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Konami Announces MGS4 Voice-Cast

shidoshi said:
I use to always be "Japanee voices or nothing," but the English MGS cast is far better than the Japanese one. Some games just work far better in English, and MGS is one of those games.
Count me in on that one.

While I really like Otsuka as Snake, the rest never did anything for me.
 
Hcoregamer00 said:
So true, the Japanese should really listen to that.

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"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.
You should see that crappy Marmelade Boy anime, in North America they speak japanese.
 
Hehe Hayter's regular voice is not all that different from Snake... :lol when he started saying lines from MGS1. Ah who am I kidding, MGS4 needs Hayter...I just hope he sounds less chessy than he did in MGS3.
 
Hayter haters just sounds so cool :D
i can't see why people are complaining: I thought Hayter did a great job with Snake - and the fact that people now associate Snake's voice with his shows he has had an impact (although some might argue it is a bad impact).
 
Doom_Bringer said:
Meryl sucks!! I hope she dies early on in the game. I don't know how they will manage her character but she was really annoying in MGS1.
I would appreciate it if you didnt talk that way about my wife!!! >:O
 
DarienA said:
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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:
I wouldn't shed a tear if they replaced Hayter, but if any character needs a different voice actor, its Raiden, to match his more badass persona.

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.
 
novery 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.

Asking for rational criticism on GAF?

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE
 
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.
 
buckfutter said:
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.
I'm sure the game is going to have multiple language tracks. Blu-ray bitches. Bow down. lol
 
jett said:
Hehe Hayter's regular voice is not all that different from Snake... :lol when he started saying lines from MGS1. Ah who am I kidding, MGS4 needs Hayter...I just hope he sounds less chessy than he did in MGS3.


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.
 
LukeSmith said:
Asking for rational criticism on GAF?

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE

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.

-rp
 
Kabuki Waq said:
The Cheesyness has much less to do with the Voice acting and more to do with the script.
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.

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:
The Cheesyness has much less to do with the Voice acting and more to do with the script.

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.
 
buckfutter said:
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.
Hell yeah, I mean.. I'd rather have my eyes glued to subtitles during every awesome cinematic because Solid Snake doesn't sound like Gackt.
 
buckfutter 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?


Quoted again. Please answer this Ryan!
 
: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 :D
 
novery 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.

-rp

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.
 
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 :D

My head would probably aspload if i had the chance to talk to Hayter.
 
jett 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.


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.
 
Cam Clarke could "talk the phone book" and it would sound ****ing amazing.

Larry Chen? Lau Chen. LUCY CHEN!

gay4hayter
gay4otacon

Edit: Novery is Ryan Payton, god of awesomeness.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
Cam Clarke could "talk the phone book" and it would sound ****ing amazing.

Larry Chen? Lau Chen. LUCY CHEN!

:lol

He was great in Killer 7. The man can sing.
 
Reznor said:
Hell yeah, I mean.. I'd rather have my eyes glued to subtitles during every awesome cinematic because Solid Snake doesn't sound like Gackt.
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.

And don't ever compare Akio Otsuka to Gackt, because the man will probably hunt you down and kill you.
 
Hydro_Alexis said:
**** the hayter haters, he does an awesome voice for snake and almost makes the game for me.

Yeah. I usually absolutely hate voice acting, but I love David Hayter's VO so it really can't be that bad. :)
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
Cam Clarke could "talk the phone book" and it would sound ****ing amazing.

Larry Chen? Lau Chen. LUCY CHEN!

gay4hayter
gay4otacon

Edit: Novery is Ryan Payton, god of awesomeness.

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.
 
KennyL said:
I was shocked at how deep the voice for Raiden is in the JP version. More manly man sounding than Snake, haha.

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?

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Defuser said:
After watching the MGS4 trailer with Japanese audio,i can safely say David hayter can go to hell and the english voice cast together.

Long live Japanese voices!!!!
I wouldn't be surprised if kojima lets you select different voice tracks. :)
 
Bad_Boy said:
I wouldn't be surprised if kojima lets you select different voice tracks. :)

I believe Kojima already confirmed that you could, they wanted to do it for MGS3 but they ran out of disc space.
 
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