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[Levyne]

A little bit with the general thugs that sounded like drake, otherwise no.

 

[Meier]

I have an innate ability to pick out who is doing a voiceover on commercials, etc. immediately. I do it all the time and it drives my fiancee a bit nuts -- I'll ask and see if she can guess who X voice is and she almost never can or didn't even notice it. I don't even recall if I realized he was in the Arkham games.

So no.

 

[kswiston]

Most (sane) gamers don't actually pay attention to the terrible cut scenes they watch. You just kinda watch them because they are there no matter how terrible they are. Only weirdos get into it (Metal Gear fans). So it's not surprising the average gamer doesn't notice the overlap of bad actors that get paid for their voices.

From my experience, people who play games casually typically like a lot of those game stories, even if they are dumb and over the top. It's just the elitist forum warriors who need to remind people constantly that every game story is shit.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Wait he did voices in Arkham City? I didn't even know that much less that it was the Penguin and then random radio chatter.

 

[AndrewDean84xX]

Hell yeah. Seemed like 8/10 bad guys on roof tops or on the streets sounded like Nathan Drake/Nolan North. Very much took me out of the game.

 

[Duffyside]

Wtf that was him? o.0

Sigmund from A Crack In Time is Nolan North?!
MIND = BLOWN

Sure is. Honestly I think it's his best performance, and his second best might be the turrets and spheres in Portal 2.

 

[CambriaRising]

Talk about a thread backfire.

The guy has amazing range, it's no wonder that he is sought after.

 

[friday]

no, I honestly didn't even know.

 

[Live Free or Die]

Joke thread? I couldn't even tell it was him.

 

[Grinchy]

OP also finds his bed really uncomfortable if you put a pea under his mattress.

 

[NIN90]

Steve Blum is way worse about this. He is practically in every western developed game and shows like zero range.

 

[Ricky_R]

Ahhh GAF's hyperbole.

 

[Whompa]

no...it's a voice...

 

[eXistor]

I find any known voice actor who uses his normal speaking voice distracting. Nolan is actually quite a good voice actor, it's just a shame he's best known for his "normal" voice.

/edit: well the op has it wrong. 2 out of 3 examples are him actually doing a voice and even knowing it's Nolan I can't tell if it's him. This is the good kind of voice acting. The other example is indeed what I thought the op meant: normal speaking voice.

 

[Projectjustice]

I had no idea that was him. lol

 

[nel e nel]

I felt the same way when I read he did the voices of the defective turrets and various spheres in Portal 2 (Wheatley aside, obviously).

To be fair, the voices in Portal 2 where heavily processed through vocoders, pitchers and other filters.

The Batman voices, though, is pure voicework.

 

[Tacitus_]

Steve Blum is way worse about this. He is practically in every western developed game and shows like zero range.

He has range but everyone seems to want him be the growling ultra macho badass in their stuff.

 

[Jasper Avenue]

Nope.

 

[pixlexic]

If you didn't know before hand... You wouldn't ever notice.

 

[BadAss2961]

I noticed his voice several times through random thugs.

 

[Pachinko]

The only time I ever go "hey that's nolan north" is when the director has obviously said "hey just do that nathan drake voice " or well, his normal speaking voice.

He's a good actor and his best voice is his own clearly so you can't really blame him for his voice being found so often. Really the only games that stick out to me were shadow complex and spec ops because in both titles he's playing a generic looking caucasian male and they've asked him for his normal voice. This thread has demonstrated that Nolan can indeed do dozens of other great voices that no one ever notices , well other then the OP I guess

 

[Blader]

Don't remember hearing him at all. Steve Blum, on the other hand...

 

[Oyashrio-Sama]

Wow! He has some range.

 

[mileS]

Theres a big difference between not knowing he voiced the Penguin and not knowing he was the voice for 90% of the thugs.

 

[Axispowers]

Didn't know he was in that game.

 

[Ocaso]

This. The thugs maybe had a hint of Drake, but not really.

Agreed.

It was distracting at first in Spec Ops: The Line, but I got over it. He's an actor. He can play different roles, some with the same voice. It happens.

 

[PIMPBYBLUD]

Only distraction for me was there was way too much shit to do. I would be on my way to tackle a main story mission, get distracted by henchmen chatter or a riddler snitch and then deviate from my objective to smash some heads.

 

[JaseC]

To be fair, the voices in Portal 2 where heavily processed through vocoders, pitchers and other filters.

The Batman voices, though, is pure voicework.

Some were, yes. Compare Rick the Adventure Sphere to, say, the Fact Sphere.

 

[old manatee]

I didn't know he did any voices in Arkham City until I read this thread.

 

[Varna]

Didn't know he was in this game either. He has some good range.

When he is doing what I assume is his "normal" voice it's really terrible though. GW2 and Spec Ops: The Line come immediately to mind.