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adwynyth
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Building on one of the points in this thread, I'd like to ask this:
What past Star Trek actor would you like to see as a future voice actor in the game?
I'm not asking about reprising their old role, nor am I asking which characters to bring in/back...maybe that happens, maybe it doesn't. All I'm asking for are names of ACTORS whose voices you'd like to see in the game.
Here's my list:
-Jeffrey Combs
-Tony Todd
-J.G. Hertzler
-William Shatner
-Robert O'Reilly
-Patrick Stewart
-Brent Spiner
-Colm Meaney
-Nana Visitor
-Siddig El Fadil/Alexander Siddig (not sure which name he uses now)
-Karl Urban
-George Takei
-Andrew Robinson
-Marc Alaimo
That's in no particular order, i.e. they are NOT ranked at all. Just stream of consciousness.
Ready? Go.
(DISCLAIMER/REQUEST: This is not a practicality test, so don't leave your "you'll never get (x) to do it" here. We get it; it's the real world. This isn't...it's a pure wishlist. By the same token, don't list dead actors sarcastically just to make a point.)
What past Star Trek actor would you like to see as a future voice actor in the game?
I'm not asking about reprising their old role, nor am I asking which characters to bring in/back...maybe that happens, maybe it doesn't. All I'm asking for are names of ACTORS whose voices you'd like to see in the game.
Here's my list:
-Jeffrey Combs
-Tony Todd
-J.G. Hertzler
-William Shatner
-Robert O'Reilly
-Patrick Stewart
-Brent Spiner
-Colm Meaney
-Nana Visitor
-Siddig El Fadil/Alexander Siddig (not sure which name he uses now)
-Karl Urban
-George Takei
-Andrew Robinson
-Marc Alaimo
That's in no particular order, i.e. they are NOT ranked at all. Just stream of consciousness.
Ready? Go.
(DISCLAIMER/REQUEST: This is not a practicality test, so don't leave your "you'll never get (x) to do it" here. We get it; it's the real world. This isn't...it's a pure wishlist. By the same token, don't list dead actors sarcastically just to make a point.)
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Beecause in reality I have the unpopular opinion that Cryptic should not spend money for voice acting but instead invest in writers and more content designers and actually come up with original stories. All the prominent voices we have currently in the game feel forced and are either shoehorned into the story or the story twists around their characters just so they can pull in fans. I feel the expensive actors don't help the game, unfortunately.
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Not unpopular with me! I find many of the voice-overs annoying, particularly Ms Crosby's.
I play with the sound off, so I miss out on all those cool voices.
At the fear of being unpopular, I am still gonna say it. I wanna hear Benedict Cumberbatchs voice ingame aswell.
I second that!
Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I think this is a little backwards. The STO team has always given me the impression that they will bend over backwards for Star Trek alumni, and essentially tries to make whatever content that features them into a sort of vanity project.
Outside of Leonard Nimoy, the very first person to come on board was Chase Masterson. I don't think we ever would have had the Dabo Minigame if it weren't for her signing on. Likewise, I don't think it's coincidence that AoY is featuring Walter Koenig and James Doohan's son because the story calls for it.
I think they're tailoring the stories to fit their characters.
The main problem is how much money they're willing to offer the actors for a day at the studio. Dan Stahl went on record a long time ago (and while I have had my disagreements with him, I think he was right on the money with this particular opinion), stating that if given the choice of hiring a well-known actor for a day's work or putting another programmer on payroll for an entire year, he'd pick the programmer.
Personally, I'd rather mentally imagine their voice in my head as I read the stories, and see the budget go to more developers or giving the people at Cryptic higher wages. But again, that's just my opinion.
If the actors are willing to negotiate for lower pay, I have no doubt Cryptic's writers will drop whatever they're doing and immediately alter their future plans to include the actor's character, no matter how out of place they may seem, they can always find some way of including them.
-Andrew Robinson
-Marc Alaimo
Dwight Schultz.
I want to see what Barclay has been up to this whole time.
Fiasco? How do you TRIBBLE up the tutorial?
I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote George Takei. I meant Walter Koenig.
Jame Earl Jones
Clint eastwood
Robert Duvell
Robert Caryle (guy who played Rumpinzel on Once upon a time series).
Betty White.
and many others not listed.
I agree. Now, don't get me wrong, I am happy about hearing original cast in the games, 25th anniversary and a final unity are among my favorite games and having them in there is certainly an awesome bonus. But those games are also themed around the crews, you actually play these characters. STO should really explore the universe at different locations and not cosntantly cross paths with a handful of characters for some reason the whole galaxy revolves around while the player characters, if we're honest, do less and less work themselves and only push the button someone tells them to push.
STO should, in my opinion, ideally feature a lot of "day to day business" you'd do as a regular Starfleet captain. Explore random sectors, make diplomatic visits, build colonies, defend trade routes, write your own adventure and then have the occasional special episode which could also feature Trek actors. But the way it is now, everythign revolves around the voice actors. Every epsode features one, and we're also supposed to play these episodes for four weeks again and again to pad out playing time for something that was hugely expensive because some professional actor lend their voice to it - it really loses it's novelty factor as well.
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Spock to Kirk, as Kirk is about to hug him.
Star Trek V: "The Final Frontier"