Whoops, two dorks messing with a mic spent 10 mins fooling around with some sampling and effects and did voiceover tests that fit the game better than this new homo-erotic sounding shit.
Surprisingly, I couldn't think it was possible to make worse than that, especially after knowing the minimal requirements you had to surpass.
But yeah, it definitely need some post-processing or energy in some cases (Holy Shit!, Denied!, etc) It is a little side because it feel like the actor didn't know the expectations for these VOs. Maybe he should have received some samples from various FPS of the original work from Quake 3 or 4.
Anyway, like I said, nothing is lost, everything can still be tweaked.
It also seems like some audio files got clipped before completly fading off. I thinks it happened on "Red Team Wins", Im unsure, maybe it was just me though.
Exactly. And it'd be simple enough to make the new announcer the default option for new users so that they don't get confused by the two different voices, and let the others choose the mix of the two if that's what they prefer.
The voice over guy is actually some alcoholic homeless local texan that lives in a make shift hut with a thatched roof made from tumble weeds. He does have an herb garden. Everyone needs a hobby.
Just like the homeless guy on chinese american idol, this guy had a voice of gold they just couldn't pass up,.
He's a rising star in the world of radio commercials. Locally he's known as the voice.
FYI it's Christopher Sabat
Vegeta / Piccolo - DBZ US
Batou -GitS:Arise US
Kitz Woermann - Attack on Titan US
Few things in Duke Nukem
Few things in Borderlands/Borderlands 2
Doesn't matter who he is at all. His voice doesn't suit Quake and if id chose such unfit candidate, then they wasted subscriber's money. Work on anime is actually a negative qualification, because anime is not badass.
They should make him do mannlier version of the voice.
Impressive, excelent, fight, countdown all sound rubbish to my ears. After hearing the same VO since 2000....this right now......no words to explain
yea, i guess i don't understand why this was changed - old announcer was so good, and there weren't issues with it. maybe it's because they wanted to add new clips but didn't have the old guy's voice?
The chain I came up with earlier was more like eqing some 3-7khz out because that dude's voice is sibilant as hell then send that into a really tight 100% wet delay into 2 pitch shifters ( -3/-6 ).
Doesn't sound nearly as good as Xian because it doesn't have that " locked " feeling and because it still sounds like a bad Duke Nukem impression in the end.
lol they actually hired someone for this? it sounds like they pulled someone in the offaice over to the sound room for an hour to do his best duke nukem impression. any yet that's what they did for the old sounds iirc and they were better.
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TEARS TEARS TEARS
BRB ENJOYING MY LOVELY NORTH AMERICAN MCONDALDS NERD REKT
How about giving a proper blowjob to your fellow muricans SyncTerror & sponge? You seem pretty adept at it. Mental capacity is the same, so you don't need to be worried about being looked down on.
On a sidenote, thank this country while fucking frozen bears out of desperation, that you can type out your stupidity and misery in life on a computer. Just for an example. If it were up to only you inbreds, we would still be living in the feudal age. Ah, wait, you didn't even have a country then. Tough luck, but it's not your fault.
Funny fact is that you probably never ever studied any books on world history either, rather using them as paperweight, but I'm seriously amazed that you can at least read somewhat. The standard of your compostion however, is still on a pre-school ghetto level, so you need to work on that a bit.
If it's only troll and not genuine retardness, it's the shittiest flaming I ever encountered. Either way, you lack quality and substance.
Also, eat your shitty McDonald's, you will die sooner and it's befitting for you anyways - same with these updates, which only disabled monkeys seem to enjoy.
Whoa, did you realize the meaning of this sophisticated sentence? I just compared you to a disabled monkey. Flower language at its best.
So I spent a while playing some CTF with bots just to listen to the VO for a while.
If I try to be as fair as possible, I would say that these are not terrible, but they are definitely not what I would consider to be classic Quake.
They seem like they would fit in better with a psuedo-realistic futurism FPS, rather than a balls-to-the-walls lovecraftian-satan baby; like it would fit in better with the UT2k4 voices, or Urban Terror, for example.
Someone in the other thread made a good point that QuakeLive is lacking a coherent theme - it's a mashup of the old satan Quake with Halo/Warsaw, whereas up to Quake3 the theme was fairly well defined.
It seems to me like changing the voices is in fact a step towards "solving" this problem, and personally I am not a fan as they are taking Quake one more step away from the dark elements that I loved.
Impressives are terrible, the new VO sounds like hes reading a book in a childrens book club. Also one of the impressives is so retarded, that it makes you think hes talking to a retard. .... Which he actually is sometimes tho \:D/
Just finished watching this video actually that talks about this subject, shit is being censored for no good reason. To please people who don't even care about gaming?
The whole idea is to have a mediocre announcer, then release good ones as DLC. If the default was the Q3, QL or a really good different one fewer players would buy the DLC.
Rumour says that last two shitty updates were implemented just to do a research on the community. They wanted to know what people think about it, before realising it on Steam ! Steam update will reverse all the shity changes and VO to the originals if they see people bitching about it too much.
Maybe there's some hope after all !
TBH this makes sens, I can't see any other explanation for these recent actions on QL, even ID guys aren't that moronic to just release the stream of poop on community like that ! I HOPE SO !
Sorry, I can't tell more details. All I can say is that recent moves on QL were not stupid actions as all of us might think. It's a plan. Let's see how it will work out
First impression is that I don't like the new announcer but I guess I can get used to it. Adding new rewards to the game is a smart move for the steam release imo.
Loadouts however are fucking awful and will ruin the game if it remains the standard way to play public FFA and TDM :/
Quake announcer should sound as if he just drank a pint of blood.
This guy sounds as if he's on morphine.
Or as the butler who's about to ask if you want sugar and cream with that "humiliation".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDhHZaWJnM
so good. funny when u see even q3 had 7 tiers, a game which didnt have the bitching whining elowhoring and faggotry of ql.
the sounds are also amazing, dont care if it's the same guy as ql, sounds so much more baller. in general the overall feel and atmosphere of q3 was so good, so magic. ql, in comparison, is like a kitch toy
Every time I hear the new VO I feel like I have to take a shit. Swear to god.
I guess this thing is great if you're constipated. I suppose that's one useful thing about it.
I thought you where all just talking shit, till I heard it. Damn its bad! How far can you let the quality slip? WTF are they thinking? They have no pride in their work.
Several points about that godawful faggot called "announcer".
1) VOICE. WTF? Who voices this dude? An aging hipster talking thru a Starbucks cup? The old announcer had weight. Jus a remainder, his voice was so gravelly and booming because he was supposed to be the judge of Arena Gods who announced the gladiators and renounced their extraordinary feats/pickups. Now we have twentysomething gay four-eyed nerd telling me about frags, revenges and other crap. It's simply hilarious.
2) MESSAGES.. Revenge? Combo kill? WTF? Who writes this stuff, angry teen? All we need is SOLID COPY RAMIREZ GET TO THE APC TANGOS IN SIGHT SOAP ATTACH THAT SPIE RIG. No shit, it's so CoD it hurts.
ID SOFTWARE. I HAVE A FREE IDEA FOR YOU.
Why didn't you think this thorough and amde an USEFUL change to announcer? if a player could CHOOSE the voice of announcer that would be sweet. Imagine hot babe announcer, or Tweety announcer. Or Gandalf announcer. Whatever. You could've made it fun. Now we have this...abomination.
who works at id????????????????????????
who makes this idiot shit?????????????????????
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[00:15] <randomguy657> So, sponge, is there any chance that we get old announcer as a switchable option?
[00:17] <@sponge> randomguy657: no the old voice works for a competing company now, isnt at id anymore
the only hope is to beg for update from current voice actor.
So because the guy doesn't work at id anymore, they can no longer use his VO's (that he did for q3) in qlive? Or is it that sponge cannot understand a rather simple question? If I didn't know better, I'd say sponge has got management material written all over him. Always responding to what they think you meant, and not what you actually said.
I actually asked about it, but did not include because I believe it was written somehwere in this thread as SyncError did answer the same.
[00:16] <@sponge> no, we didnt like the 4 versions of the old announcer and its now missing award sounds + a few new VOs we shortened
Everytime I play QL I feel like the announcer is seducing me.
Is that what the id Software wanted to achieve? A semi-gay announcer attempting to get laid wit every QL player?
He sounds like a 1990's voice over in a radio commercial for a for a failed soft drink targeted towards teens. Basically an older man trying to sound hip.
The voice in Quake should always sound like the devil. Anything else is gay.
If my future me is ever going to get used to this voice, imma rail the sh*t outta me. The bastard.
Come to think of it... I better quit playing QL now, because if I don't, I'm prolly going to be better than me in the future and get railed myself. Don't want that to happen of course pfff.
On the other hand, it's very likely that I'm an old sloppy fart by the time I get used to this voice, so I can beat me easily by then.
So imma continue playing QL with no worries whatsoever HAH!
This also states that I can even play QL when they let Emma Watson do the VO.
Hope they don't tho.