EPTCampaign Voice acting/Dialogue Opinions?
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Taku
Canada2036 Posts
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Tracil
Australia505 Posts
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sevia
United States954 Posts
Raynor had good voice acting but poor lines. Same with Tosh for the most part, but his lines aren't quite as bad. Matt Horner is pretty good. My favorite character. Tychus not bad either - I think these characters were done very well. Voice acting / dialogue are pretty meh, maybe 5/10. But so far missions are a solid 10. | ||
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Momomelo
Canada35 Posts
Hurrrrrrrrrrrrr | ||
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Kalingingsong
Canada633 Posts
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Xception704
United States161 Posts
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
dont know, i just thought tychus was just so awesome. hanson was weak but didnt really mind. | ||
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Kalingingsong
Canada633 Posts
and wasn't the voice director from Batman Beyond? frankly I find batman dialogues to be more entertaining, but heh.. | ||
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Taku
Canada2036 Posts
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
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SiguR
Canada2039 Posts
However, the missions are creative and fun. gah | ||
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Deadlyhazard
United States1177 Posts
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ArvickHero
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Euphemism
Canada57 Posts
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Taku
Canada2036 Posts
On July 28 2010 15:04 Euphemism wrote: When the dialogue was noticeably bad, I thought it was like... sarcasm. As in, being so blatantly bad it's not so bad because you're calling attention to it. Lampshading is the tvtropes term. They should leave that to C&C imo, SC has a really rich storyline behind it and they really aren't doing it any service by releasing Wings of Liberty like this. | ||
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vek
Australia936 Posts
When I heard the new medic I just didn't believe it, then the new firebat was even worse. | ||
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Tracil
Australia505 Posts
Couldn't stand any of the actors in the cutscenes, though. Ugh. I don't know if this is the right place for it but I really raged at how Mengsk was made into such a ludicrous villain. The cheesy news segments were pretty stupid, too; there's nothing particularly witty or funny about having such pathetic attempts at propaganda. Why were all the news broadcasts live with a reporter who clearly wasn't on board? So. Fucking. Stupid. | ||
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TheTuna
United States286 Posts
I do agree that the unit voices aren't quite the same; the sc1 voices just sounded crisper and better. The vulture is bored now instead of pissed. :\ This was the big no-no for me; with pretty much every SC1 unit I found myself liking the original voice better, and not just because of nostalgia. The missions are crazy fun though,. | ||
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Nokarot
United States1410 Posts
Semi-spoiler? not sure tbh. + Show Spoiler + Only thing I didn't like was how zeratuls voice seemed to change after the initial cinematic when you meet him. (not really a spoiler unless someone simply didn't know zeratul was in it yet but oh well) | ||
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
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CanadianSCgamer
Canada64 Posts
Here's what I think can generalize the campaigns and voice acting in a few words: Terran SP = Cheesy/Redneck/Funny Zerg SP = Creepy/"Infesty"/Lots of hissing sounds in the voices Protoss SP = Serious/Overly Dramatic/Liberal use of Reverb and Echo effects for voices lol I think Blizz is really trying hard to separate the 3 games from each other. | ||
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urashimakt
United States1591 Posts
On July 28 2010 14:39 ArvickHero wrote: They need to fire their current writer and hire a new one.. or rehire the people who wrote SC/BW's story They use the same writer for pretty much everything in all _Craft franchises. Didn't change from SC/BW to SC2. You're bound to want to critique this voice acting more than what's remembered in the original, though, since most of the voices in the original were digitally altered to a point where you couldn't really tell either way (more humans this time around). | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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VorcePA
United States1102 Posts
Wat. | ||
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
My only issue was the protoss+other voices that were put through SO MUCH FILTERING that you couldn't even understand it. I had to turn my subtitles on while doing the zeratul crystal missions, just so I could hear what was being said clearly. | ||
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shindigs
United States4795 Posts
I didn't expect this to be some pulitzer prize winning script with theatrical voice acting. The characters for the most part are likable (hanson I will have to agree is just bleh), and the plot did great in expanding the SC universe. Loving every part of the campaign so far. | ||
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kzn
United States1218 Posts
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monk
United States8476 Posts
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Joe12
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hoppipolla
Australia782 Posts
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Bosscelot
United Kingdom52 Posts
I will say though that the real star of the originals' storyline was the voice acting. Absolutely phenomenal work by the voice actors in that and there's no-one in SC/BW that I would consider to have given a bad or mediocre performance. SC2 falls a bit short in this respect at times, Dr. Hanson as some people have mentioned by also Tricia Helfer as Kerrigan. Some of her parts ARE done very well but then there are a few other points where she sounds pretty lacking. She gives a very good seductive and dangerous performance with her rather low voice but the times when she has to be all overbearing, loud and angry don't sound so great. That's something Kerrigan's old VA could pull off well. Also the lack of an actual linear mission structure makes the plot feel a bit disjointed at points but that is a problem with all games that go for 'player choice' or whatever bollocks and isn't just confined to Sc2. WRPG's and sandbox games often suffer horribly for it IMO. | ||
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REM.ca
Canada354 Posts
Maybe it's a nostalgia thing. This single player game is so different from SC and BW that it can't help but not meet expectations. I immediatly urked when I saw cut scenes used that type of graphics/animation. That stuff pretty much automatically ruins any acting. | ||
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Bloodash
Netherlands1384 Posts
hope it picks up further in, because right now it feels way to generetic | ||
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
I just really don't like where Mengsk and Kerrigan have gone. They turned the Dominion into the USSR more or less and Mengsk has become a lot more shallow. He used to be my favorite character behind Zeratul. I never liked the idea of Kerrigan's voice actor. I just think Blizzard picked her up for the name/hype of the VA, not the quality. I think this is just a side effect of the universe growing. Every universe I've ever seen in literature/games/etc... gets a lot more cheesy and generic as it grows. By far the most annoying thing is how elf-like the Protoss are. They went from fucking badass psychic destroyers to pansy ass elves. Books completely ruined them. | ||
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NukeTheBunnys
United States1004 Posts
My favorite part of the between mission stuff is definantly the new clips, they are hilarious. | ||
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Doomgaze
Sweden89 Posts
A few of the terran voices were pretty good though, I must say. Despite bad script/story. | ||
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
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Scorcher2k
United States802 Posts
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
On July 28 2010 23:50 Scorcher2k wrote: A little off topic but did anyone else feel disgusted when they saw the female night elve dancing in the cantina? I thought it was funny. | ||
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zingmars
Latvia189 Posts
like at the part where she says something like (spoilers...) + Show Spoiler + "we need to save those people" (it's the zombie mission if I recall correctly) it seriously sounded like sarcasm. (Also Stratos_speAr, how exactly are Protoss elf-like? the fact that they have similar lore of those Elfs from WoW, doesn't automatically mean that they are elf-like. it means that Blizz needs a new story-writer.) | ||
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