The new female voice of Stranger HD

[erwinraaben55]

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]

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]

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]

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]

her website is absolutely mind-blowingly outstanding.

LOLOLOLO

[Dynamithix]

Her voice. Ugh.

[enchilado]

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]

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

[Sekto Springs]

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

[Nath]

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]

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]

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

[Nate]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[lloyd]

well thats me ripping up my pre-order!

[Crashpunk]

Can she voice Abe and the Sligs in AbeHD?

[Dynamithix]

Can she voice Abe and the Sligs in AbeHD?

Why would you want that.

[Crashpunk]

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

[Dipstikk]

All Oddworld characters are replaced with Robotnik

[STM]

NO! - every ytp ever.

[Gwan-Thwei]

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

[Varrok]

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

[STM]

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

[Dipstikk]

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