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Konami Announces MGS4 Voice-Cast
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Prime crotch
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You should see that crappy Marmelade Boy anime, in North America they speak japanese.Hcoregamer00 said:So true, the Japanese should really listen to that.
"I am an American girl with blond hair and blue eyes living in Southern California and I speak Japanese"
What the HELL? This makes no sense at ALL. What makes it even funnier is that this series has a cast of characters from all over the world. There are Chinese, Belgian, Brazilian, Dutch, and French characters that are all speaking Japanese.
MiamiWesker
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The Hayter interview is awesome, we even get a preview of old man Snake's voice!
Red Blaster
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Hayter gets massive cool points because he actually plays the games as well.
squatingyeti
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DarienA said:
Man I am finding so many uses for this pic today.
I was a fan of Hayter back when he was staring in Guyver 2: Dark Hero baby!
Nitpicking, but that gif is all sorts of dumb. He reaches through the computer with his right hand and smacks him with his left. What an oversight. On second thought, the powerz of the interwebs converts people's extremities!
a Master Ninja said:
OK. Time for me to step in.
Quinton Flynn is one of the best voice actors in the business. Raiden's MGS4 voice over performance is bad ass just like his new look.
Please people, when you criticize an actor, consider the script they have to work with -- and equally as important -- the character setting that they're locked into.
a Master Ninja
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novery said:
Wait, English MGS4 trailers have been released? I've only seen them in Japanese with subs.
Zombie James
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No Cam Clarke? 
dermannmitdemcolt
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jett said:
well, he was very good in MPO. let's hope that was a true return to form.
buckfutter
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Fingers crossed Kojima doesn't go back on his word and we get dual audio tracks, because if I have so sit through another David Hayter "World's Grumbliest Voice" demo reel I'm going to shoot myself when Snake does.
Wolves Evolve
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Reznor said:
Precisely. The Japanese version of Fran from FFXII was laughable. The English one was Battle Bjork.
Kabuki Waq
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jett said:
The Cheesyness has much less to do with the Voice acting and more to do with the script.
Awesome, David Hayter makes the character for me. Watching the Japanese trailers for this series, it just doesn't feel right hearing Snake speak in Japanese. The MGS series always has had some of the best English voice work in any game, so its pretty much expected for me that MGS4 will continue this tradition.
a Master Ninja
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I've always wondered, is MGS's cheesy dialog a result of bad writing (on the Japanese end), bad translation, or both?
LukeSmith said:
No, you're right. But you and I both know that there are plenty of critical thinkers who just read this board and never post. I'm speaking to them just as much as I am to my new best friend, Mr. a Master Ninja.
But I'm very proud of the fact that people care so much about voice overs in MGS. Thank you guys.
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buckfutter
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Many of the actors in MGS3 managed to sell the cheese, though. Hayter, and that girl who played The Boss, were terrible. Also Volgin and the rest of the boss characters were pretty bad, but the bosses almost pulled off sounding like it was on purpose. They were, after all, exploding super villains. It's hard to oversell that.Kabuki Waq said:
EDIT: Oh, and any word on whether they're recording the English voice tracks with multiple actors in the booth, like they did for MGS1, or the way they did for the other games, with one actor per session?
Kabuki Waq said:
You need to tone down your kojimatrolling, especially when you don't know what you're talking about. Hayter's Snake voice has not been the same since MGS1. I hear his work on Portable Ops is a marked improvement over MGS3's...like dermann said. Haven't played the game though.
Red Blaster
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buckfutter said:
Quoted again. Please answer this Ryan!
Justin Bailey
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:lol That interview was awesome.
Customs guy: What's your occupation?
Hayter: I'm a screenwriter.
Customs guy: *looks at Passport* You don't do. . .voice acting for games do you?
Hayter (in snakes voice): That's riiight.
*Customs guy geeks out and shakes his hand*
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I would probably do the same thing
Customs guy: What's your occupation?
Hayter: I'm a screenwriter.
Customs guy: *looks at Passport* You don't do. . .voice acting for games do you?
Hayter (in snakes voice): That's riiight.
*Customs guy geeks out and shakes his hand*
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I would probably do the same thing
a Master Ninja
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novery said:
It seems I'm out of the loop here...who is novery? Konami employee, gaming journalist, etc? He implies he's heard a lot of stuff we haven't. If so, its good to hear that Raiden's voice acting is evolving to match his character.
Dave1988
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Justin Bailey said::lol That interview was awesome.
Customs guy: What's your occupation?
Hayter: I'm a screenwriter.
Customs guy: *looks at Passport* You don't do. . .voice acting for games do you?
Hayter (in snakes voice): That's riiight.
*Customs guy geeks out and shakes his hand*
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I would probably do the same thing
My head would probably aspload if i had the chance to talk to Hayter.
Kabuki Waq
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jett said:
Trolling? one only needs to link a few youtube videos from the in game cutscnenes to see that a lot of the lines are BEYOND salvageable.
buckfutter
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I prefer to watch movies and play games in their original languages, whatever that language may be. The English voice acting in the MGS games going from great to bad over the years (haven't played Portable Ops yet) only intensifies that preference. And yes, there have even been exceptions to this rule.Reznor said:
And don't ever compare Akio Otsuka to Gackt, because the man will probably hunt you down and kill you.
ElectricBlue187
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David Hayter is THE best thing about MGS
a Master Ninja
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duketogo88 said:
Can we assume Hayter has used something similar to that as a pick-up line at least once?
MiamiWesker
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Y2Kevbug11 said:
I love his voice, I can instantly recognize it at any time since he was leonardo. When I first played MGS1 I atcually got confused at why Liquid Snake and master Miller were both voiced by him, i could tell it was him. So it wasn't all that shocking when it was revealed it was Liquid.
a Master Ninja
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KennyL said:
That's all that I was getting at. I hadn't heard Raiden's Japanese voice actor before the MGS4 trailer, and I really am hoping Raiden's voice is more guttural for the America release to match his overhaul.
David Hayter may just indeed have the most Icon videogame voice ever... I think it fit Snake PERFECTLY... I'm happy he's back...
Question is, what about the movie? What are they going to do for that? I'd want his voice in the movie, but isn't Sony partially funding it now or something? So, that means either Will Ferrell or Will Smith will play Snake? Or, could they get Hayter to do it himself? Wasn't he an actor before a director anyways?
Question is, what about the movie? What are they going to do for that? I'd want his voice in the movie, but isn't Sony partially funding it now or something? So, that means either Will Ferrell or Will Smith will play Snake? Or, could they get Hayter to do it himself? Wasn't he an actor before a director anyways?
a Master Ninja
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Metal Gear Solid: The Movie
Written, Directed By, and Starring David Hayter
Written, Directed By, and Starring David Hayter
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Wario64 said:
Mistakes were made
Kabuki Quantum Lover
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Linkzg said:
Things change.
a Master Ninja
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BigBoss said:
That would be great.