BrokenArts on 14/11/2011 at 15:49
Well, I wonder if familiarity is a good thing, or a bad thing. Only so many voices one can do. I'm going to say a good thing, I love hearing his voice, even if he sounds like from another game. Really, being die hard Thief fans, I wonder how many people can actually peg him in game, not too many I think. Could be wrong.
Is he more varied doing human voices versus non human, over all he probably did more human AI. He did the tree in Fall Out, sorry the name escapes me.
Judith on 15/11/2011 at 18:40
Actually, Mallus Maccius is the character in Skyrim you'd really want to hear. Apart from a few lines in some higher register, this is as close to Garrett's voice as you probably can get in the whole game. And this is also a Thieves' Guild-related quest :)
Random_Taffer on 15/11/2011 at 20:06
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
Even with 70 actors involved in this, I am surprised at how often I am hearing the same voices. Still, it's hardly ever a problem, as it will take a long time to get tired of hearing our Steve, or even Tigh and Susan Ivanovapop up.
Aye sir. I was surprised that at 40 hours in, I hadn't yet heard any classic TES voices until just now. The guy who plays pretty much all elf males in Oblivion also plays the voice of Gallus if you join the Nightingales. I have yet to hear the guy who does the classic "It's all over law-breaker!" male Imperial voice. I'm sure he'll be in it eventually.
I did recognize the woman from the IT Crowd playing the voice of Karliah, (I think) and the actor who played Doc Mitchell in Fallout New Vegas as a commander in the Imperial Legion. I've recognized more can't place them as to where I've heard them. I think probably from one of the Fallout games.
But yeah, I've pretty much heard the same few voices over and over for all non-story characters.
van HellSing on 17/11/2011 at 11:01
Quote Posted by Judith
Actually, Mallus Maccius is the character in Skyrim you'd really want to hear. Apart from a few lines in some higher register, this is as close to Garrett's voice as you probably can get in the whole game. And this is also a Thieves' Guild-related quest :)
Indeed, but I recorded the clip of Cynric almost immediately after I go to the guild, so I hadn't met Mallus yet. Cynric's close anyway, and is a proper thief, with the hooded look and all ;)
MissyK on 17/11/2011 at 23:17
I swear I've heard Eve Myles (Gwen from Torchwood) as the welsh accented women up around Winterhold.
I was thrilled to hear our Stephen :) I've missed his voice. I wondered when I heard Barbas, but I knew when I heard Mercer Frey and Cynric!
The Alchemist on 18/11/2011 at 05:36
I just found Cynric myself and had an =ooooo moment when I realized it really was Stephen. Also when he turned around and I saw that he had one eye covered by his hood.... :cheeky::eek::eek::D:thumb:
Avalon on 23/11/2011 at 15:42
I'm not sure how some of you guys had a hard time spotting Stephen's voice... it's used for half the characters in the game. It's like the Skyrim equivalent of Oblivion's imperial.
It's never a bad thing to hear, but it does break the immersion when every three seconds you bump into someone new and think "wasn't I just talking to you back in that shop?"
Renault on 23/11/2011 at 17:25
The worst example of this is a quest where you are talking to someone in a prison area (voiced by Stephen Russell) and he asks you to go talk to someone else in the same prison area, who is also voiced by Stephen Russell. Kind of sloppy there, and why? They supposedly employed 70 voice actors.
redface on 23/11/2011 at 17:35
Or perhaps it's Stephen Russell doing 70 voices. :confused:
