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erwinraaben55 08-31-2011 01:23 PM

The new female voice of Stranger HD
 
According to the interview with the sound guy, Stranger HD will get a female voice for the townsfolk.

http://www.oddworld.com/?p=705


This is her website:

http://www.anjellamackintosh.com/

jumper 08-31-2011 01:39 PM

Just listened to a few sound clips. God, they sounded annoying, although I wasn't expecting much when listening to voices intended for cartoon characters. I suppose they might've made more sense/sounded better with some context.

squeak117 08-31-2011 04:47 PM

Well, while I'm not going to judge Stranger's Wrath female characters on the voice clips displayed, I do have to say that her website is absolutely mind-blowingly outstanding.

Dipstikk 08-31-2011 07:38 PM

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Well, Stewart Gilray (Just Add Water CEO) had seen some fans mentioning the lack of any female voices in Oddworld
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Hope I wasn't the only one who suggested this. I'm so glad they decided to do that, I always thought SW could have been improved a lot with female voices that are authentically female.

enchilado 08-31-2011 07:42 PM

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her website is absolutely mind-blowingly outstanding.

LOLOLOLO

Dynamithix 08-31-2011 08:58 PM

Her voice. Ugh.

enchilado 08-31-2011 09:06 PM

Wait, what? I just listened to her Cartoon and Character recordings and she seems reasonably talented. Some of the cartoon voices are annoying (especially the first one or two) but some of them are much better, and the different accents and tones she does for the characters are quite good indeed.

Varrok 08-31-2011 11:09 PM

Well, I was kinda annoyed with original female dubbing as well... no matter who dubbed it

Sekto Springs 08-31-2011 11:37 PM

I actually liked the all male cast. It definitely got far more laughs out of me. Monty Python style.

Nath 08-31-2011 11:54 PM

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her website is absolutely mind-blowingly outstanding.

It was made in iWeb, which is kinda appropriate considering her name.
They could've spent a bit more time on it mind lol.

Nate 09-01-2011 02:57 AM

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The female dialogue only applies to a couple of characters, we didn’t have time or resources to record lines for all the females, just the story specific ones.

So I'm guessing that means that the Clakker females are going to be keeping their original voices, which is what our criticism was in the first place. The only other females that I can think of are the Grubb chief (whose voice I can't recall, but I didn't object to) and Jo Momma, whose voice was appropriately growly.

moxco 09-01-2011 03:38 AM

I really like Jo Mamma's masculine voice. I've always unconsciously thought of her (or him)as a gender-confused cross-dresser.

Nate 09-01-2011 03:39 AM

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I really like Jo Mamma's masculine voice. I've always unconsciously thought of her (or him)as a gender-confused cross-dresser.

Yup, me too. Sadly, Lorne knocked down that idea.

Nath 09-01-2011 07:10 AM

The female Grubb chief sounded like all the other Grubbs. There was nothing different with her voice. So that voice being changed i'm happy with. The Clakkers and Jo Mammas voice suited them, I thought.

Dipstikk 09-01-2011 07:50 AM

I can't stand Jo'Mamma's voice. It's one thing to raise its pitch, but they also sped it up for some reason, making it sound artificial.

Oddey 09-01-2011 08:38 AM

I don't really mind them changing the voices, but I thought they were fine to begin with. Clakkerz especially. I kind of liked the way Jo'Mamma's voice actually did sound exactly like a normal outlaw but sped up, and higher pitched, which made her feel just as tough as any other outlaw. The Grubbs had ridiculous voices to begin with, so they were kind of genderless to me.

Sekto Springs 09-01-2011 10:28 AM

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I can't stand Jo'Mamma's voice. It's one thing to raise its pitch, but they also sped it up for some reason, making it sound artificial.
There was plenty wrong with the voices in SW, and not just with Jo'Mamma's. JAW mentioned that they were going to fix the awful over-compression of the sound files, I hope they also fix the sloppy programming on the pitch alteration.

On the topic of Grubbs, I really liked their voices, though I think Frayda's voice could benefit from an actual female. As long as it maintains that panicked Kermit the Frog/Bobcat Goldthwait charm.

DarkHoodness 09-01-2011 10:48 AM

In the non-HD PC port, Jo'Mamma's voice was "Fixed" with the rest of the sounds (unless the voice was sped-up using the game engine), so sounds like any other male outlaw. Somehow it made her a lot more humorous, like a gender-confused cross-dresser as MoxCo. said. :P

Still, glad the female characters are getting a dedicated voice actor for them, finally. Funny as it was to have an all-male voice cast, it made the female characters slightly less believable.

And speaking of the Grubbs, is it me, or is their voice processing to make the voice actors sound higher pitched really too obvious? If that makes sense.

Sekto Springs 09-01-2011 11:06 AM

It did. It had that slight "echo" that you get with a cheap pitch shift. Even I have software that's better than that.

Strike Witch 09-02-2011 01:51 AM

Changing the grubb chief's voice? sweet, I can fap to that.

lloyd 09-02-2011 06:02 PM

well thats me ripping up my pre-order! :p

Crashpunk 09-06-2011 09:55 AM

Can she voice Abe and the Sligs in AbeHD?

Dynamithix 09-06-2011 09:59 AM

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Can she voice Abe and the Sligs in AbeHD?

Why would you want that.

Crashpunk 09-06-2011 12:19 PM

I don't. I lied and i don't know why

Dipstikk 09-06-2011 07:02 PM

All Oddworld characters are replaced with Robotnik

STM 09-08-2011 05:03 AM

NO! - every ytp ever.

Gwan-Thwei 09-11-2011 09:21 AM

Wait wait wait. Are they making Stranger a girl for the HD release?

Varrok 09-11-2011 09:26 AM

No. The Stranger was a girl already, I'm surprized ya didn't notice...

STM 09-12-2011 01:40 PM

Yeh, didn't you see her...you know...in the de-pantsing. I did.

Dipstikk 09-12-2011 04:13 PM

Forget the Outlaws, she had some nice bounties of her own, if you know what I'm sayin'.