they come across as Elcor - lol.
Keener's voice acting is definitely one of the reasons Garrus is so popular. Could you even imagine him sounding any other way?
#228
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 01:12
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MPSai wrote...
Vhalkyrie wrote...
Brandon Keener would have been an awesome male-shep. Part of the reason why I love Garrus so much is because of him. Compare Keener or Sheen to Meer. Would Joker have been nearly as wise-ass without Seth Green? Since this is a video game, emotion primarily needs to expressed through voice. Otherwise, they come across as Elcor - lol.
Keener's voice acting is definitely one of the reasons Garrus is so popular. Could you even imagine him sounding any other way?
I would have to agree wholeheartedly
#229
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 01:14
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I am biased because I have always played Femshep ( Im a girl IRL ). So Jennifer Hale for me! She is awesome
#230
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 01:23
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MPSai wrote...
I don't get when people say Femshep's voice is too "tough" or what have you. She's a soldier. What should she sound like?
I like Jennifer Hale better. She's very consistent in her deliveries and they always fit how you choose to respond. There's a clear distinction between a paragon and a renegade response with her. And she always sounds like she's in the scene. Mark Meer just sounds like he's doing a voice over with no thought to the context of the given scene to me. It's like ManShep never showed up for rehearsal and is constantly reading off cue cards over the other characters' shoulders. It yanks me right out of the game trying to play as him.
I agree
Hale does an exellent job, and she's the reason my first playthroughs of ME1-3 have been with my renegade femShep.
Meer sounds a bit flat, more fitting for a paragon character. He's defenately gotten better and better though (or maybe I've just gotten used to him
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 01:24
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I think one problem is that when I hear fem!Shep's voice, I think 'Ah, Jennifer Hale', but when I hear man!Shep I think 'Ah, Commander Shepard'. Hale is just, well, Hale. Her voice is almost too recognisable for me to really get into fem!Shep.
Generally though, for ME1? Hale, no contest. I think I skipped 90% of Meer's lines. However, as ME2 played out, I found myself preferring Meer's delivery more and more. Yes, Hale delivery sounds like a badass marine but she never really stops, and fem!Shep comes off as sounding disproportionally angry all the time, even if you're playing Paragon. Meer was also a badass marine, but was capable of being a completely awkward dork, of being *human*. It felt like man!Shep kicked off his boots, had a shower, attempted to make space-risotto and watched crappy vids in the evening.
As of ME3, I've only completed one run through, and that was with man!Shep, and frankly he's amazing. To the point I'm not really fussed about taking my fem!Shep through at all.
Generally though, for ME1? Hale, no contest. I think I skipped 90% of Meer's lines. However, as ME2 played out, I found myself preferring Meer's delivery more and more. Yes, Hale delivery sounds like a badass marine but she never really stops, and fem!Shep comes off as sounding disproportionally angry all the time, even if you're playing Paragon. Meer was also a badass marine, but was capable of being a completely awkward dork, of being *human*. It felt like man!Shep kicked off his boots, had a shower, attempted to make space-risotto and watched crappy vids in the evening.
As of ME3, I've only completed one run through, and that was with man!Shep, and frankly he's amazing. To the point I'm not really fussed about taking my fem!Shep through at all.
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 01:54
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Most of you have probably already seen this, but I'll share it anway. It was a scene between Anderson and Shepard that was cut from the ending.
FemShep
ManShep
They don't even compare here, Hale's version was on an entirely different level.
Edit: Ok, apparently this wasn't actually cut from the game, it just only appears if you didn't have a romance.
FemShep
ManShep
They don't even compare here, Hale's version was on an entirely different level.
Edit: Ok, apparently this wasn't actually cut from the game, it just only appears if you didn't have a romance.
Modifié par Atalanta, 18 mars 2012 - 03:24 .
#233
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:00
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They're both incredible talents but I happen to prefer Meer over Hale. However, I'd like to point out that *I* don't feel the need to belittle and insult Ms. Hale simply because I happen to prefer the male version of the character that she voices.
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:01
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TS2Aggie wrote...
They're both incredible talents but I happen to prefer Meer over Hale. However, I'd like to point out that *I* don't feel the need to belittle and insult Ms. Hale simply because I happen to prefer the male version of the character that she voices.
Honestly, I always see more of the "belittling" from the Hale fans.
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:09
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so...Phenomenal vs Phenomenal...I think phenomenal would win. 
#236
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:11
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I prefer Meer to Hale but that's not to say Hale doesn't do a good job. I just prefer Meer.
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#237
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:11
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If you play as FemShep first then you can easily tell Hale is better. Meer sounds like an idiot when asking questions. Meer got better in each game but never, IMO, got on Hale's level.
#238
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:14
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I prefer Meer's. I see Shepard as just a guy without "Best Voice Actor" award. Hale's voice is too emotional or too much acting if that made any sense. Addition to that, fem shep voice is too similar to Bastila,Satele,and female trooper SWTOR voice which basically ruins uniqueness.
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#239
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:14
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There's always been a lot of hatred for Mark Meer's VA on these forums, but the fact, per recent links on these same forums, is that 82% play maleshep.
