Felecia Day : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:41 pm

Surprisingly. Veronica has been my companion for a while now. Good voice acting and I like her character. I haven't felt like letting her go.

After she used up all my stimpacks by fighting geckos I almost executed her...

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:59 pm

After she used up all my stimpacks by fighting geckos I almost executed her...

Why would you give her Stimpaks?

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:02 pm

I thought Arcade was voiced by Dr. Drew, so I guess Levi might have been using him as inspiration or something. He did a great job anyway. I liked them all in their own ways because their voices gave the characters personality unlike the voice actors in some games.....

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:20 pm

Why would you give her Stimpaks?

That's the thing, I didn't. I had to keep healing her because she chose to run off into a group of geckos and start punching them. I didn't want to just let her die so I starting healing her via the Companion Wheel. I went through all my stimpacks just trying to keep her alive.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:10 pm

I thought Felicia did a good job. I used Veronica for at least half the game. The other half I solo'd.

I lol'd when I found out Wil Wheaton was the robo-brain.

» Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:04 am

the VA is hit and miss for me, some of its good, but other people sound like 17 year olds or they just got some game tester to lend his voice.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:16 pm

I'm amazed that this thread has gone on for 5 pages and no-one has mentioned René Auberjonois' brilliant portrayal of Mr House. Some great flashbacks to an angry Odo there

» Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:01 am

I didn't like Cass at all. The acting was fine but the character was horribly cliché and rather one dimensional.

Cass was a clichee if you view her as a chlichee. If so Cass was a brilliant believable portrayal of that clichee (to specify of a desillusional drunk). Not one dimensional at all.

Which already makes her a lot better than most "original" charachters out there IMO.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:52 pm

I'm amazed that this thread has gone on for 5 pages and no-one has mentioned René Auberjonois' brilliant portrayal of Mr House. Some great flashbacks to an angry Odo there

Yeah, as soon as I heard his voice I thought "Hey, it's Odo". Very distinctive voice. Same with Michael Dorn. Though, I kinda felt like he phoned it in. It wasn't as good as I was hoping/expecting. Kinda made me sad really.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:02 pm

Cass was a clichee if you view her as a chlichee.

Not sure you're quite grasping the meaning of the word.

» Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:26 am

Not sure you're quite grasping the meaning of the word.

Yep, a clichee is an element used in an artistic fashion that has been overused to a point where it has become nearly a stereotype. BUT, that doesn't even remotly specifiy the quality of said element. A clichee can easily be a well written (in this case) one. Even subtly playing with its own role as a clichee which in the case of Cass is done quite a few times.

Furthermore I don't think of drunk dellusional lady (and that is a very rough description of her) as a clichee in video games.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:37 pm

Furthermore I don't think of drunk dellusional lady (and that is a very rough description of her) as a clichee in video games.

Skip the lady part and you've got virtually every character in Starcraft, the gruff alcoholic out of place cowboy has been done to death. Changing it to a woman does not side step the cliché, nor does it matter whether it appeared in a video game or a movie or a TV show, cliché is cliché.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:29 pm

Skip the lady part and you've got virtually every character in Starcraft, the gruff alcoholic out of place cowboy has been done to death. Changing it to a woman does not side step the cliché, nor does it matter whether it appeared in a video game or a movie or a TV show, cliché is cliché.

And yet, such a subtle change can already make a vast difference. Furthermore like said before it still has no influence of the quality of it. For several reasons I don't view Cass as a clichee. Especially on a personal level which has much to do with the writing.

Raynor of Starcraft fame on the other hand...

Is practically the definition of the clichee though I'd argue its intentional. Kinda backfired on the other hand.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:34 pm

Who voices Malissa from the Khans? I love her voice!

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:09 pm

Raynor of Starcraft fame on the other hand...

Is practically the definition of the clichee though I'd argue its intentional. Kinda backfired on the other hand.

Well yeah exactly, and I see the exact same intent at deliberate stereotyping in Cass, and the exact same problem in the ironic cliché being too close to the actual cliché. But I guess we'll just have to disagree.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:26 pm

I thought Cass was awesome... but I have never encountered that character type before. I guess it is not as cliche as you think perhaps?

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:19 pm

I thought Cass was awesome... but I have never encountered that character type before. I guess it is not as cliche as you think perhaps?

Your lack of knowledge regarding popular culture has no bearing on whether something is cliché or not. If you'd never seen a super hero movie or read a comic book and then you saw a movie where an ordinary guy suddenly developed super powers, it would be new to you, wouldn't make it any less cliché.

» Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:22 am

Well... I know a lot of cliches from stuff that I have never watched or read, I guess that is my own take on that though.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:48 pm

Well yeah...but then he's an actual voice actor. He was Haku in Spirited Away, voice acting credentials don't get much better than that.

Wait I thought Haku was from Samurai jack?

I have seen spirited away, I think. It's animated right?

Either way I can't see someone who does an MLG hardcoe, hardcoe voice like Boones' be in a movie like Spirited away.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:10 pm

Yeah, as soon as I heard his voice I thought "Hey, it's Odo". Very distinctive voice. Same with Michael Dorn. Though, I kinda felt like he phoned it in. It wasn't as good as I was hoping/expecting. Kinda made me sad really.

Agreed on Marcus. He didn't sound quite as passionate about the role as he did in FO2. Or about the role of Uvenk in Mass Effect 2.

» Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:03 am

Wait I thought Haku was from Samurai jack?

I have seen spirited away, I think. It's animated right?

Either way I can't see someone who does an MLG hardcoe, hardcoe voice like Boones' be in a movie like Spirited away.

Haku is the boy/dragon in Spirited Away, the one that tries to help the little girl, he only talks when he's human. And yes it's animated, it's a Studio Gibli movie directed by Mayazaki, which is sort of like the Japanese equivalent of a Pixar movie directed by Jesus.

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:02 pm

Being good in front of a camera is an entirely different skill to being good behind a mic as has been made clear by so many horrible celebrity voice overs in games. Take a look at this lollerskates http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6x7zWhsgQA and you'll see what I mean. The actress is Mena Suvari, she starred in American Beauty which won 5 Oscars. Good actress...tear-your-hair-out awful voice over artist.

Another prime example is Yvonne Strahovski (sp?) from Chuck, she's great as Sarah in the show, but is easily the worst VO artist in the entire ME series (She plays Miranda in ME2).
Less crappy "celebrity artists" and more quality VO artists plz. Jennifer Hale is great, and Simon Templeman is FANTASTIC (Zaeed Massani, ME2, and the Seneschal in DA: Awakenings). Now, I'm strictly butter-side-up, but even I swoon at Templeman's voice

» Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:18 pm

Someone should tell her ( . ) ( . ) or GTFO.

» Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:06 am

I was more surprised by the fact that Matthew Perry was Benny.

» Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:01 am

Agreed on Marcus. He didn't sound quite as passionate about the role as he did in FO2. Or about the role of Uvenk in Mass Effect 2.

I also agree, except it might have been intentional. When he was talking it almost seemed like he was just weary, tired. Maybe it was supposed to show what he is like now that he is even older.