Selvec_Darkon wrote...
*Sigh*
The assumption that "Lower voice" and "Japanese School Girl voice" are the only types of female voices in the world is beginning to annoy me. I personally wouldn't have minded something like Morigans voice in DA, or any one of the voice actors used in KOTOR..
Anyone of the voice actors from KotoR? Like maybe the one who voices
Bastilla? Oh wait, too late.
Seriously, in ME1 I was shocked the first time I played a manshep simply because his voice acting was horrendous. If it's the same guy he's certainly improved a lot, found a solid direction and there's actually some nuance to his voice this time.
But Hale is by far the better actor. There is a medium between gruff butch lady and petite japanese school girl and Hale hit it rather well. Leaning a bit closer to the gruff side but (Especially when played as a paragon) has this fragility to her performance...
She doesn't have as overpowering a personality as many of the other cast members, but that's because Shephard needs a lot of ambiguity to be able to move between paragon and renegade from line to line seamlessly. Which is something else this game has done really well, I remember it being very jarring on my first ME1 renegade playthrough to have this gruff threat followed by polite questions because I wanted some information.
As for Claudia Black (Morrigan), she's already got a small role in ME2 and I'm guessing from that she will be a major player in ME3 but not going to spoil it.
PS - Totally off topic but Claudia Black also has a brilliant gruff voice that is entirely feminine, I love watching that girl act.