I personally love Meer's voice acting, and he *is* the voice of Shepard for me. Hale does a fine job, but overacts much more often than Meer does. Taste is a factor here, as is preference.
But despite the stats, these forums are 70+% femsheps.
Just another indication of how unrepresentative these forums are of the general playerbase.
I personally love Meer's voice acting, and he *is* the voice of Shepard for me. Hale does a fine job, but overacts much more often than Meer does. Taste is a factor here, as is preference.
But despite the stats, these forums are 70+% femsheps.
Just another indication of how unrepresentative these forums are of the general playerbase.
Modifié par novaseeker, 18 mars 2012 - 02:15 .
#240
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:16
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To me, male Shepard fits well with paragon dialogue while female Shepard fits with renegade.
#241
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:18
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Whats wrong with whose voice you prefer?
Isnt that up to us?
For me there is no Commander Shepard without Jennifer Hale, but youre free to disagree, no one loses here.
Isnt that up to us?
For me there is no Commander Shepard without Jennifer Hale, but youre free to disagree, no one loses here.
#242
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:18
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PrinceLionheart wrote...
TS2Aggie wrote...
They're both incredible talents but I happen to prefer Meer over Hale. However, I'd like to point out that *I* don't feel the need to belittle and insult Ms. Hale simply because I happen to prefer the male version of the character that she voices.
Honestly, I always see more of the "belittling" from the Hale fans.
I agree. I think it's because the femsheps are in the majority on the BSN, but in game (per kotaku's links) are only 18% of all Sheps played. The BSN is way unrepresentative of how most players play ME.
#243
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:28
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WHY DID THEY CUT THAT OUT??Atalanta wrote...
Most of you have probably already seen this, but I'll share it anway. It was a scene between Anderson and Shepard that was cut from the ending.
FemShep
:crying:I'm not normally a fan of female voices (that goes for singers as well), but Femshep is the first female I have really respected and looked up to after Captain Janeway (growing up). She is just phenomenal. I have tried playing as a male shep and just couldn't connect with his voice.
Hale's voice for Shepard is strong and un-wishy washy, and perfect.
#244
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:31
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Brace Yourselves. The voice actor hate begins!
#245
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 02:43
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MrCorvin wrote...
Am I the only one that prefers the Male Shep Voice Acting to Femshep?
No offense to Jennifer Hale, but to me the Femshep voice doesn't fit right. To me it sounds like it's trying to be TOO manly.
To me the Maleshep voice flows right for all 3 Mass Effects.
Thoughts?
I slowly got sick of the FemShep voice acting...don't hate Jennifer Hale, loved her as Bastilla in Kotor, but FemShep started rubbing me the wrong way halfway through ME2...
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 03:00
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Believe it or not I want to like mshep I really do and in 3 Meer as really stepped up I'm hearing way less brick and far more inflection and feeling so that's good and he was very nice I felt emotion from him when he was angry, hurt, or caring which I loved but again Hale blows his voice acting out of the water loved her voice 98% of the time. She's constantly delivered in the VA department always giving inflection and emotion in her voice mshep only was allowed to get on that train after SB so he didn't get to have the shinning voice resume so again even though I want to love mshep voice wise fshep is #1 mshep voice is #2.
I also really enjoyed how BW really changed the lines for mshep and fshep there were few instances were both spoke the same lines when dealing with the same characters I really enjoyed that I got to play ME3 from a male's perspective with male oriented speech and from a woman's perspective with more female oriented speech which really made both playthroughs feel unique and very little copy/paste like we've seen in past ME games.
I also really enjoyed how BW really changed the lines for mshep and fshep there were few instances were both spoke the same lines when dealing with the same characters I really enjoyed that I got to play ME3 from a male's perspective with male oriented speech and from a woman's perspective with more female oriented speech which really made both playthroughs feel unique and very little copy/paste like we've seen in past ME games.
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 03:06
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Any examples of that? I have not played Male shep in ME3, and apart from the Thane scene do not know any other differences in line delivery.
#248
Posté 18 mars 2012 - 03:08
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They're both good. As stated before I am a female IRL, ergo Jennifer Hale's female Shep wins.
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 03:08
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MrCorvin wrote...
Am I the only one that prefers the Male Shep Voice Acting to Femshep?
No offense to Jennifer Hale, but to me the Femshep voice doesn't fit right. To me it sounds like it's trying to be TOO manly.
To me the Maleshep voice flows right for all 3 Mass Effects.
Thoughts?
I had that impression in ME2, but I think it's a lot better this time, both for male and female Shepards. Voice acting in general seems to have improved.
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Posté 18 mars 2012 - 04:18
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novaseeker wrote...
But despite the stats, these forums are 70+% femsheps.
Just another indication of how unrepresentative these forums are of the general playerbase.
The biggest fans of the franchise would bother haunting the forums in the first place, don't you think? It's a little silly to say "most people play as a guy so they prefer Mark Meer." I think many players simply wouldn't care about acting. Be more interesting to see how many players skip the dialog entirely.
