Yeah, this new voice would've sounded great for the uninfested or even newly infested Kerrigan. But Kerrigan is like 31 now and should sound like a woman -- not a little girl.

iSiN

United States1075 Posts

August 12 2009 18:23 GMT

#44

I agree her voice is too high pitched and not gritty enough. Can anyone enlighten me as to why they switched voice actors for this role? I'm obviously missing something.

-fj.

Samoa462 Posts

August 12 2009 18:24 GMT

#45

Oh, give it a break... If you listen to the comparison you can easily tell the original had about 3 filters on it, and Karen's recording is clean. I think with filters and everything I'm sure it will be fine, but I'm probably just saying that because I find it hard to care about single player games, esp RTS campaigns.

onmach

United States1241 Posts

August 12 2009 18:31 GMT

#46

Given this woman's resume in videogames, more than likely someone who works at blizzard had a good experience with her (strassman) on some other game.

There is also the fact that campbell now uses sarah mckerrigan as a pseudonym for her romance novels. They may have been a bit freaked out that someone would do that.

IceCube

Croatia1403 Posts

August 12 2009 18:34 GMT

#47

Well this might change...Karen Strassman might not make it to actually record the voice patterns for sc2...I mean, how old is she? 30ish? 40ish? and when will sc2 actually get finnished? 2112 anyone??

Iplaythings

Denmark9110 Posts

August 12 2009 18:36 GMT

#48

On August 13 2009 00:16 So no fek wrote:
Good, but not Kerrigan.

This :C

LuMiX

China5757 Posts

August 12 2009 18:39 GMT

#49

Yeah, the old voice Kerrigan sounds a lot better. Too bad...

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

August 12 2009 18:54 GMT

#50

I totally hate how she pronounces "important" words. It annoyed me not even half way through. I basically didn't like any of that voice acting in that MP3.
And I am pretty sure that no matter how many filters you apply, she will still annoy me.

MasterFischer

Denmark836 Posts

August 12 2009 19:12 GMT

#51

With all due respect to Miss Strassman, she can´t hold a candle to a clergyman.

Old KErrigan blows her out of the water....

Check out the Zeratul Xel Naga Cutscene with the hydras... thats the old kerrigan in the end.. and she sounds AWESOME...

Why they fired her... is beyond my capabilities to fathom.

At least they brought back the original Jim Raynor..

Chuiu

3470 Posts

August 12 2009 19:26 GMT

#52

This is retarded, her voice is way off and the real voice of Kerrigan is ready and willing to do it. Why does Blizzard always have to fix whats not broken.

Shade692003

Canada702 Posts

August 12 2009 19:34 GMT

#53

On August 13 2009 04:26 Chuiu wrote:
This is retarded, her voice is way off and the real voice of Kerrigan is ready and willing to do it. Why does Blizzard always have to fix whats not broken.

My only guess is that Blizzard doesn't pay much for their voice actor. Since it's Blizzard, it's really easy for them to dump the actors and get new hobos down the street.

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

August 12 2009 19:36 GMT

#54

ahhhh, damn. i was pretty happy with how fitting the previous actress's voice had become in the blizzcon trailer with zeratul

Chuiu

3470 Posts

August 12 2009 19:47 GMT

#55

On August 13 2009 04:34 Shade692003 wrote:

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My only guess is that Blizzard doesn't pay much for their voice actor. Since it's Blizzard, it's really easy for them to dump the actors and get new hobos down the street.

But see that's the retarded part. They're dropping their now retired-from-voice-acting-living-poorly-as-a-writer voice actor for a has-a-huge-ass-resume-and-probably-charges-up-the-wazoo-for-voice-acting voice actor. I seriously doubt she wants a huge costly contract with Blizzard who literally has millions to throw away at their games considering she wants to do it and even uses the pen name "Sarah McKerrigan" on her generic romance novels.

Strayline

United States330 Posts

August 12 2009 19:48 GMT

#56

I don't think it was just the filters. IMO you can tell by the spacing and emphasis they each use when delivering the line that the first sounded a little better. The second one seemed acceptable though.

x89titan

Philippines1130 Posts

August 12 2009 19:51 GMT

#57

i think she needs a deeper voice when doing kerrigan to make it sound more menacing.

Shade692003

Canada702 Posts

August 12 2009 19:58 GMT

#58

On August 13 2009 04:47 Chuiu wrote:

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Yeah your right, I can't make any sense out of it. I just hope someone here from TL who will go to Blizzcon will ask Blizzard what's up with that.

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

August 12 2009 20:01 GMT

#59

Anyone who's a professional voice actor can make their voice deeper as well, so it's not like we'll be hearing high pitched bubbly Kerrigan come release.