Episode 28: Voices
Trav and Jake cover the games that are on their radar, and cover the games that have made into and out of the backlog. This week's discussion is about the voices that populate and breathe life into the games that we love including our favorite VO artists, characters that they embody, and more!
Episode 28
On our Radar
Trav -
Late Oct / Early Nov
Dishonored 2 (11/11)
Watch Dogs 2 (11/15)
Jake
Late Oct/ Early Nov
Watch_Dogs 2
Titanfall 2
Big release reaction
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PREVIOUSLY ON PAWLYKEEEL
Jake adds a bevy of new titles to his already mountainous pile of shame including Gears 4, Mafia 3, Battlefield 1, and Deus Ex Mankind Divided. Trav beat a whole slew of classic games including Kirby and the Crystal Shards, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles, and some NES games. Jake prepared for his upcoming Gears 4 campaign by knocking Gears 3 off his backlog. The talk was all about sequels for the TAWWWPICC AHHHFF DISSSGUGGSH
Added to BL:
Trav -Jizztical Ninja Starring Goenads (N64)
Jake - Tittyfall 2, Skyrimjobs SE
Completed
Trav - Bomberman (NES), Batman (NES), Mega Man (NES), Astyanax (NES)
Jake - none again (finally played a game last night)
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The Long Play
Games that we are spending time with in our backlog.
Trav-
Jake - Titanfall 2, Mafia 3
Sidequests
Trav - NCAA 14
Jake- Gears (wHorde, Vs)
Discush
Voice Acting (can mention how it ties into our appreciation theme for month of november)
Voice actor strike
SAG-AFTRA (screen actors guild-american federation of tv and radio artists)
Union has chosen not to work with certain prominent game companies such as EA, Insomniac, Activision, Disney
19 months of unsuccessful negotiations - labor contract expired in 2014
Strike is effort to provide more secondary compensation
Transparency of hiring practices
On-set safety concerns
General impressions of strike
Before there were voice actors - memories
With voice actors in the news - who are some of the most prominent and well known VA’s in gaming as well as some of our favorites?
Most prominent and well known:
Troy Baker
100’s of credits
Notably Booker Dewitt of Bioshock Infinite, Rhys from Tales from the Borderlands, Joel in Last of us, a number of Batman Arkham characters, Pagan Min in Far Cry 4 - on and on and on…
Nolan North
Very widely known as well
Notably Nathan Drake (Uncharted), Desmond Miles (Ass Creed), Penguin (Batman Arkham), also credits in Portal 2, Call of Duty games, Team Fortress 2, Destiny, etc.
Favorites:
Trav:
Ashly Burch (Tiny Tina, Chloe), Jon St. John (Duke Nukem), Ellen McClain (Glados), John Patrick Lowrie (Valve), Wes Johnson (Bethesda), Mike Rosson (Fallouts)
Jake:
John Dimaggio (Marcus Fenix) Dave Fennoy (Lee Everett TTTWD)
On the Flip side, who are the most iconic voiced characters in gaming and our favorites?
Most Iconic Characters/Narrators (Jake)
David Hayter, Solid Snake
Ray Liota, Tommy Vercetti (GTA III)
Patrick Stewart, Emperor Uriel Septim
Charles Marinet, Mario/Luigi
Favorites
Trav:
NBA Jam Announcer “Boom shockalocka!” “NAAAIL in the coffin!” (Tim Kitzrow)
Nathan Drake - Nolan North
Star Fox 64 “What’s the big idea, FOX?”
Wheatley (Portal 2) - Stephen Merchant
John Marston (RDR) - Rob Wiethoff
Narrators: Thomas Was Alone and Bastion
Jake:
Master Chief, Steve Downes
Cortana, Jen Taylor
Linda Hunt, Narrator of God of War
Camilla Luddington, Lara Croft (reboot)
Courtnee Draper, Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite
Michael Ironside, Sam Fisher
Close it out
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