I'm with Olaf on this one.
I never heard the demo death knight voiceover that got so many complaints. But the current death knight voice over is distinctly mediocre.
Sounds like Tiffin trying to do the voice of a belligerent stupid giant for kids (OK a male voice for the actor, but the same kind of forced tone).
There are two problems with this. First, this might be good enough for Mom reading to the kids, but is a bit short of what one hoped for from professional voiceover work.
Second the interpetation of the death knight seems to me bad--if you look at the lines, they are not nearly so stupid and belligerent, and should not be read with nearly the same intonation and pattern to every sentence. Given the importance of this character, and the fact that the writing for the character isn't bad at all, this voiceover work is very unfortunate.
And, yes I care about this. The last thing I want to hear from a voice-over is inadvertant humor--it wrecks the story that Larian is trying to tell. (OK, maybe I'm a bit passionate on the subject of voice-over work, but I made a living for few years doing it, so its a one-time professional interest.)
Last edited by Tiffin; 07/05/04 10:00 PM.
