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[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I hope not. Jennifer Hale is amazing. She’s the reason I’ve never played as male Shepard in mass effect. She also voiced Bastila in knights of the old republic. Incredible skill/talent.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do one maleshep run. I promise he has some great deliveries too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right? Femshep is amazing, but people are sleeping on maleshep. 'we'll bang, okay?'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Mark Meer is great, and definitely worth playing thru to experience. Not quite at the same level as Jennifer Hale's performance, but it was still absolutely brilliant.

Still, I hear this every time I hear Shepard talk to Dr. Chakwas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do you play through that tripe twice? It has next to no challenge and the story is beyond stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I really enjoyed the characters. When I think about Mass Effect 3, for example, I think of how I felt when making peace between the Quarians and the Geth, because of how I had gotten to know the characters of Tali and Legion. Or Wrex enthusiastically greeting Shepard as an old friend, something that's only possible if you talk him down in the first game.

I was as disappointed as everyone else at the actual ending to Mass Effect 3, and I do think the plot goes a bit weird even before that (the ending boss fight of mass effect 2 is a bit weird, but again, I think more of the personal stakes that had been set up by good character writing (plus Jack Wall's "Suicide Mission" makes what could've been overly cheesy instead feel grand and epic)), but I found the smaller, interpersonal stories that Mass Effect tells to be quite compelling.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not really a gamer, but I listen to a lot of audiobooks.

AI isn't anywhere close to being able to replace "good" narrators. Maybe a bit like self driving cars - the first 90% was achieved rapidly, the next 5% took some doing but ok, now though the final 5% seems kinda unachievable on any timescale.

That said, automation (and yes, AI) tends to approach industries incrementally. A headline voice actor isn't going to be replaced tomorrow, but maybe some low level roles are. Fewer voice actors just means less demand for the really good ones. Def not good for the industry but... time marches on I guess.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How do you think headline voice actors start? By doing the small roles like wallas, ad libs, waiter2 and such.

If you get rid of the starting voice actors of today, you get rid of the good voice actors of tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just a matter of time. You stop it categorically or you don't stop it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She was also a Spartan in Halo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And Kyoshi and June in Avatar the Last Airbender.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

She did the Goblins webcomic animated trailer allng with Phil Lamarr! Super stoked for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hale is an incredible VA and she has had more roles than there are grains of sand.

It's also funny when she voices multiple characters in the same game like Killer Frost and Hawk Girl in Injustice.